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PELEG heath's diaey. 275 twenty-four days older than Sarah, his wife. May the God of our fathers be our God, and bless us with the blessing of his eternal Covenant, Amen, P. H. June 28, 1732. At Barrington died our Grandfather, John Rogers, Esq., after ten days sickness, in the ninety-second year of his age (91 years and 5 months.) He had been blind nine years. He left two children, Bradford and Searl, twenty grandchildren, sixty-nine great grandchildren, and one great great grandchild ; ninety-two in all. All these sprang from his first wife, whose maiden name was Eliza- beth Peabody. June 21, 1734. The new meeting house was raised in Barrington, to which I subscribed to pay five pounds toward ye finishing and building of it, which I also paid to Captain Samuel Allen, one of the Committee for which he gave me a receipt, October 4th, 1734. This is the truth. Peleg Heath. October 14, 1734. A bear was killed in Barrington, and I gave him his first wound which was pretty fatal. He was sold for ;^2, 9s. 5d. He weighed 187^ lbs., and I was cheated of every farthing. P. H. October 14, 1739. My worthy father and friend Samuel Allen, Esq., departed this life in the 52d year of his age — a very heavy stroke to me, to the church, and to the town — a worthy gentleman, and a sincere Christian. He was sick but nine or ten days with a violent fever, but through God's goodness, had his senses at times, to the last, and the last day of life I heard him pray seven times, — Oh that God would answer his prayers which were so earnest in behalf of his Church and Society here. He was decently interred the i6th day of October, attended with the best of gentle- men in the Country. " My Father. My Father." P. H.