1747 November 3 (Tuesday). Brother Hicks and I reckon’d, about my Cattle which he had kept in the Summer and I pay’d him 33 shillings old Tenor for keeping Six: and we reckon’d also on account of the Cow that calv’d at his House, whose Calf he kill’d and whose milk he had till Ebenezer fetch’d the Cow home and he allow’d me but 3£ for both the Calf and the milk, but I yielded to anything he would propose least we should by Some Means or other get angry, which would be worse than all the Controversy was worth. I dreaded the dangerous Minute! Thomme return’d to Marlborough. N.B. by him I sent to Deacon Rice[1] 10£ Old Tenor being the full of 50£ borrow’d of him last March.
[1]Caleb Rice.