1775 December 12 (Tuesday). A very cold Season. Nat. Chamberlain goes to the Ministerial Lot with Mr. Joseph Bonds Oxen added to mine and brings one Load of Wood, but it is so rough going that he goes not in the afternoon; but Joseph Cullock thrashes Rye P.M. At Eve came Mr. May and lodged here. I am reading Dr. I. Mathers History of Wars with Indians.[1]
[1]Increase Mather, A Relation of the Troubles Which Have Hapned in New-England, by Reason of the Indians There (Boston, 1677; Evans 238). Did Mather publish a history in England in 1676?