1755 July 22 (Tuesday). Read Mr. Hopkins’s History of Housatunnock.[1] Mr. Ebenezer Chamberlins Wife here, and appears dissatisfy’d at my Lenity to Mrs. Judith Bellows: but hope she went away easy with my just Vindication.
[1]Samuel Hopkins, Historical Memoirs, Relating to the Housatunnuk Indians (Boston, I753). This appeared later in different form as An Abridgement of Mr. Hopkins’s Historical Memoirs (Phila., 1757), and An Address to the People of New-England (Phila., 1757). The Philadelphia imprints were by Benjamin Franklin.