1738 September 15 (Friday). We (Scil. Mrs. Pierpont, my wife and I) din’d at Mr. Noyes’s.[1] N.B. Mr. Edwards[2] of North Hampton with us. P.M. Mr. Noyes, Mr. Edwards and I visited Mr. Isaac Dickerman,[3] a middle Batchelour, who was in a Languishment. Visited Mr. Daniel Edwards[4] — the Rector — and went into the Library — still with Mr. Jonathan Edwards. Mr. Woodbridge accompany’d us home to Mrs. Pierpoints. I was much indispos’d although I kept about, and was in Variety of Company, but especially I was very uncomfortable in the Evening and through the Night.
[1]Reverend Joseph Noyes (Yale 1709), minister at New Haven, 1715-1761. Dexter pp. 85-89.
[2]Reverend Jonathan Edwards (Yale 1720), the great divine of Northampton, Mass., and later President of Princeton College.
[3](Yale 1736). Dexter, p. 558.
[4](Yale 1720). Dexter, pp. 216-217.