July 18, 1754

1754 July 18 (Thursday).  Subscriptions for my Collection of Poems promoted by Mr. Forbush who got a Number of them among his Acquaintance and others, and at Mr. Hancocks[1] Chamber, Mr. Tucker[2] and Mr. Webster[3] subscrib’d.  Din’d at Mr. Appletons[4] where I also mention’d the Collection.  N.B. Mr. Walker Merchant of Boston there, with whom I have much Conversation.  Mr. Forbush and I rode up to Mr. Woodwards of Weston, and lodg’d there.

[1]Belcher Hancock, the tutor at Harvard.

[2]The Reverend John Tucker (Harvard 1741), the minister of Newbury.  Sibley, XI, 78-91.

[3]The Reverend Samuel Webster of Salisbury.

[4]The Reverend Nathaniel Appleton of Cambridge.