1770 July 19 (Thursday). Broke fast at Mr. Adams’s at Roxbury and prayed with the Family there — went to Boston. Delivered the Case of Sarah Green, Signed by Justice Whipple, Dr. Crosby, and by me, to Dr. Stiles.[1] He preached the Lecture on Luk. 12.32. “Fear not little Flock” etc. I dined at Mr. William Blair Townshends. Messrs. Green of Barnstable, Mr. Hawley, Mr. Dana of Groton: and Mr. J. Stacy Hastings, there. Visit at Mr. Surcombs. At Eve went to my Brothers and lodged there. [Marginal notation: Much said of Worms in multitudes, infesting Fields, of Corn, and the Grass.]
[1]See Franklin Bowditch Dexter, ed., The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles, D.D., LL.D., President of Yale College (3 vols.; New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1901), 1:75-76.