1771 April 5 (Friday). Mr. Thomas Wood here and I agree with him for his son Benjamin to live with me and work for me Six Months; and I agree to give him 75£ old Tenor. But Benjamin came down and tells me they want to be alike in Wages — that his uncle would give him 78, and that his Father thinks I must give him t’other 40/. I told him I had not given any more than 75; that I did not care to break over this, to make it a bad Precedent — but as I had a Mind to have him, So I would do equivalent, to encourage him, and therefore I would depend upon his coming next Monday or Tuesday, to work. This he promised to do. N.B. received a letter from Mr. Isaac Stone that he could preach for me next Sabbath. I wrote immediately to Deacon Wood, and Sent it by Benjamin to contrive how I may go to Hopkinton and preach for My Brother Barrett.