1745 March 15 (Friday). Brother Hicks (who has been at Cambridge Some time and whom we concluded to have gone Home) return’d, and brings the Sorrowful News that my Honoured Father in Law Mr. Samuel Champney departed this Life on the eight instant and was bury’d on the thirteenth. May we mark the perfect man and behold the upright, for the End of this Man in peace! O what an heavenly mind; what Hours together Spent with God, what a Contempt of the World, what Concern for the true Interests of Religion and of the Land, what value for the truely Godly and pious — was discernible in this worthy Person, above most! May I, and all nearly related have Grace to imitate his Excellent Example in those Respects!