1745 April 15 (Monday). At 3 in the Morning Brother Hicks call’d me out of my Bed. We Set out a little before Sun Rise (N.B. I had Neighbour Benjamin Hows Horse) upon our Journey to Cambridge — arrived before noon, din’d with Mother Champney, and went over to Mr. Danforth, Mr. Remington being incapable of any Business. According to Mr. Danforths Directions in the Methods of our Proceeding to Settle the Estate of our Deceas’d Father (Champney) we made Choice of the following Gentlemen to be prizers of the personal Estate, viz. Deacon Samuel Sparhawk, Captain Benjamin Dana, and Mr. Thomas Dana and the Message hereof and of our Desire that they would attend upon that Business tomorrow, was carry’d to them. At Mr. Morris’s. N.B. Indignation and Contempt cast upon Mr. William Hobby[1] for his Vindication of Mr. Whitefield.[2] My Son Thomas went to Live with Mr. Joseph Batchelour of Grafton, Weaver. Ebenezer went up with him, in my absence upon my Journey to Cambridge.
[1]Minister of Reading.
[2]William Hobby, An Inquiry into the Itinerancy and the Conduct of the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield (Boston, 1745).