1751 August 2 (Friday). John Newton sends for me being near his End. Went: he wants I Should repeat to him the Discourse I had with him yesterday. Pray’d with him. Stephen Newton[1] is taken ill with the Same Distemper. Call’d at Mrs. Pratts — she is just gone — has inward Comfort, but great outward Trouble. Molly and Sarah go over to tarry at the New House to dress the Carpenters Diet. They lodge there; a Second Bed being Set up there. P.M. heavy Showers of Rain.
[1]Another son of Deacon Newton.