December 19, 1752

1752 December 19 (Tuesday).  My Wife and I rode over to Mr. Martyns — din’d there, and tarry’d till almost Evening.  Mr. Martyn has lately bought a Variety of New Books.  I borrow’d of him Martins Phylosophical Grammar.[1]  At Evening we stop’d at t’other House, and talk’d with Ebenezer[2] about his Circumstances and Manner of living there, and gave him what Encouragement I could.  I feel a great deal of deep Concern for both his Temporal and Spiritual Good.  May God direct me what to do for him, for the Securing both, but especially the latter!  N.B. Lieutenant Tainter brought a Load of choice Walnut Wood.  My Sons Father in Law, Mr. Joseph Harrington, on his Journey to Connecticut call’d here, while we were absent.

[1]Benjamin Martin, The Philosophical Grammar; being a View of the Present State of Experimented Physiology, or Natural Philosophy (London, 1735).  Another edition was published in London in 1738.

[2]Ebenezer, Jr., who had married Elizabeth Harrington of Watertown, Sept. 21, 1752, was living in the old parsonage located on the hill where the Lyman School now stands.