1744 January 19 (Thursday). Mr. Cushing here. Troubles in Shrewsbury increase. Zebediah Johnson,[1] Lieutenant Stone,[2] etc. very uneasy as if they had not Spiritual Diet. Mr. Cushing and I din’d at Ensign Maynards[3] with Colonel Nahum Ward, Colonel Williams and others at the giving out a Number more of Commissions — and particularly Ensign Maynard is now Constituted a Captain. N.B. Lieutenant Lee of Worcester his unguarded Talk, both at Captain Maynards and at my House.
[1]Ward, Shrewsbury, 334.
[2]Isaac Stone, one of the first selectmen of Shrewsbury.
[3]Stephen Maynard of Westborough.