May 1, 1758

1758 May 1 (Monday).  Visited Sarah Smith junior (Daughter of the widow Sarah Smith) who is sick of a Fever.  There I dined.  Visited at Mr. Gershom Brighams — Joseph Knowltons, where was Dr. Crosby, who acquainted me with the Frolick which a Number of young People had at Baldwins Tavern in Shrewsbury last Thursday Night and that he himself wrote a Letter to Mr. Baldwin the preceding afternoon, which was the means of breaking it up.  N.B. The young Men were partly those who have enlisted into the service: and Solomon Fay of this Town was one.  I visited at Mr. Samuel Fays junior.  N.B. his son Solomon came in: I therefore talked with him about the above mentioned Frolick.  Called at Neighbour Eliezer Rice’s — bid farewell to Thomas Hardy and his wife, they designing for Brookfield in the Morning.  When I came home came Mr. Oliver Carter of Leominster to desire me to assist at a Fast there — he lodged here.