1746 February 20 (Thursday). Great Change of Weather last night. Today very Cold and windy. Esquire Williams[1] of Stockbridge came at Eve, having left Mr. Lydius[2] at Boston, endeavouring to get French Prisoners, with which to redeem his Children from Canada.
[1]Ephraim Williams, a founder of Stockbridge. See Sarah C. Sedgwick and Christina S. Marquand, Stockbridge 1739-1939 A Chronicle ([Great Barrington]), 1939), pp. 22-24.
[2]Johannes Lydius of Albany. See Collections of the History of Albany (Albany, 1871), IV, 144.