1749 May 8 (Monday). Daniel Hastings sett out o’foot for Watertown. A.M. Mr. Mede[1] here. Lent Mr. Mead my Dult. Histor. both volumes. P.M. I went over to Neighbour Elijah Rice’s, Tinneys,[2] and John Chamberlins — gather’d some Hair.
[1]James Mead, an uneducated teacher and preacher, founded a New-Light church in Middleborough in 1750. Thomas Weston, History of the Town of Middleborough (Boston, 1906), p. 467, 475.
[2]Stephen Tenney.