1758 July 31 (Monday). Rachel Newton went home. I rode to Monsieur Blanc’s and got Magdalene (who was going to reap for Joseph Baker) to come and wash: and I rode to Mr. Dunlop’s, from whence I brought Patty to wait on my Wife and tend the Child. It proved a rainy Time. At Eve had News from Brookfield that Ebenezer His Wife lay in the 20th Instant and has a Boy. She is also in much Comfort for the Time, but Molly (who was delivered on Wednesday last) has a Girl; which is poor and weak, and not like to live. She Sends for me to come: wants I Should go up to morrow morning — but my Affairs do not allow of it. Thus we Sing of Mercy and Judgment.[1] May God grant the Grace necessary to each of my Children, as their Circumstances are! And prepare us all for His Sovereign Will!
[1]Psalm 101.1: “I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O Lord, will I sing.”