1723 August 17 (Saturday). Being Saturday, Mrs. Elizabeth Nutting[1] and I rode to Concord. We baited at Muzzie’s[2] at Lexington. Our visit was to Major Prescot;[3] where we were well received. I had a Note in the Evening to preach all Day tomorrow from Mr. Whiting. [4] But though press’d very hard by the Major and Madame also to Comply, I wholly and vigorously Deny’d.
[1]Mrs. Jonathan Nutting of Cambridge.
[2]Benjamin Muzzy (1680-1764).
[3]Jonathan Prescott of Concord.
[4]Reverend John Whiting of Concord (Harvard 1700). Sibley, IV, 532-535.