1738 May 31 (Wednesday). We rode to Boston. Mr. Webb[1] on Isa. 9.6. We din’d at Brother Parkman’s. P.M. an Ague utterly indispos’d me for going abroad till the next Day. So that I was not at the Conventions at Dr. Sewall’s.[2] Lodg’d at Brother Elias’s. N.B. Mr. Weld[3] of Upton and Mr. John Hunt[4] (preacher) Supp’d at Brothers. N.B. Ebenezer Rode with us from Cambridge to Boston, which he had not Seen Since he was a Babe, but he in no wise likes it, because of the Evil Smells etc. He is under great Infirmitys — weak and Sick and a bad cough.
[1]Reverend John Webb of the New North Church.
[2]Reverend Joseph Sewall of the Old South Church.
[3]Reverend Thomas Weld.
[4](Harvard 1734). Hunt did some preaching and then settled down in his home town, Watertown, to become a prosperous merchant and Representative to the General Court. Sibley, IX, 414-418.