September 29, 1775

1775 September 29 (Friday).  Mr. James Foster Condy[1] here and dined with us.  Breck returned from Providence, whither he went on the 27th.  I rode up to Mr. William Nurse’s hoping to see Zerviah but She expired before I got there.[2]  Prayed with the survivors.  Mrs. Cotton and her Neice, Miss Polly Clark, waited on by young [Billy?], were here, and tarried over night.  Lent Elijah Brigham my Salmons Geography.  Visit Mrs. Miriam Batherick again and prayed there, and Miss Ann Maynard at Mr. Parkers and prayed.  Sister Cushing came to see us in her way home from Southborough.

[1]Son of Jeremiah Condy, Harvard 1726 (1709-1768), minister of the First Baptist Church of Boston.

[2]Zerviah, sister of Daniell Nurs, d. Sept. 29, 1775; Westborough Vital Records, 249.