1724 September 2 (Wednesday). In the Morning I rode with My Landlord[1] over to Hopkinton to Mr. Barrett’s Ordination. We met in Mr. Barretts New House. Mr. Appleton[2] Pray’d First; Mr. Webb of Boston Preach’d; Mr. Dor then pray’d; Mr. Swift gave the Charge; Mr. Brown[3] of Reading the right Hand of Fellowship; and Elder Lyman[4] Set the Psalm. We din’d handsomely. Mr. Cushing, Mr. Thornton Barrett,[5] Cousin Charles Coffin and I all Lodg’d at Mr. Woods. N.B. Mr. Webb, discourse in the Evening, of the Doctors of the Church. Viz. Tillotson, Scott, etc.
[1]David Maynard.
[2]Reverend Nathaniel Appleton (Harvard 1712) of Cambridge. Sibley, V, 599-609.
[3]Reverend Richard Brown, Jr.
[4]Deacon Caleb Lyman of the New North Church, Boston.
[5]Of Hopkinton.