1755 August 7 (Thursday). Can’t get any Body to Cart my Hay from the Ministerial Meadow, though I have taken a great deal of Pains. P.M. preach’d at Lieutenant Tainters on Mat. 13.39. My wife, Thomas and Billy there. N.B. Mr. Francis Gardner[1] keeps school at the School House.
[1](Harvard 1755). He became the minister of Leominster, 1762-1814.