June 26, 1752

1752 June 26 (Friday).  Lieutenant Bruce here, about the Land at the Island.  The Reverend Mr. Hall of Sutton and young Master Minot here.  Mr. Phinehas Rice (of Grafton) from Boston brings me Dr. Nathaniel Williams late of Boston, his Method of Practice in the Small Pox.[1]

[1]The Method of Practice in the Small-Pox, with Observations on the Way of Inoculation (Boston, 1752).