1751 April 4 (Thursday). Preach’d Mr. Cushings Lecture at Shrewsbury on Song 1.12. Return’d at Eve. Ebenezer sowing Rye. It has been very searching Cold Weather for some Time. I have taken Cold and went to bed ill. N.B. Lieutenant Bruce went up to Grafton to meet the Reverend Mr. Prentice,[1] and expected me to have gone.
[1]Solomon Prentice who had been dismissed by the Grafton church in 1747.