1724 August 4 (Tuesday). Fast at Hopkington [sic] in order to Ordination. Mr. Baker a.m., Mr. Dor[1] and Mr. Swift p.m. They Read a Paper of Meeting to Pray and Confer, etc. N.B. We met in Mr. Barrett’s New House. Immediately after Exercises I rode away for Cambridge and got down about Eleven. N.B. Mr. Hobby[2] speaker at Hopkinton.
[1]Reverend Joseph Dorr (Harvard 1711) of Mendon, Mass. Sibley, V, 574-578.
[2]William Hobby (Harvard 1725). Later minister of First Church at Reading, now Wakefield, Mass. Sibley, VII, 530-537.