1754 July 16 (Tuesday). Set out from Mr. Browns early; broke fast at the Reverend Mr. Adams’s[1] at Roxbury. We proceeded to Mr. John Barkers at Boston, whom Mr. Abraham Smith I Suppose has dependence upon to testify against me; but who in Discourse, tells me he was astonish’d at Smiths Impudence that Night he was at my House, and the next morning likewise, than ever he was in his Life; and says he doth not remember that he so much as once heard me express my Self towards Smith in any unbecoming manner. To this Mr. Forbush was Witness. Thence we went to Dr. Pyncheons[2] and din’d there. Spent the Chief of the p.m. at Brother Samuels, Captain Storers, and Mr. Kneelands.[3] We return’d as far as to Mr. Adams’s and lodg’d there. At home Thomas and Billy rak’d at the Meadow a.m. P.M. prov’d rainy, and at night a great Storm of Thunder and Lightning and Rain.
[1]Amos Adams (Harvard 1754) served Roxbury, 1753-I775.
[2]Joseph Pyncheon, the physician of Boston and Springfield. Sibley, VIII, 90-95.
[3]Samuel Kneeland, the printer of Boston.