1749 May 14 (Sunday). Preach’d at Shrewsbury a. and p.m. on Jer. 8.4.5. I read there a.m. Genesis 36, p.m. Mark 8. Baptiz’d Two Children. Job son of Deacon Miles,[1] and Submitt of Benjamin Maynard. At Mr. Cushings Desire I acquainted the Church etc. with the design’d association Fast, and invited them to attend. At Eve I went in to Colonel Wards[2] to Weep with him and his Family, he being bereaved of his son Ithamar, of about 28 or 9 years by the Small Pox. He dy’d at the Pest House below Boston. I return’d home. Mr. Cushing was on if once the Master of the House be risen up and put to the Door, etc.
[1]Samuel Miles.
[2]Nahum Ward. Ithamar, returning from sea, died unmarried on Governor’s Island in Boston harbor. Ward, Shrewsbury, p. 459.