1745 December 6 (Friday). Visited at both Winchesters and Grouts. Having receiv’d a Petition from Mr. David Crosby in Worcester Gaol that there might be a Contribution here for him, I Yesterday desir’d the Deacons of the Church and the selectmen of the Town to meet at my House this Day. And they accordingly came; but they all declin’d our complying with Said Petition. N.B. Mr. Wheeler and James Ball here, and were full of Grievance and perplexity about the proceedings of the North Precinct. N.B. Had the sorrowful News of the Sudden Death of Mr. Joseph Rice of Marlborough, who was going last Tuesday to [illegible] but dy’d before he got home.