June 3, 1747

1747 June 3 (Wednesday).  Rain a.m.  Noah p.m. helping Ebenezer weed.  N.B. Mr. David Batherick here again bargain’d to get my Meadow (viz. to mow and rake) for 8£.  Mr. Breck came towards Eve.  And at Eve Mr. Stephen Williams and his son — and Mr. Wadsworth[1] of Hartford — and they all lodg’d here.  N.B. pastur’d 3 Horses in Captain Maynards.

[1]Daniel Wadsworth (Yale 1726), the minister of the First Church in Hartford, 1732-1747.  Dexter, Biographical Sketches, pp.340-341.