October 7, 1760

1760 October 7 (Tuesday).  Training appointed for all Day but the Captain was so ill he held only the forenoon Exercise.  I prayed with them and dined at Capt. Woods with them.  N.B. Capt. Taplin among us — he being come from, and belongs to Fort Cumberland.  My Sons, Some of them hurt by an Horse’s running loose with my Chair.  Breck chiefly hurt; he and Samme Being thrown out of the Chair, when the Horse broke the Tackling, and broke loose from Chair and all, and run off, home: It being Mr. Beetons.  But it was wonderfull the Boys were not destroyed.  D.G.