March 26, 1751

1751 March 26 (Tuesday).  Prosecuted my Journey — aiming to go to Mr. John Child’s, Glazier at Roxbury.  N.B. one Cook of Needham or Dedham piloted me, to his Grandfathers Captain Robert Cook in Needham — to Mr. Stephen Winchester in Newton bad with a Cancer — and to Mrs. Hastings’s who formerly carry’d me up to Newtown in her Lap — N.B. her mother Davis alive — accounted 116 last October.  There was a Mr. Childs at Madam Dudley’s — put up my Horse at Cousen Cowels — visited my Kinsmans Widow — Roxbury, her Negro man dy’d to Day — little Elias very ill of a Fever.  Lodg’d at Brother Samuels.