1738 December 8 (Friday). Finish’d the Indentures and binding of John. Was at Colonel Goffs[1] for my Hatt. At Brecks Chamber at College. Sent John over to Father Champney’s and upon Brother Hicks’s mare I undertook my Journey home. N.B. Colonel Fullam[2] at Mr. Woolson’s[3] Tavern. Not home till very late and Cold and Spent. N.B. In my absence a good Ewe (that which Mr. Ball[4] presented me at the Setting up my Flock) fell into the old House Cellar and dy’d there.
[1]Edmund Goffe (Harvard 1690) of Cambridge, onetime selectman and representative, who was commissioned colonel in 1724. Sibley, IV, 57-60.
[2]Francis Fulham of Weston, Mass. Bond, Watertown, p. 227.
[3]The Woolson family had operated a tavern in Watertown since 1686. Bond, Watertown, pp. 668-669.
[4]Nathan Ball, an early settler.