1745 March 5 (Tuesday). I visited Mr. Thomas Billings and Family, and din’d with him. Visited also Mr. John Oake and Wife, talk’d with them again touching their owning the Covenant. Rode up to Mr. Asa Bowkers,[1] and thence I proceeded (Major Keys[2] my Company from thence) to Mr. Cushings, His little Daughter Molly (a Second Molly) being bad with the Throat Distemper. As I return’d at Eve, I call’d at Captain Maynards, the Captain going to Boston Early tomorrow morning. N.B. Mr. Francis Whipple. N.B. Talk of Justice Baker[3] (our New Justice) his judgment of the first Warrant for Precinct Meeting on this side the Town (which was issued out by Esquire Nahum Ward and directed to Constable Abner Newton) that was defective and all that has been done by Vertue of it (of Consequence) invalid. N.B. Brother Hicks[4] and Mr. Barnard[5] of Sutton din’d with my wife. By my Absence I could not see them. N.B. John Hicks junior has ‘listed to go to Cape Briton.
[1]Of Marlborough.
[2]John Keyes of Marlborough.
[3]Edward Baker, Justice of the Peace for Worcester County.
[4]John Hicks, formerly of Westborough, Parkman’s brother-in-law. Benedict and Tracy, Sutton, 660-661.
[5]Isaac Barnard.