1746 May 10 (Saturday). Greatly hinder’d by Mr. Josiah Bowkers being here to be Examin’d in order to his joining with others in laying the foundations of a Church in the North Precinct, but I advis’d him to wave it; besides that the Time was So short that there could be no opportunity for him to come again — -and there would be enough for a Church without him. A Warm Day. At Eve came Mr. Carns[1] of Boston, who had been [on] a Journey to New Haven.
[1]John Carnes (Harvard 1742), later the minister of Stoneham, 1746-1757. Sibley, XI, 137-142-