husband’s death in 1848.

White had three daughters – two of whom married into the prestigious Forbes family, and another, Nancy, who inherited the house at 43 Church St. after her mother’s death.

Fitzpatrick and his wife, Jean Keamy, purchased the single-family home for $180,000 in 2009.

The inside of the home had to be gutted due to structural problems, but the renovation restored the exterior to its original condition with a few additions.

When tearing down interior walls, Fitzpatrick came across a number of diaries, including one by widow White’s daughter Mary.

Fitzpatrick said Ken Gilbert at Willow Bindery in Shrewsbury used chemical solutions to clean the diary’s pages and also patched pages and rebound the book to make it readable.

The diary details life in Westborough from 1850 to 1857.

Fitzpatrick, a masterIn February, we noted the strange case of the three Awan brothers, who got themselves hired as IT professionals, working for a number of Democratic Congressmen at an extraordinarily high rate of pay. They had access to intelligence and homeland security information, among much else, but were fired weeks after the Obama administration left office:

Horatio Alger would be proud – they somehow managed to get themselves paid three times the average rate of IT professionals working in Congress. They displayed admirable thrift – all living in the same house (not their parents’). They pulled themselves up by their bootstraps, one overcoming bankruptcy (despite being incredibly overpaid) and a felony record to get themselves hired into sensitive Intel positions for prominent Democratic congresspersons. Inquisitive fellows they were, poking around