1738 May 26 (Friday). Variously moving about from house to house for Horse and Tackling[1] for my wife to journey with me next week. N.B. The Pump works well and delivers the Water plentifully. N.B. Colonel William Ward[2] here just at Eve.
[1]An old term meaning the harness of a draft animal.
[2]Of that part of Marlborough that became Southborough.