May 28, 1740

1740 May 28 (Wednesday).  I rode to Boston.  Put up my Beast at Bracketts.  Visited Brother Elias whose Affections were very flowing.  Mr. Cooper[1] on Ps. 2.10.11.12.  Din’d at Brother Samuels.  P.M. at Convention.  Mr. White[2] of Cape Ann, Moderator.  Dr. Colman communicated his letter to Mr. Rutherford,[3] the Irish minister at the Eastward and Several Things relating to the Spreading the Success of the Kingdom of Christ.  N.B. Count Zinzendorf[4] in Germany, a preacher of the Reformed Religion.  N.B. The Money Collected in the Massachusetts for Mr. Torry[5] last year amounted to upwards of £1200 and in Connecticut upwards of £300.  I lodg’d with Mr. Weld[6] of Upton at Brother Elias’s.  N.B. Mr. Aaron Smith[7] lodg’d there also.

[1]Rev. William Cooper of Boston’s Brattle Street Church.

[2]Rev. John White (HC 1698), minister of Gloucester, 1703-1760.  SHG, 4:421-424.

[3]Robert Rutherford, a preacher of Brunswick and Topsham, Maine.

[4]Court Nicolaus Ludvig von Zinzendorf (1700-1760), German religious leader and founder of the Moravian Brethren.  He was encouraged by John Wesley and George Whitefield and came to Pennsylvania in 1741.

[5]Rev. Joseph Torrey of South Kingston, R.I.

[6]Rev. Thomas Weld.

[7]The preacher of Marlborough.