1739 January 2 (Tuesday). I rode to Marlborough round by Mr. Josiah Rice’s[1] and Captain Eagers.[2] My Little son Thomas rode with me. Rode to Captain Joseph Hows,[3] Mr. Joseph Tainters[4] where we Din’d, to Mr. Peter Butlers, Colonel Woods’s and to Dr. Gotts. The Cold prevail’d at Evening So much that I yielded to their persuasions, for the sake of my son, to tarry over night. An Exceeding Cold night.
[1]Of Hopkinton. The son of David Rice of Marlborough.
[2]James Eager of Westborough.
[3]Of Marlborough.
[4]Deacon of the Marlborough church. Hudson, Marlborough, 456.