1736 May 7 (Friday). A good Day for our Pump Business, and an Excellent warm Day for the Earth. David Bathrick and Jotham Maynard boring. P.M. Benjamin How at work here. Mr. Hall went home. I visited Deborah Brigham who is Sick of a Fever. Ensign Maynard who rode down my Horse to Boston to wait upon my honoured and aged Mother up hither, came up without her. The Reason Sarah Tiley Sick of the Distemper.