more time, when
he rose with dignity and answered her, "I will give you a lifetime."
This experience made him extremely shy, and when thrown with his
cousin Ursula he made no advance towards love-making. At last when
she was nineteen and he ten years older she began asking him on
every occasion, "What did you say, Cousin Matthew?" and he would
answer her quietly, "Nothing." At last she asked him impatiently,
"What did you say, Cousin Matthew?" and when he answered again
"Nothing," she replied sharply, "Well, it's time you did,"--and _he
did_.

Their daughter Ursula, the visitor at Mrs. Deming's, was born April
13, 1754, and was a great beauty. She married, in November 22, 1777,
her third cousin, Lynde McCurdy, of Norwich, Conn.

NOTE 17.

"Unkle Joshua" was Joshua Green, born in Boston, May 17, 1731,
"Monday 1/2 past 9 oclock in the morn^g" and died in Wendell, Mass.,
on September 2, 1811. He attended the Boston Latin School in 1738,
and was in the class of 1749 at Harvard. He married, as did his
brother and sister, a Storer--Hannah, daughter of Ebenezer and Mary
Edwards Storer--on October 7, 1762. After his marriage he lived in
Court Street, the third house south of Hanover Street. His wife
Hannah was for many years before and after her marriage--as was her
mother--the intimate friend and correspondent of Abigail Adams, wife
of John Adams. Some of their letters may be found in the _Account of
Percival and Ellen Green and Some of their Descendants_, written by
Hon. Samuel Abbott Green, who is a great-grandson of Joshua and
Hannah Green.

NOTE 18.

Madam Storer was Mary Edwards Storer, the widow of Ebenezer Storer,
a Boston merchant. She was the mother of Anna's uncle Ebenezer
Storer, of her aunt Hannah Storer Green, and of her aunt Mary Storer
Green. See Notes 19, 32, 59.

NOTE 19.

Miss Caty Vans was the granddaughter of Hugh Vans, a merchant of
Boston, who became a member of the Old South Church in 1728. He was
born in Ayr, Scotland, in 1699. He married Mary Pemberton, daughter
of Rev. Ebenezer Pemberton, and died in Boston in 1763. They had
four sons, John, Ebenezer, Samuel, and William. One of the first
three was the father of Caty Vans, who was born January 18, 1770.
There are frequent references to her throughout the diary, but I
know nothing of her life. William Vans married Mary Clarke, of
Salem, and had one son, W