1755 October 7 (Tuesday). Our Well affords very little Water. My sons Wife and Daughter Susanna ride to Watertown with my Mare in the Chair. Messrs. Gale and Batheric at Work in rectifying the Frame and preparing the Principals — which are not yet put on. The Reverend Mr. Cushing here and din’d with me. Desires me to preach at a Private Fast at Shrewsbury next Tuesday on account of Mr. Samuel Wheelock[1] who is in a gloomy, delirious State, and lately cut this [sic] Throat, but not mortally.
[1]The son of a deacon of the same name. It was he who died in Shrewsbury, April 8, 1756, although it is not ascertainable that this was a case of suicide. Ward, Shrewsbury, pp. 465-466.