Diary of Samuel Cooper 309 Thursday 25 We din'd at Mr Savages. M' Wadsworth and Gill with us. after dinner M" C. and Nabby went to Concord drank Coffee at W Betons. slept at S. Horse at Russells. 26. We Din'd at Cap't Baldwin's with Sister Cooper, and drank Coffee. Slept at S. Horse at R. May 27. Saturday. Sat out in the Morn^. 8 ° Clock in my Chaise for Groton, bated at White's of Acton din'd at M" Newman of Lyttleton. drank Coffee with M' Rogers' reach'd Groton at Sunset; Slept and Horse kept at D' Prescot's. 28. Lord's day. Pch'd all day at Groton ; spoke with M' Dana after Service a.m. din'd at D" Prescot's baptiz'd a child P.M. slept and Horse kept at D' Prescot's. a brave Action of our Army this day at Noddle's and Hog Islands.^ 2g. Monday Sat out fm Groton 8 "Clock. stop'd at M' Hall's Wesford. saw M" Gray and Family there, proceeded to chalmsford. din'd at Col Stoddard's call'd at M' Bridge's, he absent, went p.m. to M' Cummin's' of Billerica, saw M" Mountford, Miss chandler Stod- dard, Polly Turner, and other Boston friends, drank Coffee slept and Horse kept there. JO. Tuesday, sat out fm M' Cummins 8 "Clock, a great Discharge of Guns f m towards Boston for more than an Hour had alarm'd the Coun- try, call'd at Mr Pennyman's of Bedford, saw Molly Williams and her mother fm Boston, bated Horse, proceeded to Concord, from thence to .Mr Savages, din'd there and drank Coffee Sister Cooper and Nabby wth us. Slept there. Horse at Russell's, found the Firing to be only a mock Fight of the Regulars at Boston. ji. IVednesday. Went in my chaise with Nabby to Watertown, heard President Langdon preach before the Congress a well adapted Sermon, as great a Number of Ministers as usual on Election day. They din'd by Invitation of the Congress at Coolidg's Tavern, handsomely entertained. D' Warren President of the Congress attended the Minis- ters most obligingly, and did the Honors of the Table. They form'd a Convention immediately after dinner, chose former Scribe* and Treas- urer. M' Parkman' Moderator, voted no Collection, chose Myself, M' Cook, Shute, Bridg, Williams a Committee to draft an Address to the Congress, testifying our Respect and Confidence, and offering to supply the Army with Chaplains fm our own Number without Stipend." Ad- dress accepted and presented. Mrs Cooper din'd at Savages, and drank 'Probably the Rev. Daniel Rogers (H.C. 1725), for half a century minister of Littleton. 2 Noddle's Island, now East Boston; Hog Island, otherwise known as Breed's Is- land. For an account of this affair see Diary of John Tudor, pp. 55-57 ; Journal of Timothy Newell, in Mass. Hist. Coll., fourth series, I. 262 ; Diary of Ezekiel Price, in Proc. Mas^. Hist. Soc., 1863-64, p. 186. 'The Rev. Henry Cuming, D.D. (H.C. 1760), minister of Billerica.
- The Rev. Amos Adams (H. C. 1752), minister of Roxbury.
SThe Rev. Ebenezer Parkman (H. C. 1721), first minister of Westborough. ^See/ourii. Prov. Cong. Mass., pp. 283, 284, 290. VOL. VI. — 21.
