1751 December 10 (Tuesday). Somewhat Pleasant Day. Sir Forbush (being come from Brookfield) din’d here. Mr. Simon Tainter brought a Load of Wood from Elijah Rice’s Swamp. Mr. Phinehas Hardy a Load from his own place. Lieutenant Forbush and Neighbour Batheric here and want to talk about the affair of Sudbury Council, and have been displeas’d; what they have been disquieted with was (as they apprehended) my not giving the Church Liberty to Send if they had been o’ Mind to. Whereas they acknowledg’d that I gave Space for them to speak if they had had Disposition to Say any Thing: but what they complain of is that I did not ask the Church to Speak, as I have indeed sometimes done, when I have Seen them as I thought too Backward. But however, as to Sending, it was not expected of us, after what I had Said to Captain Richardson and therefore the Reading of the Letters was merely to oblige them. N.B. Ebenezer and Thomas are gone to wait on Dr. Chase, who, to Day brings his Wife[1] from Sutton. Mrs. Lucy Bowker p.m. at Work making me a Cloth Jacket.
[1]Thomas Chase married Mary White, Sept. 26, 1751. John C. Chase and George W. Chamberlain, Seven Generations of the Descendants of Aquila and Thomas Chase (Derry, N.H., 1928), p. 102.