August 16, 1742

1742 August 16 (Monday).  Mr. Jenison (who preached at Marlborough yesterday) began again to keep School and he keeps at Mr. Richard Barns’s.[1]  I rode to Cambridge again.

[1]Richard, son of Richard and Anna Barns, b. Feb. 12, 1717 (MVR 22); d. Sept. 1791 (Breck Parkman diary, Sept. 4, 1791).  He and his wife Elizabeth confessed fornication, owned the covenant, and their daughter Anna was baptized, Nov. 22, 1741; WCR, 61.