1754 November 26 (Tuesday). Wrote to Mr. John Parkman in the Isle of Wight. Sent it by Mr. Jonathan Bond to the Care of my Brother Samuel Parkman in Boston. Mr. John Chamberlins Wife here from Stockbridge. She relates the sorrowful Story of the Indians besetting their House and killing two of her Children. At Eve Mr. Daniel Warrin, Collector, here. Tells me the Treasurer, Phinehas Hardy, is advis’d not to give him Orders to pay me any Money till two Notes, viz. for 2£ each, on account of the Pew, are Satisfy’d for — and yet the Precinct know that I am ready to pay them if they will but give me a Title to the Pew. They are especially Esquire Baker and Deacon Newton, who Mr. Warrin mentions are advising in the Manner aforesaid, and therefore although my Dependence upon receiving Money of the Collector now, is greater than usual, and my Necessitys more pressing, yet he gives me little ground of Hope that I can be supply either as presently or plentifully, as my Straits require.