January 2, 1739

1739 January 2 (Tuesday).  I rode to Marlborough round by Mr. Josiah Rice’s[1] and Captain Eagers.[2]  My Little son Thomas rode with me.  Rode to Captain Joseph Hows,[3] Mr. Joseph Tainters[4] where we Din’d, to Mr. Peter Butlers, Colonel Woods’s and to Dr. Gotts.  The Cold prevail’d at Evening So much that I yielded to their persuasions, for the sake of my son, to tarry over night.  An Exceeding Cold night.

[1]Of Hopkinton.  The son of David Rice of Marlborough.

[2]James Eager of Westborough.

[3]Of Marlborough.

[4]Deacon of the Marlborough church.  Hudson, Marlborough, 456.