1754 May 2 (Thursday). I preach’d at Lieutenant Tainters, by his Desire, the sermon and on the Text I preach’d from when Neighbour Newtons House was burnt, viz. Lam. 3.22.23. My wife went with me. Before I got home Mr. Eleazer Williams meets with an Horse to Visit his Mother. I went and pray’d with her; she is hastening away apace, and was Sensible. Discours’d like a good Christian. Gave her Testimony to the Truth of the Christian Religion and to the Expediency and usefulness of waiting upon divine Ordinances. Mr. Williams desir’d me to return again in the Morning —