1777 September 4 (Thursday). Breck goes to Worcester and takes License to Retaile. I attended the Funeral of Mr. Samuel Forbush’s Daughter Persis. N.B. A Number of persons, viz. a Man, Charles Hunt and his Wife and 4 Children; also another Woman, Betty Smith, from Danbury, here, begging Relief. We had also a Number [torn] Visitants. My son Alexander came from Leicester [torn] his Son Alexander. His wife was delivered of a Daughter [torn] Tuesday was sennight, and is in an hopeful Way. D.G. Nabby Woods here at Work for Breck. I wrote to Mr. Cushing by Mr. Nathan Maynard junior and Sent him two Letters of Mr. Baldwin to me, Since the Evacuation of Ticonderoga.