1740 October 4 (Saturday). Baines and Marritt at the Well. They have got down about 21 feet. Very cold. Mr. John Ballantine[1] came from Hopkinton this Evening to preach for me. At the Funeral of Ensign Forbush’s Child which dy’d of the Throat Distemper.
[1](HC 1735). Later minister at Westfield, Mass. SHG, 9:468-472.