1740 March 28 (Friday). Sam at work digging stones, on the South side. N.B. Mr. Prentice of Grafton came up from Marlborough, and Mr. Belcher Hancock from Grafton and din’d with us, as did Mr. Samuel Robinson who had done my Business at the Manufacture Bank. P.M. I rode to Captain Warrins. Great Disappointment about a Team. My wife very full of pain in her Teeth. Mrs. Whipple watch’d.