28. Thanksgiving-dined with Mr. E. T. Andrews.1

1. Wrote all day.

December, 1805.

2. Went to Theatre-To Marry or not to Marry and Turnpike Gate performed.

3. E. W. went to Worcester.

4. Visited Rising States Lodge.

5. do. Mr. Jackson.

8. Members of the G. L. met at my house.

9. Went to G. L. New Election. T. Bigelow chosen G[rand] Master]-my constitutional term expired.

10. Prepared to set off for Worcester.

11.

Sat off for Worcester this morning in Coachee with H. Frazier.

1 Ebenezer Turell Andrews, the son of William and Mary Andrews of Boston, was apprenticed to Mr. Thomas 18 July, 1781. He lived in the family, as was customary at that time, and in 1788 was taken into partnership by him. He married for his first wife Hermione, daughter of Edward Weld, of Boston, who died in 1807, and soon afterwards he married her sister Elizabeth. At the time of his first marriage, he lived in Deming's court (now Avon place); and later over the store of Thomas and Andrews in Newbury street, in the house adjoining it, in the house at the corner of Washington street and Central court, and about the year 1825 he moved to 15 Winter street.

[Born, Boston, 18 November, 1766.

Died, Boston, 9 October, 1851.]

2 Timothy Bigelow, son of Col. Timothy Bigelow, as a boy spent two years in the printing office of Mr. Thomas, at the same time Benjamin Russell was an apprentice there. After his graduation from Harvard, in 1786, he entered the office of Levi Lincoln, and was admitted to the bar in 1789. He practiced in Groton, Mass., until 1806, when he removed to Medford and opened an office in Boston, where he soon acquired a prominent position in the profession.

From 1792 to 1797, he represented Groton in the General Court; was Senator for the four succeeding years and Councillor in 1802; for eighteen years from 1804 he was again a member of the House, and was for eleven years its Speaker. In 1814 he was a delegate to the Hartford Convention.

[Born, Worcester, 30 April, 1767.

Died, Medford, 18 May, 1821.]

22. Judge Sedgwick' dined with me.

25. Went to Boston in the Stage and kept at Mr Edward Weld's.

26. Rec. Miss. R. Armstrong's money.

27. St John's-Grand Lodge met at Concert hall.2 I installed the Grand Master Elect.

28. Returned to Worcester in the Stage.

25. Roads broken open.-Went to Boston in the Mail Stage.

29. Returned from Boston with Miss H. Weld in the Stage.

February, 1806.

5. Went to Lancaster, Harvard, &c. with Eliza.

6. Returned with Mrs. (Moses) Thomas.

12. Mrs. T. & Eliza went to Sterling.

21. Party to sup.

Theodore Sedgwick of Stockbridge, a Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts from 1802 to 1813. He was the father of Catherine Maria Sedgwick, the noted author.

2 Concert Hall, which, until 1869, stood at the corner of Court and Hanover streets, was also for many years a tavern, and was kept at this time by James Vilas. It was a noted meeting place for the patriots before the Revolution, and had been used for masonic purposes as early as 1755.

24. Party to sup.

26. Finished acct. of Stock.

27. Dined at Chandlers.

28. Sup at Farrar's.1

March, 1806.

7. Supper at Bush's.'

18. Signed for 10 Turnpike Shares-Note due at Bank 4800 dols.

20. C. Com. Pleas.

26. Company to dine.

27. Dined with S. Chandler.

28. Company to dine.

April, 1806.

10. Went to Boston in Coachee with Miss H. Weld, Hannah Frazier.

15. Returned to Worcester with H. Frazier and Mary Armstrong.

17. Supreme Court.

20, 21, 22. Unwell with a bad Cold.

1 John Farrar came to Worcester in the latter part of the eighteenth century, and purchased an estate of several acres on the north side of Pleasant, near the foot of the present Chestnut street. He had a store in the "old compound" on the north corner of Main and Front streets, where, besides carrying on a large business as a merchant and retailer, he yearly packed for foreign markets thousands of barrels of beef and pork.

In 1797, Mr. Farrar married Polly, the daughter of Daniel Heywood. He later removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he died in 1814.

Isaac Davis in his "Fire Society Reminiscences" speaks of him as a man "of gentlemanly deportment, neat and graceful in his personal appearance, fond of wit and anecdote, and a lively and interesting companion in social intercourse." 2 John Bush of Boylston lived at this time in the Gardiner Chandler house.

10. Projected and laid out, as far as my own land extends, a new road 40 feet wide running N. & S. A new road at right angles with the one I laid out E. & W. last Summer. This new street will extend through the medow.'

12. Mrs. Thomas & Eliza went to Boston with Mrs. Frazier & Levi in the Coachee. 10th, 12th, & 13th put up fence on the Medow and replaced the Trees.

20. Stevens began work.

21. His brother began do.

23. Sat out for Walpole, N. H., with my Son in a Chaise.

24. Arrived at Walpole at noon. Stephens on Horseback.

25. Went to Windsor, Vermont, in a hired carriage with my son & A. Thomas.2

26. Returned to Walpole.

27. Sat off at 5 °Clock in the Morning from Walpole, N. H. and arrived at Worcester at 10 in the Evening in a Chaise with my son-71 miles.

31. Went to Boston in the stage-Miss Mary Armstrong kept house at Worcester.

1 This was later known as Middle street, and was a part of the present Union street, north of Thomas.

2 Alexander Thomas, a distant relative of Mr. Thomas, was graduated from Dartmouth in 1792, and after serving as a clerk in the latter's Worcester store, was admitted into partnership in June, 1796, the firm bearing the name of Thomas, Son & Thomas. He was later the managing partner of the firm in Walpole, and was for several years the editor of the Farmers Museum.

June, 1806.

2. Artillery Election.

3. Reed a Letter respecting affairs at Baltimore.1

5. Sat off for Worcester in Coachee with Mrs. Thomas and Hannah Frazier. Mr. Andrews sat off for Baltimore.

6. I sat off in the Stage for Baltimore 3 clock

P. M.

7. and arrived at Palmer 36 miles at 3 °Clock in the morning in the stage & arrived at Newhaven.

8. At Newhaven.

9. 1 clock P. M. sat off for New York.

10. Arrived at New York at 11 °Clock.

11. Left New York and arrived at Princeton.

12. Arrived at Philadelphia.

13. Left Philadelphia and arrived at Havre de Grace. 14. Arrived at Baltimore.

18. Miss R. Armstrong came to Worcester with Eliza.

23. Left Baltimore and arrived at Newport, Delaware. 24. Arrived at Philadelphia.

26. Left Philadelphia and arrived at Brunswick.

27. Arrived at Newyork.

28. Went to Longisland to see my Brother.

29. Returned to Newyork.

30. Left Newyork at 9 °Clock and arrived at Newhaven. 80 miles.

1 In 1794 Thomas & Andrews extended a branch of their bookselling business

to Baltimore, under the firm name of Thomas, Andrews & Butler.