1752 May 25 (Monday). Messrs. Batheric, Phinehas Hardy and Daniel Adams work’d on the Covering my Barn. Mr. Gashitt Sollicits me to go with him to Mr. Ross Wymans[1] to bind Henry Gashitt, which we did — din’d at Wyman’s. P.M. visited Mr. Cushing who was not able to preach yesterday. When I return’d, found Mr. Martyn and his wife here; and that Mr. Stone and Madame Thatcher[2] (his Mother in Law) had been here likewise, having come before Dinner. Mr. Forbush to Brookfield.
[1]A blacksmith of Shrewsbury.
[2]The Reverend Nathan Stone of Southborough had married Mary Thacher, daughter of the late Reverend Peter Thacher of Middleborough, May 16, 1751.