1728 January 11 (Thursday). The Church (at my appointment) came together and I entertain’d them with a Discourse from Acts 6.6 but I left the method we should proceed in to the Church’s Consideration. Afterwards they came down to my house whereby Mr. Asher Rice[1] was no small [illegible] about Mr. Josiah Newton.[2]
[1]Son of Thomas Rice, one of the original settlers of Westborough.
[2]Josiah and Thomas Newton were cousins. Both were original settlers of Westborough. See DeForest and Bates, Westborough, pp. 46-47.