1740 April 24 (Thursday). Very Dry windy weather. Ebenezer Rode to Mr. Robert Allen’s, at Shrewsbury and got my Mare New Shod. Nigh to Evening came Mr. John Henry Lydius[1] from Boston, upon his return to Albany, and lodg’d here.
[1]Son of a Dutch minister at Albany. He later had to face charges brought against him in 1747 by the Council of New York for becoming a Roman Catholic and alienating the friendship of the Indians from the English. Collections on the History of Albany (Albany, 1871) 4:144.