1754 May 16 (Thursday). Showery this Morning also. Lucy lodg’d at t’other House. I went into the Neighbourhood to get somebody to plough or harrow my Ground, but without Success. I was at Mr. Daniel Warrins — but he offer’d a Bushel of Indian Corn. N.B. I had din’d at Lieutenant Tainters with Master Hezekiah Coolidge[1] who came the Day before Yesterday to keep School, and keeps at the School House. Mr. Baldwin here at Eve, and asks Leave to Spend a little Time with my Daughter Lucy.
[1](Harvard 1750). He was the son of a tavernkeeper and selectman of Sherborn. At Harvard, Coolidge had been punished for fighting, card-playing, and gambling. After making his humble confession and graduating, he kept the Roxbury Grammar School for a time. At Westborough he frequented taverns and gambled, and was soon dismissed from the school. Sibley, XII, 539-540.