April 25, 1742

1742 April 25 (Sunday).  Administered the Lords Supper.  Repeated on 2 Cor. 11.27.29.  P.M. on Eph. 5.14.  I was in much fear and trembling but cast my Self on God.  I chose to repeat in the forenoon that I might deliver the latter part of that Discourse; and likewise that I might deliver my Sermon in the afternoon more entirely by it self, it not admitting to be divided, but it being the Quantity of Two sermons.  I was much above an hour.  Some Number of Southborough people at Meeting and Some of Hopkinton.  Deacon Fay, Mr. William Johnson.  Madam Ward,[1] and her son Lieutenant Hezekiah Ward[2] dined with me.  N.B. Very Weary at Night.

[1]Probably Jane Ward.

[2]Probably Hezekiah Ward, son of William and Jane Ward, born June 28, 1703 (MVR, 187); died Mar. 6 1777 (Parkman diary, Mar. 9, 1777).  He and his wife Abigail joined the church, Sept. 7, 1729 (WCR, 20-21).  She died Mar. 30, 1735 (Southborough VR, 184).  Hezekiah was dismissed to the Southborough church, Sept. 3, 1741 (WCR, 59).