October 16, 1750

1750 October 16 (Tuesday).  Mr. Newton and Forbush at the Cellar Wall which is the Foundation for the Chimney.  Jonathan Smith works there, at the Cellar and Well, Mr. Pierce being at the stoning the Well.  Sam Bumpso tends him.  Yet want another Hand.  Jonathan Smith So oblig’d to help at the Well that the Masons are forc’d to tend themselves a great Part of the Time.  As for me I rode about and waited and waited on the Work at Cellar and Well from Early Morning till into Evening — was especially at Mr. Timothy Warrins and talk’d with the widow Sarah Forbush[1] who is going to marry Josiah Walker,[2] an unbaptiz’d person, — he desir’d to talk with me about Deacon Burnaps[3] being offended with him — and said he had acknowledg’d his Fault to the Deacon.  N.B. Sent 12£ old Tenor to Mr. Daniel Gookin Bookseller at Boston, by Mr. Batheric.  I din’d at Ensign Millers.[4]  We are so out of Meat in the Family that I bought a Quarter of Beef of him.  N.B. Mr. Bogle[5] of Sudbury there.  Call’d to see Mr. Daniel Forbush’s Children Sick of Canker.  Lieutenant Tainter sent his Team with Stones by William Dunlop.

[1]The widow of Phinehas Forbush of Westborough, who had died at Fort Massachusetts, July 16, 1746.  Pierce, Forbes and Forbush Genealogy, pp. 31-32.

[2]Listed as Joseph Walker of Hopkinton in Westborough Vital Records.

[3]Jonathan Bumap of Hopkinton.

[4]James Miller of Westborough.

[5]Thomas Bogle.