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13. William Andrews arrived from Boston.

Sold all my part of Coys. Stock in trade to Anson Whipple amounting to 9250 dollars on credit for 3 years, and took his note for that sum. Delivered him

all my stock in trade in Worcester to sell on Commission-He to purchase what remains on hand at the end of 2 years.

14. Went to Church twice.

17. Got in 3 Loads of Hay.

18. Rode out with Mrs. Thomas.

of his term, however, in November, 1840, he was again brought forward for governor, on the Whig ticket, as the most formidable opponent to the growing power of the Democratic party, which had carried the state in 1839, electing its candidate, Marcus Morton, by a majority of one out of over one hundred and two thousand votes cast. Governor Davis received a majority of fifteen thousand over Morton, which the Democratic gains reduced in 1841 to less than five hundred; and in 1842, as in 1833, there was no popular choice. After a protracted struggle in the General Court, in consequence, doubtless, of Governor Davis's prudent neutrality in the case of the so-called "Dorr Rebellion," in Rhode Island, Morton for a second time secured his election by one vote.

After two years spent in retirement, he was chosen, in 1845, to fill out the unexpired term of Isaac C. Bates in the Senate; and in 1847 was returned for the full senatorial term, ending in March, 1853, after which he declined a re-election.

During his service in Congress, which covered period of twenty-two years, Governor Davis always acted in strict accordance with northern principles. He opposed the administrations of Jackson and Van Buren; the Clay compromise tariff bill of 1833; the sub-treasury plan of 1840; the Mexican war; the admission of slavery into the newly acquired territories; and the compromise acts of 1850; and was one of the most decided supporters of the Wilmot proviso. For many years he was chairman of the Committee of Commerce, in the Senate, and devoted much of his attention to international relations and finance. His straightforward methods and candid manner won for him the fullest confidence, not only of his constituents, but of the whole country, and he was popularly known as "Honest John Davis." He was a councillor of the American Antiquarian Society from 1824 to 1831; and its vice-president from 1831 to 1853, when he succeeded Edward Everett as president. He was also president of the Worcester Agricultural Society, in 1831; of the Worcester Lyceum, in 1834; and the first president of both the State Mutual Life Assurance Company, and of the Worcester and Nashua Railroad.

Governor Davis married, 28 March, 1822, Eliza, daughter of Aaron and Lucretia Chandler Bancroft.

[Born, Northborough, Mass., 13 January, 1787. Died, Worcester, 19 April, 1854.]

19. Mr. Thaxter and Wife visited.

Got in 1 Load of Hay.

Frazer rec 1 trunk with her

Things from Boston.

20. Got in 3 Loads of Hay.

21. Mr. Foster of Rutland preached. Went to the South Church in the afternoon.

22. Mrs. T. Company.

23. Mr. Whipple sat out for Walpole.

25. Mrs. Thomas visited at M'. Thaxters with my grand daughters & myself.

26. Rode out. Judge Bangs-Gouty-went with me. 27. Went to Holden, and Judge Bangs went with mecame home by way of Tatnuck.

28. Went to Church twice.

29. Dr. Bancroft & wife went to Vermont. Mrs. Thomas and my grand daughters Mary and Frances went to Millbury.

31. Miss R. Armstrong came up from Boston in the Stage had her Nose and other parts of her head, and her legs wounded by a severe jolt occasioned by the Stage going over a Log. Mrs. T. had Company.

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2. Judge Bangs and Miss Lynde spent the Evening with us.

4. Went to church twice. M'. Dabney, a young candidate preached.

6. Miss Lynde & Judge Bangs.

7. Mrs. Thomas went to Lancaster on a visit to my brother in the Coach, and carried with her Miss Rebecca Armstrong.

9. My grand daughter Mary Rebecca went to Bostonin a Hack with Mrs. Trumbull. Mrs. Thomas returned from Lancaster.

11. Went to Church twice.

12. My Grand daughter Frances went with a number of young persons on a ride of pleasure to Westboro' & Grafton.

16. E. S. Thomas,1 (son of my brother Joshua) with his

1Ebenezer Smith Thomas, the son of Joshua and Mary Twing Thomas, was apprenticed to his uncle to learn the printer's trade, in 1788, but four years later he left Worcester, and was employed for a time as bookbinder in Boston. In 1795 he went to Charleston, S. C., where for the next twelve years he had a large bookstore and bindery. While on a visit to New England, in 1804, he formed a partnership with Nathaniel G. and Christopher Olney, Jr., and built in Providence the fifth cotton factory in the United States. Intending to settle in Providence, he closed his business in Charleston in the spring of 1807, but in the following summer he was persuaded to dispose of his interest in the cotton mill and to remove to Baltimore. He purchased and began to improve a large farm there, but the embargo so reduced the price of its products, that he was compelled to relinquish it in November, 1809. From 1810 to 1816 he edited the Charleston City Gazette when he again settled in Baltimore. In 1818 and 1819 he was a member of the Maryland Legislature. From 1829 to his death, he lived in Cincinnati, where he was the editor of the Commercial Daily Advertiser from 1829 to 1835 and of the Daily Evening Post from 1835 to 1839. Mr. Thomas made several visits to Europe and published in 1840 the "Reminiscences of Sixty Five Years," in two volumes, a journal of his life at home and abroad.

He married in November, 1805, a daughter of Adam Fonerden, of Baltimore. | Born, Providence, R. I., 1775. Died, Cincinnati, O., 22 October, 1845.]

wife, late of Charleston, S. C. arrived here from Boston & Lancaster, on their way to Baltimore.

Frazer received by team, more of her household Goods from Boston.

The South meeting house is undergoing thorough repairs. 17. E. S. Thomas and His wife at tea.

18. E. S. Thomas & wife spent the day with us.

19. E. S. Thomas & wife left Worcester for Sterling.

22. The town began making the Road behind D'. Lincoln's Store near the Court house-north. Williams got in the Oats from the field about 130 bushels.

25. Went to Church twice. Unwell. Mrs. Seaver and Mary Parker at dinner.

26. Town Meeting. Choice of Register [of Deeds] and Member to Congress. Committee on my application to the town did not report. The Church and Congregation of the south parish in Worcester, having given the Rev. Mr. Goodrich1

1Charles Augustus Goodrich, the son of Rev. Samuel Goodrich, of Berlin, Conn., was graduated from Yale in 1812, and after he was licensed, in 1815, preached for a few months in Congress Hall, at Saratoga Springs. 15 July, 1816, he was settled as the colleague of Dr. Samuel Austin, the minister of the Old South Church, who had accepted the presidency of the University of Vermont, and became the sole minister on the latter's formal dismission, in 1818. His settlement was opposed by but one person, Daniel Waldo, who was not himself a member of the church, though some of his family were; but after his ordination, 9 October, 1816, personal objections to his doctrines, and to the government of the church, caused the opposition to spread so widely, that it grew into the most bitter quarrel which has ever occurred in any church in Worcester. After all attempts at reconciliation had failed an ecclesiastical council was resorted to, which resulted in the acquittal of Mr. Goodrich on all the charges brought against him. The disaffected withdrew, and formed, with others the Calvinist or Central Church. Two years later, ill health compelled Mr. Goodrich to ask for his dismissal, which was granted 14 November, 1820. He then returned to Berlin and devoted himself to literary pursuits. He was the author of numerous works on American history, and was for many years associated with his brother, Samuel G. Goodrich, (Peter Parley) in the compilation of historical and geographical text books. In 1848 he removed to Hartford, Conn,. where he held a pastorate, and was at one time a member of the State Senate.

Mr. Goodrich married, in 1818, Sarah, daughter of Rev. Benoni Upson, of Berlin. [Born, Berlin, Conn., Died, Hartford, Conn., 4 January, 1862.]

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a call to settle as their Minister, he signified to them his acceptance.

28. Let the pew lately occupied by M'. Tilley Rice to Mrs. Field-7 dols. per annum. Let the pew belonging to my son, to Elijah Flagg, farmer.

29. Dr. Bancroft and Wife and Mrs. Seaver visit.

30. Frazer and my Grand daughter Frances went to Sterling in the carriage & returned.

I received a very polite and friendly Letter from a Committee of the Philadelphia Typographical Society, appointed for that Society, inclosing a Vote of the Society, informing me that I was unanimously elected an honorary member, etc. Also, a Certificate of my Election, elegantly engraved, and enclosed in a splendid frame.

31. Phebe Franklin went to Mendon-Maria Webb an assistant in the family.

Begun to finish the Road, on the hill, north of the Court house, for the County, which was begun by the town.

This summer the weather has been the most extraordinary that I can remember. A frost every month since last autumn. But few warm days, this summer. No month but what in several days of it a fire has been very agreeable. The nights generally very cool. Three times Frost in August, which in many places cut off the Indian Corn and Potatoes. The season has been remarkably dry, in the United States generally, and in many parts of Europe as has the cold also-Crops of Hay very Short. But the Crops of English grain have been very good. Several times frost in Sept'. as well as in all the months of summer.1

'The year 1816 has always been known as the year in which there was no summer. The preceding winter had been severe, but April opened with warm sunny weather, which gave every promise of an early spring. In the latter part of the month, however, severe snow squalls, followed by ice, destroyed the buds on the trees. A cold and frosty season set in, which continued, with the exception of three weeks of warm weather in September and October, through the summer and autumn.

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