October 29, 1750

1750 October 29 (Monday).  I early return’d to Westborough.  Call’d at Mr. Biglo’s.  N.B. His Fray with Mrs. Pierce which I did something to compose.  Mr. Newton and Forbush at the Chimney.  Ebenezer and Sam Bumpso tend them.  Was oblig’d to visit Mr. Jonathan Forbush’s Child Jonathan who is very sick.  N.B. have heard that Mr. James Maynard, Eliezer Rice and Joseph Rice went to Church at Hopkinton yesterday — and that to Day Revd. Roger Price is come over to visit in Westborough.  Mr. John Rogers makes Cyder at my Mill.  Neighbour Rogers husks with my sons in the Barn this Evening.  N. B. I went to Neighbour Barns’s to talk with him, but his wife said he was gone to Marlborough.  P.M. Molly and Lucy rode in the Chair to Colonel Wards[1] at Shrewsbury.

[1]Nahum Ward.