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16. Burned 4 Chimnies in the house.

19. Did not go to Chh. My son came up in the Stage from Boston.

20. Rode with my son to the paper mill.

23. Mrs. T. went to Boston with my son in the old Coach with Johnson.

26. Went to Church twice.

27. Mrs. Thomas returned from Boston. My brother came from Lancaster. Phoebe

us. Fire in our sleeping Chamber.

28. My brother returned home.

came to live with

30. Thanksgiving-went to Church-We had no Company to dine.

December, 1815.

3. Anson Whipple came from Walpole by way of Boston. Went to Church twice. Very ill with the Cholic in the night.

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THOMAS PAPER MILL. From an old wood cut, about 1804.

4. Sub council of the American Antiquarian Society met at my house.

7. A. Whipple returned to Walpole.

10. Went to Church twice.

12. Court of Common Pleas.

13. Mr. Mrs. & Miss Elizabeth Maccarty and Mrs. Seaver spent the Evening with us.

16. Williams and Earle failed-all their property attached.

17. Went to Church twice.

18. Mrs. Thomas with Mrs. Bancroft went to Westboylston to see parson Nash & wife. Frazer unwell.

19. Judge Bangs & Miss Lynde spent the Evening.

20. My son sat out on a journey to Burlington, Vermont. Requested as School Come. man to visit the Schools. Unwell & did not attend.

21. Directors of Worcester Social Library met at my house. We issued a warrant for calling a new Meeting.

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22. Attended with other Members of the Tanyard company to a settlement of some of its concerns-we supped together at Wheeler's tavern.

23. Met again with the other proprietors of the tanyard, and agreed on a division of the real estate. I agreed to take the dwelling house and the lot of Land belonging to it at 1200 dollars. Mr. Lincoln jun'. & Mr. Maccarty take the tanyard and the extensive buildings on it at 2400 dollars. Dr. Paine takes the Bark Mill at 400 dollars. E. Flagg took leather equivalent.

Nathan Patch, who has been with me three years as a farmer left me by agreement. He is going to reside in the State of Newyork where he has purchased land.-I intend quitting this business.

24. Went to Church in the afternoon.

25. The tanyard Company having divided the real estate Deeds were executed to each other. I took the dwelling house and lot. Maccarty and Lincoln and Myself had 1200 dols. each in real Estate. Dr. Paine 400 dols. and 800 in Leather. Enoch Flagg 1200 in leather as an equivalent. Spent the Evening at Judge Bangs.

27. Miss Lynde & Judge Bangs spent the Evening with us.

29. Judge Bangs and Miss Lynde spent Even. with us. 30. A Stove, purchased by subscription, put up in the Church of the north parish-the first ever used in a Church in Worcester. Stove and funnels cost about 85 dollars.1

1 There was great opposition to the introduction of stoves into churches, partly no doubt, on account of the danger from fire, but principally because the old puritanical feeling still lingered in the minds of the majority of the people, that such comforts were inconsistent with the proper spirit for religious worship. Footstoves of perforated oak or tin, having iron pans to hold the coals, were used by the women, and it was a common sight to see boys or servants carrying them to the meeting-house. The first stove known to have been placed in a New England

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