1755 October 18 (Saturday). Ebenezer brought his Wife in the Morning — and Messrs. Phinehas Hardy and Batherick came to work on my Kitchin Roof (boarding and Shingling). About 9, or between 9 and 10 o’Clock a.m. my wife was deliver’d of her ninth, and my fourteenth living Child: her fourth, and my Seventh Daughter — a perfect Child and Well; and especially my Wife in great Comfort. Blessed be the Name of God! May we have a due Sense of the divine Mercy (So utterly undeserv’d) and may we have Grace to Walk accordingly! I threw by the Preparations which I was making, as Soon as the Child was born, and set myself to prepare on Gen. 22.14, though under many Disadvantages. The Women din’d here with us, and then went home o’foot Except Mrs. Forbush who was waited on by William with an Horse. Rachel Pratt watches.