1751 December 28 (Saturday). Mr. Simon Tainter brought (as he call’d it) a Small Jagg of Wood from Elijah Rice’s — he and his son din’d here. Stormy. Snow — rain — p.m. came Deacon Mellen[1] of Hopkinton with a Letter from the Church in Holliston to our’s to sit in Council there on January 8, next; there having arisen Difficultys among some of their members — Viz. Captain Ephraim Littlefield and Mr. Daniel Mellen.
[1]Henry Mellen.