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Diary of Samuel Cooper 339 Din'd with them and a great Number of Gentlemen at Bunch of Grapes Tavern. Dinner prepar'd by Committee of General Court. Walk'd with the Generals &:c. after Dinner to Fort Hill. Cap't Erving' gave me Liberty to take some Furniture f m M' Moffatt's House ; M' Newman helped me in the Removal. M'* C. and I slept at D' Bulfinch's. Nabby din'd at M" Pollard's, M" C at her Brother's. Nabby and Katy slep't at Miss Minots. Horse there. 2^. Friday. Still employ' d in removing Things to my House, din'd with GenI Green at Mr. Bromfield's. M" C. at home. Nabby at Miss Pollard's. M' W" Newman aided in removing. M" C. and I slept at D' B'. Nabby and Katy at Miss Minots. Horse there. JO. Saiun/ay. My Family employ'd in preparing Things in our House. They all din'd there. I at Miss Minot's. Nabby and Katy slept at home. M" C. and I came our H: and a chaise procur'd for me by D. Bulfinch to Waltham. we slept and H: at M' Clark's there. ji. Lord's day. M" C. and I went (my H: and ch) to Watertown I pch'd there all day. pray'd at Funeral of M" Storer's only child, a young Man of 20 Years. We din'd at D. Fiske's. slept and H. at M Clark's. April 1. Monday. Went with M" C. my H: and ch. to Boston, p. m. chaise broke by Major Thompson's Brooklyne. borrow'd his. left mine at Child's Blacksmith, slept with Mrs. C. at Miss Minots. Horse at Cap't Ervings. 2. I din'd at D. Newell' s. M" C. at our House, slept with M" C. at Miss Minot's. Horse at D. Storer's. J. Went with M" C. to Watertown. Corporation and Overseer's Meeting there. Din'd at Mrs. Coolidges with College Gentlemen, went p. m. to Waltham with M'" C. who din'd at D. Fisk's. slept at M' Clark's. Horse there on my Hay. 4. Thursday. We din'd at home ; Sign'd Diploma for GenI Wash- ington's Doctorate of Laws.* went to Cambridg p. m. to wait on him and take Leave ; found him set out for Boston, and f'm thence to N. York, slept and H. at M' Clark's, on his Hay. 5. Friday. M" C. went alone my H : and ch to Boston. She din'd at our House. I walk'd to Watertown din'd at Mr Hall's, walk'd back to M' Clark's where M" C. return' d. slept and H : there on M' Clark's Hay. 6. Saturday. Went with M" C. my Horse and ch to Boston. I din'd at D. Storer's. slept with M" C. and my Family for the first Time in my own House Horse at D. Storer's. ' John Eiving sat in the Council of Massachusetts for many years prior to the Revo- lution. He was bom in 1690, at Kirkwall, in the Orkneys, and died in Boston in 1786, aged 96. At the time of his death he was probably the richest merchant in New England. His eldest son, John Erving, Jr., was a Mandamus Councillor and Loyalist refugee. One daughter married Governor Bowdoin ; another. Governor Scott, of Dominica; yet another, Duncan Stewart, Collector at New London before the Revolution. 2 The degree of LL.D. had not been previously conferred by Harvard College, ex- cept in the case of Professor John Winthrop, E. R.S., a graduate of the class of 1732, upon whom it was bestowed three years earlier.