August 21, 1750

1750 August 21 (Tuesday).  Measur’d out the House plot, in order to having the Cellar dugg.  N.B. this was done by the motion of Samuel Bumpso.  P.M. at the Funeral of Neighbour Benjamin Hows Child.[1]  At Eve came Mr. Edwards of Northampton, together with Revd. Mr. Tuthil of Bedford[2] in the upper County, and Mrs. Martha Edwards, sister of Mr. Edwards of Northampton and they lodg’d here.  N.B. Mrs. Edwards extremely lame.

[1]Elizabeth How died Aug. 19, 1750.

[2]Moses Tuttle (Yale 1745) was the minister of Granville, Mass. (then called the plantation of Bedford), 1747-1754.  Dexter, Biographical Sketches, II, 66-69.