May 10, 1758

1758 May 10 (Wednesday).  Ensign Harrington, Mr. Zebulon Rice, and Mr. Tainter with their Cattle and Hay to keep them and with Mr. Williams’s and Capt. Woods Oxen (twelve, including my Sons) and Deacon Tainters plough broke up Some mossy and wild Grass Ground on the North East End of the Island next to Capt. Maynards Land.  They dined here, with Mrs. Dench and Buckminster, but these last p.m. returned to Framingham.