April 16, 1749

1749 April 16 (Sunday).  Sacrament.  Read Genesis 29.  Preach’d on 1 Cor. 11.31.  Mr. Twitchell[1] and wife (who are lately come to dwell in this precinct), widow Woods and Bekky Warrin din’d here.  P.M. I read Mark 1.  Preach’d on 1 Sam. 16.5, those words “Come with me to the Sacrifice.”  The Body of the Exercise was sermon on 1 Cor. 10.16, from page 16 to the End of page 22.  Mr. Martyn here both going to and returning from Grafton to Day — tells me Deacon Cooper has been dead this fortnight.

[1]Jonas Twitchell, Twitchel, or Twichel.