1746 August 15 (Friday). Cloudy a.m. — but not raining to hinder, Ebenezer to the Meadow. More sorrowfull News from No. 4 that besides 2 men Shot by the Indians, one at No. 4 another at Northfield our Troopers Horses most of them kill’d. Mrs. Caruth and her son here and din’d with us: Mrs. Hayward[1] and Mrs. Billings,[2] all of them want their Dismissions from our Church. Towards Evening with Joy (viz. Mr. Ebenezer Phillips of Southborough) I saw a Number of our Westborough Troopers return from No. 4 — but on foot, their Horses being of them that were lost in the late Encounter. They handed me a paper containing an Account of Several Particulars — which I Soon copy’d — and afterwards Sent Mr. Kneeland.[3]
[1]Mrs. Simon Hayward.
[2]Mrs. Thomas Billings.
[3]Samuel Kneeland, the printer at Boston, and publisher with Timothy Green, Jr., of The Boston Gazette or Weekly Journal.