1747 December 17 (Thursday). Exceeding Cold and stormy Some Hail and Rain and forms a Crust. Ceas’d storming p.m. but very Cold; as almost any weather that Comes. In the Evening Captain Maynard here. Winds exceeding high. N.B. I am inform’d that the Reverend Mr. Cheney of Brookfield is to be bury’d today (the 17th).