way to Newbraintree, and tarried thro' the day and night. Rev. Dr. Andrews returned from Brookfield where he went to assist in an Ordination, and tarried with me the night. November, 1827. 1. Rev. Dr. Andrews left me this morning for his home at Newburyport. Wrote to my friend Mycall. Visited Mrs. Willard's. 2. Rode with Eliza, Mrs. P. & daughter. 6. 7. Parker went on a journey on his own concerns. Parker came home in a Snow Storm. Snow fell with a violent Storm all day and Evening full 10 inches on a level. Farmers say full twelve inches in the woods. 11. Went to Church once. 12. Mrs. P's daughter, who has been here on a visit to her mother, went on to Uxbridge in the Stage. 13: Dr. Simmons called. 16. Becca Thomas called. She is on a visit at her uncle Willard's. My neighbor Rice, having lost a son, let him have the carriage for the family to attend the funeral. 17. Col. Sam'. Butman' of Dixmont, agent for me in that place, called. He is on his Way to Congress of which he is elected a member. 18. Went to Church once, 19. Settled with Samuel Butman, Esq. 20. Rode out-went to the Bank and called at Sheriff Willard's. 21. My Grandaughter, Mrs. Hannah W. Crocker, of Taunton, has been very unwell for several weeks. Mrs. Merrick sat out this morning to visit her, with Miss Mary Andrews. Mrs. P. and Eliza rode out. Becca Thomas, returned with them and spent the day. 22. My grandaughter Mrs. Hannah Weld Crocker, the daughter of my Son, & wife of Mr. Sam1. Crocker, died at Taunton after a short confinement of severe fever, aged 24 years, and nearly one month. 23. Edward went to Taunton to attend the funeral af his Sister. Wrote to Isaiah at Cincinnati, Ohio. Samuel Butman, member of Congress from Penobscot County, Me., from 1827 to 1831. 24. Becca Thomas returned to Sterling. 25. Went to Church twice. Mr. Merrick at Dinner. A Sermon was this afternoon delivered at our Church by Rev. Mr. Tuckerman, of the Evangelical Society, to aid a Collection for the purposes of its institution. The preacher begged lustily. 27. Wm. Andrews from Boston. 28. Comee. for building a new Church called on me, respecting the purchase of a Lot of Land for the purpose, at the foot of Court hill, on which two houses now stand. 29. Went to Church. Thanksgiving. Mr. Merrick, Wm. Andrews, and Isaiah T. Simmons, at dinner. December, 1827. 1. Offered 130 feet rear and 84 feet front, with the two houses thereon at the foot of Court hill, reserving passages in Common, West and north, to the Comee. for building a new Church, for $4000, or 3750 dols. without the buildings.1 4. Rev. Mr. Hill called to see me. Mrs. Merrick returned from Taunton. 5. Mrs. Pride went to Uxbridge in the Stage. 6. Rode out. Hon. J. Wilson2 of Keene, and Dr. Bancroft called to see me. 1At a parish meeting held 27 November, 1827, it was voted to be "Expedient to contract for a new and more commodious house of worship, on a new lot on Main street, between the Court House on the north, and the house of Nathaniel Maccarty (where the State Mutual building now stands) on the south, the outside walls to be of brick, the whole cost to be not over $15,000; " and Frederick William Paine, George T. Rice, Capt. Lewis Barnard, Deacon Alpheus Merrifield, Rejoice Newton, Pliny Merrick and Samuel Ward were appointed a committee to contract for the building and superintend its construction. 2 James Wilson was graduated from Harvard in 1789, and was a lawyer by profession. He was a representative to Congress from New Hampshire from 1809 to |