1728 January 30 (Tuesday). I rode to Mr. Behmans,[1] and thence (with Mr. Wheeler[2]) to Marlborough. At Mr. Williams,[3] Mr. Breck[4] was, and immediately asked me whether I had heard the Earthquake about 3/4 of an hour before (it being then after Two o’clock). I had not heard anything of it. It was heard and felt also by most persons. The Sound was great, and, with many, a shake was distinctly perceiv’d. Some were ready to say that it was heard every day for 4 or 5 dayes last past. Unto the Lord from whom cometh our help.
I had something of Difficulty in my trading with Mr. Williams.
I lodg’d at Mr. Brecks. We discours’d upon the Signs of the Times. We rode to Mr. Woods. A wedding was Solemnized at Mr. Brecks. Samuel Eday[5] was joined to Elizabeth Bellows.[6] I was compell’d to bear Some part.
[1]Eleazer Behman or Beeman of Westborough.
[2]Joseph Wheeler, an original settler of Westborough
[3]Colonel Abraham Williams.
[4]Reverend Robert Breck of Marlborough.
[5]Samuel Eady or Eddy of Oxford.
[6]Daughter of John Bellows of Marlborough.