March 17, 1775

1775 March 17 (Friday).  The Town Met upon the Affair contained in the Paper last men[tioned?].  Nigh the Evening came a Number of the Committee of Correspondence, viz. Messrs. Daniel Forbes, Joseph Baker, Thomas Bond, and Joseph Harrington; to invite me to a Lecture to be preached at Worcester on the 28th instant to the County Congress.  Mr. Harrington tarries in the Eve and talks with Mrs. P________ on the uproar against Mr. Eli Forbes last Lords day.  Breck returned from Boston.  He came Via Concord, and brought his Brother Williams Daughter Lydia, though the roads are very Snowy.