March 26, 1750

1750 March 26 (Monday).  Grass begins to Spring.  Mr. Buckminster[1] of Rutland here.  Their Divisions, especially Captain Rice[2] and Deacon Ball’s[3] Still continue.

[1]The Reverend Joseph Buckminster.

[2]Edward Rice was an original settler of Rutland.  Reed, Rutland, pp.111-113.

[3]Eleazer Ball.  For the disputes in Rutland and the stormy career of the New-Light, Reverend Thomas Frink, see Sibley, VII, 70-75.