1740 June 24 (Tuesday). I rode over to Mr. Thomas Goodenow’s, To Mr. Allens,[1] Mr. McCallisters whose child was Sick, Caruths,[2] Oakes,[3] Captain Eagers.[4] Din’d at Mr. Bezaleel Eagers.[5] Mr. Maverick[6] of Stratford on his Journey home, overtook me as I was riding up to Mr. Robert Allens.[7] I rode with him as far as to Mr. Cushings, return’d home about 5 p.m. Mr. Lyon of New Haven, Brazier, here. At Eve came Brother Breck[8] from Springfield, and with him Brother Samuel Breck,[9] who was upon his Journey from College to Springfield. The Scholars being dispers’d by reason of the prevalency of Throat distemper at Cambridge for which Reason the Commencement is also deferr’d for Six weeks.
[1]Ephraim Allen lived in that part of Westborough that later became Northborough.
[2]John Caruth.
[3]Nathaniel Oak.
[4]James Eager, an early resident of Westborough.
[5]Son of Capt. James Eager.
[6]Paul Maverick. Samuel Orcutt, A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Conn. (New Haven, 1886), 2:1244.
[7]Of Shrewsbury.
[8]Rev. Robert Breck, Jr.
[9](HC 1741). Later a surgeon of Springfield.