1747 March 16 (Monday). Visited Jonathan Maynard. Dr. Gott din’d with us. Meeting to choose precinct officers. Major Williams[1] of Stockbridge lodg’d here. He was marching his Company down in order to his going to Annapolis but receiv’d Counter Orders on the Road — his men return’d back, but himself proceeding to Boston.
[1]Ephraim Williams, the leading citizen of Stockbridge.