1755 December 13 (Saturday). Much interrupted by the Coming of Captain Thomas Stoddard from Fort Edward. He tells me he supposes Mr. Bowes, late of Bedford, one of the Chaplains in the army, to be by this time dead, he having been struck suddenly with numb palsey, and speechless when he was with him, as he came down upon his Journey. May God grant that I may myself be always ready! Since we know not the Day nor the Hour. O that I might wait for my Lord!