1755 September 26 (Friday). A Great Frost last Night. Mr. Thomas Stoddard promoted to be a Captain of a Company going to Crown Point, was here and his son Boardman with him. N.B. I Sent home the Three Universal Magazines[1] by him, which I borrow’d of Esquire Steel[2] of Leicester. Exceedingly encumber’d and Disappointed with respect to my design’d Kitchin — no Timber comes from Joslins as I expected — and my Field which I broke up in June — can’t get the Fencing Stuff. My Son Ebenezer, instead of bringing Stuff here as I expected, goes to work for Mr. How without saying a word to me of it, which greatly disappoints and troubles me. Brother Hicks returns from Boston and lodges here. Another Frosty night.
[1]Published in London beginning in June, 1747. Booksellers in Boston often advertised it for sale.
[2]Thomas Steel (Harvard 1730) was a businessman who served as town clerk and representative. In 1756 he was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Worcester County. See Washburn, Leicester, pp. 179-180, and Sibley, VIII, 783-785.