September 11, 1754

1754 September 11 (Wednesday).  Receiv’d the last Volume of the History of the Foundling[1] from Mr. Samuel Livermore by Mr. Samuel Harrington.  At Eve came Dr. Perkins, and Mr. Hezekiah Coolidge and lodg’d here.  Mr. Jeduthan Baldwin brought back Ebenezer’s Mare which he himself had rid to Weston when he finish’d his Work and left us.

[1]Probably Samuel Silence, pseud., The Foundling Hospital for Wit No. 1-6, (London 1743-1749).