May 12, 13, 1740

1740 May 12, 13 (Monday, Tuesday).  Planted all before Dinner that was to be done in the Fields.  My Wife ventur’d to ride my Mare to Marlborough.  I rode with Mr. James Fay[1] at Evening to visit Mr. James Cutler[2] of Grafton.  My Body much Chill’d with the Cold, for we did not get there till between 10 and 11.  Mr. Cutler lay in a very despairing or rather in a delirious State.  I lodg’d at Deacon Whipple’s,[3] and the next morning return’d to visit Mr. Cutler who was Somewhat more Compos’d yet not steadily  rational.  His Condition very hazzardous.  I took leave between 10 and 11 a.m. and came Home.  Mr. Cutler dy’d about 1 o’Clock.  My wife return’d at Eve from Marlborough.

[1]Son of Captain John Fay.

[2]Pierce, Grafton, 475.

[3]James Whipple, one of the first deacons of Grafton.