September 12, 1775

1775 September 12 (Tuesday).  I [visit?] divers of the Sick, viz. Mr. Jonathan Childs wife.  Prayed with her.  Dined there.  [torn] Miss Sally Pierce and prayed with her.  At Mr. [illegible] Townsends [torn] Belknap dyed last Night.[1]  A gracious good Woman, a great Loss!  [torn] Ebenezer came.  [illegible], an Indian Boy from Mr. Forbes’s, with him.  [torn] drooping, and has a bad Cough.  Fear what the Event may be.

[1]Not in Westborough Vital Records.