Sunday 27th (April)
Arose rather early, Father ate his breakfast…?. Caroline and I
thought we would go in the country. So Jamie got the horse and carriage, and as
father went out the front door we went out the side door. Got there about 20 minutes
past 11 but found no one at home. Lot [Lothrop] came in presently and said they
had all gone to the funeral of Mrs C’s baby. He got dinner about 2 (?) When A[bigail]
and the rest arrived, dinner was again prepared for them. Abbey was quite cool towards
me and also Caroline, matters however were soon explained. Lot and I went down in
the woods (?) gathered some wild flowers and then came to the house, we soon started
home but stopped in to (?) Aunt Roxana’s home had ..?.a beautiful conversation.
We then started home but as the carriage broke down with us we were obliged (to
tie ?) it up which made every one laugh that passed us. However we soon got home
and we found Mr P[rentiss], father Aunt C[harlotte] and Mrs Wells.
Serena and Caroline have decided to visit the home of Caroline’s
father-in-law John Wilson in Green Township, Hamilton County, Ohio. Caroline
lived here before the death of her toddler Joseph in January and now seems to
drift back and forth from the farm to Serena’s home. Abigail and Lothrop are
Serena’s cousins. Abigail is unmarried, about thirty years old, and has
inherited the role of housekeeper after the death of her mother. She may wish
that Caroline would stay on the farm and help her.
Lothrop is a family name. John Lothrop was a leader of the
first Congregationalist church in England during the time when religious
dissent was persecuted. He and his congregation were discovered holding a
church meeting in Blackfriars on April 29, 1632. He was imprisoned for two
years and then freed on the condition that he leave England. He sailed on the
ship Griffin to Boston in 1634. Mr.
Lothrop was the first regularly settled minister of the First Parish in
Scituate, consisting of sixty-three members.
He took charge of it Jan. 18, 1634-5.
He and twenty other heads of families founded Barnstable five years
later, Oct. 11, 1639.
John Lothrop is Serena’s fourth great-grandfather.
Aunt Roxana Nye’s home seems to be nearby, so she must have
moved to Maineville after this time. Maineville is about thirty-five miles from
Green Township, too far away to stop by. Roxanna and Joseph Nye have not been
found in the 1850 US Census.
Serena says that they were obliged to tie up the carriage
after it broke down. Apparently she did not mean that they had to tie up the
horse. She must mean that they needed to tie broken parts together, otherwise they
would not have reached home without sending for help.
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