August 2, 1749

1749 August 2 (Wednesday).  Visited at Mr. Twitchells and Mr. William Rogers’s.  P.M. at Captain Maynards, Tomlins, and Tennys to see Bethial Tyler.  When I return’d in the Eve found that Billy had been brought home Lame from the Meadow, for he had been with his Brothers there — and Silas Rice[1] had accidentally cutt his Legg with a Scythe.  A fifth Load Hay home.

[1]The son of Eliezer Rice.