October 4, 1749

1749 October 4 (Wednesday).  N.B. Mr. Buckminster of Rutland had mistaken the Time of my going up there and therefore appointed a Church Meeting there at 9 a.m. whereas I had appointed to be there in the afternoon and had writ so to Mr. Campbell[1] and the rest of the Committee.  Accordingly having din’d at Mr. Davis’s, p.m. I rode up to Rutland.  Lieutenant Brown[2] of Leicester was there, and Deacon Davis[3] of Oxford (instead of Colonel Larnard[4]) came before Night.  We went to the meeting house this Evening.  Mr. Buckminster pray’d and though Captain Rice[5] was much against submitting his Case to our Cognizance, yet the Church and Deacon Ball[6] requesting it we adjourn’d to tomorrow morning and Mr. Cambell and I lodg’d at Mr. Buckminsters.

[1]The Reverend John Campbell of Oxford.

[2]John Brown.

[3]Samuel Davis held a number of town offices.

[4]Ebenezer Learned was a selectman and representative of Oxford.  Daniels, Oxford, pp. 586-587.

[5]Edward Rice of Rutland.

[6]Eleazer Ball. See Reed, Rutland, p. 139.