1752 February 5 (Wednesday). Dr. Gardner would find Horse while I find slay to ride to Mr. Martyn’s. His horse proves too untractable. We put in my Mare. It is cloudy and cool and nigh Eve but we got over comfortably and lodged there. N.B. Mr. Martyn has bought Ridgely etc.[1]
[1]Thomas Ridgley, D.D. (c. 1667-1734), a nonconformist English divine, was the author of several works, none of which was published in America. The work mentioned here may have been A Body of Divinity: wherein the Doctrines of the Christian Religion are Explained and Defended, 2 vols. (London, 1731, 1733).