1739 August 24 (Friday). On my Journey I met with Captain Samuel Chandler according to Appointment at Captain Saltmarshes.[1] We call’d at Mr. Warham Williams’s[2] at Waltham. We din’d at Mr. Woolsons, Call’d at Mr. Cook’s — and at Marlborough. Made it late home. N.B. The vast Damage done to the Hay upon Sudbury Meadows, etc. by the late Excessive Rains.
[1]Thomas Saltmarsh, a former sea captain, was an innkeeper at Watertown for many years. Bond, Watertown, 414, 913.
[2]Minister of Waltham.