October 31, 1755

1755 October 31 (Friday).  Mr. Hall[1] and his Delegate here, in their return from a Council on Mr. Reeds[2] affair at Framingham.  Mr. Putnam,[3] Candidate, here, on his Journey to Pomfret.  The Weather Fair, but every Thing wears a Winter Hue.  I hear Mr. Eliezer Rice is return’d home from Lake George.

[1]The Reverend David Hall of Sutton.

[2]The Reverend Solomon Reed of the Second Church of Framingham, a fervent New- Light preacher, had salary problems, and the next year departed for other pulpits.  Sibley, X, 398-400.

[3]Aaron Putnam (Harvard 1752) served the First Church of Pomfret, Conn., 1755-1802.