1751 June 1 (Saturday). At five in the morning set out from Boston. Broke fast at Mr. Dix’s[1] in Watertown. Visited Mr. Williams[2] of Waltham who is very low. Pray’d with him. N.B. Mr. Cotton[3] of Newton and Dr. Convers[4] there. Visited Mr. Williams of Watertown. He seems very much humbl’d — yet defends himself in many respects. Din’d with Mrs. Baldwin in Sudbury; her Husband Captain Baldwin from Home, but her sons there. Was again refresh’d at Mr. Jonathan Strattons in Marlborough. Before I got up to Amsdens it rain’d hard — stop’d a great while in the Storm at Mr. Amsdens — before dark set out again, but the rain pour’d down so violently I was oblig’d to turn in to Lieutenant Bruce’s — Pray’d with them, lay’d down and Slep’d. At 11 o’Clock attempted to ride Home — and arriv’d in Safety. Blessed be God!
[1]John Dix, the selectman. Bond, Watertown, p. 199.
[2]The Reverend Warham Williams, who died later this month, June 22, 1751.
[3]The Reverend John Cotton.
[4]Josiah Convers (Harvard 1723), a physician of Watertown. Sibley, VII, 159-160.