January 21, 1727

1727 January 21 (Saturday).  I was pretty well recovered from my indisposition.  Mr. Balley[1] came to our house Expecting to Meet Mr. Jenison,[2] whom they had engaged to preach at that part of Marlborough call’d Stony Brook,[3] but he came not.

[1]Benjamin Bayley of Marlborough.  Hudson, Marlborough, p. 321.

[2]William Jenison (Harvard 1724), later minister of the Second Church, Salem, Mass., 1728-1736.  Sibley, VII, 371-374.

[3]In 1727 this part of Marlborough was incorporated in the new town of Southborough.