1745 April 20 (Saturday). Brother Champney refusing to take the Administration, Brother Hicks appear’d willing — and I left my Consent, bid farewell and rode home. N.B. refresh’d me at Goodenows Tavern in Sudbury, kept now by one Mountgomery. N.B. Company’d some part of the way by Mr. Thomas Marsh[1] who is going to preach at Worcester. Found my Family well about 5 p.m. Gr. D.
[1]Marsh was a deacon of the First Church at Mansfield, Conn. He was uneducated but was ordained by the Separatist Church in Mansfield, July 1, 1746.