1738 July 5 (Wednesday). It being Commencement I was chiefly at the following Chambers, Scil.: Sir Lorings,[1] Sir Davis’s.[2] I visited Several others, as Sir Tyler’s,[3] where I broke fast. I din’d but poorly in the Hall. P.M. The Presidents[4] Oration was very excelling. Lodg’d at Father Champney’s and Sir Mower[5] with me.
[1]Jonathan Loring (Harvard 1738), the son of Reverend Israel Loring of Sudbury, who later became a lawyer in Marlborough. Sibley, X, 298-299.
[2]Jonathan Davies (Harvard 1738), later a Roxbury physician. Sibley, X, 285.
[3]Andrew Tyler (Harvard 1738), minister of First Congregational Church of Westwood, 1743-1772. Sibley, X, 329-334.
[4]Edward Holyoke (Harvard 1705) became the ninth President of Harvard College, Sept. 28, 1737. Sibley, V, 265-278.
[5]Richard Mower (Harvard 1738) of Lynn. Sibley, X, 306-307.