1747 May 29 (Friday). Rode over to College and smok’d a Pipe with Mr. Mayhew.[1] Talk’d with him about Eli Forbush. In returning call’d at Mrs. Bekky Walkers shop. Rain and Thunder whilst I stop’d at Baldwins. N.B. Mr. Cheney[2] and his Brother Samuel Cotton,[3] and Mr. Seccomb of Harvard came there. The two first came home with me and lodg’d here.
[1]Joseph Mayhew (Harvard 1730), a tutor and later minister at Nantucket, 1761-1766. Sibley, VIII, 730-734.
[2]The Reverend Thomas Cheney of Brookfield.
[3]Brother of Cheney’s second wife, Mary Cotton.