February 2, 1767

1767 February 2 (Monday).  Mr. Cushing to his School.  Mr. Moore stays to Dinner.  I manifested Freedom and affectionate Faithfulness with respect to preaching the Spiritual and profitable manner of handling subjects etc.  Lent him Mr. Jennings on Preaching, and lent him also Mr. William Dunlop’s Preface to the Assemblys Catechism.  P.M. he left us to go to wait on Miss Molly Baker.  I visited old Capt. Forbush and Lieutenant Thomas Forb.  At Eve came Mrs. Cotton and Miss Patty Clark.  Joseph Joslin waits upon them.  Presently after came my Son Baldwin with his sister Parkman, and Mr. Fitch with them.  The latter, with their Horses, goes to Capt. Woods to lodge — and Joslin lodges otherwhere.  The rest here.