1744 April 17 (Tuesday). Thomme who had left me last night to go down to Boston in Company with Jonathan Rogers, went not away till the morning. I wrote by him to Mr. Joshua Emms of Boston, Goldsmith, with whom he was going to live. I had Mr. Williams’s Mare to ride over to the Association at Lancaster. Mr. Loring absent by reason of the late Death of his oldest son, Dr. John Loring[1] Physician at Boston. Mr. Gardner[2] read his Concio on Matt. 13.27 and part of 28. Heard to Day the sorrowful News of the Burning of Mr. Emmersons[3] House at Nessitissett[4] lately.
[1](HC 1729). SHG 8:598-99.
[2]Rev. John Gardner of Stow.
[3]Rev. Daniel Emerson (HC 1739), first minister of Hollis, N.H., 1743-1793. SHG 10:359-64. See The Boston Gazette, or, Weekly Journal, April 24, 1744.
[4]Nissitisset was the West Parish of Dunstable, Mass., later incorporated in 1746 as Hollis, N.H.