1754 January 28 (Monday). Dr. Perkins[1] of Framingham informs me that Mr. Benjamin Goddard,[2] who was with me last Tuesday, dy’d last Night. Alpheus Newton’s House rais’d. Captain Eager ask’d me to go up, and I did so. Some refreshment at Deacon Newtons[3] by Captain Eager. Mr. Hezekiah Rice came to request me to go to Mr. Goddards Funeral. N.B. some Discourse with Deacon Newton and Mr. Francis Whipple about my addressing the Town for the remains of my Sallery in the Year 1744. N.B. James Eager brings a Message from Mr. Jonathan Greene.
[1]Richard Perkins (Harvard 1748), a physician, was the son of the Reverend Daniel Perkins of Bridgewater and the brother-in-law of the Reverend Matthew Bridge of Framingham.
[2]Of Shrewsbury.
[3]Josiah Newton of Westborough.