1749 October 10 (Tuesday). Clear, and Cool. Sent a Number of my Books last night and to Day in order to their being carry’d to Mr. Gookins’s to be sold. Honourable Esq. Goddard here at Eve, going with his son Edward to Shrewsbury. At Eve likewise came Mr. Devotion[1] of Windham, and Coggswell[2] of Canterbury here, and lodg’d with us.
[1]The Reverend Ebenezer Devotion of Windham, Conn.
[2]The Reverend James Coggswell (Yale 1742), the minister of Canterbury, 1744-1771. Dexter, Biographical Sketches, pp. 701-704.