June 20, 1738

1738 June 20 (Tuesday).  Trooping and Training.  Mr. Cushing pray’d with the Foot.  At Association at Southborough, where were Mr. Prentice of Lancaster, Mr. Loring, Mr. Cushing, Mr. Seccomb,[1] Mr. Jabez Fox[2] and Mr. Josiah Brown.[3]  See Association Records.  Mr. Seccomb and Mr. Brown deliver’d each an exercise.

[1]Reverend John Seccomb of Harvard, Mass.

[2](Harvard 1727). Son of the Reverend John Fox of Woburn, Mass.  Jabez did some preaching but was not ordained.  He became the notary public and representative of the port of Falmouth, Maine.  Sibley, VIII, 134-137.

[3]Josiah Brown (Harvard 1735) sometime preacher and schoolmaster of Lancaster and Sterling, Mass.  Sibley, IX, 476-478.