1738 July 4 (Tuesday). We rode to Charlston and din’d at Cousen Soley’s. My Mother in great Comfort return’d to her own House. Blessed be God for his sustaining Mercy to her in this observable undertaking! (N.B. When my Mother took her Leave of my Family, and bless’d them among other of her Expressions, these were remarkable when She kiss’d my two Sons in the Language of the patriarch Jacob when he lay’d his aged hands upon Ephraim and Manasseh “God almighty bless the Lads and make them a Blessing,” etc.). I return’d to Cambridge at Evening. N.B. Mr. John Osborn junior, of Rowley, with his mistress lodg’d at Father Champneys. Mother Champney and Sister Lydia were disquieted with me that I had remark’d to Brother Hicks their Sending So over strict a Charge by Cousen Winchester, about Ebenezer, when she brought him from Cambridge to Westborough on June 16 last. N.B. Mrs. Suse Champney there.