 At the same time Willard and Henry Wilkins were planning on going to Boston, Bray Wilkins had also made plans to travel there and was staying at his brother-in-law's house.Typically, many family members would meet there for dinner and on one of those nights Willard and Henry Wilkins would arrive.Upon Willard's entry to the home Bray would later testify that "Willard looked upon me in such a sort as I have never before discerned in anybody."