1772 September 3 (Thursday). In returning to Mr. Forbes’s, Stopped at Mr. Wards. Dined at my Son Ebenezers. P.M. visited Mr. Joseph Bruce’s. Lodged at Ebenezers. N.B. My Daughter P________ relates divers Things in Defence of her Daughter Betty against what her Aunt Moore had writ, and against what her Grandmother had Said of her to Mr. Bradshaw — what also her Aunt Cushing had said of her — which gave me no Small Trouble.