1776 November 20 (Wednesday). Mr. Samuel Forbush Sends his son Coollidge and a Yoke of Oxen, Mr. Ebenezer Forbush Sends Asa and Yoke of Oxen and they with James Hicks and my Oxen, plow all day in the Stubble at the Island, near the Brook. Master Goddard of Shrewsbury came to see me.