1740 April 9 (Wednesday). Mr. Seccomb,[1] Mr. Stearns,[2] etc. came. Mr. Stone preach’d the public Lecture upon Rom. 8.37. N.B. Mr. Lorings Exceptions against the Doctrine deliver’d. After Dinner I rode with Captain Joseph Willard[3] and Deacon Cooper[4] of Grafton to Shrewsbury to the Funeral of a Third of Mr. Cushing’s Children who dy’d by the Throat Disease. A Melancholly Time! I return’d home at Eve.
[1]Rev. John Seccomb of Harvard, Mass.
[2]Rev. David Stearns of Lunenberg.
[3]One of the founders of Grafton.
[4]Samuel Cooper.