1726 October 26 (Wednesday). I rose early, at day break, mounted my horse and rode away without disturbing anyone of the house (as I had premonish’d them). I came to Cambridge about Ten, and thence to Boston about 2 or 3 o’Clock p.m. I was with Mr. Samuel Mather[1] this Evening. He read to Me a Letter of his Father to Lord Chancellor.
[1]Samuel Mather (Harvard 1723), the son of Dr. Cotton Mather, and later minister of the Second Church in Boston, 1732-1741, and the 10th Congregational Society, 1742-1785. Sibley, VII, 216-239.