November 6, 1746

1746 November 6 (Thursday).  My Horse has been kept till now at Captain Whites.  An Exceeding Cold wind in the Morning, yet Molly and I set out in the Chair and rode home, having stop’d and been kindly refresh’d at Mr. Thomas Dana’s,[1] Mr. Patersons[2] and at Mr. Darlings.[3]  Got home well and found my Family well.  Blessed be God!  But in my Absence It has pleas’d God to take away Ensign Thomas Newton and his wife, and one of their Son Abners little sons of the Fever and Flux.

[1]Of Cambridge.

[2]Joseph Patterson of Watertown.

[3]Thomas Darling of Framingham.