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where we saw M' Tom Winthrop. M'" Phillips and Daughter, visited Brother Trench, met there brother Holt, call'd at M' Phillips Jun' saw M"- Noyes and her Sister Mad'" Bromfield and Daughter. Din'd at Brother Synime's : ^ receiv'd in a most obliging Manner by him and Family and Billy Powell and Wife who lodg there : their Daughter enter- tain' d us with her Voice and Harpsicord. went p. m. to Rowley, call'd at Mr Chandler's. Drank Coffee at Mr Parsons' of Byfield, with Judg Trowbridg.' went to Dummer School, saw dear little Sammy* well, slept and Horse there. 28. Wednesday. Hir'd an Horse of Mr Hale, went with Sammy to N. Port.^ bought cloaths for him. call'd at Mr Greenleaf's, Carters, Capt Tracy's, M' Ellis Gray and Mother and Family, call'd at Ruth Mawgridg's Lodgings saw her well, met Capt Gray's Wife, return'd. din'd at Dummer School, sat out for Ipswich, call'd thereat M" An- drews Lodgings, found her sick of a Fever pray'd with her. slept and Horse at Br. Dana's.*^ 2g. Thursday. Detain'd by Rain there, visited M' Story and Fam- ily. His son the Minister and Wife being there. M" Story the Elder ill, and had buried a Daughter yesterday pray'd with the Family. Cof- fee at Br. Dana's. Slept and Horse there. 30. Friday. Left B' Dana's after Breakfast. Call'd at M' Hitch- cock's Beverly : he abroad, din'd at Mr wm Davis at Danvers. slept at M' Turell's Medford. Horse there. July I. Went early to visit M'" Newell and Payne's Family, at M' Brook's: not at home, proceeded for Groton. bated at Hartwell's gratis. Din'd at D' Lee's : Concord. His son obligingly accompanied us towards Lyttleton. Coffee at M Newman's, slept there. Horse at M' Tuthill's gratis. 2. Lord' s day. Went early to Groton after Breakfast, pch'd all day. read Proclamation from Continental Congress for a Fast thro all the Colonies' and f m Pr. Congress respecting Sabbath, spoke extem- pore a few minutes upon the last. Din'd. Coffee, slept, and Horse at Dr Prescotts. 'The Rev. William S>Tnmes, D.D. (1750), sometime tutor in Harvard College, and minister of Andover. 2 The Rev. Moses Parsons (H. C. 1736), minister of Byfield parish in Newburj-, and father of Theophilus Parsons, chief justice of Massachusetts. 3 Edmund Trowbridge (H. C. 1728), Judge of the Superior Court of Judicature of the Province. He was one of the judges at the trial of Capt. Preston and others con- cerned in the Boston massacre. Though attached to the royal government he did not approve of all its measures, and in 1 772 resigned his office and retired to private life. > Samuel Cooper Johonnot ( H. C. 1783 ), a gi-andson of the diarist, and bred to the law. In 1793 he was appointed consul of the United States at Demerara, where he died in 1806. 5 Newburyport. 6The Rev. Joseph Dana, D.D. (Yale Coll. 1760), for more than sixty years min- ister of Ipswich. Jouni. Prov. Cuht. Mass., pp. 342, 392, 393, note.