1724 October 7 (Wednesday). Mr. Stone[1] came to See Mr. Swift in the Morn. I inquir’d of Mr. Swift concerning a form of Letter to Send to Churches to request their Help in Ordination but was not satisfy’d. I rode to Mr. Jones’[2] where I heard of Mrs. Barrett[3] and the Death of her Child. She had been in Travail a long time and very hardly escaped herself. I rode up to Hopkinton and was in good Season for the funerall. A Sorrowful Time! I rode to Mr. Woods[4] and lodg’d there.
[1]Probably Thomas Stone, selectman of Framingham. Josiah H. Temple, History of Framingham (Framingham, 1887), p.708.
[2]Probably Colonel John Jones of Hopkinton (now Ashland).
[3]No indication of a Barrett death at this time in Hopkinton Vital Records (Boston, 1911).
[4]Captain John Wood of Hopkinton.