1746 December 3 (Wednesday). Very Cold. I rode by Mr. Thomas Goodenows (where I call’d) to Mr. Jesse Rice’s of Marlborough. Return’d to his mother[1] Mr. Fenner on Conscience.[2] Din’d at Mr. Smiths — he not at home. At Dr. Gotts reckon’d with him and paid all. N.B. Captain Brintnall[3] and Lieutenant Cleveland[4] at the Doctors. As I return’d home visited Mr. Jacob Amsden who has been very ill, and still confin’d. When I came home found Mr. Maccarty here from Worcester. N.B. A post went to the Governour to Day with Letters from Albany of Several of the Mohawks going to Quebec with Pretences of Friendship to the French but return’d with Scalps to Albany etc.
[1]The widow of Joseph Rice of Marlborough.
[2]William Fenner, The Soul’s Looking-Glasse . . . With a Treatise of Conscience (Cam- bridge, 1640). Another edition appeared in 1643.
[3]William Brintnall of Sudbury.
[4]Josiah Cleveland of Watertown.