1759 July 10 (Tuesday). Mr. Twitchell mows for me all Day notwithstanding it was very rainy. I am reading Persian Letters. N.B. The melancholly account of Mr. Ponds unhappy Conduct, at Narragansett No. 6.[1] May God Sanctify it to my own humbling and Caution! And O that He would pity all his Ministers under their Many Temptations and Infirmitys and remember the gracious promise “Lo I am with you etc.” The Children much better. All of them go abroad, though they are weak still.
[1]Other than Parkman’s reference to the “melancholy account,” Clifford K. Shipton was unable to learn anything more about the dismissal of Daniel Pond (1724-c. 1797), Harvard Class of 1745, from his ministry in Templeton; SHG 11:567-68.