1745 April 5 (Friday). At 4 in the morning just when the Day broke I Set out for Cambridge and arriv’d there at 1/2 after 10. Din’d with my poor, afflicted, Bereaved Mother in Law, whom God graciously Sustains! P.M. at Mr. Remingtons[1] with Brother Hicks. But though we were both of us come down on purpose to attend the Business of Settling Father Champney’s Estate yet no word would the Judge Speak upon any such Head. We were driven to the Shift of attending upon what might be done by Mr. Danforth[2] and were sent to Him. But it happen’d also that Mr. Danforth was not at Home nor in Town. I was forc’d again to go to Boston to him if I would speak with him. Brother Hicks Stay’d at Cambridge and I rode to Boston, put up at Mr. Larkins[3] of Charlestown. Visited my aged Mother, who through the tender mercy of God is yet in a measure of Comfort. N.B. Mr. Danforth I could not find this Evening. Mr. Whitefield preaching at Dr. Sewalls[4] but I could not wait upon the Exercise. Supp’d at Brother Alexanders but lodg’d at Sister Bettys with my Kinsman. Mrs. Sally Hill I conclude is a Bed but my Kinsman persists in opposition — will not marry her, being otherwise engag’d, viz. to Mrs. Nabby White. I am full of Grief for his ruin’d state but can’t help him. His Troubles still more and more retard and impede his engaging in Business, and he is as backward and undetermin’d as ever. N.B. Captain Hope, of New York, lodges there.
[1]Jonathan Remington, a Judge of the Superior Court, died Sept. 30, 1745. Paige, Cambridge, 639-640.
[2]Samuel Danforth of Cambridge.
[3]Edward Larkins.
[4]Rev. Joseph Sewall of the Old South Church.