1754 July 18 (Thursday). Subscriptions for my Collection of Poems promoted by Mr. Forbush who got a Number of them among his Acquaintance and others, and at Mr. Hancocks[1] Chamber, Mr. Tucker[2] and Mr. Webster[3] subscrib’d. Din’d at Mr. Appletons[4] where I also mention’d the Collection. N.B. Mr. Walker Merchant of Boston there, with whom I have much Conversation. Mr. Forbush and I rode up to Mr. Woodwards of Weston, and lodg’d there.
[1]Belcher Hancock, the tutor at Harvard.
[2]The Reverend John Tucker (Harvard 1741), the minister of Newbury. Sibley, XI, 78-91.
[3]The Reverend Samuel Webster of Salisbury.
[4]The Reverend Nathaniel Appleton of Cambridge.