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.