1754 November 21 (Thursday). Ebenezer went to Brookfield after our young Cattle. He rode my Mare. Moses Nurse with 2 Yoke of Oxen, and my Billy helping, plough’d, sow’d Rye and harrow’d it in. Held a Catechetical Exercise to Young Women. At Eve Ebenezer and Samuel Forbush each with a Yoke of Cattle, Noah Forbush with my sons Oxen and a Drag, Elijah Rice, Moses Nurse and his Cousen Daniel and Abner Newton, came and plough’d a drew down Gravel from the back of my House. N.B. Much to’t for want of Wood.