July 19, 1748

1748 July 19 (Tuesday).  Rainy Night and Morning.  No expectation of mowing.  Visited Mr. Jonathan Rogers’s wife who is very ill of a Fever.  Dr. Smith there.  Very sorrowfull News from the westward — of nineteen of our men passing between Hensdalls and Fort Dummer[1] but 2 are come in.  Mr. Hall of Sutton, his wife and son David din’d here.

[1]Within the present town of Brattleboro, Vt.