1744 November 16 (Friday). Mrs. Thankfull Rice[1] here. P.M. Mrs. Townsend (Joshua’s wife) here, much concern’d about her Spiritual State etc. Towards Eve came Deacon Burnap[2] and one of his Sons — of whom I enquir’d concerning their great Divisions and Contentions in Hopkinton.
[1]Mrs. Josiah Rice.
[2]Benjamin Burnap, Sr., Manual of the First Congregational Church in Hopkinton(Boston, 1881), 42.