1751 January 17 (Thursday). According to appointment I met Mr. Stephen Fay at Justice Bakers Though it was rainy Weather and bad Stirring abroad. I din’d at Deacon Newtons. I went down with Justice Baker and Mr. Stephen Fay to look of the Land within my Plot of 4 acres and 57 Rods. Mr. Fay and I agreed to go on and give each other a Deed; I him of 3 Acres and 37 Rods of this Land, and he me of Three Acres Right of the sixth Division, to take up Common Land other where. We finish’d the Affair at Mr. Ebenezer Rice’s. N.B. Mr. Rice’s Young Man (Dudley) and his wife’s brethren, had been at the Great Pond, though foul Weather: and caught a great Number of fine Fish — the Pickerell, Some of them very large. They made me an handsome Present of 3 large ones. At Deacon Newtons as I return’d home, but tarried not long. N.B. Ebenezer at Mr. Cornelius Cooks[1] assisting him in making a stubb scythe, a Whipple-Tree Chain and several other Things.
[1]Westborough’s blacksmith.