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Novr. 2. Thursday. MrsC. and I went my H ; and ch to Westown. din'd at M" Savages. Nabby at M'" Cockran's. return'd to M' Clark's slept and H. there. Nov>-. J. Friday. Rainy. Our little Family all at home. B' Wil- liams of Sandwich, and M' Curtiss my former Parishioners drank Coffee with us. slept and Horse at home Novr. 4. Went M' Clark's Horse to Watertown. din'd with my little Family at home i. e. Mr Clark's. M' James Dennie and B; Cooper drank Coffee with us. slept and Horse there on M' Clark's Hay still. In the Evg. my Hay f'm Watertown. 6' and 1/2. Novr. ^. Lord's day. Went to Watertown with M'" Cooper pch'd all day there, we din'd at Deacon Fisk's. Nabby at home all day. We return'd, in Evg. slept there. Horse on my own Hay. N. 6. Monday. Our Family at home all day. I visited Mr Payne and Family p. m. D' Langdon and Mr Wadsworth spent Evg. with me. did not sup. slept and H. at home. Novr. J. Tuesday. Went with Mr Calendar my H : and ch. to AVater- town. Corporation and overseers Meeting, adjourn' d to rainy day. I din'd with Corporation at Coolidge's. M" Cooper and my Family at home, slept and H. there. Novr. 8. Wednesday. Went to M' Payne's a. m. alone. Welman put one Shoe on my Horse, paid, saw Mr Payne, din'd at home with all my Family. M" Cooper and I visited p. m. Mrs Turell. We all slept, and H : at home. M" Blanchard slept with us. Novr. g. Thursday. Went with M" Cooper, my H : and ch : to Mr Bennies after dining at home with Mrs Blanchard. slept and H : there. M" Blanchard slept with Nabby at M' Clark's Novr. 10. Friday. M" Cooper and I all day at Mr Bennies slept and H : there. Nabby and M" Blanchard at Mr Clark's Novr. II. Saturday. Went with M" Cooper f'm M' Bennies to old Cambridg. din'd with Nabby and M" Blanchard at M' Clark's We all slept and H. there Novr. 12. Went with M Cooper my H : and ch. to Watertown Nabby and M" Blanchard went also. She din'd at Madam Hunts. M" Cooper Nabby and I at Mr Fisk's. pch'd all day at Watertown. We all slept and H. at M' Clark's. Novr. I J. M" Blanchard left us this Morn^. Our Family din'd at home. Went with M Cooper, my H ; and ch : p. m. to Menomot}'.' slept and Horse at Mr Cook's. No7'r. 14. Tuesday. Sat out after Breakfast f'm Mr Cook's, call'd at Cooper's Tavern. receiv'd of M' Phillips White io_^ Lawf Money ' Menotomy. 2 This tavern, which stood where the Arlington House now stands, was kept by Benjamin Cooper. During the retreat from the fight at Lexington, April 19, 1 7 75) i*^ ^'^^ entered by British soldiers, "and two aged gentlemen were most barbarously and in- humanly murdered by them." See deposition of Benjamin and Rachel Cooper, in Joiirn. Prov. Cong. Mass., p. 678.