May 6, 1750

1750 May 6 (Sunday).  Read Exod. 22.  Expounded the Fourth Commandment a. and p.m.  My Wife and I din’d at Justice Bakers, he having provided and handed an Horse ready tackled for us both.  P.M. read Luke 24.  After Exercises Mr. Charles Bruce brought me the Earnest Desire of Mrs. Kelly (wife of [blank] Kelley a member of the Church of England in Hopkinton) to visit her, She being very sick — I comply’d.  Rode to Deacon Forbushes in my Chair, left my Daughter Molly there, and borrow’d Mr. Jonathan Forbush’s Horse, and with Mr. Bruce to pilot, I saw her and pray’d with her.  Return’d home the same Evening.