May 10, 1746

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-