1744 June 24 (Sunday). Morning — preach’d at North Shrewsbury on Rom. 8.7, a. and p.m. Din’d at Lieutenant Taylors.[1] N.B. Mr. Sparhawk[2] Schoolmaster in the Town din’d with me. After the Exercises Ebenezer Ball pilotted me over to his uncle Livermore’s, that I might See his Wife who was in a Wasting Languishing State, was told she was not like to live, and I understood that the way was shorter than I found it to be — but my Circumstances were like to be such that I could not visit her for Several Weeks. I return’d to my Family at Evening. Both Mr. Morse and Mr. Coollidge lodg’d here.
[1]Eleazer Taylor.
[2]John Sparhawk (HC 1723), formerly a schoolmaster and lawyer at Plymouth, Mass. SHG 7:258-59.