1751 July 2 (Tuesday). Mr. Cushing and his Wife here on their Journey to Cambridge. Ebenezer and Thomas also rode down. I visited Mrs. Pratt. Din’d at Deacon Newton’s where my young Carpenters board. I visited at Mr. Ebenezer Rice’s where two Children have the Throat Distemper. Was at Mr. Charles Rice’s and at Captain Bakers. An hot Day. At Eve I was much tir’d with my Walks. Wrote to Mr. Edmund Quincy[1] about my Collection of Poems.
[1]Squire Quincy (Harvard 1722) of Braintree.