December 3, 1745

1745 December 3 (Tuesday).  Neighbour David Maynard junior brought my mare to me at Brother Samuels with an Affectionate Letter from my Wife.  Din’d at Brother Alexanders.  P.M. I rode to Cambridge, was at Mr. Rands[1] — lodg’d at Mother Champneys, and thank God I am so Comfortable after my late Illness!

[1]John Rand (HC 1748), later minister at Lyndeborough, N.H., 1757-1762. See D[ennis] Donovan and Jacob A. Woodward, The History of the Town of Lyndeborough (n.p., 1906), 614-615.