1745 May 11 (Saturday). Captain Maynard (in his Team) brought me up 14£ Sugar and my Kegg of 3 Gallons of Rum from Boston. P.M. Mr. Millen[1] here. He discover’d to me that it was by him that I sent Mr. Loring his Hubbards Absence of the Comforter.[2] At Eve came Brother Samuel Parkman from Hopkinton, bound up to Bolton and thence to Hartford. N.B. Ebenezer went to Lieutenant Tainters for his Chaise and brought it.
[1]Rev. John Mellen of Sterling.
[2]Nehemiah Hobart, The Absence of the Comforter Described and Lamented (New London, 1717).