1754 July 30 (Tuesday). At about 11 a.m. came Colonel Williams and with him Mr. Smith, Captain Uriah Eager, and two other officers with them, and the Colonel invited me to dine with him to Day. He said he had depended upon Captain Baker to invite me, having given him Order, to do it, or else the Captain had said he would, but he was gone over to Bolton. I walk’d over as far as Mr. Nathan Maynards in the middle and heat of the Day, but from thence had his Mare, which I also rode home upon. I din’d with Colonel Williams, Major Willard, and the other Officers of this Regiment, at Captain Maynards. The Design of their Meeting was to Consult about a general Meeting of the Regiment — agreeable to the Governor’s Proclamation. Messrs. Cushing (who came from the Funeral of Mr. Morse’s Child), Stone and Smith, there. After 4 o’Clock (the Hour I appointed) I attended the Catechetical Exercise to Young Women at the Meeting House. N.B. Mr. Baldwin went yesterday to Brookfield, and Elisha Jones, one of his Prentice’s, work’d for my son Ebenezer during the Absence of his Master. At Eve deliver’d Mary Latiner a Receipt from Mr. Abraham Smith of her Debt to Said Smith, but it was writ as from Mr. Richard Barns. Thomas mows and rakes at Newton Meadow; but those who clear’d there left many Bushes unpick’d up, by which means it is very slow and bad mowing.