Sent Mrs. Grant's
letter by Major Frazer to Col. Moylan,1 for J. Grant at Boston. Dr.
Warren and Dr. Waldo2 here from Cambridge, and say Boston is very
soon to be bombarded. Snowed, and helped the sledding, so that on Saturday, the
27th, wood fell to 20 shillings a cord.
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1 Stephen Moylan was appointed by Washington
one of his aids-de-camp, and afterward was made commissary-general.
2 Jonathan Waldo, a son of Jonathan and Mary
Waldo, was born in Boston, June 21, 1754. He was druggist, mayor, and
selectman.
SOURCE: Fitch Edward
Oliver, Editor, The Diary of William
Pynchon of Salem, pp. 2-3
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