1745 June 9 (Sunday). On John 17.3, and p.m. on Mat. 6.10. Received from Reverend Mr. Salter[1] of Mansfield (who stop’d at Captain Fays[2] in his journey home) Mr. Solomon Williams’s[3] Sermon[4] on his Ordination and the Windham Associations Letter to the Several Societys in that County concerning Mr. Pain[5] etc. Mr. James Fay who brought these deliver’d me also a Book from Deacon Merriam[6] of Grafton, being Dr. Francke[7] against the Fear of Man.
[1]Richard Salter (HC 1739), minister at Mansfield, Conn., 1744-1787. SHG 10:404-409.
[2]Capt. John Fay.
[3]Solomon Williams (HC 1719), minister of the First Church in Lebanon, Conn., 1722-1776. SHG 6:352-361.
[4] Solomon Williams, Ministers of the Gospel (New London, 1744).
[5]Elisha Paine had been imprisoned in 1743 in Connecticut for preaching without a license. He is said to have founded the First Baptist Church in Harwich. The pamphlet Parkman mentioned is A Letter from the Associated Ministers of the County of Windham (Boston, 1745).
[6]Joseph Merriam.
[7]August Hermann Francke, Nicodemus; or a Treatise Against the Fear of Man (3d ed.; Boston, 1745).