1773 March 18 (Thursday). Mr. Biglow goes to Holden. Billy pays me £14 old Tenor for the Steer he bought of me. He pays me also 31£ for the fat Heiffer which he had with the Steer. P.M. he leaves us to go home. At Eve came my Son Alexander and laments it that he hath missed again of Seeing his Brother William, this being, he says, the 3d or 4th time when it has been so; and he has not seen him for [blank] Years. Elias also came with Alexander in his returning from Brookfield. Tells me John is in Mr. Hitchcocks Business for a while — and then is to go to Oxford. By a Letter from my Son Ebenezer am informed that one of his little Boys (Neddy) with a sharp Ax, cut two of Lewis’s fingers almost off. Viz. the fore and middle Fingers of his right Hand.