1742 April 29 (Thursday). When the Result was read and the Council Dissolved, and we had also waited on Mr. Frink we left the Town with Hopes of Peace: for we had the happiness of Satisfying all partys that we were concerned with (But it is far the greatest to please and glorify God). They were full of their grateful Thanks, and even Mr. Frink also, notwithstanding he joined not with the Church in calling the Council. Mr. Buckminster,[1] the probationer, accompanyed us down the Road. N.B. Several Distressed persons detained me on the Way in Rutland and in Holden, with their Spiritual Troubles — viz. Mr. Jonathan Stones wife,[2] Mr. Caldwell,[3] Mr. James Smith.[4] Stopped by the Rain at Shrewsbury at Mr. Allens.[5] He sett Two Shooes upon my Horse. N.B. his Son James nigh wasted to Death. I warned and directed and prayed with him and his Parents and the Company at the Shop. My wife went to Marlborough. At Home Thomas had ploughed etc.
[1]Joseph Buckminster (1720-1792), Harvard 1739, minister at Rutland, 1742-1792; SHG, 10:348-54.
[2]There is no Jonathan Stone in the published Rutland or Holden vital records, but there was a John Stone in Rutland whose wife was Elizabeth. She died May 21, 1751, in her 38th year; he died Oct. 11, 1776; RVR, 249.
[3]This may have been John Caldwell of Rutland, several of whose children were baptized in the 1740s and 1750s; ibid., 25
[4]This may have been the James Smith whose wife Margaret gave birth to a son, James, Mar. 29, 1722; ibid., 88.
[5]Robert Allen of Shrewsbury, blacksmith