1724 January 10 (Friday). In the Morning I was appointed to go back to Mr. How’s (upon Mr. Cushing’s Horse) to Bring Madame Graves in Company with Mr. Barrett and Madame, Old Mr. How[1] and his Wife. We din’d at Mr. Whoods Upon roast Goose, roast Pea hen, Bak’d Stuff’d Venison, Beef, Pork, etc. After Dinner we Smoak’d a Pipe, read Governor Shute’s[2] Memorial to the King and Mr. Cushing and I rode home. This Eve I visited Old Mr. Rice.[3] Ensign Newton[4] was with him. I borrow’d an Horse of him for my Service to Marlborough and to Stow. I returned Mr. Pratt’s[5] Horse, which I had Us’d through all these Frolicks, by his young Son. In the Morning I rode to Marlborough. After Dinner (upon Roast Beef) with Mr. Breck, and our Concerting Measures upon Changing, Mr. Breck rode away for Westborough.
[1]Captain Thomas Howe of Marlborough.
[2]Governor Samuel Shute of Mass.
[3]Thomas Rice of Westborough. See Andrew H. Ward, A Genealogical History of the Rice Family (Boston, 1858).
[4]Thomas Newton of Westborough.
[5]John Pratt of Westborough.