{"1": {"fulltext": "lI\u00c2\u00a7IJZ?9nT84\\nDiURNA\\nOR\\nAn Account ^f the remar!^abu:\\nTRANSACTIONS Of EVERY BM,", "height": "3068", "width": "2351", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Class 7^\\ncop iight F ^^y\\nCOPYRIGHT DEPOSli^", "height": "2875", "width": "2216", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2923", "width": "2226", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2875", "width": "2216", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2923", "width": "2226", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "Parkman Coat-of-Arms.", "height": "2875", "width": "2216", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "THE DIARY\\nOF\\nRev. ebenezer parkman,\\nOF WESTBOROUGH, MASS.,\\nFor the months of February, March, April, October and November. 1737.\\nNovember and December of 1778, and the years of 1779 and 1780.\\nHi.s motto was Siiiciri/ns in Cordo I st diilrts .\\\\iiti-iciihi Sfiii ditlis.\\nThy Heart is not right with God. Let me bear this saying in\\nmind that I may keep clear of such a charge upon me\\nHARRIETTE M. FORBES.\\nI)\\nPUBLISHED BY\\nTHE WESTBOROUGH HISTORICAL SOCIETY\\n1899.\\nUy^v", "height": "2923", "width": "2226", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "TWO COPIES RECEIVED.\\nLibrary of C\u00c2\u00abngre\u00c2\u00ab%\\nQiiif Of tht\\nN0V1818W\\nV,.:::\\ncopyright, 1899. by\\n-he Westborough Historical^ Society,\\nFl ^r^T c", "height": "2875", "width": "2216", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nIn giving a part of Mr. Parkman s Journal to the public, the West-\\nborough Historical Society feel that they are making a valuable con-\\ntribution to local New England History. It is not only a vivid\\npicture of their own town during the last century, but a type of all\\nNew England towns, the petty cares and economies, the small\\njealousies and quarrels, and back of it all and broader than all, the\\nearnest, honest, God-fearing lives of those only a few generations\\nbefore us.\\nWe especially feel indebted to Mrs. Edward Tuckerman, of Am-\\nherst, who lent us most willingly and kindly the manuscript\\nJournal. Miss Eliza S. Parkman, of Boston, has given us help\\nrepeatedly in too many ways to be separatel} enumerated. Miss\\nAlice B. Gould, of Boston, lent the picture of Edmund Quincy\\nMrs. George Sumner, of Worcester, those of Rev. Mr. Sumner, of\\nShrewsbury, and his house Mr. Bradford Kingman, of Brookline,\\nthe two blocks taken from Barbour s Collections, Harvard College\\nand Eli Whitney s house\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mr. Arthur B. Denny, of Chestnut Hill,\\nmade the copies of Madam Parkman and of the Parkman Coat-of.\\nArms the latter from a water-color illumination which formerly\\nadorned the walls of the Westborough parsonage.\\nThe extracts from the Natalitia are published through the\\ncourtesy of the American Antiquarian Society.\\nThe drawing of Mr. Parkman on the cover is the only picture of\\nhim known to be in existence. It was a niemor}- sketch, done with\\npen and ink.\\nThe photograph of the handsome old table which Elias brought\\nup from Cambridge is taken from the original now owned by Mr.\\nParkman T. Denny, of Leicester, and coveted by all of the old min-\\nister s descendants. The slate top has beeu replaced by a board.", "height": "2923", "width": "2226", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "IV PREFACE.\\nbut the handsome carving and Ijeautiful wood might well excite\\nthe enthusiasm of a greater connoisseur in antique furniture than\\nKlias Parkman.\\nThe Journal has been carefully copied, but for the sake of clear-\\nness most of the abbreviations have been written out. Mr. Park-\\nman usually wrote they, yy them, y their, yeir^ and abbre-\\nviated many other common words. The italicized words have\\nbeen retained, except in the case of proper names which he\\nalways underscores. In a very few cases where the words were\\nillegible or blotted, an interrogation mark indicates the uncertainty.\\nThe notes have been written mostly from town records or au-\\nthentic history, tradition very rarely being allowed a voice.\\nHARRIETTK -M. FORBKS.\\nWorcester, Mass., May 29, 1899.", "height": "2875", "width": "2216", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION.\\nThe following pages are part of the Jourual of Rev. Ebene/.er\\nPark man. It is probable that he kept it for the whole period of\\nhis long pastorate iu Westborough. Much of it has been lost\u00e2\u0080\u0094 that\\nfor many years burned,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a few volumes are in the Library of the\\nAntiquarian Society in Worcester,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 one at least in that of the Mas-\\nsachusetts Historical Society of Boston. This volume, w^iich the\\nWestborough Historical Society is enabled to print through the\\nkindness of Mrs. Edward Tuckerman, of Amherst, is owned l)y\\nher. It is all in one book, sewed together probably long after Rev.\\nEbenezer s death. Mrs. Tuckerman writes The book came to\\nme directly from my aunt, Mrs. Asa Rand, an older sister of my\\nfather s who received it from her mother Sarah, daughter of Rev.\\nEbene/.er. My good old aunt had more of her grandfather s diary,\\nbut in some of her movings (she was a minister s wife), it got left\\nbehind in a box of papers, on a closet shelf, she told me, and she\\ncould not recover it, probably destroyed as waste paper.\\nEbenezer Parkman was born in Boston, Sept. 5, 1703. His father\\nwas Wm. Parkman, who in 1680 married Elizabeth Adams, also of\\nBoston. She is buried on Copp s Hill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 dying on the 13th of April,\\n1746. Wm. Parkman had died sixteen years earlier, Nov. 30, 1730.\\nHe was born in Salem, where his father Elias had settled, iu 1658.\\nThis Elias, born in 1635, was also the sou of Elias Parkman, who\\nhad come among the earliest settlers to New England, and grand-\\nson of Thomas Parkman, of Sidmouth, Devon, England.\\nEbeuezer Parkman was admitted to Harvard College in 1717,\\nwhen he was fourteen years old, and graduated in 1721. The\\nnext year he taught school in Newton, living with the brother Elias,\\nwhom he mentions in the first part of the Journal. This brother", "height": "2923", "width": "2226", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "VI INTRODUCTION.\\nwas a mastmaker, and in 1728 an advertisement appears in a local\\npaper\\nApril I. Mr. Henrj Richards wants to sell a parcel of likely negro boys\\nand one negro girl, arrived from Nevis, and were brought from Guinea. To be\\nseen at the house of Mr. Elias Parkman, mastmaker, at the North End.\\nAs the Rev. Ebenezer purchased a slave boy, Maro, in August of\\nthat year, it is very possible that he vi^as one of this parcel.\\nMaro lived only a little more than a year at the Westborough par-\\nsonage, and Mr. Parkman writes under date of Dec. 6, 1728 Dark\\nas it has been with us, it became much Darker abt ye Sun Setting.\\nThe .Sun of Maro s life Sat. The first Death in my Family! God,\\nenable me to see thy Sovereign mind and comport with his holy\\nWill.\\nThis brother Elias and his wife are both buried on Copp s Hill,\\ndying in 1741 and 1746.\\nMr. Parkman s son Elias was undoubtedly named for this favorite\\nbrother, and indeed most of his children bore the names of his\\nbrothers and sisters\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mary, Elizabeth, William, Sarah, Susannah,\\n.lle.xander, Samuel, John, and Elias being names common to each.\\nIn 1723, Mr. Parkman commenced to preach, and twice during\\nthat summer occupied the Westborough pulpit. In 1724, he and\\nthe Rev. Jacob Eliot, of Boston, were nominated in a Town Meeting\\nas candidates for the position of Town Minister in Westborough,\\nand he, proving the successful candidate, was installed nine months\\nlater, over the little church organized just before.\\nThose nine months had been very busy ones to the young man.\\nOnly a month had passed since he had become twenty-one years of\\nage. He had built himself a house on the bleak hill-top where the\\nLyman School now stands, and he had married a wife in July Mary\\nChampney, of Cambridge.\\nThe Church was organized in this new house of INIr. I arktiian s\\nwith twelve members besides the pastor. They were Thomas For-\\nbush, John Pratt, Edmund Rice, Isaac Tomlin, John Fay, David\\nMaynard, Thomas Newton, James Bradish, David Brigham, Joseph\\nWheeler, James Ball and Isaac Tomlin, Jr. It was five years before\\nthe little church near the parsonage was finished.", "height": "2875", "width": "2216", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION.\\nVll\\nIn the year 1729 so says the Book of Church Records, A\\nFlaggon was sent the Church from a Friend of its Welfare at Boston.\\nSee Zechariah 6, 14, latter part.\\nIn the year 1735, 10 sh. was given ye Church towards a Baptism\\nBason, afterwards another 10 sh. was given by the same person, who\\nalso Vjought ye Bason Dec, 1739, and devoted it to ye Qhh s use.\\nN. B. A Frame for ye Bason with its shaft and vScrews, etc., price\\n20s., was given and Devoted by ye Same.\\nThe flagon and basin have been guarded from the destruction\\nwhich has overtaken nearly everything else connected with the\\nlittle church on the hill, and have found their way through the kind-\\nness of Mr. John A. Fayerweather, into the collection of the His-\\ntorical Society. They are both of pewter, and bring before our\\neyes more vividly than any words could do, the simplicity and\\npoverty and sincerity of these first members of the Westborough\\nChurch.\\nRAPTISM IT.Ar.OON AND BASON.", "height": "2923", "width": "2226", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "Vlll INTRODl CTION.\\nIn February, 1737, when we begin in the middle of an entry in the\\nminister s Journal, he was living in his house on the Lyman School\\nHill. His wife had died January 29, 1735. They had the following\\nchildren\\nMary, born vSepteniber 14, 1725.\\nEbenezer, born August 20, 1727 buried by his father s side in\\nMemorial Cemetery.\\nLydia, born Septeml)er 20, 1731, and died June 21, 1733.\\nThomas, born July 3, 1729.\\nLucy, born September 23, 1734.\\nMr. Parkman married again, Hannah Kreck, September 11, 1737\\nand their children were\\nElizabeth, born December 25, 1738\u00e2\u0080\u0094 died January 14, 1739.\\nWilliam, born February 19, 1741.\\nSarah, born March 20, 1742.\\nSusannah, born March 13, 1744-\\nAlexander, born February 17, 1746.\\nBreck, born January 27, 1748.\\nSamuel, born August 22, 1751.\\nJohn, born July 21, 1753.\\nAnna Sophia, born October 18, 1755.\\nHannah, born February 9, 175S\u00e2\u0080\u0094 died in 1777\u00e2\u0080\u0094 antl buried in\\nMemorial Cemeterj-.\\nElias, born January 6, 1761.\\nSixteen children in all, of whom only two died in infancy.", "height": "2875", "width": "2216", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "diary of rev. ebenezer parkman. 9\\nFebruary, 1737.\\nby y^ means thereof. That we may be awares have our\\nE5 es open our minds apprehefisive nozv, and not have first\\nthorow sense of those Things in midst of y unhappy\\nExperience of y\\n14. I put off my Journey by means y^ it was Town\\nMeeting.\\n15. I rode to Concord. Mr. Flagg of Grafton my Com-\\npany, from Biglo s in Marlboro. Mr. Whiting^ and his wife\\nhad rid out. Capt. Joseph Buckley Spent the evening with\\nus. I had conversation an hour or two with Mrs. Israel\\nWhiting, lodged there.\\n16. Lieut. Trowbridge came to Mr. Whiting s was\\nmy Company to Watertown. Lodged at Father Champ-\\nney s at Cambridge.\\niRev. John Whiting, of Concord, died May 4, 1752, aged 71. He\\nwas pastor of the church for 26 years, a man of wealth, learning,\\ninfluence and talents a gentleman of singular hospitality and\\ngenerosity. His second wife, whom he married in 1731, was the\\nwidow of Dr. Jonathan Prescott. He was the grandson of Hon.\\nThos. Danforth, deputy-governor.\\nFather Champney was Samuel Champney, of Cambridge,\\nborn March 8, 1666-7 and died in March 1745-6. Mr. Parkman s\\nfirst wife was his daughter Mary, who was baptized May 21, 1699,\\nmarried July 7, 1724, and died Jan y 29, 1735-6.\\nSister Hicks and Sister Lydia, often mentioned in the\\nJournal, were two younger sisters of the first Mrs. Parkman. Re-\\nbecca, born in 1703, married John Hicks, while Lydia, born in 1705,\\nwas unmarried and seems to have made her home part of the\\ntime in the minister s familv.", "height": "2923", "width": "2226", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00a30 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n17. Rode to Boston. My mother^ still iu a measure of\\nComfort thro the Blessing of God. I could not be season-\\nable for lecture. N. B. At Mr. Increase Sumner sMn y\\nmorning. N. B. Capt. Foot Sister Elizabeth Mrs.\\nMary Tilestone took a ride with me in a double Slay at\\nevening to Capt. Robert Sharp s at Brookline, and Br^\\nElias came to us upon my Horse, after supper there. At 10\\no clock they returned in y*^ Slay but I tarried. N. B. The\\ndiscovery of my Inclinations to Capt. Sharp and to Mm.\\nBy y^ urgent Persuasions I tarried and lodged there. N.\\nB. Mrs. Susanna Sharp.\\n18. I rode to Father Champney s and thence to West-\\n1 Among the Epitaphs on Copp s Hill is the following Here\\nlyes buried the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Parknian, the virtuous and\\npious consort of Mr. William Parkman, aged 85 years and 7 months,\\nApr. ye 13th, 1746.\\n-Mr. Increase Sumner was a son-in-law of Capt. Robert Sharpe,\\nhaving married his daughter Sarah, a year or less before this date.\\nShe, as well as Mistress Susanna, was a cousin of Susannah\\nBoylstou, the mother of Pres. John Adams.\\nTheir son Increase, born in 1746, was (Governor Increase Sum-\\nner of Massachusetts.\\n3 Capt. Robert Sharpe was a prominent citizen of Brookline. He\\nowned all the land from the corner of School and Washington\\nstreets on the north side to a line above Park Street extending\\nacross Harvard Street to the Longwood Marshes, above the Aspiu-\\nwall lands and below the present Stearns lands. His house was\\nstanding until aljout thirty years ago, never painted except the\\nwindow frames, which were white. He was a man of wealth.\\nMistress Susanna was born May 29, 1716,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 so, was a maid of\\ntwenty-one summers at this time. She afterwards married Thomas\\nSnow, of Boston.", "height": "2823", "width": "2175", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZKR PARKMAN. I I\\nborough. N. B. Mr. Tilestone Capt. \\\\Vm. Roby of\\nBoston my Company from Watertovvn to Sudbury.\\n19. Engaged in my preparations. N. B. I cast a hand-\\nful or two of Salt into my Pump.\\n20. On Luke 16 23 p. m. repeated Sermon on Heb. 12. i.\\nAt evening visited Mr. Stephen Fay who was very low, c.\\n21. The small matter of Salt which I cast into my\\nPump on y^ 19th wonderfully loosened the Spire though it\\nhad been hard frozen for a long time See Downs and to\\nour Joy and Pleasure had the use of y^ Pump again. Very\\npleasant weather.\\n22. A number of Hands came to get wood. Mr. Grout\\nwith his Team, Mr. Tainter^ with his and Mr. Harrington\\n1 Simou Tainter, and his son Simon, Jr., were always good friends\\nof Mr. Parkman. The father in his will styles himself gentle-\\nman and bequeaths his silver cup, valued in the inventory at\\n\u00c2\u00a31, 6s. 8d., to his grandson Simon. He died in 1763 and Mr. Park-\\nman writes in his journal under date of April 2 My dear friend\\nand brother. Deacon Simon Tainter Dyd He expired about 11\\nM. May God Sanctify this death in a peculiar manner to me\\nand mine. Tho my good deacon is gone, yet Cod who is All-\\nvSuflficient lives and is unchangeable. And April 5 he writes: I\\nread Isac. 51. Preached A. m., on the occasion of the .Sorrowful\\nDeath on i Thess. 4-18, read also 14, but could not handle that.\\nHis Duty, says the Boston Evening Post\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in a piece probably\\nwritten by Mr. Parkman, was manifested by his high regard to\\nthe house of God, his constant attendance there, his esteem of the\\nordinance and ministers thereof.\\nHis deeds of Charity were unstinted, his heart and hands being\\never open, to relieve and help, and to supplj the necessitous,\\nwho now deplore the loss of such a friend and father.\\nSimon, Jr., was born in 1715.", "height": "2856", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "12 DIARY OF REV. KBENEZHR PARKMAN.\\nwith his, Mr. Grow, Daniel Hardy, Dan. Forbush, Elias\\nKA. T.\\\\INTER .S HOUSE.\\nMr. Parkinan s later Journals are full of instances of Dea.\\nTainter s kindness to liim breaking in an unruly mare, killing,\\nwith his son s help, cattle or hogs, inviting him and his wife to\\ndinner, when they had dressed a very large Pigg to entertain us,\\nsending him fresh meat and wood, a bottle of Madeira, or a few\\noysters from Boston, selling divers sorts of edibles for Mrs. Park-\\nman in the Boston markets, ploughing, sowing and reaping, and\\nhelping him in a thousand ways, and the pastor writes I hope\\nhe does all sincerely and as to the Lord, for I am utterly unworthy,\\nbut this conduct must quicken me to endeavor to deserve it. I\\\\Iay\\nCod reward him with Abundant Special Blessings.\\nHe lived on Mt. Pleasant Street, in the house now known as the\\nWadsworth house.", "height": "2823", "width": "2175", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 1 3\\nRice, Noah Rice, James Fay, James Bowman, Zebuloii\\nRice, Solomon Rice, John Rogers, Tim. Warren, Jon For-\\nbush jun., Thomas Winchester, David Baverick, Eben\\nNurse, Simon Tainter jun., and Samuel Bumpso.\\n23. Very stormy. Rain and Wind, especially very\\nWindy in y^ Night. N. B. Sister Hicks another son,\\nborn a little before night.\\n24. Had sent to Mr. Prentice of Gralton and very\\nmuch depended upon him to preach my Lecture, but he\\nRev. Solomon Prentice ordained as minister of the Grafton\\nChurch in 1731. He became, says Rev. Peter Whitney, what\\nwas called in that day a zealous new light, or more properly, a\\nraving enthusiast. He died in 1773, leaving a will in which he\\nprovided that his wife vSarah, is to live in his house, and have all\\nhis household goods and furniture and indore movables; his rid-\\ning chair and horse which is to be well kept for her, summer and\\nwinter, and replaced if he fails her firewood cut at her door as\\nmuch cider as she shall have occasion to use in the house full and\\nfree liberty to put up a friend s horse or horses, to hay in winter\\nand grass in summer, when they come to visit her, c. All to be\\nprovided by Solomon, Jr., for her sole use and benefit during her\\nnatural life. ^15 to be paid her annuallj^ by my sons.\\nMr. Parkmau was acquainted with Mr. Prentice before he came\\nto Grafton, and with two other ministers signs a paper recommend-\\ning him to the gospel ministry when it shall please God to engage\\nhim in it and heartily pray he may prove a blessing to the\\nchurches. This was in 1731.\\nMr. Prentice built for himself a house in Grafton, which after his\\ndeath was occupied by Rev. Aaron Hutchinson, and later by Rev.\\nDaniel Grosvenor Mr. Parkman doubtless was a frequent visitor\\nto each of its owners. It was moved from its first location and\\nnow forms the front of Mr. Henry Prentice s house on Oak Street,\\nhaving come at last again into the family of the Rev. Solomon.", "height": "2856", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "14 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nfailed. I repeated Sermon on Heb. 7.25. A very cold day\\nvery .slippery few at Lecture. Heard by Cousen Winches-\\nter y Sister Ruth Champney at Cambridge was sick.\\n25. A very cold day again. Ensign Ward of Marl-\\nborough here to obtain my Evidence of what the Associa-\\ntion which met at Framingham Oct. 16, 1733 judged\\nconcerning Mr. Kent. At eve I gave my Testimony,\\nconfirmed by an Oath before Justice Keyes. Ensign Ward\\nbeing there present.\\n26. At eve came Dr. .Thyery but he would go and lodge\\nat Ensign Maynard s.\\n27. A. M. on 2 Cor 13. 14. Sacrament. Dr. Thyery\\nDeacon Fay and his wife dind with me. p. m. on Mat 7.\\n3. 4. 5. Dr. Thyery at eve, but was called away to visit\\nStephen Fay.\\n28. The weather was very Raw Cold. The Wind was\\nnorth and very bleak. I visited Mr. Beeman s^ Family\\nMr. David Brigham.^ The Dauter of y*^ former and y^\\nWife of y^ Latter were ill.\\nMons Thyery came to my house p. m. and I had some\\nExpectations of Mr. Prentice of Grafton, and his wife to\\nvisit me, but y did not come. The Dr. spent y^ evening\\nand good part of y*^ night with me, but presently after he\\ngot to Bed came Simon Tainter jun. upon a most urgent\\nI The Beeniati family lived 011 the Flanders road. David Brig,\\nham s house stood about 60 yards east from where the Hospital\\nnow stands. His farm comprised about 500 acres. His house was\\nburned Oct. 16, of this year (see entry for that day). He rebuilt\\nthe house with the help of his sou Jonas, who after his father s\\ndeath lived in it.", "height": "2823", "width": "2175", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "DIARV OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 1 5\\nmessage from Stephen Fay/ to have the Dr. visit him forth\\nvi ith. Hovi beit he would not rise till he had taken several\\nnaps. I did not get to bed till past Three o clock. N. B.\\nTown Meeting to add to y^ Seats in y Meeting House.\\nMarch, 1737.\\nI. It had been very Icy and now by a snow upon y Ice\\nit was very Slippery Troublesome riding. I rode to\\n1 Stephen Fay, in spite of this severe illness, and lack of atten-\\ntion on the part of Dr. Thyery, lived many years. He was the son\\nof Capt. John Fay and was born May 5, 1715. He lived in West-\\nborough until 1743 when he moved from town, and later became\\none of the first settlers of Bennington, Vt. He built the first tav-\\nern west of the Green Mts., a house which had a stirring history\\nduring the Revolution. He had five sons in the Battle of Ben-\\nnington, and Peter Fay, of Southborough, tells the following\\ntouching account of his learning after the battle that his oldest\\nson John had been instantly killed by a ball through the head.\\nA messenger was sent to bear the solemn tidings to Capt. F ay\\nas gently as possible. He told him he had something bad to tell\\nhim concerning one of his sous. The Captain instantly asked\\nhim\\nDid he disobey orders? Or desert his post\\nNo.\\nDid he falter in the charge\\nNo, worse than that. He is dead, was the answer.\\nThen it is not worse, exclaimed the father. Bring him in,\\nthat I may once more gaze on the face of my darling boy.\\nAnd when they brought him in, covered with dust and blood, he\\ncalled for water and a sponge, and with his own hand bathed the\\ndisfigured features declaring at the same time that he had never\\nexperienced a more glorious or happy day in his life.", "height": "2856", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "i6\\nDIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nto Mr. Cook s^ to fix my Horse. Called at Capt. For-\\nbush s.\\n2. Sister Lyclia rode down to Cambridge with me. N. B.\\nWe sat out somewhat before lo A. m., rode dottble, yet got\\nto Father Champney s at Cambridge promptly at 5 p. m.\\nN. B. Mr. John Jarvis was returning from his journey to\\nMarlborough, whither he had been to wait upon Mrs. Han-\\nCornelius Cook, the l)lacksiiiitli, was living at this time in the\\nhouse still standing on the corner of East-Main and Lyman streets.\\nThis house was deeded to Cook, by his father-in-law, Thomas For-\\nbush, in 1732, with four acres of laud, for 4. 5s. Cornelius was\\nthe father of the famous Tom Cook. (See Aug. 27, 1779.)\\n01,]) COOK HOUSE.\\nHe had eight other children: Jonathan, the oldest, was the father\\nof Molly Cook, almost as well known for her eccentricities as her\\nuncle Thomas.\\n-Capt. Forbush was Samuel Forbush, and he lived in the house\\nnow standing on the corner of Lyman Street and the Turnpike. The\\nhouse has been enlarged since his day, but is probably the oldest", "height": "2823", "width": "2175", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n17\\nnah Breck, who made a visit yesterday to her sister Mrs.\\nGott in her ilhiess.\\nFrom Father Champney s I rode to Roxbury, called at\\nMr. Increa.se Sumner s. Thence I rode to Boston, waited\\nupon my mother, and then went and Supped at Br Elias s.\\nN. B. Mr. Bowman y\u00c2\u00ab^ wharfinger and his wife at Supper\\nwith us. My Horse sent to his Stables. Lodged at Br\\nElias s.\\nin town. For manv years it was used as a tavern. vSamuel For-\\nS^*!\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00ab\\nSAMUEL FORBUSH S HOUSE.\\nl)ush was a brother of Thomas, both of them being among the orig-\\ninal settlers of Westborough.", "height": "2856", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "1 8 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n3. Mr. Mather^ Lectured on agaiust Covetousness.\\nDined at Br. Samuel s, p. :\\\\i., visited Mrs. Pierpont, Mrs.\\nHannah being at Marlborough. Mr. Pierpont also had taken\\na Journey to New haven. Towards night I rode over to\\nRoxbury. N. B. Mrs. vSumner ill. I proceeded to Capt.\\nSharp s. By Capt. Sharp s .strong Solicitation I tarried all\\nnight. N. B. Mrs. Susan not very willing to think of\\ngoing so farin y^ Country as Westborough, c c :c.\\n4. I rode to Father Champney s. Thence I went over\\nto y^ Town. N. B. Mr. Jonathan Monnef. Jun at Father\\nChampney s. I returned p. m. from Town and went again\\nto Capt, Sharp s. N. B. Capt. Sharp Mm. gone to the\\nFuneral of a Relation at Roxbury. I tarried whilst the Capt,\\nand his Spouse came home. Arguments which be fruitless\\nwith Mrs. Susan. I returned to Father Champney s between\\n8 9 in y^ Evening.\\n5. Sister Lydia was willing to go up again to Westborough\\nwith me if y^ weather would allow. Upon her mentioning\\nher carrying up .some other Coloured clothes y her black,\\nand our putting off our Mourning it (by Degrees) moved\\nme very much and my Passions flowed almost beyond Con-\\ntroll, till I was obliged to retire away. Every matter was\\nmost exceeding Sorrowful to me. The weather was very\\n1 Probably Rev. Samuel Mather, the son of Cotton Mather. He\\nwas the fourth pastor of the dynasty of the Mathers over the Old\\nNorth Church. In 1765, he was living in Moon St., and Gov.\\nHutchinson took refuge in his house when his own elegant man-\\nsion was sacked by a mob.\\nHe died June 27, 1785, aged seventy-six, and is l)uried on Copp s\\nHill, in the Mather Tomb with Increase and Cotton.", "height": "2823", "width": "2175", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 1 9\\ndiscouraging to Sister Lydia s Design, nor could she in pru-\\ndence venture tho I tarryed for her till 1 1 when I sat out.\\nIt rained and I had a very wet troublesome Journey. I rode\\nover y^ new Bridge in Sudbury went to Capt. Clark s^ of\\nFramingham. The Waters flow abundantly, Ice rotts away,\\ny^ Snow melts again, y^ Rain beats and y^ Storm strong.\\nCapt. Clark very urgent to have me stay, but I was resolute\\nto get as far as I could. I called at Mr. Stone s at Southbor-\\nough, and about nine at night reached home D. O. M. Gratia.\\n6. Repeated Sermon on Acts, 2. 37. 38. Dr. Thyery at\\nmeeting.\\n7. Dr. Thyery visited me and dind with me. I prayed\\nwith y^ Town before y^^ Elections. Mr. Prentice of Graf-\\nton visited me. note well y* y^ Day I went from home\\nlast week both he and his wife came to see me, just after we\\nwere gone. A very fine pleasant Day.\\n8. Cloudy. Some Snow. N. B. Many of y^ People\\ngone to Sudbury about Housetonic Rights.\\n9. The water everywhere exceeding high. Visit Mr.\\nSam Fay, Stephen Fay.\\n10. The Winds more than ordinarily violent. A Barn\\nwas blown down at Framingham. A man narrowly escaped\\ndrowning at Framingham River. The water being so deep,\\ny*^ Current so strong and y^ Winds so impetuous.\\n^Capt. Isaac Clark, of Framingham, was a uoted man in his day.\\nHe commanded a company of troopers which was out in Father\\nRaile s War in 1725, and on his one hundredth birthday rode horse-\\nback to and from Col. Trowbridge s. He lived to be one hundred\\nand two, and died in 1768. His gravestone says: His offspring\\nthat descended from him was two hundred and fifty-one.", "height": "2856", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "20 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nII. Divers Neighbours (Mr. Maynard, Mr. Grout Mr.\\nClias. Rice), here in y*^ Evening. Catechizing, but only 4\\nbo s, beside my own. No catechizing p. m. no children came.\\n12.\\n13. A. M. on Matt: 7. 6. and p. m. repeated vSermon 46 be-\\ning y- 4th on Act 2, 37, 38.\\n14. I visited Stephen Fay, Capt. Fay and old Mr. Rice.\\nDavid went away.\\n15. Early in y^ morning to Mr. Wipples c. At noon I\\nwas extremely indisposed. Faint c. Storm, snow. p.m.\\nDr. Thyery here, I grew better. D. G.\\n16. Dies. Humill. Proc. Secret. See my own Mem-\\noirs. At eve, Mr. Whipple. N. B. An ewe y was gored\\nvery ill fine pleasant Day. Roads extremely hollow. Some\\nof the oldest persons declare y scarce ever knew y^ Earth\\nto have been so frozen as this winter.\\nM robably Thomas Rice, who was at this time eighty-three years\\nold. He had formerly lived on the same road as the Fays, iu the\\nhouse which had earlier served for many years as a garrison, and\\nnear which occurred the sad tragedy of 1704, when two of his sons\\nand two of his nephews were carried into captivity, while his young-\\nest little boy was killed by the attacking Indians.\\nThomas was one of the original settlers of the town and one of\\nits most prominent citizens. He served in the Legislature, and did\\nhis best to promote the welfare of the Church and town during a\\nlong life. He died in 1748.\\nThe liouse of Mr. Frank V. Bartlelt now stands on the site of his\\nold home. This place he had sold, and .\\\\bner Newton was living\\nthere in 1737, when his dwelling-house was entered in the night-time\\nby Hugh Henderson, who paid the penalty of his crime with his\\nlife in November, as recorded in the Journal for that month.", "height": "2823", "width": "2175", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 21\\n17. A. M. Storm of snow. Rain. Trouble with my sick\\newe. Mr. Whipple to Boston.\\n18. P. M. I rode to Marlborough to Coll. Wood s. Eve\\nat Dr. Gott s/ Mrs Gott had been very ill, but is recovering.\\nMrs. Hannah Breck ivith her, but I spent my time with\\nye men, scil. y\u00c2\u00ab^ Dr. Coll. Mr. Daniel Steward. Late in\\ny^ Evening Deacon Woods came to request me to visit a\\nyoung woman at his House (Dauterof Mr. Samuel Stow)\\napprehended to be at y^ Point of Death. I went, prayed\\nwith her c. I lodged at Coll. Wood s.\\n19. A. M. To Dr. Gott s, but a short space with Mrs.\\nHannah. At my Request, she had (she assured me) burnt\\nmy Letters, Poems c. P. M. Funeral of Capt. Eleazar How.\\nCapt. Brigham informed of y^ Death of President Wads-\\nworth, y^ Night before last, also lately Part of Northampton\\nMeeting-House fell and wounded many, in time of Divine\\nService, and y^ Burning ot Young Coll. Chandler s House\\nat Woodstock, and three persons consumed in it, scil, Mrs.\\niDr. Benj. Gott, a young physician in Marlborough, had married\\nSarah, daughter of the Rev. Robert Breck. Hannah was a younger\\nsister, at this time being twenty-one years old. Her father had\\nbeen a good friend of Mr. Parkman, when he first came to West-\\nborough, and was a remarkable man. He was ordained pastor\\nwhen twenty-two. As to his learning, says a writer in the\\nNews Letter for January 21, 1731, I suppose it will be no offence\\nto say, there were few of his standing that were even his equals.\\nHe was such a master of the learned languages that he could, and\\ndid, frequently, to the capacity of his family, read a Chapter of the\\nHebrew Bible into English, and the Greek was still easier to him.\\nPride, hypocrisy and affectation were his aversion and covetous-\\nness was what he was a perfect stranger to. His temper was grave", "height": "2856", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "22 DIARY OF REV. EBENKZER PARK:MAX.\\nWright, her son and a man who was asleep with him. I\\nreturned home. At eve, Dr. Thiery at my house in great\\nUrgency going to Bcston for Drugs, to relieve Stephen Fay,\\nno persuading him to y^ Contrary altho y Roads are ex-\\ntreme bad, the night Dark c. N. B. A piece of Cotton\\nLinnen of 12 yds. from Mr. Carullis.\\n20. On Matt 7: 7, 8. P. M. on Matt., 7: 9, 10, 11.\\n21. I visited Stephen Fay wasaty*^ Capt. s, find Thyery\\nis not a man of Truth or Probity. At Cousin Winchester s,\\nc.\\n22. Rain Cloudy. Visited old Mr. Ward s Family,\\nand thoughtful yet cheerful at times, especially with his friends and\\nacquaintances, and his conversation entertaining and agreeable.\\nMr. Parkman and Mistress Hannah were married September 11,\\n1737 all her objections finally overcome. A piece of her wedding\\ndress, and her wedding slippers are still treasured by Mrs. Tuck-\\nerman. The dress is a heavy, white gros grain silk^the bodice evi-\\ndently made with many rows of stitching, between which were run\\nstrips of cane.\\nThe slippers are of brocaded silk\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a green ground with figures in\\nyellowish white and various shades of red the heels are high, cov-\\nered with the silk, and they are lined with a coarse linen.\\nHANN.\\\\H BRECK S WEDDINO SUPPERS.", "height": "2823", "width": "2175", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2856", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2823", "width": "2175", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PAKKMAN. 25\\nreckoned with Mr. Josiah Newton. Rainj came home in\\ny Night in y^ Rain.\\n23. Cold northerly wind. p. m. visited old David Mon-\\nanaozv} Indian, he tells me he was 104 last Indian Harvest.\\nSays the name of Bosfon was not Shaivnmt but Shanwazv-\\nmnck. Channcy Pond was called Nawgawwoomcom and\\nMarlboro N. B. Mr. Seth Rice here about\\nthis time to discourse with me on y^ life of his sister\\nThankf. I visited Mr. D. Brigham s family, and old Capt.\\nByles.\\n24. Froze hard again last night. Cold windy day.\\n25. I rode to Marlb., din d with Mr. Hovey at Mm.\\nFish s. Spent y*^ afternoon at Dr. Gott s was at y^ Coll. s,\\nbut returned to Dr. s. Mr. Hovey there with a Bass Viol.\\nN. B. Mrs. H. h B k at y^ Dr. s still. Our con-\\n1 After King Philip s War, some of the Marlborouprh Indians who\\nhad been taken prisoners and confined on the islands in Boston\\nharbor, returned to their ohl homes.\\nAmong those who returned, says Rev. Dr. Allen, of North-\\nborough, was David alias David Munnanaow, who joined Phili]3\\nand, as he afterwards confessed, assisted in the destruction of Med-\\nfield. This treacherous Indian had, it is said, a slit thumb, which\\ncircumstance led to his conviction.\\nHis wigwam was on the borders of the pond near the public\\nhouse long known as Williams Tavern, where he lived with his\\nfamily manj years and died in extreme old age.\\nThe last members of David s family still made their homes in\\nthe field by the pond, within the memory of many persons now\\nliving. Until very lately, an extremely old chestnut has been\\npointed out as the tree under which these Indians had their wig-\\nwam. It was called the Wigwam Tree. At last, like old David\\nhimself, it has succumbed to extreme old asje.", "height": "2856", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "25 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nversation of a piece with what it used to be. I mark her\\nadmirable Conduct, her Prudence and wisdom, her good\\nmanners her distinguishing Respectfulness to me w ac-\\ncompany her Denyals. x\\\\fter it grew late in y^ Even g, I\\nrode home to Westb., through the Dark and the Dirt, but\\ncheerfully and comfortably (comparatively). N. B. My\\nFamily all abed.\\n26. I had appointed to ride to Grafton in order to\\nchanging with Mr. Prentice tomorrow, but it proved so very\\nRainy all day that it was unpracticable.\\n27. Fair and pleasant Day. Matt. 7: 12 A. m., but P. m.\\nrepeated Sermon II, Acts 2: 37, 3S. N. B. Mr. Silas\\nBrigham and Mr. Eleazar Pratt of Shrewsbury had desired\\nme to baptize y*^ Children. Accordingly, in my usual\\nmanner I desired y^ Children might be brought forth to\\nMr. Silas Brigham, so unfortunately tardy this Sunday morning\\nhad married Mindwell Grout, and the baby Jemima born four\\ndays before this, was their first child. She married Constantine\\nHardy.\\nMr. Eleasar Pratt lived near Wild Cat Swamp, and was after-\\nwards set off to Westborough. His baby, Sarah, was nearly six\\nmonths old, and he hardly deserved so much more credit as Mr.\\nParkman would seem to give him, for he had his good wife Ru-\\nhamali to get the baby attired in its best frock, with the deftness\\nwhich the care of the three older children had given her.\\nPoor Silas Brigham, and poor Mindwell How the)- must have\\nworried, and how flushed his young face must have been when\\nhe marched down the aisle, after all the hurry, to have his pride\\nin his farst-born so humbled by the Minister s censure\\nThe Church Records sa}^ under date of April 3, 1737 Jemima\\nof Silas and Mindwell Brigham baptized by Rev. Mr. Prentice of\\nGrafton.", "height": "2823", "width": "2175", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 27\\nBaptism. But only one appeared. I looked about till I\\nconceived y^ something had befallen y^ other or those con-\\ncerned with it. I proceeded and baptized Mr. Pratt s (w was\\nye Child yt was brought) w the prayers were over we\\nproceeded to y^ last Singing in y^ Time of y^ last Sing-\\ning Mr. Brigham and his Child came in\u00e2\u0080\u0094 After y^ Bless-\\ning and w I was down in y^ Alley going out, Mr. Brig-\\nham asked me whether his child could not be baptized. I\\nans d, it could not now. My Reasons are these. Besides\\nthat, when I am spent with the foregoing Services, it is too\\nmuch to expect me to repeat over y again. Besides that,\\nsuch a custom indulged would involve us in great irregu-\\nlarity and Difficulty, but this administration for my known\\nFriends would have forced me to make it a custom, and\\nbesides the impatience of many of the Congregation to get\\naway home, being they live 4, 5. or 6 miles off. Besides\\nthose Reasons, I would urge y* it was so very sudden upon\\nme y^ I could not iudge w*^ way I could vindicate it if I\\nshould proceed. Again, by y\u00c2\u00ab suddenness I was too much\\nconfused to have my Power at command to perform the\\nDevotions nor was I furnished therefor (Eccl. 5:1,2). So\\nyt it would have been nothing short of horrible Presump-\\ntion for me to have done it.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lydia Cutting not well.\\n28. Lydia worse, having a bad Ague in her face it\\nthrew her wholly by but it was so ordered in Providence,\\nyt Deborah Ward came to see us and she served us.\\nAdjournment of Town Meeting. N. B. B Hicks had\\nbeen chosen Constable, but gets oft by virtue of a Commis-\\nsion to be Deputy Sheriff. (David Baverick diets here.)\\n29. Very Rainy. Lydia worse, considerable Fever.", "height": "2856", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "28 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nBenj. How with David at his work and din d with us.\\nNeither of y to be persuaded to go for Dr. Gott for Lydia.\\nJon Rogers came to go, but we did not send.\\n30. Lydia somewhat better, very fine weather.\\n31. Publick Fast. I preached on Lsa 1,9. N. B. Mr.\\nAbr Amsden of Marlb. here to desire me to attend the\\nFuneral of his Br Thomas only Son, a youth near 21, and\\nvery hopeful, who died after a short illness of but a few\\nDays. O y I and y y people of We.stb. at least some of\\ny might be of that small Remnant w God has left of\\ntruely Godly Ones and O y^ we might have Grace to\\nDemean and to acquit ourselves as such and y it might\\nplease God to keep off His Judgments y*^ this Land ma\\\\-\\nnot be made as Sodom or like unto Go)?io})ah but y^ y\\nDiv. Mercy might be afforded to us as we need it y\\nGlory ma\\\\ vet Dwell in our Laud\\nApril, 1737.\\nI. I rode down to Marlb. to y*^ Funeral of Joseph Ams-\\nden s. Man}- youth present and .seem to be affected. O\\nyt yere niight be abiding impression on y^^ souls and upon\\nall of us. This is y*^ second Death in that near Neighbourhood\\nof youth in Flower and Glory within a very little while.\\nN. B. This Joseph Amsden was one of y*^ Bearers of y^\\nother, .sell, y*^ young woman y*^ Dyed at Deacon James\\nWood s on y lytli of last month. After Burial I returned\\nto Capt. Amsden s to afford him w^ consolation I could un-\\nder his melancholy circumstances. N. B. Coll. Woods\\nwith me. N. B. Capt. Nathan Brigham gave further ac-", "height": "2823", "width": "2175", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 29\\ncounts of y Fury of y Mob at Boston^ assaulting y Town\\nHouse c. At Eve, I was at Dr. Gotts, Mrs. H h was\\nthought to be gone up to Mr. Week s or Capt. Williams,\\nwith design to lodge there, but she returned to y^^ Doctors.\\nAnd she gave me her Company till it was very late. Her\\nConversation was very Friendly, and with divers expressions\\nof Singular and Peculiar Regard. Mcmorand Oscul:\\nBut she cannot yield to being a step mother. I lodged there,\\nand with g satisfaction Composure.\\nMemorand Ebenezer has begun to learn his 2. Acci-\\ndence and now makes a Business of it.\\nSeptember, 1737.\\nw^ were upon y journey to Connecticut came to .see\\nus, dind with us and prevented us (altho Sister Eydia and\\nMrs. Bekky were gone already as Earnest of our Going)\\ntill so late in y p. m., then y*^ Rain coming also y^ we were\\nutterly disappointed.\\n21. We rode to Cousen Winchester, but they being gone\\nother neighbors also to Worcester, we struck along up to\\niprom Boston News Letter for April i, 1737 On Thursday\\nNight the 24 instant, the middle Market House in this Town, to-\\ngether with several Butchers Shops near the same, were cut, pulled\\ndown and entirely demolished by a number of persons unknown\\nand several posts of the North Market House were also sawn asun-\\nder the same Night.\\nIn consequence of which Gov. Phipps issued a proclamation offer-\\ning a reward of oue hundred pounds for the detection of any of the\\nringleaders.\\n-The 2. Accidence was a small book containing the rudiments of\\nscramniar.", "height": "2856", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "30 DIARY OF REV. EBENKZER PARKMAN.\\nMr. Prentice s at Grafton. N. B. Their son Nath.l s fin-\\nger had been wounded, the Top of one of his Fingers being\\ncut off. N. B. Mrs. Sartel of Groton there. Called at\\nCapt. Fa\\\\ s as we returned home in ev g.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n22. Visited Capt. Eager s wife^ who had been some time\\nsick.\\n23. John Clung so urgent for his money (bee. of his\\njourney to Pensylvania y I was obliged to ride about to\\ngather it, till I succeeded at Treasurer Newton s.\\n24. Message from John Hamilton under condemnation\\nfor Burglary requesting y I would visit him. N. B. Lydia\\nsick and my wife burthened with y*^ Business of y Family.\\nN. B. Fire raging in y Bushes on y*^ west side of Powder\\nHill, drie by y^ Drought and y Frost and y Wind very\\nhigh. Br. Hicks alone there, till I assisted him, we suc-\\nceeded. D. G.\\n25. Mr. Pierpont came to us this morning, having come\\nfrom Boston but a little before sunset last even g. N. B.\\nNews y the vessel in w* his Goods were had struck upon\\nMartha s Vineyard, but had got off again he (as he can\\npursues his journej^ to see in what condition y are at New\\nHaven. A. m. I Repeated on i Chron. 26. 9. p. m. I\\npreached on i Pet. 3. 7.\\n26. Mr. Pierpont and his wife left us. I with my wife\\naccompanied y to Shrewsbury. I still continued with y\\n1 Capt. Eager was one of the first settlers in that part of West-\\nborough which afterwards became Northborough. His house was\\nthe first built on the New Connecticut Road, between Sam l Good-\\nenow s Garrison and the Town of Worcester. It was the first\\ntavern opened in the place. He died in 1755.", "height": "2823", "width": "2175", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 31\\nas far as Worcester and dined with them at Capt. Howard s.\\np. M. having taken leave of those Excellent Friends, I rode\\nto Mr. Burr s/ not finding him at home, I hastened to y\\nPrison to see y Criminal. Among other Questions, I asked\\nhim his true Name. he answered Hugh Henderson, he\\nacquainted me with his Birth and Baptism c. He was\\nmuch concerned and distres.sed about his state, and ready to\\nconfess himself a great Sinner c I prayed Vv^ith him. He\\nrequested I would come and see him again. I hastened to\\nShrewsbury and with my wife, returned in the evening.\\nN. B. John McClung took leave of us.\\n27. We took up our Flax. We supped at Br. Hicks s.\\n28. I was much indisposed wi.th Headache.\\n1 Rev. Isaac Burr was settled over the Old South Church iu Wor-\\ncester in 1725. Mr. Chas. E. Stevens writes No portraiture of\\nhis person or mind survives no characteristic anecdote is on\\nrecord and nothing testifies of his ministry save its continuance\\nfor a fifth of a century in a generally peaceful way. Mr. Burr\\nlived on the south corner of Main and Pleasant streets. His house\\nwas afterwards removed to Blackstone Street, where it stood until\\na few years ago. The little sketch of it made for Mr. Caleb Wall s\\nReminiscences of Worcester, by an accurate and experienced\\nartist, as he writes, is the only picture of this house in existence.\\nRtK. ISAAC BVRR l]t4\\nHOUSE OF RKV. ISAAC liUKK.", "height": "2856", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "32 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n29. Lectured on i Sam. 15. 22. At eve Mr. Jarvis\\ncame from Boston.\\n30.\\nI.\\nOctober 1737.\\n2. Sacrament. Ps. 63. 8. Repeated on I.s. 53. i.\\nPatience Forb. came again\\n3. Catechised at y Meeting House. Judge Dudle}- on\\nhis return from Springfield made us a visit, and dind with\\nus. Lydia Cutting left us.\\n1 Paul Dudley, afterwards Chief Justice of the Province, at this\\ntime a judge of the Superior Court, born is 1675, died in 1751.\\nHe was the son of Gov. Joseph Dudley, of Massachusetts. He\\nstudied law in London. He bequeathed 100 (about |666) to Har-\\nvard College for the support of an annual lecture, called, from its\\nfounder, the Dudleian lectures. He was a Fellow of the Royal\\nSociety, and wrote on natural history and against the Church of\\nRome.\\nSeven years after this visit to Mr. Parkman, Judge Dudley had\\nthe famous Dudley parting-stone erected in Roxbury, where it\\nstill stands, with the inscription which has guided so many trav-\\nellers for more than a hundred and fifty years,\\nThe Parting vStone. 1744. P.Dudley.\\nAnd on one side, Dedham and Rhode Island, on the other,\\nCambridge and Watertowu.\\nHe had been Speaker of the House and member of the Executive\\nCouncil. Judge Sewall writes of him: Thus, while with pure\\nhands and an upright heart he administered justice in the Circuit\\nthro the I rovince, he gained the general esteem and veneration of\\nthe people.\\nThe town of Dudley is named in token of respect to William\\nand Paul Dud lev.", "height": "2823", "width": "2175", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "PAUL DUDLEY.", "height": "2856", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2823", "width": "2175", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 35\\n4. Mr. Jarvis, Sister Lydia and I rode to Cambridge.\\nMrs. Suse Champuey there. Mr. Jarvis lodged with me at\\nFather Champney s. N. B. I rode down to Mr. Dana s\\nTavern^ about my Wife s Trunk.\\n5. Early this morning we rode to Mr. Dana s again,\\nsaw y^ Trunk in good order, in y^ Team to be transported\\nup,, and then we proceeded to Boston. Dined at Br Elias s.\\n1 Dana s Tavern stood near the centre of the town of Brookline\\nand was a famous hostelry for many years. It was a large gambrel-\\nroofed house and stood until 1816, when it was destroyed by fire.\\nA story of the old tavern is given in Historic Sketches of Brook-\\nline, by Harriet F. Woods, in which Tom Cook (see Journal, Aug.\\n27. 1779) figures as chief actor.\\nShe writes: There was a notorious thief, well known in\\nBrookline and the adjoining towns by the name of Tom Cook. He\\nhad many eccentricities, among which was a habit of stealing from\\nthe rich to give to the poor. In horse-stealing he was especially\\nexpert. He was frequently arrested, convicted and sentenced to\\nshort terms of imprisonment at the Castle (now Fort Independ-\\nence), that being then the common prison for all offenders in\\nBoston and vicinity.\\nOn one occasion Tom stole a goose from a countryman s\\nwagon, which was under the shed at Dana s Tavern; not, how-\\never, with generous designs for any of his poor proteges, but for\\nthe satisfying of his own appetite. But as an uncooked goose\\nwould be about as unsatisfactory as no goose at all, Tom resorted\\nto the old schoolhouse,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 school not being in session, to cook and\\ndevour it.\\nSquire Sharpe s house was nearest to the schoolhouse, and\\nSquire Sharpe was a grandson of Capt. Robert, and a nephew of\\nMistress Susanna.\\nThe Squire, with his sharp eye on the interests of the town,\\ndiscovered a smoke arising from the schoolhouse chimney, and as", "height": "2856", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "36 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nMy honored Mother in good health. D. G. I returned to\\nCambridge, found Mrs. Suse Champuey there still.\\nN. B. 6. I sat out from Cambridge before Day got to\\nHarrington s before sun rising from there first at sunrise,\\nbut did not get up to Westb. till nigh one visited Hannah\\nBond, who lay sick at Capt. Forb. after that dind at Home.\\nYoung men came to gather my Corn. Set y to work.\\nWent to y private meeting at Mr. Towusend s preached\\non 2 Pet: i. lo. visited Hannah Bond again about i8 or\\n20 hands husked out all my Corn. N. B. In ray absence\\nWinter Apples gathered in.\\n7. Mr. John Pratt brought home my cyder which he\\nhad made.\\n8. Mr. Pratt brought home y*^ remainder of my cyder.\\nvSusa Cutting came.\\n9. I repeated my sermon IV upon Is. 53. i. from John\\n10. 26. p. M. Sermon 11. on i. Sara. 15. 22 from Ps. 40. 6. 8.\\n10. Visited Mrs. Dantforth who is in a languishing\\nstate. Was also at Mr. Hayward s at Mr. Lock s.\\nwhere there is smoke, there must be fire, he proceeded to recon-\\nnoitre and caught Tom in the very act of roasting the goose. Lay-\\ning the strong hand of the law upon him, he made him confess\\nwhere he got the fowl and march back with it under his own\\nescort to the Tavern, and, before the assembled inmates of the\\nbar-room, gave him his choice to take then and there a public\\nwhipping, or be tried and sent to the Castle. Tom considered\\nbriefly and decided to take the ZL hippini^.\\nThe countrymen agreed, and flourished their long whips upon\\nhim with such vigor, that Tom s appetite for roast goose was\\nabated in a summary manner, and the punishment proved more\\neffectual than his various sojourns at the Castle.", "height": "2823", "width": "2175", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 37\\n11. Visited Mrs. Rogers who is sick, Hannah Bond and\\nold Mrs. Pratt. N. B. overtook some Travellers on Foot\\nwith y*^ Muskets one of em very unmannerly and saucy.\\np. M. Mr. Tozer and his wife here, old Mr. Rice visited\\nus. John Clung here.\\n12. I went to Worcester to see Hugh Henderson, found\\nhim in much y same distressed state y* I left him in, but I\\nhope more knowing and acquainted with his Condition and\\nwith his Duty. N. B. Mr. Burr at y^ Goal with me. I\\nprayed with him a multitude attending. He earnestly\\ndesired me to see him again and wishes over and over y I\\nwould preach to him.\\nN. B. When I called at Mr. Cushing s as I went up,\\nColl. Woods was there, on his return from Rutland. As I\\nreturned in the evening, y rose a storm of Lightening and\\nRain. Mr. Lock came and carried in Corn.\\n13. John Clung (who lodged here last night) carried in\\nmore of y*^ Corn from y*^ Barn. Paid John y whole and he\\nbid farewell. At evening Br Hicks helped in more Corn.\\n14. Jon Rogers got in Pumpkins, y remainder of y^\\nCorn.\\n15. Noah How helped in with Turnips and some of y\\nPotatoes.\\nAt eve old Mr. Rice, Mr. Jarvis came up.\\n16. Mat. 3, 1-4. John 16. 8. N. B. I was called away\\nbetween 8 and 9 in y*^ morning to see old Capt. Byles, who\\nwas very bad with his Throat and at night I visited him\\nagain. N. B. The Congregation disturbed p. m. by y*^\\nburning of Mr. David Brigham s House but when people\\ngathered in again, and were composed, I went on with y", "height": "2856", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "38 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nrest of my sermon. A very sorrowful Providence! a great\\nLoss! but I trust y and all of us to profit by it, y our\\nHearts may be taken off from temporal transitory Enjoy-\\nments.\\n17. Rainy. Various Company all day and at evening,\\nN. B. Mr. James Fay dind with us. N. B. Mr. Wheeler\\ndistressed in Conscience for H. Henderson. Capt. Williams\\nfrom Marlboro.\\n18. Visited Capt. Byles who is grown exceeding bad\\nagain. Visited y wife of Wm. Rogers Jr. and proceeded\\nto Mr. Brigham s to see their Desolations. A Sorrowful\\nSight! I de.sire heartily to sympathise. Returned to Capt.\\nByles. He dyed this evening. N, B. Mr. Jarvis went\\nto Boston in y morning. N. B. Mr. Jon Forbes at my\\nhou.se in y*^ Evening and after him Mess Ed and Benj.\\nGoddard.\\n19. Mr. Brigham s son David fetched away divers things\\nwhich we lent y in y necessity. Nathan Maynard p. M.\\ndigging Potatoes.\\nCapt. Joseph Byles had married Rebecca Forbush, the sister of\\nJonathan, Samuel and Thomas Forbush. He lived on the south\\nside of Chauncy Pond. He was one of the first inhabitants.\\nDea. Jonathan Forbes b. in Marlborough in 16S4 married in\\n1706, when he was a young man of twenty-two, a woman twice mar-\\nried, with a family of four children. At this time he was living\\nnear the present town reservoir. He was the first one of the family\\nto write his name F orbes his other brothers, Samuel and Thomas,\\nand their descendants, being always known by the name of For-\\nbush. The Massachusetts Gazette of March 31, 1768, says His\\nlife was exemplary his departure in the firm hope of a glorious\\nimmortality; his progeny numerous.", "height": "2823", "width": "2175", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 39\\n20. Funeral of Capt. Joseph Byles, my Spouse, Mrs.\\nRichard Burrough and my Dauter Molly all there with me.\\nThe deceased was a bright example of Diligence and Indus-\\ntry in his calling, Constancy at y^ House of God, dihgent\\nattention to y Worship and Word preached Truth and\\nFaithfulness to his word and exact Honesty in his Trading.\\nTo which add a singularly manly Heroic Spirit. Visited\\nold Mrs. Pratt at Eve. Capt. Eager came home with us.\\n21. Closely engaged in my preparations. At eve Br-^\\nWilliam Parkman came from y Council at Concord, which\\nhad voted Mr. Whiting unfit to sustain y*^ holy ministry\\nand advised y*^ church of Concord to dismiss him, which y^\\ncomplied with. N. B. Mr. Francis Pierce here\u00e2\u0080\u0094 finished\\nwith him about his Boards. N. B. My Br- left us. Dr.\\nGott called in. p. m. I rode to Shrewsbury and met with\\nMr. Burr at Mr. Cushing s. I proceeded to Worcester and\\n1 Rev. Job Gushing, the first minister of Shrewsbury, pastor of\\nthe church there from 1723 to his death in 1760. He was the father\\nof Col. Job Gushing\u00e2\u0080\u0094 also of Rev. John Gushing, who married in\\n1769 Mr. Parkman s daughter Sarah. She lived to be eighty-two\\nyears of age and died in 1825. Mrs. Tuckerman writes of this\\ndaughter Sarah, as follows:\u00e2\u0080\u0094 My grandmother married Dr. John\\nGushing, of Ashburuham, who taught school in Westborough the\\nyear after he graduated from Harvard Gollege. He boarded in the\\nminister s family, and when he was ordained, at the age of twenty-\\nfour, he came back and carried off the daughter as his bride. This\\nwa\u00c2\u00a7 in 1768. She was a remarkably bright and capable woman,\\njudging from the family traditions. There were seven children in\\nthat large family younger than she, and she had so much to do\\nthat her mother could not spare her the time to go to school when\\nit was kept at intervals. But she was ambitious to learn, and her\\nfather helped her all he could. She taught herself to write by", "height": "2856", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nstopped at y^ Goal at the Grates to speak with the Prisoner\\nand to put him in mind of y^ preparations needful for him\\nto make in order to his keeping his Last Sabbath. I lodged\\nat Mr. Burr s.\\n23. Early in y morning began to write my address to\\ny Prisoner. A. m on Eccl. 11.9a crowded as.sembly, poor\\nHugh Henderson present. P. m. on Job: 3. 36. a very\\ngreat congregation, it being, in y apprehension y*^ last\\nvSabbath Sermon the poor Criminal is to hear. At even-\\ning called at Mr. Eaton s and at y^ Sheriff s who went\\nwith me to y* Pri.son. I interrogated y Prisoner what\\nwas y occasion of his coming to this country whether he\\nhad discovered and acknowledged all that was fit and proper\\nfor him to reveal? Whether he had au}^ confederates? A\\ngreat number flocked in y^ Goal when at his Request I\\nprayed with him. I left him between 8 and 9. by that I\\ncame to Mr. Cushing s where I intended to lodge. Y were\\nall in Bed wherefore, though cold, I proceeded home to my\\nown House.\\nN. B. Mr. Jarvis came up last night in a chair.\\n24. Mr. Burr left us early in y^ morning. P. m. Mr.\\nJarvis, my wife, Mrs. Bekky and I rode to y^ Great Pond,\\nto Capt. Warren s, and Capt. Forbush s. N. B. Supped\\nat Capt. Forb.\\ncopying letters with a piece of chalk on the baru floor, for paper\\nand ink were precious in those da^-s, and not to be unduly wasted.\\nThe house where the Rev. Mr. Cashing lived stood east of the\\nShrewsbury Town Hall.\\nThe first sheriff of Worcester County was Daniel Gookin, who\\nheld the office until 1743.\\nHe was a son of Gen l Daniel Gookin. (.Wore. Hist.)", "height": "2823", "width": "2175", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBHNEZER PARKMAN. 4I\\n25. Mr. Jarvis and Mrs. Bekky Burrough left us. I rode\\nto Hopkinton Association, all y came besides were Mr. N.\\nStone and Mr. S. Prentice. Mr. Barrett concio on i Pet. 4.\\nII. If any man speaketh.\\n26. Public lecture by Mr. Sol. Prentice on Job. 12. 35.\\nfirst part. N. B. I had a very Sudden Turn of Sharp\\nPain in my Side after Dinner, but thro Mercy, I recovered.\\nMr. Prentice went home with me and lodged at our\\nHouse.\\n27. Rode with Mr. Prentice to Grafton and preached\\nhis Lecture on Jude 10. 21. Returned to Westboro at\\nnight. N. B. The Governor has reprieved Hugh Hen-\\nderson for a month at the request of Mr. Burr and Mr.\\nPrentice.\\n28. Ah! what sad grounds of Severe Reflection upon\\nmyself for my wretched negligence and unfaithfulness!\\nHow great need of renewing and fixing my Resolutions of\\nReformation. But especially of crying unto God for par-\\ndon of what is past and Grace to assist and quicken me\\nhenceforward\\n29.\\n30. All day on Job,: 3. 36 Rain a. m. High winds at\\neven. N. B. Mr. Chamberlain din d with us.\\nNovember 1737.\\nI. Vi.sited Mr. Dantforth.\\n2.\\n3. Stormy.\\n4. Very cold.", "height": "2856", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "42 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n5. I rode to Soiithboro Met Mr, Stone by Capt.\\nWarren s. Very cold. Mr. Peabody and Mr. Moquet of\\nFramingham here.\\n6. Preached at Southborough, on Job,: 3. 36 a. p. m.\\nAt eve, Coll. Ward and his wife came in to Mr. Stone s.\\nN. B. Y Coll. exceptions against that passage in my fore-\\nnoon sermon, p. 2-too Small for the Divine Oracle to have\\nbeen exprest about either.\\n7. At Mr. Tim Brigham s. Mr. Stone brought Mrs.\\nParkman to his House, we dind there, after which I rode\\nto visit old Mrs. Morse at Marlboro confined by her\\nBroken Bone, and in great distress of mind, whilst Mr.\\nStone went with my wife up to Dr. Gott s. There we tar-\\nried all night.\\n8. Called at Capt. Williams, and at Mr. Eb. Beeman s\\non our way home. p. m. Funeral of one of Mrs. Seth\\nRice s Dawters who dyed by a Quinsy. Rain. N. B.\\nThe Floor of y*^ Room at Mr. Rice s broke under us.\\n9. Stormy.\\n10. I rode to Mr. Wheeler s, called at Mr. Dantforth as\\nI went, but dined at Mr. Wheeler s. N. B. Mr. Thos.\\nWard at Mr. Nathan Balls s. I was at Mr. Lawrence s,\\nand at Mr. Gershom Fay s and at Mr. Collister s. N. B.\\nDisappointment about Swine notwithstanding my long\\nDependence.\\n1 1. We first tyed up our Cattle in y*^ Barn. My oxen\\nwere at work for Mr. David Brigham s to cart stones for y\\nchimneys. I was at Mr. Grout s about Beef.\\n12. Fine warm day.\\n13. John 3. 36 p. m. on Joh. 16. 8. Capt. Eager sick.", "height": "2823", "width": "2175", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 43\\n14. B Hicks went to Cambridge upon my Horse.\\n15. Trooping and Training\u00e2\u0080\u0094 prayed with y^ foot before\\nDinner and dind with y officers of both Hor.se and Foot-\\nprayed with ye whole Body at eve. N. B. Capt. Eager\\ndetained by his sickness and Lieut. Baker also absent.\\nN. B. I wrote to Worcester by Capt. Moses Rice, being I\\ncould not visit y Prisoner.\\n16. B Hicks came up with Sister Willard.\\n17. Mr. Tainter came to me before Sunrise and informed\\nme of a most Sudden and awful accident in y^ neibour-\\nhood. That the wife of Mr. Joshua Harrington (who\\ncame up with his Family to Dwell among us, but this Day\\nthree weeks) was Shot in the head last evening, a little\\nbefore Sundown, by a servant named Ebenezer Chubb in\\nhis 15 year, and she dyed upon the Spot. Mr. Tainter\\nwas going for y Coroner. Public Thanksgiving Preached\\non Lev. 3. i. After y^ pubHck exercises, y Coroner s In-\\nquest sat on y body of Mrs. Harrington and y*^ verdict\\nwas Accidental Death.\\n1 Lieut. Edward Baker was one of Mr. Parkman s first frieuds\\nin Westborough, for he and James Eager had been the committee\\nwho brought him the news that he had been called to be the town\\nminister. He was always prominent in town and church affairs,\\nand chairman of the committee which built the old Arcade.\\nHe lived on Main Street, on the Pollard place, where his son,\\nSquire Baker, afterwards had his home. He had ten children, of\\nwhom one, Joseph, born in 1736, was the Squire.\\nHis house was moved and is now part of Mrs. Gleason s house.\\nHe died in 1763, and his stone still marks his last resting place\\nin the old burying ground, although that of Persis his wife has\\nlong since disappeared.", "height": "2856", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAX.\\n1 8. My wife and Sister were with me at y funeral of\\nMrs. Harrington.\\n19.\\n20. Sacrament. Joh: 16. S, repeated. Mat. 10. 29. 30\\np. M. N. B. Mrs. Trewsdale of Newton, mother of Mrs.\\nHarrington, above mentioned, dind with us.\\n21. I rode up to Worcester to see Hugh Henderson\\nagain. Was sorry to find he had tried to make his escape\\nby fihng the Goal door. We talked more of other matters,\\nand kept longer off from y main point of his case y here-\\ntofore. I m more put to it to judge of his Frame. Mr.\\nBurr came to me, requested me to preach to him on Wednes-\\nday. Hugh desires it of me, and several of the people re-\\npeatedly and urgently insist and plead for it. I prayed\\nwith the prisoner and took leave at about seven o clock.\\nN. B. his Discourses of y^ Jury, not going by the laws of\\nGod y Country in Condemning him, having but Cir-\\ncumstantial Evidence. As to Newton, he offered him all\\nreasonable Satysfaction c: But he added, that he was\\nguilty, and his many sins had provoked God to anger\\nc:\\n1 The goal or jail where Hugh Henderson was confined stood on\\nthe west side of Lincoln Street, a short distance from Lincoln\\nSquare. It was a building fortj -one feet by eighteen. The\\nprison part, writes Caleb Wall, was eighteen feet square, made\\nof white oak timber set with studs, four inches thick and five\\ninches broad, and floored, roofed and ceiled with two-inch planks\\nspiked together. A stone dungeon was underneath. The north\\nend of the structure, finished as a dwelling, afterwards became\\npart of the old Hancock Arms. Probably at this time it was\\nthe dwelling-house of the jailer, Luke Brown.", "height": "2823", "width": "2175", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 45\\nI called at Mr. Gushing s and supped there. Thence\\nI rode home.\\n22. Deacon Miles of Concord here to bring the Request\\nof Church y I would assist in y Fast y have appointed\\nin order to y Calling another Minister.\\n23. The wife and younger son of Mr. Increase Ward\\nvery bad. I visited y and old Mrs. Pratt a. m. p. m. I\\nrode up to Worcester at the Request of y Criminal and\\nothers to preach to him. There were so many at y Goal\\ny we were obliged to go to y^ Meeting-House. I preached\\non I Tim. i. 15. Supped (with Mr. Campbell) at Deacon\\nHay wards. We visited y Prisoner. He spoke of having\\na solemn warning taken from his mouth, but chose to have\\nit deferred to y*^ morning, but prayed I would be early.\\nWe lodged at Mr. Burr s.\\n24. I went to the Prisoner as early as I could, and Mr.\\nBurr was with me to assist in penning down what y^ Pris-\\noner had to deliver by way of Confession and Warning to\\n1 Daniel Haywood, one of the first deacons of the Old South\\nChurch in Worcester. He kept the first tavern in that town\u00e2\u0080\u0094 he,\\nhis son, and grandson keeping for nearly a hundred years a hotel\\non the site of the Bay State. This old hotel is still standing in\\nWorcester, having been moved years ago to the southeast corner\\nof Salem and Madison streets.\\n-The sad story of Hugh Henderson we learn from these dying\\nconfessions, which, together with a poem on his untimely death,\\nwere published as a broadside and sold as a warning to all youth.\\nHe was of Scotch-Irish descent and came to Massachusetts about\\n1735, and for two years indulged his wicked practices, when he\\nwas arrested and convicted of breaking and entering the house of\\nAbner Newton, of Westborough, who lived at this time in the old\\nThomas Rice garrison. (See note for March 14, 1737.)", "height": "2856", "width": "2164", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "46\\nDIAKY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nOEM\\n1 by the tintimely|P^\\nI Inj^hHcndcrfon}\\nMan jiltoa, who wasiJjJW*^^\\n/-\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^/cr for Houfe4 Jf^rf^\\nOV. 24. 737. issisassSi^raSii^i\\nI-\\nHut lo the Scfne nn more appears,\\nChjng d all to Gri\u00c2\u00ab to Sigfis, to Tears.\\nWholly poor VV/ctch ;.by Sin poflcrt,\\nNo Spark of Grac; to warm hii Breaft,\\nThdtill it s Patlishe might purfuC,\\nM .if go and i^eak up Houfes too.\\nAs if his SinJ were yet 100 light\\nTo fii-.k him to Hell s boundlcfj Night\\nAv-nging Hav n now faw his Time,\\n\\\\t onct t Dnpilli rv (v Cumf\\ny^ World before hi.s Execution. In it I was a.s punctual\\nFour indictments were found against him, two for burglary and\\ntwo for larceny, and he was tried, convicted and sentenced to be\\nhanged on one for burglary. The Court was the Superior Court of\\nJudicature sitting at Worcester in September, with the following\\nnamed judges on the bench Benj. Lyude, Paul Dudlej-, Edmund\\nQuincy, Jonathan Remington and Richard Saltonstall.\\nIn the following extracts from the Confession, we can detect Mr.\\nParkman s pen\\nThe Confession and Dying Warning of Hugh Henderson Who\\nwas executed at Worcester in the County of Worcester, Nov. 26\\nI737i Signed by him in the Presence of four of the Ministers, the\\nMorning of the Day of his Execution.\\nI, Hugh Henderson, otherwise through my wickedness called", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 47\\nand strict as I could be in inserting his own words as near\\nas I could, and when any others were used, It\\nJohn Hamiltou of about 28 or 29 Years of Age, was born in Armagh\\nin the Kingdom of Ireland, received Baptism in the Manner of the\\nPresbyterians and was brought up by my uncle, who was obliged\\nto give me suitable Learning, but did not; which Neglect, together\\nwith my own Neglect of learning the word of God afterwards, was\\na great reason of my taking to such wicked Courses as have brought\\nme to my unhappy, untimely End.\\nI began with smaller Sins, while I was Young with but steal-\\ning Pins: against which I received warning oftentimes, but per-\\nsisted in it, and was very disobedient, till I increased further in\\nSin.\\nThen follows warning to various classes of people and confession\\nof various sins, and the confession ends:\\nHaving given this Warning, I desire to commend myself to the\\nCharity and Prayers of all God s People for me, and that You\\nwould lift up your Hearts to God for me, for the Pardon of my\\nSins, an interest in Christ, and that I may be sanctified by the\\nSpirit of God: But above all I commend myself to the infinite\\nMercy of God, in my dear Redeemer, begging and beseeching that\\nthrough the Merits of His Blood, I may this Day be with Him in\\nParadise.\\nHugh Henderson\\nSigned with his Mark.\\nA True Copy Examined\\nPer Ebr. Parkman.\\nThe Poem is entitled:\\nA Poem occasioned by the Untimely Death of Hugh Hender-\\nson alias John Hamilton who was hanged at Worcester for House\\nBreaking, Nov. 24, 1737 \u00e2\u0080\u0094and an extract therefrom reads\\nThe Scene we did but lately view\\nToo well evinces this is true\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nA Man with healthful Vigour bless d\\nThe Morn of life but hardly past,", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "48 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nIntroduction to the Latter Part of the Journal.\\n1 778.\\nMany changes had come to Mr. Parkman, his family, and to the\\ntown, since he wrote the accounts of his courtship of Susanna\\nvSharpe and of Hannah Breck. Forty-one years had slipped away.\\nThe little church on the hill had given place to a larger but still\\nunpretentious meeting-house on the Common. He was living now,\\nhe had been for many years, in his own handsome house on Main\\nStreet.\\nCompelled to leave the pleasing Light,\\nAnd stretch luvay to endless Night\\nBecause regardless of his Peace,\\nHe chose the flowery Path of Vice.\\nThe uncle receives his deserts in the poem as follows\\nBut when he met with no Restraint,\\nAnd found his Uncle was no Saint,\\nIn Vice s pleasing Steps he ran.\\nThe N. K. Weekly Journal, Dec. 6, 1737, says:\\nOn the day of his Execution the Rev. Mr. Campbell of Oxford\\npreached to the Prisoner and a great assembly, a very suitable ser-\\nmon on I Peter 4-5. The Prisoner was exceedingly moved and in\\nsuch Anguish of soul that the Expressions of it in the face of the\\ncongregation, in crying and moans, in prayers and tears and pas-\\nsionate gesture there were even to disturbance.\\nAt the place of execution, after the Rev. Mr. Hall of Sutton\\nhad prayed, the prisoner with great earnestness desired all that\\nwere present to hearken well to what was going to be read to them,\\nand to mind to take the warning contained in it, after which he\\nput up a most importunate and pathetical prayer himself which\\nmanifested more of knowledge of religion, sense of his own state\\nand humble faith and hope in God, than anything that has been\\nreceived from him before.\\nSo was ended this sad chapter in the history of Worcester\\nCounty her first execution", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 5 1\\nBy deed of date April 5, 1750, he had purchased the following-\\ndescribed tract of land from Nathan Brigham, of Southborough:\\nA certain tract of laud measuring five acres and a hundred and\\ntwenty-six rods, situate on the Plain Northerly of the Burying\\nPlace in the first Parish in Westborough, Westerly of the road\\nleading to Sutton and is bounded easterly and southerly by land\\nleft for a way by Forty rods of laud left for the Meeting House\\nand four Rods for Stables, aud likewise by the Burying Place.\\nWesterly by laud of Capt. John Maynard, Northerly by sd Park-\\nman s land Northwesterly by Common land.\\nHis house, which he built where Dr. Curtis old residence now\\nstands, can still be seen on High Street just beyond the school-\\nhouse.\\nThe house was well built, and considered by some even extrava-\\ngant, and Mr. Parkman himself records that he was criticized rather\\nsharply by Lieut. Tainter because his window frames were so large.\\nAnd although, writes Mr. Parkman, I rebuked him for thus\\nspeaking, especially as there were many persons present, yet I was\\ndisturbed thereat and the frames were larger than I intended, and\\nI would rather they had been smaller.\\nAbout 1753 the new meeting-house was finished, and here Mr.\\nParkman preached until his death. Here were held the town\\nmeetings and nearly all the important gatheriugs of the people.\\nOriginally there was no steeple, aud as it began its career so it\\nended it, for the steeple and porches were removed about 1835,\\nwhen it was converted to business purposes. As the old Arcade, it\\nstood until a few years ago. Now nothing remains of it but the\\nround window in the possession of the Historical Society, and\\nmuch of its rich old oak converted into picture frames and book-\\ncases and spoons and rulers, treasured in many a house in town as\\na memento of the days of Mr. Parkman and the people he loved\\nand tended.\\nThe forty-one years had made many changes in the people,\\ntoo. We miss the old names of 1737, and greet new ones in\\nthese later years. The young minister had become an old man,\\nand feebleness and infirmity hampered his work. But, aside from", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "52 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nthe physical debilit}-, we recognize the same man, still doubting\\nhis own worthiness, still striving to rightly discharge his duty,\\nstill imploring Divine grace, and finding in the most straitened\\ncircumstances abundant evidence of the loving and merciful hand\\nof Providence. His happiness now is largely in his friendships,\\nand especially in the children and grandchildren which so fill his\\nheart. We read the entry of these latter years with less amuse-\\nment, but with more tenderness and reverence, as he lays before\\nus the motives and thoughts of his daily life. And the people of\\nhis day go in and out before us our own familiar friends.\\nNovember 1778.\\nI bless God for y I^ight Privileges of another of\\nthe blessed Days of y Son of Man. May I be in the\\nSpirit on y^ lyord s Day! I preached a. m. with some Fer-\\nvency once more on Ps. 92. 7 and beseech God to grant\\nSuccess!\\nMrs. Ruth Godfry with her little Son. dind here.\\np. M. I went on in Repeating Sermon on Gal. 3. 14, which\\nit is with God alone to render effectual! May He gra-\\nciously vouchsafe it!\\nN. B. The Singers more generally sat today in y Front,\\nsome no. stood up. Mr. Lemuel Badcock was among\\ny We were not .so happy as to have any singing in my\\nFamily today not in y Evening. Mr. Jonas Bradish did\\nnot come to me in any part of y Day. noth withstanding all\\nthat he said yesterday. I am sorry he gives no more\\nreason of y conduct.\\n2. No Mr, Bradish here today neither. Altho he assured\\nme he would come today, on y Account of showing me .some\\nBounds. Perhaps the weather might hinder that Business,", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZKR PARKMAN. 55\\nbvit I think to have come and conferred with me on y^ Sev-\\nral affairs depending. Dr. Havves acquaints me with his\\nMother s Death and y he is going to her Funeral Im-\\nproving this opportunity I write to Mr. Moore and .send it\\nto Man s at Wrentham for Conveyance.\\n3. Mr. Bradish came, but gives me no rea.son to think he\\nis at all sensible of any Gviilt or Blame on account of y*^ Neg-\\nlect of his Duty. And as to Bounds of y Land which he\\nlaid out for me, he says he has been there and y- Land being\\nnow cleared, the monuments are all gone, and it is impos-\\nsible to find them. Mr. Ezra Houghton of Chauxit came\\nwath a message from Mr. Mellen to request me to go up\\nthere, inasmuch as the Arbitrators on their Affairs were to\\nmeet, and he has sent to Mr Stone likewise. But I was\\nobliged to deny. I must be otherwise employed, it is too\\ncold, I have no horse, and know I can t get one c. c.\\nMr. Houghton dined here, left me to go to Southboro\\nElias tries to get a horse to go to Cambridge, but in vain.\\nP. M. I preached at Mr. Tainters on Rev. 2. 10. Borrow^\\n1 James Hawes came to Westborough from Wrentham in 1764,\\nand immediately took an influential position in town and church,\\nwhich he held until his death, in 1821. He bought the house which\\nin 1737 belonged to Cornelius Cook, and paid ^80 for it with ten\\nacres of land. He added the rooms beyond the small hallway to\\nthe original house. In his day it was painted red. In more recent\\nyears it has been plastered. James Hawes was lawyer an.d justice\\nas well as physician. The Court was usually held in his dwelling-\\nhouse, and he entertained many travellers, charging for loging\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094supper\u00e2\u0080\u0094 or brandy as the case might be. A night s lodging\\nwas 6d, while two glasses of brandy were gd.\\nHe was always a good friend and neighbor of Mr. Parkman.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "56\\nDIARY OF REV. EBEXEZER PARKINIAN.\\nMr. Tainter s Horse for Elias. Deacon Wood rides home\\nwith me. Mr. Potter has made Elias a coat.\\n4. Elias, on Mr. Tainter s Horse returned to Cam-\\nUARVARI) COI.LKi .K.\\nbridge. I gave him 14 dollars, my newest Shooes. a variety\\nof cloatheing, half a large cheese c c. May God in-\\ncline his Heart to Religion Learning!\\n5. Mr Winslow Packard of Pelham brings Mr. Rob.\\nAbercrombie s Salutation and y gift of Mr. Eben Erskines\\nSermon on Ps. 118. 22 on Lsa. 9. 6. with y true state of\\ny*^ Process against him: To which is added a number of\\nSermons of the same eminent man, from various Texts.\\nElias, Mr. rarknian s youuj^est son, fij^ures very proinineutlj\\nin the Journal. He was born January 6, 1761, consequently was\\nnow seventeen years old. He was educated as a physician and", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 57\\nThe book is very acceptable to me and I am very thankful\\nfor it.\\n6. Mr. Amariah Frost jun was here and dined with us.\\nI perceive that he has lately married Miss Esther Messinger\\nof Wrentham, his first cousin. Mr. Caldwell of Sutton\\nbrought y^ Horse which Elias rode and gratis. Toward\\nnight (being earnestly sent for) I went to see Mrs. Sarah\\n(wife of Mr. Eb Maynard who was very ill of Dysentery\\nc. prayed with her and y^ Family. N. B. A letter from\\nElias by Caldwell.\\n7. A letter from my friend Quincy at Medfield, dated\\npracticed medicine in Preston, Conn., and in Hollistou, Mass.\\nAbout 1792 he went to Milford, Mass., where his rich brother\\nSamuel purchased a place for him. Breck and Samuel stocked a\\nstore for him; an apothecary and grocery combined. In 1793 lie\\nwas licensed to sell spirituous liquors and in 1810 as an innholder.\\nThe Milford History calls him A very social, kind-hearted and\\ncourteous man, but too easy in general temperament and habits\\nto achieve financial success.\\nHe married, in 1785, Alethina Belcher, of Preston, Conn. His\\noldest son was named Samuel Breck, after the two brothers who\\nhelped him so generously. This son afterwards went South, but\\nhe and all his family were drowned when the ill-starred Pulaski\\nwas lost. Dr. Elias first wife died in 1792, and he married, in\\n1794, Susannah (Learned) Johnson. He named the eldest daughter\\nof this marriage Alethina for his first wife, and the eldest son John-,\\nson for her first husband. After he had eight children he adopted\\na little girl Marie Antoinette.\\nDr. Elias died Sept. 30, 1828, aged sixty-seven.\\niThis was Edmund Ouincy, Judge of the Court of Common\\nPleas, and for many years a merchant of Boston. We can identify\\nhim from the son Henry (see Journal, June 5, 1780), who was born\\nin 1726 and died May 27, 1780.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "55 DIARY OF REV. EBKNEZER PARKMAN.\\nSept 17. Oct I. lilt. We hear that Nanny Beeton is in\\nsuch Insanity as to go from her B John s in y*^ Night, and\\nwandered up to Sutton. Word is left here from those at\\nwhose House she is to her Father, who is accordingly going\\nafter her to bring her home.\\nEdmund Ouincy was born in 1703 and graduated at Harvard Col-\\nlege in 1722, being therefore exact!} the same age as Mr. Parkman,\\nalthough the latter graduated a year earlier.\\nHe had a large family of sons and daughters, amoug them Doro-\\nthy, who married John Hancock, noted for her beauty, wit and\\ndignity.\\nShe was born May 10, 1747.\\nDuring the summer of 1775, she visited at the house of her\\nfather s friend, Thaddeus Burr, in Fairfield, and there she met\\nAaron Burr. She was then engaged to Hancock, and she com-\\nplains that her aunt would not allow Aaron Burr and herself to\\npass a moment in each other s company.\\nIn the fall of this year she was married in the old Burr mansion,\\nhaving a brilliant wedding, which proved to be the last merry-\\nmaking ever held there, as it was burned in 1779 by order of Gov.\\nTryou.\\nAnother daughter of Judge Ouincy married Samuel Sewell, the\\nold Judge s grandson.\\nDr. Jacob Quincy was one of his sons.\\nThe famous Dorothy Q of Holmes poem was a sister of the\\nJudge. She died in 1762.\\nA number of Judge Ouincy s Letters are published in the Salis-\\nbury Memorial.\\nHis house and store were on Summer Street and his brother\\nJosiah s on Marlboro Street. He had a large garden, which joined\\nhis brother s. This house is called the Summer Street mansion.\\nHe died in 1788, aged eighty-five, outliving Mr. Parkman by six\\nyears and being at the time of his death an acting magistrate of\\nSuffolk County.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBEXEZER PARKMAX. 59\\n8. So kind and gracious is God y* we are permitted to\\nsee y^ light enjoy the privileges of this day, which be-\\ngins the 55th year since y founding this church and my\\nOrdination. While I bless God for His long Suffering, I\\nwould humble m3 self for my unfaithfulness and unprofit-\\nableness, imploring pardoning Mercy through the great\\nRedeemer, and Grace to help me, and y^ may be sufficient\\nfor me for the Future. Preached on II. Pet: i. 12. 13.\\np. M. on V. 14 with proper alterations of y last, which had\\nbeen delivered before. N. B. Several gentlemen were at\\nmeeting, p. m. which I suppose came from y Arbitration\\nat Chauxit.\\n9. Mr. Timothy Whitney was here to trade with me\\nabout my Oxen. Mr. Isaac Parker, where they have been\\nkept, having refused to give what one after another judged\\nthey were worth viz. Eighty Pounds L. M. p. m. Visit\\nMr. Eb Maynard s wife prayed with her. Visit old Mrs.\\nKelly and praj ed there. N. B. Nanny Beeton seems com-\\nposed. Mr. Robert Wilson and his wife (who was Patty\\nDunlap, grown hugely fat) were there. I rode to Mr. Han\\nParker s to enquire after wood, for we are reduced. At eve\\nMr. Andrews here to desire me to marry him tomorrow.\\n10. Mr. Timo. Whitney has got my oxen and pays me 40^\\nE. M. and gives me his Horse for 40 more in three months\\nwith interest. N. B. Old Mr. Thos. Whitney is present\\nand promises his son shall fulfill y*^ Engagement, and Breck^\\n^Breck, Mr. Parkman s eleventh child, was boru in 1748. His\\nwife, Susanuah, whom he married in 1777, was the daughter of\\nCol. Levi Brigham, of Northborough. Soon after his marriage, he\\nopened a store in one end of the little house still standing on South", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "6o DIARY OF KEV. EBEXEZER PARKMAN.\\nwas witness. Sophy to Concord. Mr. Thos. Kendal hav\\n603^\\n3M^i\\n^l7n(pny.\\nvStreet, using tlie other end for a dwelling-place. At this time it\\nstood between the parsonage and the church.\\nRreck left seven children, and was the ancestor of all the Park-\\nmans who remained in Westborough.\\nSophy was the fourteenth child of Mr. Parkman, boru in 1755. A\\nlittle Journal kept bv her for ])arts of the years 1777 and 1778 is still\\nin existence, but unfortunately ends in July, 1778. She knits her", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF KKV. EBKNEZER PARKMAX.\\n6[\\ning left Grafton, comes and takes what things he left here,\\ndines with us, and goes for Framinghani.\\nBRECK PARKMAN S SHOP.\\nown Stockings and gloves, spins thread, makes a skirt for Mrs.\\nBaker, helps in quiltiugs, weaves shirts for Elias, bucks yarn,\\ncombs flax, scours pewter, c., for her daily work. Her recreation\\nconsists in going to singing school, visiting her friends in the\\nhospital sick with small pox, and making little trips to North-\\nborough and even to Boston.\\nShe married Elijah Brigham. See note for Nov. 12.)", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "62 DIARY OF REV. p:bENEZER PARKMAN.\\nP. M. Went to Widow Baker s, according to Mr. An-\\ndrews Request. I married y supped and w^e sing Watts\\nPs. 128. 6 Dol.\\n1 1 This day as I suppose is y Time appointed for y^\\nOrdination of Mr. Ripley of Concord, but it s Rain}- and by\\nNoon a ver}- Severe Storm of Wind and Rain. Thro Di-\\nvine Favour we had wood brot yesterday by two of Capt.\\nMa3 nard s^ sons. He had sent none (y^ I know of) till\\nnow. But now we feel the Good of it and are thankful.\\n1 Capt. Stephen Maynard has the reputation of being the wealthi-\\nest man of his day in Westborough, and his house, burned a few\\nyears ago, was solid and handsome, and well fitted for the resi-\\ndence of a wealthy farmer. The work on his farm for many years\\nwas performed by slaves, and he was very loth to give them up, so\\nloth, that the heavy stone walls by the side of the avenue leading\\nto his house, are said to be among the very last labor performed by\\nslaves in Massachusetts. In the house was one siuall room, reached\\nby a sliding panel. This had brick walls with an arched ceiling\\nand no window, and tradition affirms was used in the discipline of\\nrefractory slaves. The fire laid this chamber bare to the sunlight,\\nfor it was built in the chimney.\\nCapt. Maynard s wife Cousin Maynard, as Mr. Parkman calls\\nher, was formerly Anna Gott, daughter of Dr. Benj. Gott, where\\nMr. Parkman visited so frequently in 1737, and of Sarah Breck,\\nMadam Hannah Parkman s sister. She had previously married\\nDr. Samuel Brigham, and she \\\\\\\\as Capt. Maynard s second wife.\\nHer daughter, Anne Brigham, married Isaac Davis, a neighbor of\\nCapt. Maynard, and became the mother of many Davises, includ-\\ning Governor John.\\nCapt. Maynard, after a life of much activity and usefulness, died\\nin 1806. His personal property was sold at auction, and included\\nfifty old books and a right in the Westborough Library besides\\nall kinds of wearing apparel and household utensils puter plat-\\nters and puter plats basens old and poor, c., c.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 65\\n12. Was at Deacon s Woods and with Squire Baker,\\nproviding a team to plough my Orchard. I dind at Breck s,\\nand p. M. at Mr. Nathan Maynard s, Bond s and Warren s.\\nMaster Elijah Brigham returns with vSophy from Concord,\\nTHE STEPHEN MAVNARI) CHIMNEY\\n1 Perhaps no name appears more frequently in Mr. Parkman s\\nJournal than that of Squire Baker, son of Lieut. Edward Baker.\\nLike his father, he held many town offices. He was born May 19,\\n1736, and was married by Mr. Parkman, in 1758, to Martha Death.\\nThey had a son John.\\n-Elijah Brigham was the sou of Col. Levi Brigham, whose father,\\nDavid, is mentioned several times in the Journal for 1737. His", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "66 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PAKKMAN.\\nS: informs that yesterday, Mr. Ripley was ordained. Rev.\\nJosiah Bridge of Sudbury began with prayer. Mr. Haven\\nfather deeded him the uorth part of his farm where the Heath\\nhouse now stands. It was a little further from the road than the\\nHeath house, a low two-story house with rooms either side of the\\nfront door. After the death of Col. Levi, his sou Winslow lived in\\nthe house. Elijah was the fourth child, born in 1751. Winslow,\\nwho is often mentioned in the Journal, was five years younger, and\\nbetween the two brothers in age, was Susanna, Breck Parkman s\\nwife. Josiah, born in 1758, was a doctor, and died unmarried when\\nhe was thirty years old, while Mindwell and Anna, at this time\\ngirls of eighteen and fifteen, both died unmarried Mindwell when\\ntwenty-four and Anna when twenty-seven.\\nElijah graduated from Dartmouth College and studied law. On\\nSeptember 21, 1780, he married Anna Sophia, as related in the Jour-\\nnal. She lived three years after her marriage and left two chil-\\ndren. Nov. 26, 1783, her brother Ebenezer writes: Dear sister\\nBrighara departed this life in full hopes of a glorious Resurrection\\nto eternal Life Alas\\nElijah Brigham, after Mr. Parkman s death, continued to live in\\nthe parsonage, which is generally called the Judge Brigham\\nhouse. He served Westborough for many years as representative,\\nsenator and councillor, and Worcester County for sixteen years as\\nJudge of the Court of Common Pleas, was elected to Congress in\\n1810, and was a member of that body until his death, in 1816.\\nHe figures so prominently in the Journal that it may not be amiss\\nto quote from Mr. Abner Morse who in writing of him says Of\\nthis man, I cannot speak in justice to convictions and escape the\\nsuspicion of extravagance among strangers; while among his ac-\\nquaintance who survive, nothing would fail of a hearty response\\nwhich I might say commendatory of his social and domestic virtues,\\nhis commercial integrity and honor, his great common sense and\\nrefinement, his patriotism and political integrity, his wisdom and\\n])enevolence, his fidelity to every official and important trust, and\\nhis services in the advancement of the moral, civil, and educational", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBKNEZEK PARKMAN. 67\\nof Dedham preached on Mr. Eb Bridge of Chelms-\\nford prayed before y*^ charge and delivered it. Mr. Dana of\\nBarre prayed after y charge, Mr. Clark of Lexington gave\\ny^ Right Hand of Fellowship. May God graciously accept\\ntheir Work and their Offerings, and may y^ Ordained be\\nStrong in y^ Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ!\\nMr. Jon Child kindly brings me a Barrell of Cyder. The\\nCyder is gratis. I gave him a Dollar for bringing it.\\nMr. Ben How mends the Oven.\\n1 3. Old Mr. Nathan Maynard came with a yoke of oxen.\\nBen Wood with a yoke and my Tim. fetches a yoke of Squire s\\nand his plough, and they plough y^ Orchard, and a while\\nat y Island. Several loads of Wood were brought me:\\nwhich is a great Comfort to me. I desire to thank God\\ntherefor. At eve, Mr. Jonas Bond of Sutton and his dauter\\nhere. They are returning home. They ask Sister Lydia\\nto go up and stay awhile among them.\\n14. Mr. Joseph Farrar here going again to preach at\\nGrafton.\\nThe weather is now grown so cold and y* feed gone, we\\ngive the cattle dry meat and house the Cows and Calves.\\n15. On consideration of the New Year with this Church\\n(which commenced last Sabbath) I went on a. m. with 2\\nPet. I. 14 p. M. I put them in mind of what had been,\\nand what still is, the subject of our preaching: viz: The\\nGospel of Christ from i Cor. xv. i.\\ninterests of the coniniunity in which he lived. Stranger, tread\\nlightly at the grave of one such as thou ought to be, true to his\\nconscience and country.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "68 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nSr. Brigham (Elijah) diiid here. He dehver.s me a letter\\nfrom Dr. Crosby who is in the Army, at Woodbur}\\n16. On this day was the Town Meeting, to Consider my\\nSupport, and by reason of y extraordinariness of y^ De-\\npression of y Medium of Commerce, being persuaded y\\nmany persons were unknowing to my Circumstances and\\nSome were desirous I would say something to inform y\\nprobably Also if I did not send my mind to y nor go to\\nthe Meeting, would make an Handle of that, and resest,\\nsay they did not know y I desired anything, what should\\nthey impo.se it for? therefore I sent y a paper which see)\\ndrawn with as much wi.sdom and Care as I could. But it\\nhad not the Success that might reasonably be expected,\\nexcept with regard to y- Wood, which they provided for\\nhandsomely. But as to sallery, they voted only 300\\nwhere every one asks in Lawful Money what they used to\\nin old Tenor. Batherick was here at evening, .seemed\\nvery sorry the Town had done no more. Parkman Brad-\\nshaw came from Brookfield, and informs that his brother\\nBenjamin grows wor.se. He lodged here.\\n17. Bradshaw leaves us to go to Cambridge, Boston c.\\nWrote by him to my Dauter-in-law Sally. I attended the\\nAs.sociation at Southboro. Messrs. Smith, Goss, Bridge\\nand Whitney there. A committee from Mr. Goss s Church\\nto ask advice about y* gathering of a Church in y south\\npart of Bolton. I returned home at eve. Henry Marble\\nhas been here in my Absence.\\n18. It was so fowl weather was disappointed as to kill-\\ning a fat cow as designed.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 69\\n19. I preached at Mr. Gale s to his aged Parents on 2\\nCor 4. 16. May God be pleased to grant Success! In\\nreturning called to see Mrs. Mallet c.\\n20. Messrs. Newton and Thad Warrin came and killed\\na fat cow for me. Mr. Levi Frisby of Ipswich called and\\ndind here. Bradshaw returned lodged here.\\n21. He left us for Brookfield. Mr. Joseph Harrington\\nGALE TAVERN.\\n1 Abijah Gale, innholder, lived ou the road to vSouthborough, iu\\nthe house recently occupied by Dennis Fitzpatrick. The large L,\\nhas been burned, but the front of the house is substantially the\\nsame. He was selectman for the years 1778-80, and held other\\ntown offices during his life.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "yo DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\ncame to see me talked about y late Grant of y Town\\nand about y^ Singing. He brot an extraordinary Present\\nof Butter! p. m. Mr. Caleb Harrington came kindly and\\ncut out and Salted my Beef. I desire to praise God for all\\nHis Favour!\\n22. Preached a. m. on i Cor. 15. 2 p m. repeated ser-\\nmon on James i. 22 which may God graciously accept\\nBless!\\nNot a large Assembly by reason of y rough, cold\\nweather.\\n33. I visited Mr. Ebenezer Maynard s wife who is still\\nsick and prayed p. m. Mr. Henry Marble makes me a Visit.\\n24. I am closely engaged in my Studys, tho it is not\\nwithout difficulty by reason of y* Cold and ruggedness of\\ny^ Season.\\n25. Mr. Joshua Johnson came for y Paper of advice of\\ny*^ Association, which I have transcribed for y Bolton com-\\nmittee. He dined here. Elias came up on foot from Cam-\\nbridge, arrived seasonably and well. Suse came up with\\nher child and lodged here.\\n26. Thanksgiving. I had prepared in part, but could\\nnot finish it. I improved part of sermon on Ps. 147. i. 7.\\nto page 7 and wrote additions on loose papers. Breck and\\nall his were here at y Entertainment, also Sr. Brigham\\n(Elijah). May y Eord accept our gratulations, and bless\\nthe Holy Word dispensed! had excellent singing. I\\nwrote by Bradshaw to my son Eb at New Braintry.\\n27. Mrs. P. poorly. Town meeting by adjournment.\\nI hear y y*^ Town Committee is getting my Wood to Mr.\\nNewton.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 7 1\\nI wrote in part, the Conference between Q and W\\nconcerning y^ Support of Ministers.\\n28. Elias was to have returned to Cambridge, but his\\nLinnen c was not ready, p. m. I rode to Southborough,\\nand Mr. Stone came here. His Son, Mr. Thomas Stone\\nand his wife, were both confined by Illness.\\n29. I preached at Southborough on Rev. 22. 17. a.\\np. M. May a Divine Power accompany and render y^\\nWord effectual, and especially to my own Soul! At eve. I\\nreturned home, as did Mr. Stone; who preached for me a.\\np. M. on Phil: 2. 4. 5 which I pray God to bless and\\nprosper!\u00e2\u0080\u0094 I brot from Mr. Stone s Pike and Hay ward s\\nCases of Conscience. Sr. Fay, Mrs. Maynard and her\\nNiece, Miss Witt dind here. I had a letter from Rev.\\nEzra Ripley of Concord, concerning his Ordination c.\\n30. It is too great a storm for Elias to leave home.\\nI read part of Pike Hay ward s Cases. The Town\\nmeet by Adjournment having dispatched their Business\\ndissolved y^ meeting. Sister Champney remains under\\nmuch trouble by an almost constant Diarrhoea. Mr. Levi\\nWarren here on account of y private Meeting tomorrow.\\nNumerara dies nostras sic doce nos, Domine c.\\nDecember, 1778.\\nBreck sets up an Iron Stove in his shop.\\nI preached at Lieut. Levi Warren s, a third Exercise on\\nRev. 2. 10. May God be graciously pleased to add His\\nown efficacious Blessing! N. B. Mr. Daniel Hardy was\\nat Mr. Warren s before y-^ Exercise began and manifested\\nhis Disgust at my sermon on y^ late Thanksgiving. He", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "72 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZEK PARKMAN.\\nfound fault with my saying so much about vSinging y\\npraises of God. I replied y it was the ver}- Business of the\\nDa} the present Truth y if he was dissatisfied with it,\\nhe had need ask himself whether it was not because he\\nhiviscif icas out of Tune. After y Exercises, Mr. Badcock\\nand his Scholers sang a number of good Tunes, in Parts.\\nWe had also a plentiful Table Spread and agreeable Enter-\\ntainment.\\n2. Elias sat out early to return to Cambridge Tim-\\nothy with him to bring back y mare which he was to ride\\nupon as far as Framingham. Timothy returns about 2\\no clock, and brings Patty Forbush, one of Mr. Eb For-\\nbush s Dauters to .spin here. Mr. Dan l Forbes came\\nMr. Ebenezer Forbush and his father (Lieut. Forbush) are often\\nmentioned in the Journal. The father, whom Mr. Parkman\\nusually calls the old Lieut., was Thomas, son of Thomas, the orig-\\ninal settler, and brother-in-law of Cornelius Cook. His house\\nstood, until destroyed by fire two or three years ago, ou the corner\\nof East Main and Lyman streets, opposite the Tom Cook house.\\nHis son Ebenezer lived with him, and took the place after his father s\\ndeath. His oldest daughter had married Thomas Andrews in 1776.\\nThis house was probably built among the first in Westborough,\\nbut it would seem from the cellar that it originally was smaller, as\\nthe rooms on the west of the front door were built with no cellar\\nunder them.\\nF^beuezer at this time was forty-eight, the old Lieutenant eighty-\\nfour, while Ebenezer s daughter Hannah, married to Thos. An-\\ndrews and perhaps living in this house, was twenty-three.\\nPatty F orbush, whom Mr. Parkman mentions as coming to spin\\nfor Mrs. Parkman, was the second daughter of Mr. Ebenezer For-\\nbush, who two years later married F ^ortunatus Miller.\\n-Daniel Forbes was a son of Dea. Jonathan, an original settler of", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 75\\nkindly to inform Mrs. P of a Medicine, which he would\\nsend her some of, to cure her Indispositions.\\n3. Sophy carrys yarn to Miss Molly Harrington, to be\\nwove for a great coat for Elias. p. m. Mrs. Green and her\\nSister, y^ Widow Whipple made us a kind Visit. The latter\\nbeing about to leave us and live at Prince-town.\\n4. At eve came Mr. Elisha Forbes and his Wife to Visit\\nus, and brought an extraordinary present. 31 pounds of\\nMeat, Beef and Pork and a Cheese of 12 lbs., and supped\\nwith us. Mr. Forbes also offered y* if I would take one of\\ny^ Boston newspaper, he would pay for a year. May God\\nreward his Benevolence and Generosity!\\n5. Mr. Nathaniel Sherman in his journey home to Mt.\\nCarmel in New Haven called and broke fast here. I wrote\\nby him to the Widow Pierpoint for my Notes on Job. 19.\\n25 c. Rev. Buckminster of Rutland^ hindered by\\nWestborough. He was born in 1710. He lived on that part of his\\nfather s farm known as Jackstraw, and his cellar can still be traced\\nin the pasture near the road over the hill. He was selectman,\\nrepresentative in the Legislature, and one of the Committee of\\nCorrespondence. For an account of his death and strange funeral\\nsee the Journal for January 14, 1780.\\nMr. Elisha Forbes, of whom Mr. Parkman often speaks, was a\\nson of Daniel s born in 1745. He lived in the house formerly occu-\\npied (1737) by Dea. Simon Tainter.\\ni Rev. Joseph Buckminster, of Rutland, had a dignified and\\nministerial appearance, wore a gray or white wig, cocked hat, and\\nwhite bands; was a man of talent and learning, and set his face\\nlike a flint against immorality of every kind. He was what was\\ncalled a Sublapsarian Calviuist. It is a comfort to think,\\nwrites Mrs. Lee, that the thing itself is not so harsh as its name;\\nfor it seems an effort to soften the stern features of Calvinism", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "76 DIARY OF REV. KBENEZER PARKMAX.\\nweather from proceeding on his journee home. Stopt and\\ntarry s here with us. Send his horse to Deacon Wood s.\\nMr. Charles Newton begins to bring wood from Ministerial\\nLot, viz. 5. feet.\\n6. I admini.ster y Lord s vSupper but Mr. Buckmin.ster\\npreached a. m. on Job: 5. 4. p. m. on Mat. 16. 26. Mrs.\\nMainard and Miss Patty Fisk dind here.\\nMay it please God to accept our Offerings and bless His\\nWord and Ordinances to us Deac. Wood came after meet-\\ning.\\n7. Mr. Buckminster went up to y*^ Deacon s to Break-\\nfast, before he left us. I rejoice in God s great Gifts to\\nhim. May it be continued\\n8. I wrote Sundry Letters, particularly to my Grandson\\nIsaac Baldwin at Dummer vSchool in Byfield, to Rev.\\nMr. Levi Fri.sbie minister at Ipswich.\\n9. Tho exceeding cold and windy, Breck sat out for\\nBoston. Mr. Chas. Newton brot wood, 5 feet and dind\\nhere. p. m. he brot 6 feet. Master Fisk and his sister\\nPatty, Mrs. Fisher, Miss Nabby Martyn visit here. Fisk\\nis going to keep school in y South part of y* Town. I fin-\\nished Drcxclius.\\n10. Newton brings a load a. :m. 6 feet (he says) p. m.\\nhis man another load 6 ft. yet it proves very stormy.\\nI would bless God for my many Comforts. Concerned\\nfor Breck who is I suppose at Boston, and has sent a load\\nof corn.\\nand to uiiii.iile a little human clay in the iron and granite of its\\nimage.\\nHe was pastor in Rutland for fifty years\u00e2\u0080\u0094 from 1742 to 1792.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF RKV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 77\\n11. The earth covered with snow. Wind}- and cold.\\nBut we have supplys. D. G. Sad news from Otter Creek\\nCherry Valley.\\n12. Breck returns from Boston, to our Joy safe, tho thro\\nmuch Hardship. Says a Murder was committed the night\\nbefore last at Chariest\u00c2\u00a9 wn Neck, of a countryman found\\nnext morning, two clubbs lying by him. N. B. No Mur-\\nder but a man perished in the storm. (This evidently writ-\\nten in later.)\\n13. Breck is out of Wood. Su.se her.self and the child,\\nher sister Mindwell Billy Spring came up here to be with\\nus over y Sabbath. I preached a. m. what I had prepared\\nfurther on i Cor. 15. now on y 2. middle clau.se, if ye\\nkeep in memory what I preached unto you. It was a storm\\nof Rain and difficult getting to Meeting.\\nBreck, his Family Br. Josiah dind here. p. m. deliv-\\nered with variations and large additions my Sermon on Ps:\\n147. 19-20. May a merciful God forgive my Defects and\\nbless what was agreeable to his Will N. B. Squire Ba-\\nker was very kind in coming with his Sleigh, and carrying\\nme and Sophy to meeting, bring us back, both a. p. m.\\n14. Breck had w^ood brot him. Suse c. returned home.\\nI finished Mr. Locke on Toleration. At eve Mr. Elisha\\nForbes here.\\n15. Timothy goes to Mrs. Temple at Upton for Cloth,\\nbut in vain.\\nI am entertained with Dr. Fuller s England s Worthys.\\n16. It being moderate air, I rode in y Sleigh to see\\nold Mrs. Baker, who has been sick. I dind there and", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "yS DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nthence I proceeded to visit Mr. Joseph Grout and famil)\\nbeing out of health but Mrs. Grout herself is sick of a\\nFever. Their son Joseph this day returned home from\\nWarfare, but Mr. Grout is greatly concerned about his son\\nWm. at Fishskill, and Benj. is gone a great while after him,\\nand hear nothing. I prayed with y Called at Lieut.\\nJon Grout s, who is come home, from the Service. New-\\nton s man, Thos. Harrington, 2 Load. 6 feet each.\\n17. Sent 9 yards of cloth to Deacon Brown s to be dressed\\nfor a great coat for Elias. At eve there were two marriages,\\nviz: Mr. David Goodell to Miss Eliz. Brigham (Cousin\\n1 Joseph Grout and Sarah his wife had twelve children, the old-\\nest, Joseph, Jr., a young man of twenty-three, the youngest, baby\\nLucy, two years old. William was just twenty, and Benjamin\\ntwenty-one. The family lived about a mile from the village on\\nMain Street, on the place now owned by James McTaggart.\\nHe and his wife are buried under one stone in the old burying-\\nground on the bottom of which can faintly be deciphered the\\nwords\\nDeath like an overflowiug flood-\\nHath swept us both away\\nLieutenant Jonathan Grout and his wife Hannah had two sous\\namong their seven children, Moses and Jonathan, Jr.\\nHe died in 1801, and is buried also in the old burying-ground,\\nwith the inscription\\nCousider this as you pass by\\nThat you likewise are born to die\\nAnd there s a work assigned to the\\nPrepare for death foHow nie.\\n-Cousin Maynard s daughter, Elizabeth Brigham, was at this\\ntime twenty-six years old, while David Goodale, of Marlborough,\\nwas born in 1716, which would make him a man of sixty-two. As\\nMr. Parkman the following vSunday speaks of his new spouse,\\nhe probably was a widower. The new spouse died in 1798.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 79\\nMaynard s Dauter) 8 Dollars, and Mr. William Acock to\\nMrs. Mary I^ewis. 3 Dollars.\\n18.\\n19. Breck has a fine fat Turkey roasted here.\\n20. Preach a. m. on i Cor: 15. 2 last clause which may\\nGod succeed\\nMr. David Goodell the Bridegroom and his Bride together\\nwith her mother Maynard dind here, as did Master Elijah\\nBrigham. p. m. The Bridegroom preached on i Cor: 6.\\n19-20, and I hope to y^ Glory of God. He went from\\nye Meeting House, with his new Spouse, to Capt. May-\\nnard s.\\n21. Messrs. Nathan Maynard Jun and Caleb Harrington\\nkilled a large sow for me. I lent Maynard sixty-six dol-\\nlars. Mrs. P. kills 5 Gee.se, 6 dunghill Fowls for market\\nwith y Pork. For it appears neces.sary to make some\\nmoney of what we raise that we may be able to purchase\\nwhat is wanting in other respects\\n22. Exceeding tedious time for Cold Snow blowing c.\\nPatty Forbush came here to Spin. My days are a\\nShadow.\\n23. Mr. Joseph Harrington goes with his Team for\\nMarblehead, and takes my Pork, Geese and Fowls, to the\\ncare of Mr. Elisha Forbes for Marketing. Am engaged in\\nSermonizing .somewhat, but oh my leanness. Breck trades\\nwith two swine drovers, and buys two shoats for me, at\\nbetween 17 18 pence y pound.\\nHear the sorrowful news of aged, pious Master Minot s\\ndeath. The Righteous are taken away from the Evil to\\ncome, but we that remain lose much in losing their Prayers.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "8o DIARY OF REV. EBENKZER PARKMAN.\\nThe Lord sanctifie this Death to y* surviving widow Sou\\naud to me uuder y Loss of such a worthy Friend\\n24. Breck and his dine here on a roast Turkey of his\\nproviding. Elias came home on foot from Cambridge. He\\ncame from there yesterday, with him Young Nathan\\nFisk, a Freshman. They dind here. It is so very cold,\\nFisk lodges with Elias at Breck s.\\n25. It remains exceeding cold. They breakfast here.\\nI write by Fisk to Mr. Benj. Bradshaw% who I hear is\\nworse. Fisk sets out for Brookfield. Mr. Nathan May-\\nnard brings a piece of Camblet/ 14 yds from Mr. Benj.\\nHowell of Worcester, for which Mr. Maynard delivered to\\nhim from me 20 dollars. Mr. Han Parker, late Constable,\\nis here and pays me what Mone\\\\ was behind in ye Wood\\nrate, which was about 6. 12. For which I gave him a\\nreceipt in full; only it is to be remembered y Messrs.\\nJoseph Grout, Jos. Green and Benaj Brigham have not brot\\ntheirs. At night Patty Forbush goes home.\\n26. An extraordinary tedious Time Cold, blowing,\\nsnowing. How invaluable y^ Mercies I enjoy. I am thro\\ngreat goodness, in health. Habitation, Cloths, Food, Fewel\\nmy son and Timothy c tend the Fires, the Cattle, get\\nWood and Water c. but how many are at this time ex-\\npo.sed to terrible Hardships, both by land and Sea! May\\n1 Camlet, according to the Century Dictionary, A very durable\\nplain cloth, used for cloaks and the like; a water-proof material in\\ncommon use before the introduction of India rubber. All the\\nkinds of camlet are, in a certain sense, imitations of Oriental\\ncamel s-hair cloth; they are made of hair, especially that of goats,\\n-with wool or silk, and present a veined or wavy appearance.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 8 1\\nGod extend pity to y miserable poor,- to Sailors, to Sol-\\ndiers, to Teamers abroad their destitute Families at\\nhome\\n27. Cloudy and cold, but sun broke out, but still very\\ncold. ery few came to Meeting. On consideration of\\nsevere storms and intense cold, I repeated with some addi-\\ntions Sermon on Ps. 14S, 7-8. p. m. preached what I had\\nprepared on Mark 9. 24. Read the proclamation for Con-\\ntinental Thank.sgiving, which I received but this day at\\nnoon.\\n28. Mr. Elisha Forbes pays me for my Pork 6 Geese\\n/38. 18.\\n29.\\n30. Continental Thanksgiving, preach on Isa: i.\\nII. Breck c dind.\\n31. Elias rides to Cambridge. Mr. John Fay dines here\\nand kills two Hogs for me. Mr. Harr. helping. Cou.sen\\nMaynard made us a Visit. Master Fisk also. Drank tea\\ny*^ last tarrys in the evening. My dear dauter Cushing\\ncame in a Sleigh with Mr. Neh Maynard.\\nJanuary, 1779\\nI bless God for y^ Light of another morning, which begins\\nA New Year of y^ divine patience and hong suffering\\ntowards me, which (I confess) am most unworthy. With\\nThanksgiving for y*^ Mercies received and penitently ac-\\nknowledgement of my ingratitude innumerable offences,\\nI implore Remission, thro the Merits and Mediation of my\\nonly and most dear Saviour, and humbly beseech the divine\\nFavour to be extended to me and mine still I desire devoutly\\n6", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "82 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nto renew my Solemn engagements by Covenant to be y\\nLord s, and commit to Him, y^ Sovereign of my Life, all\\nmy Cares and Concernments, all y*^ Changes and Events of\\nthis peculiarly difficult year, or what part of it, it shall\\nplease y*^ great Supreme to vouchsafe me to continue in this\\nfrail uncertain State\\nBut my dauter Cushing being here, soon to return,\\nand Col. Job Cushing dining with us, Breck also and his, I\\nwas much interrupted and prevented very unavoidably.\\nMay y*^ Lord extend compassion\\n2. My dauter leaves us to return with Mr. Neh. May-\\nnard. I lent her Pool s Annot. Vol. i. Fuller s Pisgah\\nLight, and the Life of Dr. Inc. Mather. Elias returns from\\nCambridge. He says y Dr. Appleton is ill.\\n3. I have prepared one sermon on Ps. 90. 2, deliv-\\nered it. A. M. Master Elisha Fisk, which keeps y South\\nSchool, dined here. I thought it best to deliver p. m. part\\nof my discourse on Matt. 22. 37-38 to page 6. with addi-\\ntions according to y occasion.\\n4. Walked a. m. to Dr. Hawes Wrote Letter to Mr.\\nForbes.^ Col. Cushing dind here. At eve came from Brook-\\nfield my kinsman Mr. Alexander Oliver, and lodged here.\\n1 Probably his son-in-law. Rev. Eli Forbes a son of the first Jona-\\nthan, and brother of Daniel Forbes. He had married in 1752, Mr.\\nParkmau s daughter Mary who had died in 1776. He married again\\neight mouths later Mrs. Lucy Sanders, whose children, Charlotte\\nand Jo, visit at Mr. Parkman, as recorded in the Journal. Mrs. Lucy\\nForbes died in 1780, and after one more marriage of eleven years,\\nhe married for his fourth wife Mr. Parkman s daughter Lucy, the\\nwidow of Col. Jeduthan Baldwin, of Brookfield.\\nAfter graduating at Harvard College, VM Forbes was settled as", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 83\\n5. Oliver goes on his journey to Boston. I preached at\\nDeac. Wood s on 2 Tim. i. 13. omitting in many parts,\\nadding such passages as were necessary to accommodate it\\nto y Present times. N. B. Breck agrees with a Post to\\nbring Newspapers c.\\n6. Capt. Jonas Brigham^ and his wife were so benevo-\\nlent as to present me a Cheese. I take y more notice of\\nthis because he has been so long aloof, but I rejoice in his\\nfriendly Disposition. Elias is Cyphering.\\n7. I rode in y Sleigh to see y*^ Widow Rice (widow of\\ny late Mr. Edmund Rice. As I went I called to see old\\nMr. James Maynard and his Wife. I visited and dined at\\nMr. J. Crooks. N. B. He lately lost his pocket book with\\n300 dollars other papers. In returning home I called at\\nMr. Amasa Maynard s. At evening, Mr. Nathan Maynard,\\njun here, and returns me 50 Dollars (in one Bill) of y^\\nmoney he lately borrowed. Sixteen Dollars are yet behind.\\nminister in North Brookfield. In 1759, he went as chaplain in the\\narmy, with the regiment of which Stephen Maynard was captain,\\nand, as Constantine Hardy records in his small journal, he preached\\nmany a faithful sermon at Ticonderoga and Crown Point, on texts\\nsingularly appropriate to the occasions. He is called the Rev. Mr.\\nForbush, but after his return from the campaign, he adopted the\\nmore correct spelling of Forbes.\\nIn 1776, he was installed over the Church in Gloucester where he\\ndied in 1804, leaving a fine portrait of himself and a goodly estate.\\n1 Capt. Jonas Brigham was an uncle of Elijah, and lived in his\\nfather David s old home. He was elected to many town offices,\\nserving for seven years as selectman was a member of the Vigi-\\nlance Committee, and a delegate to the County Congress at the be-\\nginning of the Revolution. His wife was Persis Baker.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "84 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n8. I reckoned with Breck, paid y*^ full of his Account.\\nThe Ballance from vSept. 1777 to Dec. 31. 1778 (likewise\\nMr. Stockwell s account of 5 some change borrowed\\n7/6) was /^57. 19. 2. lawful money.\\n9. Mr. Badcock (the singer) brought me from Mr. R.\\nCranch s of (Old) Braintree, Vol. I of y^ Universal and\\nhistorical Biographical Dictionary in large 8vo. This vol-\\nume goes no further than A. there are 1 1 vol. more. A\\nsmall piece of Cloth for Elias, a great Coat received from\\nDeac. Brown s.\\n10. I preached what I had composed on Mark 9. 24.\\np. M. I went on finished Repeating on Matt 22. 37-38.\\nMay God graciously concur\\n11. I diligently read Biography. Dr. Hawes in the\\nEvening. He offers to pay me money for Timothy s work\\nfor him last year (15 days in y whole, Stephen Maynard\\nworked 2)^ for me, Timmy s at 2 Dolls, and Stephen s at\\n3,) but I told y^ Doctor it was in y way of exchanging\\nwork, therefore I expected to have work again for it.\\nN. B. I wrote by y Doctor to Da v. Sanger.\\n12. Biography, have y Surprising News of y awful\\nDeath of Benj. Andrews of Boston Esq. who last shot\\nhimself through y Head b)^ a Pistol, which he was hand-\\nling, not aware y it was loaded. Eord, what is Manl\\n13. Suse rode to Capt. Maynard s in y*^ Sleigh and .safely,\\nbut in returning y* Mare took a start, and tore away with\\nSpeed from Suse, who had got out of the Sleigh, and came\\nhome o foot: but y mare first, broke y*^ Sleigh and threw\\nout a Case of Gin however broke but one Bottle (which", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 85\\nmight at this time stand at Dollars, but no Mischief done\\nto Life or Limb. The praise to God!\\n14. Yesterday and today much engaged in Biography.\\nSent to Mr. Gushing, President Edwards on Free Will,\\nand wrote to him, by y Widow of y late Major Brigham.\\nYoung Mr. Frost here and lodges.\\n15. Mr. Frost leaves me, but goes to Breck, and I per-\\nceive he is about to set up a Store at Mill River.\\n16. Closely applied as I have been for some days before\\non my preparations. Yet all I can by my slow writing is\\none sermon.\\n17. Preached A. ivi. on Mark 14. 24, and finish my pres-\\nent Design upon this Text. May God graciously .succeed\\nit Mrs. Maynard dines with us, as well as Master Fisk.\\np. M. Repeated on Joh. 15. 5.\\n18. Dr. Hall of Sutton^ in his Journey to Concord calls\\nhere.\\niRev. David Hall was settled as pastor of the Sutton Church in\\n1729, with au Honorable Selery of 100 a year of Province Bills\\nor its equivalent in supplies. After a pastorate of sixty years,\\nhe died in 1789. The Worcester vSpy for May 12 of that year\\nsays\\nHis character as an able orthodox divine, pungent, zealous\\npreacher, and his steady regard to the distinguishing doctrines of\\nChristianity, with the sobriety and exemplary gravity of his life,\\nand his tender affection for his family and flock, are too well known\\nto require illustration; it may suffice to notice, that the general\\nesteem and respect for him was manifested by the large concourse\\nof people (estimated at more than a thousand) who attended his\\nfuneral, with a solemnity becoming the occasion.\\nHe had a family of thirteen children, and many of his descend-\\nants have distinguished themselves as doctors, lawyers and minis-", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "86 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nAt eve came Mr, Daniel Forbes jun from Brookfield. Says\\nMr. Bradshaw grows very weak, presently came his Brother\\nNathan from Walpole, going to see him. The latter lodges\\nhere. N. B. Mr. Badcock keeps a singing-school at Mr.\\nBarn. Newton s. Elias and Timothy go to it to hear.\\n19. A. M. Mr. Badcock here. An uncommonly rigorous\\nSeason. By reason of Breck s agreeing with a post to ride\\nthis Road, I have y Benefit to read two of y*^ Boston News-\\npapers Saturdays and Mondays, which arrive here on Tues-\\nday evening.\\n20. Mr. John Forbes of Rutland on Otter Creek which\\n(thro mistake) we heard was taken by y enemy, came to\\n.see us, being well and safe. In reading y Biographical\\nDictionary Life of Dr. Atterbury.\\n21. Tho very Cold yet Breck goes in y sleigh to Boston.\\n22. At eve came my Kinsman, Nathaniel Bradshaw from\\nBrookfield tells me his Bro Benj. is so low y he himself\\ngives up thinks he shall soon depart. Nath lodges here.\\n23. Cousin Bradshaw leaves us to return to Stoughton-\\nham. At eve Breck returns from Boston. Inform, y his\\nsister Sally is become more sociable and chearful.\\n24. Delivered a. m. to a small congregation, an exercise\\ny* is part of Expos, of Mat. 17. 17 to 21. but it being a\\ncontinuation of y Discourse on Mark 9. 24. I read on in\\nters. His youngest daughter, Deborah, married Rev. Dauiel Grosve-\\nnor, who is occasionally mentioned in the Journal as the pastor\\nof the Grafton Church.\\nRev. David Hall, as -well as Mr. Parkman, kept a Diary for many\\nyeSrs, which is preserved in the rooms of the Massachusetts His-\\ntorical Society.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n87\\nMark g to 29. p. m. preached on Mat. 22. 39-40. which I\\ndesigned as a second part to y^ Discourse on Mat. 22. 37-38.\\nMaster Moses Brigham^ who keeps school at y*^ East Quar-\\nter of y^ Town dind here.\\n25. Being at y^^ Shop, Capt. Fisher and Mr. Badcock\\nwere there and acquainted me with the Desire of y Singing\\n^ORBES HOMESTEAD.\\n1 Moses Brigham was the oldest son of Moses Brigham, Sen.,\\nand Mehitable Grout, who were living at this time in the house\\nknown as the old Forbes homestead and now occupied by Geo. A.\\nFerguson. It is situated on East Main vStreet, about a mile from\\nthe village. His sister Sarah had married, seven years before this,\\nJonathan Forbes the third of the name, and through this mar-\\nriage the Moses Brigham house passed into the Forbes family.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "88 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nSchool to have a Lecture preached to y and though (as\\nthe}^ say they would be glad if- Mr. P. would himself\\npreach, yet because of the disquietment among y People,\\nabout singing, and for y* sake of drawing in people, it was\\nmentioned to ask one of the neighboring Ministers, particu-\\nlarly Mr. vSumner^ to preach it. I replyed with Con.sent.,\\nJOSEPH SUMNER.\\nMoses Brighain, Juu., the school teacher, left Westborough and\\nsettled in Hanover, N. H., and afterwards in London, C. W.\\nAs we learn from the entry for March 26, he was lodging at that\\ntime at Mr. Andrews who lived on East Main Street. Probably\\nhe boarded round during the week.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Joseph Sumner, for many years an intimate friend of Mr. Park-\\nman, was pastor of the Shrewsbury Church.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 89\\nprovided they would acquaint y*= appointed Choristers with\\nit, and endeavor to have them lead in y*^ Affair.\\n26. Mr. Elisha Parker here a. m. on y Same Business,\\nof y Singing Lecture to write to Mr. vSumner c. but I\\nanswered him as I did Capt. Fisher yesterday.\\np. M. Deac. Wood, here brot. a large Spare Rib, ad-\\nvised with him ab t Singing Lecture and he approved of y\\nSteps proposed.\\nMr. Peter Whitney, his Wife Child, also Mr. Ham-\\nHe was born in 1740\u00e2\u0080\u0094 January 19 so at this time had just passed\\nhis thirty-ninth birthday. He was settled in Shrewsbury in 1762,\\nMr. Parknian making the ordaining prayer.\\nHe lived until 1824, when he was eighty-five years of age, having\\nbeen settled in Shrewsbury for sixty-two years.\\nHe was a very large man, being six feet and four inches in height\\nand of commanding presence. He wore a white wig and three-\\ncornered hat.\\nMrs. Sumner is not only mentioned in the Journal, but Mr. Park-\\nman owed her many a pleasant evening and comfortable night.\\nShe was, says Rev. Peter Whitney, descended from a family\\nrespectable from the infancy of the country to this time. Such\\nwas her deportment in her station as not to diminish the lustre of\\nthe name nor detract from its deserved distinction. She was\\nLucy Williams, of Pomfret.\\niRev. Peter Whitney, of Northborough, is best known to fame as\\nthe author of the History of Worcester County, a fact which per-\\nhaps he did not foresee when he wrote in the preface: Had the\\nwriter of these sheets known before he began what a labor it would\\nhave been, he would not have attempted it, but having begun he\\nwas unwilling to desist.\\nThe historian of Northborough says that he was distinguished\\nfor the urbanity of his manners, easy and familiar in his inter-\\ncourse with his people, hospitable to strangers and always ready to", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "90\\nDIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nmock, came over in a vSleigh to visit us. and N. B. Mr.\\nDaniel Forbes was here, tarrying after y Company gave\\nme great Disquietment about y*^ Support of my Family,\\n^itt^\\n;C2^^\\ngive a hearty welcome to his numerous friends punctual to his\\nengagements; observing an exact method in the distribution of his\\ntime; having a time for everything and doing everything in its\\ntime, without hurry or confusion conscientious in the discharge", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 9 1\\nwhat number in it they were willing to maintain, and what\\nnot that 300 and my wood was an honorable sufficiency c.\\nBut it was too apparent y he was put out of Humour by\\nmy consulting him about my advising y Singers to invite\\ny^ Choristers to lead in y proposed plan of y Singing lycc-\\nture. For he said those men had been too much courted\\nalread)^ and had conducted but indecently towards y*^ Sing-\\ners so that they did not deserve such respect to be shown\\ny On y^ other Hand, I conceived it would be most pru-\\ndent in me, in time of so much Difficulty, to advise to a\\nMethod y* must needs be most conciliating, and prevent\\nfurther Complaint. May God graciously impart the Wis-\\ndom y may be profitable to direct, under such trying Cir-\\ncumstances.\\nof his duties as a Christian minister; catholic in his principles\\nand in his conduct; always taking an interest in whatever con-\\ncerned the prosperity of the town and the interests of religion,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nhe was for many years the happy minister of a kind and affectionate\\npeople.\\nHe was the son of Rev. Aaron Whitney, of Petersham, and was\\nborn there vSept. 6, 1744, being at this time thirty-five years old.\\nHe had been ordained in Northborough in 1767. He was a staunch\\npatriot, and in 1776 preached a sermon in which he enumerated\\ntwenty-six crimes of which King George was guilty. This discourse\\nwas dedicated to John Hancock, and every sentence in it was cal-\\nculated to arouse a love of freedom and a resolve to use the sword\\nboldly in doing the work of the Lord.\\nHe married Julia Lambert, of Reading.\\nHe passed, says a notice of his death, his long ministry in\\nperfect peace and harmony both with the church and society.\\nIn 1888 a memorial tablet was erected to his memory in the First\\nCongregational Church of Northborough.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "92 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAX.\\n27. Mr. Newton, at eve, after his sledding wood today,\\nthinks he has brot y Quantity agreed for but it was not\\nso in my Memorandum Book.\\n28. Mr. Newton brings more wood, and brings his own\\nAccount which I copy and cast up, but we find that now he\\nhas brot enough to make up 35 cord. Mr. N. Maynard jun\\ncame with a load of six feet half of which was for Mr. Jo-\\nseph Green, y other half for Mr. Newton. There is\\nstill more wood brot out from ye lyOt to Beeton s the charge\\nfor cutting and sledding out .so far, he throws in, and we\\npart in peace.\\nOne Mr.Wm. Parkhurst of Coi s Hill, calls to inform y on\\nMonday deceased and yesterday was buryed Mr. Benjamin\\nBrad.shaw at Brookfield\\nMay God graciou.sly support all of us under this His holy\\nStroke Especially may my Grand Dauter have grace to\\nimprove suitably this Sorrowful Bereavement\\nAt eve Mr. Eli Whitney and Mr. Eli.sha Parker here, and\\ndesire me to appoint a Singing Lecture, and to write to Mr.\\nSumner to come and preach it on Thursday next (the 4th\\nof February) at 2 p. :m. Breck, Suse with her Baby, Molly\\nPratt, go in a Douljle Sleigh, and Mr. Elijah Brigham and\\nSophy are with y to Mr. Daniel Grout s at Grafton. Pl^lias\\nand Timothy to y vSinging School (as hearers) at Mr. Barn.\\nNewton s.\\nWe have y sad news y Mr. Peter Adams, heretofore of\\nthis Town (son of y\u00c2\u00ab late Mr. Elephalet Adams) was sud-\\ndenly killed by y Falling of a Tree, at New Guildford N.\\nH. May God sanctifie so awful a Di.spensation to all Sur-", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBRNEZER PARKMAN. 93\\nvivors, and in particular to y mournful Widow who was\\nSusanna Pratt of this place) and her Orphan Children\\n29. This Day is memorable for y Sorrows I was plunged\\ninto in y^ year 36 (43 years since) when y*^ first Partner of\\nmy Joys and Divider and Sharer of my Griefs was taken\\naway I remember still y^ Wormwood and y^ Gall my\\nSoul is yet humbled within me. May God grant me true\\nand thorow Humiliation\\nI was interrupted by two setts of Company first Mrs.\\nParker Mrs. Davis, which rode over here to making a\\nVisit, but especially by Rev. Grosvenor and his Wife\\nchild, accompanied by Rev. Mr. Farrar and Mr. Grosvenor s\\nyoung Brother Nathan\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in a Sleigh\u00e2\u0080\u0094 all of y dind here.\\nI wrote to Mr. Sumner sent it by Mr. Elisha Parker to\\ncome and preach to y Singers next Thursday.\\n30. Mr. Jon Maynard brot a load of Wood to me for\\nBreck, in Return for a load which he borrowed of me, and\\nMr. Maynard brot gratis a load of that wood which Mr. Ch,\\nNewton left at Beeton s.\\ni Rev. Daniel Grosveuor, says the Grafton History, was a\\nman of very pleasing manners, both in the pulpit and out of it,\\ndignified in his bearing, courteous and engaging in his address.\\nRare conversational powers, united with these qualities, made him\\neverywhere a pleasant companion. His fondness of anecdote, ready\\nwit and plentiful resources also served to make his presence always\\nwelcome to those who loved society The years of his\\nministry embraced the period of our revolutionary struggle, in\\nwhich crisis he evinced his attachment to the cause of his coun-\\ntry by leaving his pulpit, taking his musket and joining the com-\\npany of minute men that went to Cambridge on the 19th of April.\\nAt this time he was thirty years old.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "94 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nN. B. Mr. Badcock has been with me to speak about y\\nSinging, (viz. how many times, and what times they desire to\\nsing) on proposed Lecture Day. At eve. Mr. Elisha Parker\\nhere, to let me know y Mr. Sumner will come (extras ac-\\ncepted) to preach y proposed Lecture, asks me to his on\\nWednesday.\\n31. I preached on Mat: 22. 39. P. m. repeated Sermon\\nL on 2 Cor. 3. 15., but read from X. 12. bee. of y long Ex-\\nplic of y^ Context, proceeded to y forepart of y*^ Amplifica-\\ntion in p. 5 added cotempore.\\nI appointed a Singing Lecture to be next Thursday at 2\\np. M. Dr. Hawes delivered me a Packet from Col. White,\\nRept. for Rochester. I found it contained principally Rev.\\nMr. West s (of Dartmouth) anniversary Sermon at Ply-\\nmouth, Dec. 22. 1777 with a folio letter of his to me, in six\\nnumbers, opening further the prophecy s in Isaiah, Ezekiel,\\nDaniel, Micah, y^ Revelation, which as he conjectures,\\npoint at y*^ present Times in America, accompanyed by a\\nletter from my son Moore, his Transcript of Mr. West s\\nLetter (of 16 pages octavo) lest I should not be able to read\\nMr. West s autography. Which were very acceptable.\\nIn y evening, read Mr. West s sermon above mentioned,\\nas well as Mr. Moore s letter. Thus I finish this month,\\nand may a gracious God forgive the Miscarriages Defi-\\ncientys I have been chargeable with and }-e Day past in\\nSpecial\\nFebruary 1779\\nAt eve came my Kinsman, Mr. W Bradshaw, who has\\nbeen to Brookfield, but did not arrive there till after his", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n95\\nbrother Benjamin s Funeral. -He lodges here as does Mas-\\nter Fisk.\\n2. I preached at Mr. Barnabas Newton s on Ps. 44. 15\\nto p. 73d.\\nN. B. We Sung twice, because y Singing School was\\nthere, and I tarried to hear y Sing after my P^xercise.\\n3. Rode to Shrewsbury (at Mr. Sumner s Request) dind\\nthere.\\n1 Mr. Sumner was living at this time in the old parsonage, form-\\nerly the residence of Gen l Artemas Ward of Revolutionary fame.\\nThe Meeting-house land adjoined. In 1797, Mr. Sumner built\\nthe new house which still remains as it was in his day his bed,\\ndesk and bookcase, his clock and portraits, each piece of furniture\\nin its own place as it was when he last saw it. The old house in\\nwhich Mr. Parkman so often dind and lodged, also still stands;\\nrr^;^f n\\niss ^iX\\nSUMNER HOUSES.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "96 DIARY OF REV. KBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nMr. Fairbaiik preached y Lecture on i Joh. 4. 16. latter\\npart. After sermon we had some Conversation about several\\npassages delivered concerning God permitting Evil and on\\ny Fallen Spirits Pharaoh, y they ought to bless God for\\ntheir Existence. I answered (among other things) our Lord s\\nsaying of y*^ Traytor, it were good for that man if he had\\nnever been born. I returned home at Evening.\\n4. A vSiNGiNG Lecture at y Request of y vSinging\\nSchool.\\nMr. Sumner preached. His text was Ps. 149. i. It was\\nconducted thus. After Dinner (at which besides Mr. Sum-\\nner Col. Job Cushing y came with him, was Mr. Stone\\nof Southboro) when we first went into y Meeting House,\\nAn Anthem was sung. Then Mr. Stone made a short Praj-er.\\nAfter which I appointed and read Ps. 149. which was Sung\\nwithout Reading the Lines by the Deacon, then Mr. Sumner\\nprayed, after which we sung Ps. 113, Deacon reading as\\nusual, y* Sermon next followed. Mr. Sumner prayed\\nagain and we sung y 5th Hymn without reading, except\\nni}^ first reading over y*- whole. In Conclusion of the Exer-\\ncise, I pronounced the Blessing. But then Mr. Badcock,\\nthe Master began an exercise of Singing of Anthems and\\nTunes which was very grateful, and may God graciously\\nCondescend to accept y*- Sacrifice\\nAt eve a number of other Gentlemen here, viz Dr. Crosby,\\nbut enlarged into a tenement house, and moved from its original\\nsite, neither of the two ministers would know it now. In 1830, it\\nwas substantially the same as on this February morning, when Mr.\\nParkman dind there.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 97\\nMaster Benj. Stone of Shrewsbur}-, Masters Brigham (Elijah\\nand Moses) Fisk.\\n5. Sermonizing.\\n6. Do.\\n7. On Mat. 22. 39. A. M. Master Fisk dined here. p. m.\\non 2 Cor. 3. 14 former part. But all depends on Divine\\nBlessing\\nIn y eve read Pike and Hayward, also Benj, Foster\\nagainst Mr. Fisk on Baptism. God dwelling in y Tents\\nof Them.\\n3. Bills of two Emis.sions viz. of May 20, 1777 of Apr.\\nII. 1778. are refused in common Trade. I acquainted\\nSquire Baker with this Difficulty with respect to .some part\\nof my Money, and some Considerable which I received of\\nhim. He told me he would change such bills as I had of\\nThose Emissions. This day I went up to him, his clerk\\nchanged 142 Dollars for me.\\np. M. I wrote to Mrs. Moore.\\n9. Wrote again to Mr. Forbes about his Sheep.\\n10. Transcribed from biographical Dictionary p. m. went\\nup to y Singing School (by desire) to hear y Singing.\\nThis is Mr. Badcock s last Day. In y Ev^ening. I was seized\\nwith shivering and went to Bed not well.\\n11. Mr. Badcock leaves us. I sent by him Mr. Cranch\\nhis Vol, I. of Biographical Dictionary, and a Letter to Mr.\\nForbes to y care of Col. Coffin, Rep for Gloucester. At\\nEve. Master Fisk, Sophy, Elias carries Suse to see her\\nFather who is confined with Indispositions and Breck goes\\nat evening they tarry there.\\n12. Mr. Thos. Warrin Stephen Maynard cutt up part", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "g8 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nof y woodpile today to pay Mrs. Parkman for knitting for\\ny latter of y They dind. They work till evening. Na-\\nthan Maynard jun gives me a note for i6 Dollars (lent him\\nwith much more) Dec. 21. last.\\nAt Even I rec d a lyCtter dated January 25, from my son\\nForbes, acquainting with y*^ Death of one of Mr. Forbes\\nDauters, by a Fever, and y Distress Cape Ann is in b}- y*^\\nSmall Pox, y he, being desired by y Selectmen and y^ Doc-\\ntors Plummer Coffin to assist, has innoculated and admin-\\nistered physic to near 100: Col. Stevens and his Wife have\\ngot safely through. But alas for y^ poor people, who want\\nBread, and Cloths Fuel! May God pity y and grant\\nSupplys, especially of his Almighty Grace and Spirit that\\nthey may duly improve providences, and the Seasons and\\nmeans of Salvation!\\nA sad disappointment in ye over rotted flax, which ap-\\npeared by y breaking swingling a part of it. The young\\nman (Phin Brigham) desists as working in vain, throws in\\nhis pains and leaves it. a. m. Breck goes to Brookfield to\\nlook after his Bradshaw affairs. Dr. Stimson^ was here\\nfrom Marlborough tells me old Mr. Thos. Biglo an old\\nFriend (perhaps about 86) is dead. And old Mr. Jonas\\nMorse about 84) is dead also, to be buryed this day.\\nMay God grant Me to be ready, in all respects so for y*-\\nTime is hastening upon me.\\n14. Rain A. M. A thin congregation. Preached again\\non Mat. 22. 39. Master Fisk dind here. p. m. go on with\\nrepeating (with incidental variations) on 2. Cor. 3. 14 for-\\n1 Dr. Jeremy Stimpson, of Hopkinton, author of a short history\\nof Hopkiuton.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n99\\nmer part, used from Artie. 6th in eontinuation of page 8 to\\nmiddle of page 1 1\\nAfter our evening Exercise Mrs. read good part of y\\nTouchstone of Saving Faith O y God would add His\\nBlessing to these fervant and powerful means of Grace!\\n15. Elias is so much taken with a pair of Steers at Mr.\\nHarrington s, that he prevails with me to go and trade with\\nhim for them. I went to his House and drank Coffee with\\nhis Mother and Wife.\\n16. Elias with Mr. Harrington about y*^ Steers, I\\ncompleated a Bargain with him His steers are coming 3.\\nhe asks 80^; for y I give him my large Steer and 35/,\\nand paid him y^ Bills in Hand. The steers are duly ex-\\nchanged. Ehas p. M. makes a Business of trimming y\\ngreat Apple trees in y*^ Garden c. Mrs. Harrington,\\nboth, here. Breck returns from Brookfield and New Brain-\\ntree. Gives me but a Sorrowful account of y*^ Insolvency\\nof y^ late Mr. Bradshaw of y^ Afflicted state of my Dauter\\nBaldwin, by reason of her Husband s absence so long from\\nhis Farm Business c. Also Ebenezer s Affairs diffi-\\ncult.\\n17. I was chiefly recluse. Recollect. Mr. Nasmith s\\n(a Scotchman s) Directory and Exemplar for Self-Examina-\\ntion Willard s Blessed Man from page 188 on X 5 treat-\\ning of Confession c.\\n18. Cousin Maynard with her son-in law Goodell and\\nhis wife came to see us. They came on foot. p. m. drank\\nTea and returned as yy came. Mr. Goodell has lately been\\nat Henneker, says Mr. Rice is so well as to preach\\nsteddily again. To God be Glory!", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "lOO DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n17. Capt. Morse came here and brot me an handsome\\nCheese which he says his Wife made on purpose for me.\\nN. B. This was unexpected as I had apprehended he had\\nbeen under Disgust from Thanksgiving Time. But I hope\\nit is gone over. Breck here and asks for lyiberty to build\\na Smith s shop at y*^ Corner of my Land next the Burying\\nPlace. At eve came Master Fisk to see us with Elias at\\nEven to a Singing Meeting, at Mr. Newton s but lodges\\nhere.\\n20. A Letter from my Son Samuel to his Br. Breck,\\n1 Capt. Morse was Capt. Seth Morse, who lived on South Street\\nwhere Mrs. J. D. Potter lives now. He led the troops from West-\\nborough in the Revolution. He laid out the present garden.\\n-The only hurying-place in Westborough until many years after\\nMr. Parkman s death, was the small plot of land on Main Street\\nthat we now call Memorial Cemetery.\\nThe first burial is said by tradition to have been that of Thomas\\nRice s little son Nahor, who was so cruelly slain by the Indians in\\n1704.\\nMr. Parkman s land adjoined the burying-ground, and he seems\\nalso to have had a right to use that, as we see him pasturing his\\nguests horses there on a later occasion.\\nIn 1747 this land was granted to the Town of Westborough by\\nthe Proprietors of Marlborough, as recorded in their Great Book.\\nIt is referred to in that record as one and a half acres of land\\nwhere the Inhabitants have always buried their dead.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^Samuel Parkman, at this time only twenty-eight years old, was\\nalready a prosperous merchant in Boston. He had married, half a\\ndozen years before, Sarah Shaw the daughter Sallie to whom Mr.\\nParkman so often refers. At this time he had four children-\\nSamuel born in 1774, Sarah in 1775, Hannah in 1777 and the baby\\nAbigail six days old. Little Abigail lived until 1807, and we trust\\nrealized all her grandfather s wish for her. In 1780 the fine fat", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "SAMUKI. PARKMAN.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 103\\ninforms y^ Sally had a Dauter born on ye 14th at 4 a. m.\\nwas baptized p. m. and Jailed Abigail. The praise and\\ndauter Sukey was born on June 4, who lived until 1824 and was\\nthe grandmother of Col. Robert G. Shaw, and one other child,\\nJohn, was born in 1782. Two months later dauter Sally died,\\nand in 1784 Samuel married again, Sarah Rogers, and had five chil-\\ndren, among them Francis, who was the father of Francis Park-\\nman, the historian, a corresponding member and generous donor,\\nas also has been his sister, Miss Eliza S. Parkman, to our Historical\\nSociety.\\nSamuel Parkman s store was on Merchants Row. His house\\nstood on the corner of Green and Chardon streets. The Electric\\nRailway Station now occupies his old site. He built two houses\\nfor his two daughters on a part of his large garden, which still\\nstand facing Bowdoin Square between Green and Cambridge streets.\\nSamuel Parkman, with Elias Hasket Derby, of Salem, Samuel\\nand William Shaw, of Boston, and a few other merchants of the\\nday, amassed a large fortune in exporting indigo, tar, turpentine,\\nmasts, etc., and bringing back from India and China vessels laden\\nwith the rich manufactures of those countries.\\nIn 1801 he presented to the Westborough Church the first bell\\nwhich had ever rung to call the people to worship, and the day\\nthat they voted their thanks to him they decided to add a steeple\\nto their plain meeting-house. This was afterwards taken down, and\\nthe old Arcade, as we know it, may have resembled the church\\nas it was in the minister s day more nearly than the building re-\\nconstructed from the recollections of our oldest inhabitants.\\nThe bell, cast bj- Paul Revere, is now in the belfry of the Baptist\\nChurch.\\nAmong the portraits hanging in Faneuil Hall are two presented\\nby Samuel Parkman; one of Peter Faneuil, by Col. Henry Sar-\\ngent, the other a full-length of Washington, standing by his white\\nhorse, by Stuart.\\nMr. Parkman also subscribed $4,000 in 1798 towards the building", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "I04 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nGlory to God may y*^ Child be a rich Blessing Mr. Eb\\nMaynard jun from Conway to see me.\\n21. I preached once more on Mat: 22. 39. 40. p m\\nRepeated Sermon on 2 Cor. 3. 14. last clause. N. B. Mrs.\\nof the war-frigate Boston, given as a free-will offering to the Gov-\\nernment by the merchants of Boston. Only one subscription was\\nlarger than his.\\nSamuel Parkman died June 18, 1824, aged seventy-three.\\nA niece of his second wife writes My remembrances of him\\nare limited to the Sunday calls, which he often made at our house,\\nafter the morning service.\\nHe was a very genial man, and so fond of children that he\\nnever forgot to bring us some sugar-plums, which were a much\\ngreater rarity then than in our modern days.\\nAfter making his call, he would step to the sideboard, put his\\npackage into a covered dish and go, without saying anything about\\nhis gift. You may judge of the excitement, after he had gone, in\\nopening and sharing its contents.\\nAn old man still living in Westborough, at the age of ninety-five,\\ndescribes him as a very straight, stoutly built man, fine looking,\\nwho made very little talk with any one. He tells the following\\nstory of him, after he became one of the wealthiest men in New\\nEngland\\nHe owned man) hoiases, which he rented. One day- one of his\\ntenants dropped into his store, made some small purchases and\\nasked\\nWho can I get to carry these things up?\\nI ll carry them up, said Mr. Parkman, from another part of\\nthe store. So, when the time came for closing the door that night,\\nMr. Parkman took the packages and knocked at his tenant s\\nhouse. The man came to the door, saw Mr. Parkman. and was over-\\nwhelmed with confusion.\\nHe delivered the bundles with the remark When I began the\\nworld, I did my own lugging.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. I05\\nMaynard as well as Mr. Fisk dind. At evening Exercise,\\nBreck brot his brother Josiah Brigham here.\\n22. I could not visit y Sick by reason of a Storm. I\\nreview Set in order great numbers of Letters. I give\\nway to Timothy s cyphering, tho (besides his taking Care\\nof y Cattle) there are many things to be done.\\n23. I go on reviewing and disposing Letters, Papers\\nCollections.\\nMr. Goodall, who preached at Southboro last Sabbath,\\ncame to me to ask Advice abt his going to preach at\\nOtter Creek. N. B. I sent by him to Mr. Joh Loring his\\nBook of y Life of y*^ renowned Piereskins.\\nBreck and Elias p. m. go over to ITpton to singing meet-\\ning there.\\n24. I rode to Mr. Elijah Hardy s to see their little Eli-\\njah, who had been very ill, but was much better to Mr.\\nJoseph Grout s to see his William who languished, but is\\nrecovering proceeded to Mr. Grosvenor s, but he was gone\\nto Pomfret. I dind there, with Mr. Farrar. He went with\\nme to see Mr. Joseph Brown, who was gone to Providence.\\nViewed his Library, but not his Electrical Machine. To\\nthis Mrs. Brown invited me and to bring Mrs. P when\\nMr. Brown may be at Home. In returning from Grafton,\\nhad Capt n Woods and his Wife s Company from Dr. Jos.\\nWoods, where we drank Tea.\\nIn y evening came Moses Warren to let him.self to me for\\nsix months. asks an hundred pounds lawful money for\\nthat term. I defer giving him an answer till next Monday.\\nMy son Ebenezer came from Brookfield, in his way to Wa-\\ntertown, tells me Col. Baldwin is come home, and Alexander", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "I06 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nOliver is dismissed, but is suffered to stay, his Wife s Cir-\\ncumstances considered till April. Eb lodges here.\\n25. I walked to Mr. Thad. Warrin s to hire him to get\\nout Fencing stuff, posts and Rails thence to Mr. Isaac\\nParker s to see and talk with his brother Ephraim about\\nliving with me, and he seems disposed. At eve, my son\\nrelates somewhat of his sorrowful case, and how his son in\\nlaw had beguiled him to give a Warrantee Deed of his Place,\\nwithout a proper Security, an unhappy step\\n26. Eb leaves us to go to Watertown and Boston. I\\nsend by him to Mr. David Sawyer at Framingham Breck\\nsends quantity of money by him to his brother Samuel. Jo-\\nseph Grout Jun is examined in order to his joining in full\\nCommunion with y* Church, I consent.\\n27. Mrs. P. has made up my Camlet gown, lined with\\nGreen Baise.^\\n28. A. M. Repeat on i Cor. 3. 17, for p. m. on Isa. 28.\\n1-2, A long sermon, which could not be divided. Applica-\\ntion was occasioned, by Town Meeting on y Morrow. Mrs.\\nMaynard Messrs. Elijah and Moses Brigham Mr. Fi.sk\\ndind here.\\nMarch 1779.\\nThe Town met. They sent two to ask me to go and pray\\nwith y I complied, and at their Request, I read y King\\nof Britain s Speech to his Parliament. November last. Mr.\\nBaize was a coarse wooleu cloth made in Norwich and Colches-\\nter, England. It was sometimes white, sometimes blue and white,\\nred or green, as in Mr. Parkman s cloak lining. It was used largely\\nfor the dresses for servants and in earlier days for slaves. It had\\na nap on one side.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. IO7\\nDaniel Forbes was here to ask me to preach at his House\\ntomorrow. My son Ebenezer returned from Watertown,\\nBoston c. He brings a letter from Mr. Forbes of Glou-\\ncester, concerning y^ Sickness of his son-in-law, Charles\\nSaunders of about 8 c. c. The choristers Chamberlain\\nand Whitney, say they want to be dismissed and desire there\\nmay be a new choir. Eb lodges here. N. B. Moses War-\\nren was released from serving me this season.\\n2. I preached to y^ private Meeting at Mr. D. Forbes s on\\nPs. 44. 18, recommending Stedfastness in Religion and re-\\nbuking Inconstancy Declining and Apostacy and Isaac\\nMillar, a Delinquent, was there. N. B. Mr. Forbes re-\\npeatedly desires I would revive y Public Reading of y Scrip-\\ntures. N. B. My son Eben went with me to y^ Meeting,\\ntarrys and lodges here.\\n3. Eph Parker (brother of Elisha and Isaac) came to\\nwork by y Day for me. He goes to y^ Ministerial Lot to\\nget Posts and Rails. I went to Squire Baker s, and acknowl-\\nedged a power of Attorney, to be sent to Mr. David Hitch-\\ncock of Brookfield to recover a Debt from James Smith of\\nWestern to be carried with a letter to Mr. Hitchcock by\\nmy son Ebenezer. N. B. Hon^ Sam^ Baker was there.\\nThe Town meets by adjournment. Messrs. Belknap and\\nForbes here, and acquaint me y* the Chief of y^ Town have\\nexpressed their desire y I would revive y public Reading of\\ny^ Scriptures, and say there were but two (Mr. Andrews\\nand Mr. Han Parker, y said any Thing against it also\\nMessrs. Chamberlain and Whitney, the choristers, were here\\ny they might .see what I had drawn up, to lay before y^", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "I08 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nCongregation, praying there may be a New Choice in their\\nvStead. Eb lodges here. So does Ephraim Parker.\\n4. I don t send y^ power of Attorney to Mr. Hitchcock\\nnor Breck s Eetter to him, but have writ myself, and have\\nagreed with my .son Ebenezer (who now leaves us) to go to\\nMr. James Smith of Western, and apprize him of what I\\nam about to do, y he may prevent y^ Evil by di.scharging\\ny^ Bond. Mrs. P disposes of Baize Lining to Ebenezer,\\nand with y^ money, and some additions (that of 34s.) pur-\\nchases yds. of Bear Skin to make him (Elias a Straight-\\nbodyd coat. (Designed Lining of a New Red homespun\\nCamblet gown for Elias.\\n5-\\n6. Eph. left me by agreement and to return again\\n7. A Stormy, snowy Day but a small Assembly.\\nI read a. m. y former part of y^ first Ch. of Zechariah\\nand delivered expository observations for y* forenoon exer-\\ncise.\\nSr. Brigham (Elijah) and Master Fisk dined here.\\nP. M. Read Rev. 14. first 7 or 8 x repeated what I\\nhad delivered upon it three years ago to page 7. May God\\ngraciously own and bless what has been done agreeable to\\nHis Will! Both before and after our evening Family exer-\\ncise Mrs. P. read to me Pike and H. and I read part\\nof Charnock on Gen. 6. 5. The Sinfulness and Care of\\nThought, both which were very quickening to me. To\\nGod be y*^ Glory\\n8. Went to .see Sam Dalrymple, whose Leggs were\\nlately scalled with hot wort. Mr. Harrington sleds away\\nwith my four Steers, 4 logs of Maple to his door.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 109\\n9. At Squire Baker s who takes my acknowledgment of\\nanother power of Attorney to Mr. David Hitchcock instead\\nof that of y 3^^ which upon reviewing was not agreeable,\\nand therefore was not sent.\\nThe Squire was exceeding Friendly and generous. He\\ngave me 20 lbs. of tryed Tallow and to Mr. Stone 1 2 lb.\\nbeing all he spoke for. Moreover he would have me, when-\\never I am in any Straight, to let him know of it. I called\\nto see Mrs. Wheelock. She has a bad Breast: and Mrs.\\nKeens.\\n10. Eph. Parker came again. Breck goes to Boston.\\nI wrote to Mr. Ripley of Concord for my Books and for\\nSister Champney s Chest. Also to my Son W to hasten\\nmy Cart Wheels, p. m. came my son and Dauter Baldwin\\nfrom Brookfield and with y Oliver How to wait on y\\nand by Tea Time came Dr. Stimson young Mr. Sam.\\nWoodward of Weston. The two latter returned to Marl-\\nboro The others lodged here the Horses were taken in\\nto keeping by Capt. Morse. Eph Parker lodges here.\\n1 1 Mr. Baldwin and my Dauter leave us to go towards\\nByfield, but she is in doubt of her reaching there. Their\\nman returns back to Brookfield. At eve came my son\\nMoore, who has been at Oxford and Charleton, goes this\\n1 Rev. Jonathan Moore, of Rochester, had married, in 1768, Su-\\nsanna Parkman. She had died in 1777 and soon after her death, as\\nAnna Sophia writes in her Journal, brother Moore came to\\nWestborough and brought her a black satten cloke that was my\\nsisters, also an under Petticoat, and some of Sukey s knit Lace for\\na tucker.\\nTuckers were worn for nearly a hundred years as an essential", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "no DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nway in his retvirn home. He bring.s me another Letter\\nfrom Mr. West, containing No VII VIII of Prophetic\\nComputations and Remarks. He lodges here.\\n12. At noon came my son Alexander of Marlb. in New\\nHamp.shire. I am so short out for good Hay that I send\\none horse to Mr. Eben Maynard, the other to Mr. Jon\\nForbes to be kept. For Mr. Moore will Tarry over y-^\\nSabbath.\\n13. Alexander leaves us to go to some part of Con-\\nnecticut to pay y*^ woman he bought his place of.\\npart of a woman s dress. They were made of linen or lace and\\ncovered the neck and shoulders above the bodice, which was\\nusually cut low. The latest form of a tucker was merely a hand-\\nkerchief crossed in front and tucked under the edge of the dress.\\nSometimes called neckpiece or modesty-piece.\\n-Jonathan Forbes is a very prominent name for many years in\\nthe history of Westborough. There were four of the name. The\\nfirst Jonathan was one of the original settlers of the town, an orig-\\ninal member of the church and one of its early deacons. He lived\\nnear the site of the town reservoir. He died in 1768.\\nHis son Jonathan, born in 1715, married a daughter of Dea.\\nvSimon Tainter, and was also a deacon of the church. He died in\\n1756, leaving three children.\\nHis son Jonathan, the only one of the name living at this time,\\nexcept his only little boy of four years, had married the daughter\\nof Moses Brigham, and afterwards lived in his house on West\\nMain Street. He lived at this time on the old homestead near the\\nreservoir.\\nHe is buried in Memorial Cemetery, with only the inscription\\non the monument to give us any hint of the latter years of his life\\nAfflictions sore long time I bore,\\nPhysicians were in vain,\\nTill God did please witli death to seize\\nAnd ease ine from my pains.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. P^BENEZER PARKMAN.\\nII I\\n14. I read and briefly expound Zech. i. 7. Mr. Moore\\npreached a. m. on Luke 6. 46. Mrs. Maynard dined\\nhere. I did not read p. m. Mr. Moore preached on i Joh.\\n5. 3. Jos. Grout J^ was admitted into y Church. I ap-\\npointed y^ Communion I^ecture and by Desire notified\\nthe Congregation to make a new choice of Choristers, after\\ny*^ next Lecture. At eve Mr. Moore repeated y^ Heads of\\ny^ afternoon Sermon, viz. on i. Joh. 5. 3. I earnestly pray\\nfor Success may attend both y^ Exercises, and y we may\\nall be inspired with that love of God which produces new\\nObedience.\\n15. Mr. Moore leaves us to return to Rochester. I\\nwrote by him to Mr. West. I rode in y^ Sleigh to visit\\npoor Mr. Daniel How, who has a mortification in one of his\\nFeet. But I first dind at Mr. Davis s. At Mr. Fessen-\\nden s, (where Mr. How lives) I talked with him (Mr.\\nFessenden) about his not coming to meeting\u00e2\u0080\u0094 but he gave\\nme no Answer\\nMr. Davis furnished me with his Horse to ride back\\nfor Elias proceeded in y Sleigh to Northboro I made a\\nvisit to old Mrs. Kelley (who is about 85) was born March\\n6 old Style 1694) and prayed there.\\n16. Visit Deacon Wood. N. B. Yesterday a Thief\\nstole out of his Bar about 100 Dollars. They pursued and\\nfound y Villian, one Waters at Marlb. recovered in part\\nand a Note for y^ rest. The Deacon made up, but Col.\\n1 Isaac Davis, a young tanner, who came to town to teach his\\ntrade to Capt. vStephen Maynard s son, had married Anne Brigham,\\nstep-daughter of Capt. Maynard, in 1772. They had four sons,\\nPhineas, Isaac, Joseph, and John,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Governor of Massachusetts and", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "112 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nJoh Ward sent him to Prison. I went in to see Capt. J.\\nWood s wife and prayed there.\\n17. Mr. Stone came, dind with me. He tells me his\\npeople have voted to sing Tate Brady s Version, began\\nlast Lord s Day. The High vSheriff of this County, W\\nGreenleaf Esq. dind with us. He is going to Medfield to\\nsee his father Quincy, and called to take my Commands,\\nbut I had no letter writ. Mr. Stone preached my Lecture\\nSenator of the United States. They were living at this time in\\nthe house recently occupied by Hiram Broaders. In 1781 they\\nbought the Dea. Tonilin place, which has been known since as the\\nDavis homestead. Isaac and his sons became wealthy men, and\\nthe} and their descendants, who take pride in the name of Davis,\\nhave held many positions of honor and trust.\\nFIRST DAVIS HOISK.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n3\\non Ps. 103. 3. first clause. After Sermon and Blessing,\\nthe Church were by y^ Desire of y^ Deacons, stayed concern-\\ning Contributions. The Congregation staid also at y^ re-\\nquest of y*^ Choristers, y* they might resign and y^ People\\nmight make a new Choice.\\nThey chose Mr. Eli Whitney by 41 votes Mr. Eb Cham-\\nberlain jr. by 31, Mr. Johnathan Batherick by 29, Mr. Elisha\\nParker by 23. My son Alexander came from Connecticut\\nand lodged here. I wrote to President Langdon to excuse\\nElias tardiness. And delivered Elias 100 Dollars.\\n18. Elias sat out on Breck s mare for Cambridge, Alex-\\nander, after dinner, undertook his Journey home. Rec d a\\nLetter from Mr. Ebenezer Sparhawk of Templeton, which\\nrelated to some uneasiness s there, I wrote an Answer.\\nAt eve came two of Timothy s brothers. Elias and John\\nBryant from Stoneham on Foot. They lodged here.\\n19. Mr. Timothy Parker of Templeton came in, to whom\\nI committed my Letter to Mr. Sparhawk. The rigorous\\nweather excites Pity to Elias at Coll.\\n20. The Bryants left us a. m. to go to Littleton and\\nthence home, when I had prepared nigh as much as I in-\\ntended to deliver came a young gentleman with Mr. Elijah\\nBrigham, viz. Mr. Caleb Alexander, who was from North-\\nfield, and lodged here. He was graduated at Yale College,\\napprobated by the Association at New London.\\n21. Mr. Aaron Hutchinson jun came from Marlboro\\nto preach for me, today, but Mr. Alexander preached a. m.\\non Isa 5. 4. I read Isa 53. both y^ young Gentlemen at-\\ntended with us at y*^ Sacrament, which was administered.\\nMrs. Maynard dind here. p. m. Mr. Hutchinson on Mat\\n8", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "114 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n25. 46. I detained y Church and read a Letter from y\\nSouth-west Parish in Bolton, requesting assistance in a Fast\\nand gathering a Church. The Church voted compHance\\nand Dr. Hawes and Dea. Wood Delegates. Mr. Hutchin-\\nson goes to Grafton. Mr. Alexander lodges here. His\\nhorse at Mr. Elijah Hardy s.\\n22. Mr. Alexander here for it is a great storm. He\\nlodges here.\\n23. Mr. Hardy came to wait on Mr. Alexander to his\\nhouse.\\nI am in great Doubt about my going to y*^ Fast c. at\\nBolton, p. M. Dea. Wood here to see what I shall be like\\nto do. I have endeavored to prepare my S. if I should.\\nBoth y^ Roads and y^ Weather very unpromising.\\n24. Instead of going to Mr. W hitney s in y w^ay of Bol-\\nton (as I had planned) it proved so tempestuous, so violent\\na snow-storm, y I could scarcely go out of Doors at all.\\nEphraim s brother EHsha was here and dind with us. He\\nspeaks of y^ Straits and Difficulties to which many of y Peo-\\nple of Bolton are reduced, for want of Bread and how scarce\\nMeat is there. May y great Provider Pity y especially\\nat this Season, and all others y^ are exposed in this terrible\\nStorm in Special y are at Sea.\\n25. The Storm contiiities and y Siiozv is very deep. Go-\\ning to Bolton Fast and Council, I suppose is utterh im-\\npracticable. I am employed by my s. in my Study.\\nBut about 10 or 11 the Fierceness of y*^ Storm abated and\\nthe Sun appeared. Yet p. m. y Heavens are clouded again.\\n26. Go on with my preparations for y*^ Sabbatli.\\nP. M. came Mr. Alexander accompanied by his uncle VlW-", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBKNEZER PARKMAN. II5\\nler. Stays not long. Mr. Caleb Harrington invites and\\nwaits upon him to his House, and thence he intends to go\\nto Master Moses Brigham s, who is to be found at his School,\\nor at his I,odging, Mr. Andrews.\\n27. Tho y*^ Snow was troublesome, yet Ephraim is em-\\nployed in fetching two load of Posts and Rails partly fin-\\nished) from Beeton s.\\n28. A. M. on Zech. 11. thro out. p. m. on Rev: 14. 7 to\\nP 14. with addition of four uses in a loose Paper. No stran-\\nger to dine. At eve. Mr. Elijah Brigham came with Breck,\\nand such of his Family as could come, to join in y Repet\\nSinging c.\\n29. John Baker undertakes his Journey to Andover,\\nwhere he is going to School to learn Eatin. He calls here\\nto borrow an Accidence, which I let him have. May God\\nbe his Guardian and grant Success\\n30. Engaged in Various Readings c a. m. p. m. came\\nParkman Bradshaw^ from Brookfield. I understand y^ y^\\nCircumstances of my Son Ebenezer are difficult. He has\\nhired of Mr. Hitchcock y^ House which his son Bradshaw\\ntook a Eease of. Sent Mr. Joseph Bond Mr. Bradshaw s\\nHorse to keep. He himself lodges here. Rec d Eetters\\nfrom Mr. Whitney about a Contribution for Rhode Island\\npeople and concerning y Fast c. at Bolton.\\n31. Mr. Bradshaw sett out for Cambridge. I rode to\\nvisit Mr. Stone, of Southboro Dind there. He tells me his\\nson-in-law Bangs of Hardwick is dead. p. m. I went with\\nMr. Stone to y Meeting House where Mr. Luke Wilder held\\na Singing. In returning, I borrowed and brot home Clark s\\nEives of eminent Persons Fol. Called at Mr. Gale s, his", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "Il6 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nFather being poorly. At Mr. Andrews have not been\\nthere since their Marriage till now.\\nThe roads are exceeding Dirty, y snow melting apace.\\nThis Ride was followed by Bad Cramp in y^ Night.\\nMay y*^ Lord pardon y*^ Sins of this Month, .spare me c.\\nApril 1779-\\nMr. Baldwin and his wife came from Boston. This morn-\\ning from Gale s, where they lodged last night, but here to\\nBreakfast. He says y*^ Vessel which Breck and Samuel had\\ninterest in, was presentlj upon Sailing out, was captured in\\nCape Cod Harbour, by a privateer of only 6, 2 pounders\\nwhereas they had 8 4 pounders. But y^ Capt. had carried\\ny^ Cash which was }4 y^ Worth ashore, quilted in his Jacket,\\nand therefore saved it. Mr. Baldwin lodges here.\\n2. My son and Dauter Baldwin left us to go to Brook-\\nfield, a Marvellous Day for Warmth. Col. Baldwin says if\\nI send my Cattle to his pasture they shall fare as well as his\\nwill. Mr. John Forbes here and dines with us. He brings\\nme and I read y Constitution of y State of Vermont. Mr.\\nFish wrote a Letter to me to desire me to forward a Subscrip-\\ntion for his Reply to Mr Foster of Leicester, concerning\\n1 Mr. John Forbes was a son of the second Jonathan Forbes and\\nJoanna Tainter. Otter Creek, where he settled with his family,\\nis a stream in Rutland County, Vermont, empt3-ing into Lake\\nChaniplain. A year before this, as we learn from the Church Rec-\\nords, the Westborough Church had contributed \u00c2\u00a312. 18/. od, for his\\nrelief on account of being driven away from his home by the enemy,\\nand also on account of the sickness and death of his wife. Although\\nhe had eight children, the genealogical record ends with them.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 117\\nInfant Baptism. I headed a paper, subscribed and set it\\nagoing. Several Young Gentlemen being present, viz. Sr.\\nCrosby, Elijah Brigham and Abraham Holland. The\\nweather wonderful warm c.\\n3. Alter and enlarge y^ Garden. Eph Parker setts out\\nstumps, roots c. I read y Constitution of Govn in y^\\nState of Vermont.\\n4. Read Zech III. and my exerci.se was upon y first 5\\nVerses. Mrs. Maynard dind with us. p. m. on Rev: 14. 7\\nmiddle clauses, which may God be graciously plea.\u00c2\u00abed to\\nbless to all of us\\n5. Capt. Fisher here a. m. borrows y^ London minister s\\nSermons on Prayer. I write to Mrs. Brown, widow at my\\nson Samuel s at Boston, concerning Letters sent by a Fe-\\nmale Society at Boston to Father Eoring.\\np. M. I had Dr. Hawes mare to go to Bolton. I first\\nrode over to see Mr. Daniel How, whose case, with his mor-\\ntifying Toe is deplorable He was somewhat free to speak.\\nI prayed with him. Proceeded to Mr. Whitney s and lodged\\nthere.\\n6. Mr. Whitney and I rode to Mr. Benj. Baily s in Bol-\\nton, where y Pastors and Churches of Westb. y^ first in\\nShrewsbury, Northboro and Stow met. The East Church\\nin Sudbury did not come.\\nIt was appointed a day of Prayer, Humiliation and Fast-\\ning. We assembled at Mr. Samuel Jones House, Mr.\\nNewel prayed. Mr. Sumner preached a seasonable sermon\\non Ps. 122. 8. I prayed after y^ Sermon. We sung twice,\\nbut had only one Exercise. After refreshing, formed into\\na Council. I was Moderator and Mr. Whitney Scribe. The", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "Il8 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nCandidates for Communion met us at Mr. Bailey s and ex-\\npressed their desires to be formed into a church state. The\\nmembers of divers Churches presented their Dismissions.\\nWe made the needful Enquirys into their agreement and\\nmutual Satisfaction with one another. And tho the}- had\\nin times past been in unhappy Disquietments, 3 et conde-\\nscended and were united, thro y great Goodness of God\\nand preparations were made for accomplishing y Solenui\\nWork. I lodged there.\\n7. The Council met, and y^ Brethren assembled. After\\nprayer, conferred. Something was prepared for y^ Breth-\\nren, by way of mutual Concession and acknowledgement of\\npast offences, especially y*^ Wally Brethren in setting up that\\nchurch some of the members disturbing other churches\\nand Mutual forgiveness. From such Material, drawn up,\\none of y*^ Council compiled Result: At Mr. Benj. Baily s,\\nto whose son I find Sally Crosby is married and lives there.\\np. M. The Result was finished and read, was voted\\nby y*^ Council, then Read to and it was voted by y\u00c2\u00ab Brethren\\nto accept of and conform to it, except Col. Silas Bailey, who\\nwas unavoidably obliged to withdraw and Mr. Eph. Fair-\\nbank, who wanted some Eiberty about communicating with\\nMr. Walley s Church, if he was there accidentally, but noth-\\ning could be granted to him of that kind, upon which he\\nchose to wave joining with y for y*^ present. A Covenant\\nwas read to y in which they term themselves Congrega-\\ntional (not Independents) to which they consented and\\nsigned it. And if y^ other Brethren should within a few\\ndays incline to come and consent, and sign as they had done,\\nit should be accepted as if it had been done today. This", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. IIQ\\nvery solemn Transaction performed, they were by y*^ Mod-\\nerator openly announced and declared to be a Church of y^\\nLord Jesus Christ, by y Name of y^ South Church of Christ\\nin Bolton, who were then presented to God in an address of\\nGratulation and Supplication by y Moderator. In y*^ Coun-\\ncil y^ Votes were unanimous, in the Church, next to For\\nwhich may all Glory be given to y^ most High\\nThe Church chose Mr. Whitney to be their Moderator\\npro temp. I returned with Mr. Whitney so far as to his\\nHouse lodged there again.\\n8. Returned home (calling a little while at Capt. May-\\nnard s) and found thro God s Goodness all in safety, p. m.\\nMiss Patty Fish here. N. B.. Polly Howard works here\\nfor Sophy, making L,ace.\\n9. Capt. Maynard here, and wants to be about y Work\\nof Straitning y^ Road,^ through my land back of y^ Meeting\\n1 Unfortunately no map exists of the Westborough of Mr. Park-\\nman s day, and we have to reconstruct the roads from the lay-outs.\\nThis road toward Nurse s was probably towards Ebenezer Nurse\\nwhose land adjoined John Maynard s, and in the direction of the\\npresent Summer Street.\\nIn 1756, according to the Town Records, a road was laid out as\\nfollows: Beginning at the Road running through Mr. Samuel\\nWilliam s land, then running partly on land that was left for a high-\\nway and partly on Capt. John Maynard s land, then turning and\\nrunning through John Maynard s land to the Rev. Mr. Park-\\nman s land, then running through Mr. Parkman s land to the land\\nthe Meeting-house now stands on, and to the Great Road South of\\nthe Meeting-house.\\nThis is evidently the road that was straightened John May-\\nnard s land was bounded westerly and northerly by the Burying-\\nplace, easterly by Samuel William s land, and southerly by land\\nof Ebenezer Nurse.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "I20 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nHouse toward Nurse s. My son Gushing and his son John\\ncame lodged here: but Mr. C s horse is sent to Mr.\\nBond s. N. B. My Dauter C. has been exceedingly ill\\nfor some time and is reduced to a very weak State\\n10. Mr. Gushing and Dr. Stinsson dind here.\\n11. Mr. Gushing preached, a. m on Psal. i6. ii. p. m.\\non Eccl. 8. II. N. B. He read y-^ Gh. Psalm.\\nMay God grant His Blessing on y*^ Exercises of y^ Day\\n12. Dr. Hall of Sutton going to Boston calls and dines\\nhere, (with Mr. Gushing), p. m. tho it rained, they both\\ntook leave. Mr. G. goes to Shrewsbury, but leaves his son\\nJohn here to live with us a while.\\n13. My sheep grow very troublesome, to Mr. Newton.\\nI rode over to Mr. John Kelley s to see his wife prayed\\nwith her. Reproved him for his absenting from public\\nWorship. Visited at Mr. Stephen Gook s.^\\nElias came home, rode upon Dr. Hawes horse. N. B.\\nHe went from Gollege this morning to Boston, and j-et\\ncame home before night, y^ Sun considerable Heighth.\\n14. Fine weather Gardening, plant Trees move y\\nBees. W Deadman a soldier from Stoneham going to y^\\nGamp near Manor, breaks fast here he brings a Letter\\nfrom Tim s Mother she writes of y death of her Son-in-\\nlaw, Et. Daniel Bryant.\\n^Stephen Cook was a brother of Thomas, and son of Cornelius.\\nHe had been imprisoned twenty-five years before this, with his\\nbrother Robert, for killing an Indian at Stockbridge, but it seems to\\nhave been a less heinous offence than robbing Abner Newton s house.\\nHe seemed to have been the best of Cornelius Cook s family, and\\nserved on the school committee in 1780.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 12 1\\n15. Old Mr. W Nurse dies this morning, aged S-\\nyears. I walked over to see old Mr. Jonah Warrin\\nprayed there. Cousin Maynard sent over an Horse for her\\naunt, and Stephen to wait upon her, not immediately to\\nreturn.\\nDr. Hall returning from Boston called here.\\nN. B. I hear that Mr. Grosvenor has asked a dismission\\nfrom his Pastoral-Relation. I read Mr. Wigglesworth s and\\nMr. Tucker s Dudleian Lectures.\\n16. Attended and prayed at y^ Funeral of Old Mr. W\\nNurse. He was 83 sometime in last month. I had consid-\\nerable discourse with Ensign Fay. Elias went p. m. to Con-\\ncord with Cart, Boxes and Horse. Mr. Amos Parker,\\nEph- Father here. He is obliged with a No. of Lelock\\nTrees. At eve Mrs. P. returns home. Hear that a girl has\\nset Fire to Mr. Kendal s House at New Salem, the same\\nthat fired Mr. Fessenden s at Walpole. She is committed\\nto Jayl.\\n1 William Nurse, son of Benj. Nurse, of Framingham, and grand-\\nson of that Rebecca Nurse, of Salem, who was hanged as a witch.\\nHe had married Rebecca Fay, of Westborough, and settled in 1729,\\non Shrewsbury house lot No. 3, which was set off to Westborough\\nin 1741, and was the same farm still owned and occupied by his de-\\nscendants, the family of the late Dea. B. A. Nourse.\\nHe left six children, some of whom Mr. Parkman occasionally\\nmentions in the Journal.\\nMary, married Eleazar Williams, of Westborough.\\nLydia, born in 1727.\\nDaniel, in 1729.\\nBenjamin, in 1731.\\nRebecca, in 1734, and\\nPriscilla, in 1736.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "122 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n17. Elias returns from Concord: and relates a tragical\\nstory of one Whitne}^ of Townsend, who is suspected to\\nhave poisoned his Wife.\\n1 8. A. M. on Zech. 3. 6-7. P. M. on i Thes. 4. 13. Oc-\\ncasioned by y*^ Death of Mr. W Nunse. May Divine Bless-\\ning accompany\\n19. Breck went to Boston. I sent by him 28 I^etters, of\\ny^ private female Society to y late venerable Father Loring,\\nto y\u00c2\u00ae care of Mrs. Elizabeth Brown, widow, heretofore Lea-\\nzenby and a number more to and from Mrs. Mehitabel Hy-\\nstop of Brookline, to y care of y Rev. Mr. Jackson.\\n20. A. M. Was at Dea. Wood s, at his Son s, and at\\nMr. Dix s (who lives at Capt. Wood s) but he w^as not at\\nhome. p. M. Visit Mrs. Mallet, who is sick of a Fever,\\nrode to Col. Brigham s, to Capt. Jonas Brigham s. Neither\\nof y*^ Men at home.\\nRec d a letter from Elijah Brigham A. B. respecting So-\\nphy.\\n2 1 Capt. Majaiard Solicits me about moving my Walls\\non y^ north we.st, and straightening y Road from y Meeting\\nHouse to y^ Northward. He promises it shall not be to my\\nDamage. He will be at y^ Charge and will measure y^ Eand,\\nthat I may have Equivalent. N. B. In some perplexity\\nabout getting up a pair of Cart Wheels from Monroe s,\\nwhich Billy has made for me. Capt. undertakes to get y\\nup, Breck returns from Boston, and brot me a letter from\\nMrs. Eliz. Brown of y^ Female Society of Boston.\\n22. Mr. Grosvenor, on his Journey to Dr. Kittredge, at\\nTewkesbury, for help in his utterance, calls here. May\\nGod grant success! Mr. Solomon Maynard for Capt. May-", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 1 23\\nnard brings my Cart Wheels in a Waggon, and goes with y\\nto Mr. Joseph Smith s to have y Tire put onto y Isaac\\nBaldwin from Dummer School, going to Erookfield, calls\\nand refreshes here.\\n23. Capt. Maynard and his people, with two Wallers\\nfrom vSutton, begin to move my Wall beyond y*^ Orchard to\\nmake y Road from y Meeting House towards Nurse s\\nstraight, Hannah Whitney, (sister of Mr. John Harring-\\nton s Wife; came to me, confessing y^ sin of Fornication\\nand desires to make her Peace with God and his people.\\n24. Mr. Gro.svenor returns from Tewkesbury and dines\\nhere. p. m. my son Samuel and his Wife came from Boston\\ntwo days ago, and today here. Sally is still but indisposed.\\nBy rea.son of variet}- of company, was necessarily obliged\\nto desist from what I was preparing for y Public tomorrow.\\n25. Very much on consideration of my Dauter-in-law I\\nchose y Subject of y Day. Read Cantic. 8 and delivered y\\nSermons formerly preached on V. 5.^ A. M. to p. 8. P. M.\\nto p. 15. Which may God graciously accept!\\n26. I was much taken up in trying (tho fruitlessly) to\\nget an Horse for Elias to go with y^ Cattle to Brookfield.\\n1 The text is: Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness\\nleaning upon her beloved I raised thee up under the appletree,\\nthere thy mother brought thee forth there she brought thee forth\\nthat bare thee.\\nWe wonder if dauter Sally did not feel that she and her be-\\nloved had come up to the wilderness, instead of from it, and if\\nshe realized that the two long sermons, fifteen pages in Mr. Park-\\nman s minute hand, were preached especially for her.\\nThe next Sunday he gives her another sermon on the same sub-\\nject.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "124 DIARY OF KEV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n27. My son Samuel returned to Boston, leaving his\\nWife, with his Chaise here who before dinner grew so un-\\neasy, that with Tears, she prayed me to get some Neigh-\\nbors to carry her in her chaise to Boston. Indeed her\\nhusband was but just out of sight, when she repented her\\nstaying behind, and w^ould have had him called back.\\nN. B. I sent by my Son to Mrs. Eliz. Brown, at her\\nrequest for some of his papers, two manu.script sermons of\\nMr. Loring, one on I. Joh. 4. 9. the other on Gal. 2. 20\\nWe are every day perplexed b}- y unruliness of y^ Sheep.\\n28. The Sheep were so disorderly I was forced to go to\\nmy Friend, Squire Baker, to request him, again to take y\\nSheep to pasture, and to assist me in getting my young\\nCattle to Brookfield, both which he consents to.\\n29. The Sheep are sent to Squire Baker s pasture to be\\nkept there till after Shearing, p. m. came Mr. W May\\nand with him, Mr. Solomon Walcott, a young preacher,\\nfrom Mansfield, Mr. May went to y Squire s, Mr. Walcott\\nlodged at ye Shop.\\n30. Elias left us to go to Cambridge, and to Charleston,\\non Mr Jon Fay s Horse. Mr. May went with Elias to\\nCambridge. Eli Forbes, from Cape Ann, by y^ way ot\\nBoston, came and lodged here. He brings me a Letter\\nfrom his Father, which relates many sorrowful things, which\\nhave befallen them, particularly y death of Col. John\\nStevens, Mr. Solomon Parsons and his wife. Mr. Rogers\\nhas left his people for want of Support. Mr. Cleaveland at\\nSandy Bay is on y*= wing, Mr. Parsons of vSquani at present\\nunder di.sgrace c. c.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 1 25\\nMay 1779.\\nMy Dauter in Law, Salley, rides in her Chaise with l\u00c2\u00a3li\\nForbes to Brookfield.\\n2. Did not read publickly because I had not done with\\ny^^ former passages already read. viz. Zeph. 3. 8, which I\\npreached on a. m. and on Cant 8. i. p. m. Mr. Adonijah s\\nRice s wife dind here. May God bless y Word delivered.\\nMr. W May came at eve lodged here.\\n3. Mrs. Mallet remains ill. I visited her, and there was\\nalso old Mrs. Stone (one of y poor from Charlestown) I\\nprayed with y\\nN. B. I was met by Mr. Stockwell Shoemaker, and could\\nnot avoid discoursing with him concerning y^ amazing alter-\\nation of y Price of Things, for I this day paid S/x Dollars\\nfor only y^ making of a pair of Shooes for me, viz. by Mr.\\nJames Smith who works at Capt. Fisher s, which is 12 times\\nas much as I gave for y^ last Pair but one, for which I gave\\nhalf a Dollar, at Mr. Barn. Newton s. N. B. Mr. May\\nhas bought of Joseph Lee of Cambridge Esq. 1420 acres of\\nLand in Montague, and has paid for it. It stood him be-\\ntween 4 and 5 Thousand pounds. L. M.\\nN. B. As I received a Letter yesterday noon from\\nEnsign Aaron Warrin, desiring me to preach next Fast\\nDay on i Chron. 4. 10. toda}^ began to write upon it.\\n4. Mr. David Clark of Ashburnham came to see us.\\nN. B. No word of Complaint about his son Ben: who is\\nin y Continental service. Mr. Amos Parker of Shrewsbury\\nhere, his business with his son.\\n5. My Dauter-in-law returns with Eli Forbes from", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "126 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nBrookfield. Benj. Bancroft of vSutton vStores his I^oad in\\nmy Barn.\\n6. General Fast throout y United vStates. The fore-\\nnoon exercises were (not designedly) exceeding long. A.\\nM. on the text requested by Ensign Warren, viz. i Chron.\\n4. 10, but I read and made some remarks upon v. 9. p. m.\\nUsed part of sermon on Jer. 8. 5, but ^Yith many enlarge-\\nments. O y God would please to accept our sacrifices, and\\nquicken us to conform to his hoi} Word I\\nCol. Job. Gushing, Maj Ezra Beeman were at meeting\\np. M, and refreshed themselves with us at eve. They were\\nhere upon y*^ Business of Raising a number of Men to go\\nto Rhode Island.\\n7. Eli Forbes Returns to Cambridge and Boston. vSally\\ntarries with us. I send by Eli to Elias, Ferguson s Astron-\\nomy, with a Letter against his Selling Books, which he has\\nhad of me, and have writ to Eli s Father, particularly to\\nsend for his Sheep after Shearing.\\nN. B. Breck has bought another horse, which his\\nbrother Samuel procured for him, of Major Stillman at\\nBoston. P. Isl. 1 rode to Mr. Thomas Bellows to see him in\\nhis weak and low condition, and prayed with him and his\\nson s Family thence I proceed to divers Other of y^^ Fam-\\nilies in y corner, viz. Mr. Chamberlain.- N. B. his son\\nDaniel gives me half a bushel of Indian Corn, and lends\\n1 Mr. rarknian, this lovely May day, rode dowu the Flanders\\nRoad, a street which took its name, according to tradition, from\\nthe quarrelsome habits of the farmers living thereon, a tradition\\nwhich seems well authenticated from the fact that in some old\\ndeeds it is called Contention Road.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 127\\nme a bushel and half more. I called at Mr. Nat. Chamber-\\nlain s went into widow Bellow s, and stayed some time at\\nEnsign Snow s\u00e2\u0080\u0094 drank Tea there c. At home found\\nCapt. John Wood his Lady, who make a visit here.\\n8. Wrote to Mr. Whitney of Northboro for y^ Result\\nof Bolton Council. Breck goes to Holden p. m. Mr.\\nGeorge Stimson was here and carried away from my barn\\nfour bushels (as he says) of Indian Corn, which is part of\\nvMoad stored there by Benj. Bancroft on last Wednesday,\\nfor which he gave me his Receipt. He says the load is his,\\nthat he Shall soon take away y Rest of it. Mr. Isaac\\nMiller was here and signed an acknowledgement.\\n9. With some amendments I went on a. m. and finished\\non Jer. 8. 5 last clause. Administered y^ Lord s Supper.\\nN. B. Br. Isaac Miller was restored. Mrs. Maynard dind\\nhere, as did one Daniel Holbrook, whom Mrs. Parkman\\nsaw to be a stranger and invited in. p. m. on Jer. 5. 20-25\\nto page 9.\\n10. I visited Mrs. Mallet, and old Lieut. Thomas For-\\nbush and his wife. Breck and his Family brot and eat\\ntheir dinner with us, which was so much y more agreeable\\nand sociable.\\np. M. Mr. Waters who has been preaching at Newtown\\nhere and informs me of y^ Death of Dr. Wheelock, presi-\\ndent of y College at Dartmouth, and of Dr. Winthrop,\\nprofessor of Matham. Philosophy at Cambridge. The\\nlast was buryed at Cambridge May i O y God would\\nshow compassion on y^ bereaved Semenerrys!\\nMr. Noah Hardy s wife here. Mr. Elijah Brigham\\nbrings his classmate Mr. Foot. They all drink coffee.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "128 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nAt eve, Mr. George Stimson here about y Load Stored\\nin my Barn, but took none of it away. N. B. John Forbes\\ncame to spin.\\nIT. Visit Mr. Daniel How, prayed with him went\\nto Mr. Benj. Howe s called to see Mrs. Kelly. Sophy\\ngoes to Mr. Amos Parkers at Shrewsbury. Col. Baldwin\\nhis son Isaac came. Sarah Miller came to spin. Isaac\\nForbush takes away by order of Benj. Bancroft the re-\\nmainder of y*^ Load above said. Col. Baldwin and his son\\nlodge at Breck s. Their horses are put into y burying-\\nplace, our Hay being gone.\\n12. Col. Baldwin puts one of his horses into Salley s\\nChaise, and waits upon her to Boston. Isaac to Boston in\\nhis way to Byfield. I read Logan s Cicero of Old Age.\\n13. Breck undertakes to new modell y^ Frame for the\\nGrape Vine in y^ Garden to run upon and Parker and\\nTimothy help him. I am still engaged in Logan s Cicero\\nof old age, with very useful notes.\\n14. Breck, Parker and Tim, are still upon y ine and\\ngarden.\\n15. Mr. Parker (Eph s Father) here. Eph. goes\\nhome, carries John Cushing to Shrewsbury.\\n16. Preached again on i Chron. 4. 10. Mr. Elijah Brig-\\nham dind with us.\\np. :m. repeated on Jer. 5. 25 with many omissions and\\nalterations.\\n17. Visit old Mr. Bellows, who is become weaker.\\nPrayed and discoursed with him. Visit at Mr. Eb Cham-\\nberlain jun He presents me half a bushel of Indian meal", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 129\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094tells me his Br-- Daniel went to Marblehead with a load of\\nIndian and Rye, and had 25 Dollars p. Bushel.\\n18. I rode Breck s mare to Bolton, it being Association,\\nMessrs. Smith, Harrington, Bigelow, Newell present-\\nMessrs. Stone, Bridge and Whitney absent. Mr. Goss^\\nprayed and gave a Concio on Joh. 4. 36. especially latter\\npart, with a particular application to what was lately done\\nat ye Council in Bolton, accompanyed with Sad Complaints\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094which after y^ exercise was over, I made reply to. But\\nwe parted in peace. In returning I called at Capt. Edward\\nJohnson s and drank Tea there. Stopped at Mr. Whitney s\\nand lodged there.\\ni Rev. Aarou Smith was ordained pastor of the Marlborough\\nChurch in 1740. He was dismissed a year before this, ostensibly\\non account of his infirmity and weakness, which greatly affected\\nhis lungs and his voice in particular. The Mr. Bridge of whom\\nMr. Parkman often speaks was settled in East Sudbury, and had\\nmarried Mr. Smith s daughter. Mr. Smith lived with them until\\nhis death, two years after this, at the age of sixty-seven.\\nHe was rather unpopular as a minister, and supposed to have an\\ninclination to the tory cause. Some one had even gone so far, two\\nyears before, as to discharge two loaded guns into his room\\nthrough the window. His house still stands in Marlborough, and\\nsome years ago the present owner extracted the bullets from a\\nbeam.\\n-Mr. Goss, of Bohou, A tall spare man of stern aspect and not\\nof gentle or winning manners. He appears to be a man of indom-\\nitable will and somewhat forbidding presence. With many of\\nhis brethren, he entertained high notions of clerical authority, a\\nhigh church Puritan, as he might be styled. In the war of our\\nIndependence, he took sides with the royalists, and was a thorough-\\ngoing Tory, as was his son Thomas, who fled to Annapolis, N. s.,\\nwhere he endid his davs.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "130 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAX.\\n19. In my way home I went to see Mrs. Dolly Rice.\\nN. B. her Dauter Adams resides there. I called at Mr.\\nAndrews, newly come to live in y*^ house y^ was Mr.\\nTinney s. Visited Mr. Dan How who still grows worse\\nat Capt. Maynard s to see Stephen who has been languish-\\ning. Dind at home. p. M. Mr. Waters on his wa}^ to\\nNewtown to preach for Mr. Merriam. Capt. Goddard of\\nSutton here. Informs me of his raising Madder and Malage\\nGrapes.\\n20. A. M. Mr. Belknap came in to see me and discour.sed\\nabt ni} circumstances and neces.sary supplies. The\\naffairs coming on in y Town Meeting p. m. Mr. Daniel\\nNur.se here to renew the Request of his two Sisters, y there\\nmaj be a Fast kept at theirs. I am obliged to take .some\\ntime to consider of it.\\nN. B. The Town debated upon making me some further\\nallowance, considering the vast increase of y Necessaries\\nof Life. But it passed negatively.\\n21. The proceedings of y Town yesterday were to my\\nSurpri.se.\\n22. Mrs. Scott is improved to work here. vSophy\\ndroops.\\n23. A. M. on Zech. III. 9. 10. Cousen Sanuiel l^rig-\\nliam,^ besides our vSpinners, John Forbes and Sarah Miller,\\nDr. vSamuel Brighani, a son of IMrs. vStepheii Maynard, conse-\\nquently Mrs. Parkmau s nephew. He was a graduate of Dartmouth\\nCollege, although in 1777 he served as paymaster in Washington s\\narmy. He studied medicine with Dr. Ball, of Northborough, and\\nmarried the doctor s sister, Mary. He practiced for a while in\\nShrewsbury, until a casualty befel him which forced him for life\\nalmost entirely from practice.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PAKKMAN.\\n13\\ndind here. N. B. Mr. Batherick stops me in my going\\nto meeting p. m. and acquaints me that Mr. Jonas Bradish\\nwas here, and desired y- Church might be desired to stay\\nafter y\u00c2\u00ab Exercises. It was sudden, and at that juncture,\\nan interruption. But I spoke to Mr. Bradish and several\\nof y- Brethren, who he had been talking with, viz. Capt.\\nJonas Brigham, cS: Mr. Sam Forbush who joined in y^\\n(verbal) Request y* the Church might be spoke to, and a\\nmeeting appointed.\\nP. M. I read Eph. 5 and preached on v. 6.\\nI detained y*^ Church, and appointed a Meeting on Tues-\\nday next at 2 p. m. Sophy not well and took physick this\\nmorning, but knew it not till it worked.\\n24. I went to Squire Baker s. Mr. Jonas Bradish there,\\nwho gives me reason to expect today some such Paper\\nfrom him as he designs to lay before y^ Church, but (as\\nusual disappoints me. Squire Baker again relieves me as\\nto pasturing my sheep, if I will obtain of Mr. Elisha Forbes\\nto keep his uncle pli s nine.\\nMiss Eliza Beals came in to see me and consult me upon\\nher Spiritual State\u00e2\u0080\u0094 mentions several Scriptures She would\\nhave me preach upon, but which I have already. As to\\nher bodily State, she is grown exceeding dropsical.\\nAt eve came Mr. John Belknap Jun- of New Braintree,\\nand is full of exceptions against Mr. Foster\u00e2\u0080\u0094 has got also\\nMr. Isaac Foster s (the father s) ordination sermon preached\\nat New Braintree. He leaves it for me to read.\\n25. I sent for Mr. Elisha Forbes, who came and told me\\nhe would take care of his uncle s nine sheep, that they may\\nnot trouble me any more. No Mr. Bradi.sh though I staid", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "132 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nat home to wait on him. At half after 10 I received his\\nLetter to be laid before y*^ Church, p. m. Church Meeting,\\nbut not till after three by reason of y member s Delin-\\nquency. Mr. Bradish came his paper read. I answered\\nit. Many debates ensued. At length he confesses in such\\na manner as that the Church voted Acceptance, and for y\\nSake of peace, I conceived it best to forgive him, and thus\\nwe emerged from this Difficulty, for which I am heartily\\nthankful We began and ended with prayer.\\n26. Wrote (and copied) a Certificate concerning Jonas\\nBradish directed to Rev. Mr. Jos. Brown of Winchendon.\\nThis day of great Solemnity when y Heads of y*^ Tribes\\nassemble together for y grand purposes of Seeking y God\\nof our Fathers, and hearing what God y^ Lord has to say\\nto us as likewise to exercise that invaluable privilege of\\nchoosing y*^ Counsellors for this State and this happ} Sea-\\nson for y^ Convention of Ministers. I am obliged in pru-\\ndence all things considered to stay at Home, where, how-\\never may my Heart join with all those who gratefully cele-\\nbrate y^ praises of God giving thanks to His Name, and\\nwould earnestly implore pardoning Mercy for y^ whole Land 1\\nand the continuance of all public and personal Blessing, that\\nthe judgments of God may be removed, that we may be ex-\\ntricated out of our Difficulties, and be lead in y*^ Paths ot\\nRest and Peace\\n27. Visited poor John Bond, under grievous lameness,\\nand prayed with him dined at Col. Brigham s, in my way\\nto old Mrs. Beaman, who I visited and prayed with. Mr.\\nJohn Belknap jun. here again, about Mr. Daniel Foster s", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 133\\nDoctrines. I have read his F s sermon, with the notes.\\nMr. Ithamar Bellows dies about 5 p. m.\\n28. Mr. John Belknap calls once more, as he is return-\\ning home takes y^ Book he lent me is very free, against\\nMr. Foster and deeply concerned what will be y^ Event.\\np. M. Mr. W Brigham s wife, near neighbor to Col.\\nBrigham here, drinks Coifee with us c. My kinsman,\\nMr. Thos. Needham, returning from camp at Fish-kill to\\nhis family at Salem, comes in to see me he is more out of\\nHealth than w^hen he was here last ear, and thinks not to\\ngo to y^ Army again.\\n29. Attended Mr. Ithamar Bellows Funeral and prayed.\\nMay God please to sanctifie y*^ Death of y*^ aged Brother\\nto us!\\n30. A. M. Read Zech. IV. and gave expository notes\\non y*^ former part, but preached on Eph. 5. 6. Preached\\np. M. on Rom. 8. 11. by reason of Mr. Bellows death. Mr.\\nSam. Barrett of Hopkinton and Mrs. Maynard dind here.\\n31. Mr. Broaders comes and informs me of y^ Death\\nof Mr. Dan How, which occurred yesterday towards night.\\nAged 54 last October. N. B. I appointed a Catechizing\\non next Thursday A. p. m. and am. (by divine assistance)\\nto preach at y^ private Meeting tomorrow so that the\\nFuneral must be tomorrow morning, and he must be buryed\\nin Northboro in that south part^ where his Father and\\nMother were interred.\\n^This burying-ground was used when Westborough and North-\\nborough were one town. It is now overgrown with large trees, but\\nvery many graves can still be traced. A few are marked with names\\nand dates on the headstones, more, simply by a common field stone", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "134 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nMr. Willard of Mendon and Mr. Edmund Foster, preacher\\nat Marlboro having changed yesterday, met and baited\\nhere. Breck receives of me ^.300 which I commit to him\\nas either lending it to him or partly to pay for a yoke of\\noxen bot of Mr. Crooks for ^200, and y^ remaining 100 to\\ntrade with as may be most prudent to save y^ sinking. Old\\nMr. Wait of Ashburham here. Lt. Grout here to enquire\\ninto y^ meeting at his House.\\nJune 1779\\nI attended y^ Funeral of Mr. Daniel How, who dyed at\\nMr. Fessenden s. Mr. Woodward of Weston and his Ladie,\\non a journey to Hartford, Springfield c. called and dind\\nhere.\\np. M. I preached at Lt. Grout s on Lam. i. 9. into page\\ngth\\n2. Breck returns from Boston. Eph Parker is prepar-\\ning to go with the Oxen and Horse to Waltham for earthen\\nWare. I wrote a letter for Sister Champney to Mr. Ripley\\nof Concord, about her Chest. I covered it with a Letter to\\nmy Son W in reply to his of May 24, received by Breck.\\n3. Eph went to Waltham, sat out about 3 a. m. N.\\nB. Timothy Bryant s Time being out, he went with\\nParker, in order to return to his Mother at Stoneham. I\\ngave him eight dollars, which was as much as I could\\nspare. I wrote by him to his Mother May God be the\\nguardian of his Youth Mr. Elisha Forbes directs that his\\nuncle Eli s sheep be sent to his pasture, and his brother\\nat the head and foot. The burying-ground is now in Northborough,\\non Brigham Street, a short distance from the Westborough line.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n135\\nSimon, with Billy Spring, drives 3 there. I catechize at\\ny\u00c2\u00ab Meeting House. 34 Boys. 44 Girls. After catechizing\\nI married Phineas Hardy to Sarah Wiman. He gave me\\nEight Dollars.\\nN. B. Mr. Joseph Harrington was here and manifested\\nDisgust at y*^ Proceedings of y^ late Council at Bolton. At\\neve, but before Sun.setting, I by Request of Mr. Sam l\\nForbush, went to his House. He has been raising a new\\nBarn,^ and moving part of an Old One. I was at their\\nSupper, after which we Sang part of Ps. 112.\\n4. Eph Parker returned from Waltham with a load of\\nearthen ware for Breck. Mrs. Ruth Godfrey came to see us,\\nand tarrys over night with us.\\n5. Mrs. Godfrey returns home. She is very much out\\nof Health, and (I understand) reduced in worldly Circum-\\nstances.\\n6. Preached on Zech. IV. 6-10. Mrs. Maynard dind\\nhere.\\np. M. preached on Rom. 8. 11. I did not read today.\\n7. Col. Cushing brot my Grandson John Cushing from\\nShrewsbury, to reside a while with us. Breck acquaints\\nme with his great Eosses by y^ Remarkable Depreciation\\nof ye medium, p. m. Messrs. Daniel Forbes and Joseph\\nHarrington here to talk with me about Mr. Daniel Adams\\nand his wife s indecent living apart: and what method must\\nbe taken with them But most probably their design was\\n(and Mr. Gale came in to join them) to find fault with y\\n1 Mr. Samuel Forbush s barn still stands facing Lyman Street.\\nIn 1812, the soldiers enlisted for the war, used it for their barracks.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "136 DIARY OF REV. EBEXEZER PARKMAN.\\nResult of y late Council at Bolton. And they request they\\nmay have it read to y again on the next Lecture Day.\\n8. I rode to Mr. Nat. Whitney s in Grafton to talk with\\nHannah Whitney about her Humiliation and joining with\\ny Church. Then proceeded to Mr. Grosvenor s, but nei-\\nther he nor she was at home. I went into Mr. Joseph\\nBrown s, with hope to see his Electrical Machine, but he\\nwas again gone to Providence. His lady was generous in\\nentertaining me. I dind there and she sent her son Oba-\\ndiah to call Mr. Henstick, the baptist Minister, to show me\\ny*^ said Machine. Mr. Grosvenor had by this time returned\\nfrom Sutton, and came to me, and kindlj assisted Mr. Hen-\\n.stick in y^ Electrical Operations, which were wonderful. I\\nwas electrized a number of times, the rather as it was said to\\nbe a Remedy against y^ Cramp, which I am much subject to.\\nThe Experiments led me to utter, how Manifold are thy\\nWorks, O Lord, in Wysdom hast thou Made y all. In\\nreturning home, I came by Mr. I.saiah Fairbanks and Mr.\\nNurse s Miss Lydia and Miss Rebecca request a Fast may\\nbe kept at their House, and that Mr. Sumner and Mr. Fisk\\nmay be sought to perform on that occa.sion. The time, to\\nbe, God Willing, this day Fortnight. I came home safely\\nthrough the Divine Goodness to me.\\n9. vSophy with Mr. Brigham, in Mr. Newton s Chai.se,\\ngoes to Marlboro. Mr. Goodall here and shows me Cer-\\ntificate of his Ordination at large, or as a Missionary, to go\\nto the State of ermont. Mr. Elijah Hardy s wife makes\\nus a visit.\\n10. Si.ster Champney is putting up her things in order\\nto leave us. Mr. Mellen and his wife call and drink Coffee.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF RKV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 1 37\\nA Training Day with y South Company. Much imprudent\\nFiring. Read Roman s Annals of y^ Netherlands, Vol. I.\\nII. Sister Champney left us to go to Mr. Jonas Bond s\\nin Sutton. My son Breck went with her in Mr. Barn. New-\\nton s Chaise, left her at Mr Bond s. We have bad news\\nof a Fleet .supposed to be British, on our Coast, and some\\nother Evil Tidings.\\n12.\\n13. Delivered another exercise on Zech. IV. viz. from\\nV. II to y End.\\nThe widow of y late Capt. Benj. Fay dined with us.\\np. M. Considering y this is y^ Time when Invasions and\\na new campaign are feared, I delivered again a sermon on\\nIsa. 1. 19 to y beginning of page 7. with divers alterations\\nand additions.\\n14. Send by Dr. Hawes, a Letter to Mr. Moore, also to\\nMr. Thos. Adams.\\n15. Rain y Forenoon. I could not go to Northboro\\nAs.sociation, dined at home, but p. m. I went to Mr. Whit-\\nneys. Mr. Stone, Smith and Goss there. I returned at\\nEve. Breck and his Wife Dauter, Mr. Brigham Sophy\\nare gone, in two Chaises, to Boston. Mr. Forbes and Miss\\nCharlotte Saunders came at eve, lodged here Capt.\\nMaynard s work men are moving y*^ Walls.\\n16. Mr. Forbes and his Dauter left us to go to Brook-\\nfield. N. B Before he went, his cousin Elisha came, and\\nthey agree about ye nine Sheep of Mr. F. which I have here-\\ntofore kept. Mr. Aaron Smith came dind with us Lt.\\nBond, and with him a yoke of Oxen and Horse my Eph.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "138 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZIiR PARKMAN.\\nParker with my oxen and Breck s mare go on in plowing\\nfallow ground at y*^ Island.\\n17. I looked for Mr. Whitney to preach my Lecture,\\nbut he did not come. I preached myself on Ps. 139. 23. to\\ny latter part of page 6 concluded with a few warm Ex-\\npositions extemp.\\nMr. Daniel Forbes, Mr. Gale Mr. Joseph Harrington\\ntother Day requested y*^ Church might be stopped and y\\nlate Result at Bolton might be read again to y I there-\\nfore gratified them, but it was at y* sad Cost of our Peace\\nfor there were presently bitter Exceptions against y Result\\nand against y^ Council y* formed it. I endeavored to open\\nand to explain every Difficulty, and ease every Complaint\\nbut it was in vain. They were not quiet when we parted.\\nI desire to be humble before God on acct. of this sorrowful\\nToken of his holy Displeasure, and pray for Divine Pity.\\nAt my House were Messrs. John P ay and Eli Brigham,\\nwho also eat with me and we were chearful notwithstand-\\ning what I had met with.\\nN. B. One Mr. Haden of Grafton tells me that they are\\nin great Confusion, having had a meeting there to see\\nwhether they should build a new Meeting House or whether\\nthey should repair y*^ old one and whether they would grant\\nMr. Grosvenor some Relief; but they contended and would\\ndo neither. For which I am sorely grieved.\\n18. I am in some Fear y the disquieted Brethren will\\ndesire to have the Communion deferred, but none came\\nto me.\\n19. We are in anxiety about Mr. Forbes and Dauter,", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "DIARY OK REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 139\\nwhich should have come last night, Commencement at Cam-\\nbridge.\\n20. Administered y Lord s Supper\u00e2\u0080\u0094 preached a. m on\\nPs. 139. 24. (having read the Ps. publicly) p. m. on Ps.\\n36. 1-7. Squire Whipple and his wife and Mrs. Maynard\\ndind here.\\nN. B. Congress s Address to y^ States about y- Currency,\\ntho long, it was read partly by me and partly by Deacon\\nBond and Mr. Elijah Brigham, in y Congregation. Mr.\\nDaniel Nurse tells me that the designed Fast at his Sister s,\\nis put off till after y*^ busy Season.\\n21. Mr. Forbes and Dauter Charlotte came from Spen-\\ncer, he having preached there yesterday and sent Mr. Mac-\\ncarty to Concord, they lodge here. Town Meeting and\\nTraining to raise nine men forthwith but they do not suc-\\nceed.\\n22. Mr. Forbes and dauter leave us to go to Concord,\\nCamb. and Boston. Wrote to Elias by him.\\np. M. came Mr. Joh. Hobby from Concord, and brot Mrs.\\nMinot to see us. They lodge here.\\n23. Eph Parker begins to Mowe.\\nMr. Hobby, Mrs. Minot and Sophy walk up to Squire\\nBaker s, but return to dine with us. p. m. our Company\\nleave us to go to Northboro, and Mr. Brigham and Sophy\\naccompany y Mr. Fitch visits, to tell me he is engaged\\nto Change with Mr. Sanford next Sabbath, but will change\\ny*^ II of July. Mr. Cushing and Mr. W May came and\\nlodged here.\\n24. I was a while at y Hay. Mr. Cushing after Dinner", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "I40 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\ngoes to lyancaster, and carrys his son John with him, to go\\nhome.\\n25. Mr. Henry Quincy came to Break fast with Breck\\nrefreshed himself with me at 10. By him I wrote to his\\nFather now at Newtown and to Mr. Thos. Adams of Med-\\nfield, who I hear is much out of Health.\\n26. Received from Mr. Moore two Letters dated\\nHe informs me that his Negro Man, Cato, is taken by y\\nbritish force, and y he has lost 1500 wt. of Rice. I hear of\\nRejoicings lately at Boston and Cambridge, on account of\\nGen l Lincoln s \\\\^ictory over y*^ English Army in South\\nCarolina.\\nFor several days I have drooped, and have but low Appe-\\ntite, especially at dining. I am become thinner, but Ps.\\n73. 26.\\n27. Was but faint and my Exercises too long.\\nRead Zech. V. from i to 4 v was ye Exercise A. M. On\\nIsa. I. 19. to page 11 p. M. Admitted Hannah Whitney to\\nMr. Heur} CJuiticy, called the handsomest man in Boston,\\nthe 2d son of Mr. Parknian s dear friend. Judge Edmund Ouinc\\\\-,\\nb. Jan y 26, 1726-27. He was twice married and had a family of\\ntwelve children. Soon after his death in Cambridge, in 1780 (see\\nJournal June 5, 1780), his family moved to Boston, with Judge\\nQuiucy, and were obliged to take boarders. Among these was the\\nyoung French Consul to the United States, Mons. Joseph Dupas de\\nValnais, his secretary and friends. In 1781, he married the daugh-\\nter, Eunice Quincy, and two years afterwards she went to Paris,\\nwhere she died about a dozen years later. Her husband and daugh-\\nter returned later to this country, in 1816, where they were wel-\\ncomed by the Ouincy family.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "-MA HAM irA.NNAH I ARKMAX.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. I43\\nCharity, and into Church Fellowship, and baptized a Child\\nof Mr, Benj. Warrin s.\\n28. Read Bell s Travels thro Siberia and Tartary to\\nPekin. I was somewhat lively, yet not as heretofore. I\\nthank God for my Preservation and earnestly wish for\\nGrace to improve my Time and Talents.\\n29. I opened and spread Hay a while A. M. Mrs. P.\\nhas rid unto y*^ South of y Town to procure Worsted\\nCombings. She went to y*^ Outermost House and returned\\nin Safety, p. m. the News Papers which contain Gen l\\nLincoln s Victory over the british Forces in South Carolina.\\nTo God be glory! I wTote to Mr. Jonas Bond of y North\\nof vSutton concerning Sister Champney.\\n30. Some part of y Day I was feeble and faint, heart-\\nless and do but little Cur mundus, militat sub vana\\nGloria c. c.\\nAfterwards I had somewhat more of Vivacity D. G. The\\nLord is Long-Suffering to astoni.shment!\\nJuly 1779\\nRead part of Dr. Cotton Mather s Agathangelus Celes-\\ntinus. Thus far it appears to be a very useful quicken-\\ning Book. I have reason to bless God and would heartily\\ndo .so, for the eminent Writings of that pious and learned\\nman.\\nDr. Hawes, who has returned from Court, was here and\\ncommunicated to me some of the Transactions of y^ As-\\nsembly, and what y Town of Boston have, by their Com-\\nmittee of Correspondence, sent to y*^ Committee of Westboro\\nrelative to some fresh Efforts for y Appreciation of y^", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "144 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\npublic Currency. N. B. Thomas s Spy^ comes again to\\nthe Shop for a Numbers of y*^ Neighbors.\\n2.\\n3-\\n4. Preached A. M. on Zech. 3. 4 p, m. went on with\\nRepetition of Sermon on Isa. i. v. 19-20 to p. 15.\\n5. Visited Mr. Belknap- and dind there. He has a\\nWidow Sister that lives there. Her name is P lagg. I\\ncalled at Mrs. Seth Wood s, obtained of her to weave\\nfor us. I also made a Business of visiting and prayed with\\nold Mrs. Chamberlain. She was very ill and under hysteric\\nAffections. I called at Mr. W Johnson s. Young Mrs.\\nBelknap went with me to her Father s, Ensign Snowy s,\\n^The Massachusetts Spy was established in Boston, nine years\\nbefore this time. In 1775, for greater safety, it was removed to\\nWorcester, where it has since been published, and is now the old-\\nest newspaper in Massachusetts, and in the United States. It was\\nprinted by Isaiah Thomas, until 1802, a modest little sheet of four\\nsmall pages.\\n-The Belknap farm was Mr. Parkman s farthest point this day,\\nbeing near Rocklawn. John Belknap had come, a young man, to\\nWesborough soon after the incorporation of the town, and built a\\nlog hut on his farm, where he was besieged by wolves and Indians,\\nbut escaped from both, and lived to a good old age. At the age of\\neighty, he married the widow of the 2d Jonathan P orbes, Joanna\\nTainter. He was now eighty-two.\\nOn the way home, Mr. Parkman would go by the Chamberlain\\nhouses, Mr. Beeman s, and probably that of Mr. Thomas Andrews,\\nwho may have lived at this time with Thomas Forbush, his father-in-\\nlaw, in the house he afterwards owned. In this century the house\\nhas always been known as the Andrews house. The Andrews fam-\\nilv came from Salem.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 145\\nwho put a Cheese into my Saddle Baggs. I called at Mr.\\nBeeman s and at Mr. Thos. Andrew s. On my way home\\nI went into y^ Workhouse to see a Stranger who was taken\\nsick on y Road from Fishkill and going to his Family at\\nCasco Bay.\\n6. I went to y Private Meeting at Mr. Joseph Grout s\\nI preached on Lam. i. 9 from page S to 13. I was hand-\\nsomely entertained, but principally request y divine\\nBlessing.\\n7. Read Smalley s discourse on Joh. 6. 44. Visit y\\npoor Sick Stranger at y Workhouse,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and prayed with\\nhim. His name is James Webber of Purpoodock and has\\na Wife and two Children he is ill of bilious Fever and\\nCamp-Distemper.\\n8. I sent my Watch by Mr. Moses Nurse to Mr. Simon\\nWillard of Grafton the chain being loose, unhooked.\\niThis was a house built according to a vote passed in the March\\nmeeting of 1767\u00e2\u0080\u0094 To see if the Town will agree to build a work-\\nhouse and where to set it. They decided it should be set and\\nstand on a corner of Mr. Timothy Warrin s land. Mr. Timothy\\nWarren lived on the road to Southboro on the Warren farm just\\nbeyond where the turnpike crosses.\\n-Mr. Simon Willard, a famous clock-maker of Grafton and Bos-\\nton. He was a great-grandson of Capt. Benj. Willard, the 15th\\nchild of Major Simon Willard. Capt. Benjamin was one of the first\\nsettlers of Grafton. Simon s father, also a Benj. Willard, had\\ntwelve children, nine of whom were sons, and the second son, Ben-\\njamin, was probably the first clock-maker in New England. He\\nadvertises his clocks as made by his workmen in Grafton as well as\\nin Roxbury. Aaron and Simon were his brothers, and both were\\ndistinguished as clock-makers; Simon, especially, who lived until", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "146 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nN. B. Mr. Nurse ha.s brought from Mrs. Lydia Garfield\\n31 2 yds of tow cloth which she has wove, and for\\nwhich I paid 2t Dollars and 5 Shillings.\\n9. I was in .some perplexity about my Haying, because\\nnothing is done about it all this Week (except One Load on\\nMonday) and yet Parker is going to work at Harrington s.\\n10. I prepare for Hopkinton and p. m. I rode there. I\\ncalled to see old Mr. Jonas Warrin. I carry ed to Mr. Barrett\\nhis first Volume of Henry s Exposition. I lodged at Mr.\\nFitch s. Mr. Fitch to Westboro.\\n11. I preached at Hopkinton on Joel 3. 13 a. p. m.\\nIt rained at eve. It was so wet and uncomfortable that I\\ntarried there but yet Mr. Fitch himself got home.\\n12. Went to Mr. Barretts, where I was very affection-\\nately received. He lent me the third volume of Mr. Henry,\\nviz. on Job, P.salms c he lent me also the third volume\\nof the History of England in Folio and Howel s Familiar\\nLetters. 4 vols bound in one Oct. Book, but in his Gener-\\nosity he gave me the Folio which contains Dr. Stillingfleet s\\nSermons, twelve, and his Discourse on the True Reason of\\nthe Sufferings of Jesus Christ. This Cargo of Books I brot\\nHome.\\nHaving understood that Mr. James Webber was still sick\\n1848, and died then in Roxbury at the age of 96 leaving a son of\\nthe same name.\\nAt this time, when Mr. Parkman entrusted his watch to him, he\\nwas twenty-seven years old.\\nThe houses of the Willards were in the Farms Deestrict, near\\nWild Cat Swam]). Only a cellar hole shows where Simon s once\\nstood, but Benjamin s still defies the winds and storms of our New\\nluigland winters.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 1 47\\nat y^ Work house, I went there p. m. to see him and prayed\\nwith him. Mr. Thomas Adams of Medfield came at Even-\\ning with a number of Books and lodged here.\\nWe have a Sad Report y New Haven is taken by y^ Enemy.\\n13. Mr. Adams has brought home to me at length Sir\\nW Temple. He has led me also into an Exchange of a\\nnumber of Books viz. For Voetius 3 vols. I have Dr. Stan-\\nhope s Thomas a Kempis Dr. Calamy, of Vows: Hor-\\nneck s crucified Jesus, Dr Goodman s Old Religion. For\\nMons^ Boileau s 2^ vol and Mat Prior s Works 2 vols. I\\nhave Dr. Hammond s Annotations in large Folio. For the\\nLay Monastery, I have Herman Prudence, Three Select\\nPieces of Mr. Thos. Shepherd. For Comin s Real Christian,\\nunbound, I gave him at his proposal a Pound of Sugar. He\\npresented me a Pamphlet, Dr. Gibson on y*^ Sinfulness of\\nNeglecting and profaning the Lord s Day. N. B. I returned\\nhim his Drexilius on Eternity. He showed me a Manu-\\nscript of his Dauter s forming in 4 Alphabetical, and con-\\ntains an account of all manner of Errors, Sects, c in every\\nage of Chty. He sold Breck a number of unbound Books,\\nFirmin, Shaw, Shepherd, Doelittle c. After dinner he left\\nus to go to Sherburn.\\n14. Mr. Joh Hall of Hopkinton here. I visited and\\nprayed with y\u00c2\u00ab sick Stranger, Mr. James Webber. He is\\ngrown worse. May God prepare him and us for His Sov-\\nereign Will\\nMr. John Pigeon of Brookfield here and dind with us.\\n15. Am variously employed among the Books which I\\nlately had from Mr. Adams and Mr. Barrett, p. m. attended\\nMr. Webber s Funeral, prayed. We have y^ Sad News", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "148 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAX.\\nof y^ British Forces invading New Haven, Fairfield, Strat-\\nford c.\\n16. The news from New Haven is confirmed. Suse not\\nwell.\\n17. Isaac Balchvin came up from Cambridge where he\\nhas been examined and approved, tho not admitted into\\nCollege, lodges here. A Letter by Baldwin from Mr. I.\\nQuincy. Eph on Breck s Horse, at y Close of y Day, to\\nShrewsbury.\\n18. Read Ps. 103 and preached on v. 14. Sam. Brigham\\ndines, p. m. on Isa. i 20, finish that Di.scourse. At eve\\nI read in Stanhope s a Kempis on Death. May God grant\\nHis almighty Blessing to accompany my Weak Efforts\\n19. Parker returned from Shrew.sbury to his Work.\\nMr. Eleazar Fairbank of North Shrewsbury, trades with\\nBreak, and visits, dines, and spends good part of y p. m.\\nwith me.\\n20. Read preface to Shaw s Immanuel. Newspaper from\\nBoston, but am chiefly impressed and taken up with y*^\\nweighty, important Things, which relate to my Dissolution\\nand an eternal World. It is wonderful that I am no more\\naffected with them.\\n21. Breck goes to Boston. Mr. Elisha Forbes with his\\nTeam goes down to load up for him. Miss Polly Howard\\nhere making Lace for my Dauter Cushing. Mr. John\\nPidgeon came in his way to Brookfield, and lodges here.\\nHe brings fresh news of our Success against y*^ Enemy in\\nrecovering y Fort on Hudson s River, which they had\\nlately taken from y^ vStates, fortified more Strongly,\\nwhich is called vStoney Point, near King s Ferry May", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 149\\nGod grant to His people a suitable Frame of Mind upon\\nSuch Occasions\\nElias came from Cambridge.\\n22. Sr. Fisk (as now I suppose he is honored) made us\\na Vi.sit and dind here. Mrs. Lam.son ill, her aunt Knowl-\\nton, who tends on her, lodges here.\\n23. Mr. Eben, Allen, a Stranger, born at y* Vineyard,\\nhis parents live at Rochester, himself a Preacher, came here\\nto see me, stayed and dind, is going to Needham to preach\\nthere.\\nBreck returns from Boston, tells me Salley is very com-\\nfortable.\\n24. I have very much left my Husbandry Business with\\nParker. and betake myself to my Studys.\\n25. Preached a. m. on Zech. v. 3.4. Mrs. Maynard dind\\nhere. P. :m. for y* sake of some Disconsolate persons, and a\\nView to y^ Communion next Sabbath, I repeated with some\\nAdditions sermon on Ps. 69.32, which may God graciou.sly\\nsucceed At eve read a Kempis Book IV. Chap. i. the Com-\\nmunion being appointed.\\n26. Applyed myself to Studys and began my Prepara-\\ntions. Mr. Waters from Newtown, where he has been\\npreaching calls here. The Rain upon our Hay. it much per-\\nplexes and disappoints in various Respects.\\n27. Mrs. P. is with my N^ Harrington s wife in her\\nTravail.\\n28. They have a Dauter born. I read Bell s Travels to\\nPekin, went to see Mrs. Harrington. Mrs. Dolly Rice\\nhere.\\n29. Mrs. Lanison being still in a very unfit Situation to", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "150 DIARY OF RE\\\\ EBEXEZER PARKAIAN.\\nbe alone, has Mrs. Drury, Danter of her aunt Knowlton\\nwith her from Day to Day, but she lodges here ever since\\nlast vSaturday night.\\n30. Drury Fairbank, who sometime ago was Sick and\\nlanguishing, under a dangerous consumptive Cough, is\\nstrangely raised to Health, and is going into y Service, p.\\nM. came from Worcester, my Dauter Baldwin, with her son\\nIsaac waiting upon her. vShe has been of late much borne\\ndown with her Disorders, but is (just now) somewhat\\nbrighter. They lodge here, as does Mrs. Ell well, who in\\ncoming to help Mrs. Lamson, had a Fall from her Hor.se,\\nand is rendered incapable to help her,\\n31. Lsaac Baldwin returns to Brookfield, but leaves his\\nMother and her Chaise here. Mr. Waters returning to\\nNewtown. How swiftly this month has fled So teach us\\nto number our Days that we may apph^ our Hearts to Wis-\\ndom\\nAugust 1779.\\nA. M. on Ps: 36. 7. Administered the Lord s Supper,\\nwhich may God graciously accept. Mrs. IVIaynard dind\\nhere.\\np. M. preached on Ps 4. 7. to p. 9. O y this might be\\ny Frame of my own vSoul N. B. Did not read publickly.\\nAt eve, read Mr. Dolittle s XHI Chapter on duty after\\nreceiving y vSacrament.\\n2. Breck has found sundry books for me, viz Dr. Scott s\\nvSerm. Vol. II. Which is on y Love of God Firmin s\\nReal Christian and Shepherd s Three Select Pieces, and\\nmended several others. Mr. Jo.seph Harrington has brot a", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 151\\nL,oiii of Veal, which I would take a grateful notice of. Ru-\\nmours of a British Fleet.\\nThe Town meet on a number of important Articles rela-\\ntive to the affairs of y^^ State particularly to choose several\\nDelegates for y Conventions. We are to meet for Prepar-\\ning a plan of Government in this State, and another respect-\\ning the Depreciation of money, c. Mr. Nathan Maynard\\njun goes to Boston for Breck and carries in his Team Mr.\\nEli Forbes Trunk. old Mr. David Maynard here and\\ncarrys to Mr. Peter Whitney s, Henry on Psalms c.\\n3. I preach at y*^ private Meeting at Dea. Bond s on\\nL,am. I. 9. finished y^ Subject. Mr. P. Whitney commu-\\nnicates some Letters. Elias went to Mr. Simon Willard of\\nGrafton, and brot from him my Watch mended and cleaned,\\nand Transactions of Mr. Goss and y Brethren of y^ South\\nChurch in Bolton. He has lately preached at y Dedication\\nof y new Meeting House there, on that Text 2 Chron\\n6. 41.\\n4. Moses Warren of Upton came from Mr. Fitch s of\\nHopkinton, and bought a Greek Grammar of my son Elias.\\nI read the Art of Speaking, y is y*^ first part which is the\\nEssay on Rules c. At eve, Mr. Isaac Parker, who is\\nvery friendly and generous.\\n5. Elias goes to Worcester for Mr. Isaac Parker to bring\\nye Newspapers. Capt. Fisher here. He listens to Geo-\\ngraphical Description. Read y admirable Character of Dr.\\nSol. Way by Mr. Cogswell. Mrs. Eliz Pratt of Worcester\\ncame in to see me.\\nElias returning home, brings me word from Mrs. Parker", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "152 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nof Shrewsbun (where he dind), y my Sister Gushing is\\nsick.\\n6. I left my Study to visit Sister Gushing. Mr. Mo.ses\\nNur.se has bought my son Breck s fine mare .so y (tho it\\nwas more tedious to me) I rode his grey Hor.se. to Shrews-\\nbury, dined at Mr. Sumner s. A isit old Madam Gushing,\\nwho is sick of a Fever, c, but is somewhat better today.\\nAt her Request, I prayed with her. I rode to Mr. Amos\\nParker s. In returning I stopt at Mr. Isaac Davis about\\nsoal leather.\\n7. By reason of Various Hindrances Interruptions,\\nI made but a little Preparation for y Sabbath It is a more\\nthan ordinary rainy Season. Mrs. P n s lameness is\\nmuch increased and fills her with Smart.\\n8. It is .still wet Weather. I preached A. p. m. y\\nrest of y Discour.se on Ps 4. 7. which may we all be duely\\neffected with\\nMr. Samuel Barrett of Hopkinton and his Wife came over\\nto our Meeting (Mr. Fitch and his lady being gone to Gon-\\nnecticut dined c. here. At eve, I read in y^ Family some\\nChap, of Thomas a Kempis. N. B. The Widow Sarah Smith\\nis in Glooms again.\\n9. I vi.sit old Mrs. Smith, but .she is exceedingly changed\\nand is not willing to talk with me. Mr. Child also is very\\nmuch exercised with Pains I prayed with y and greatl}\\npityed y Went to Mr. Daniel Nurse s and his Sister.s\\n1 His sister Cu.shi.ng was the mother of his sou-in-law, the wife\\nof the Rev. Job Gushing. She lived uearly twenty years after this,\\nand died at the age of ninety.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. KBEXEZHR PARKMAN. 1 53\\nto Mr. Thos. Whitney s and dind there. He tells me he\\nwill have another talk with Mr. Benj. Fay in order to\\n1 Thomas Whitney lived in that part of Shrewsbury called the\\nShoe, in the house on the North Grafton road, next easterly to\\nthat of Dea. Nourse.\\nTHOS. WHITNEY HOUSE.\\nHe and his wife both lived to a green old age, and their grave-\\nstones still stand in the Memorial Cemetery.\\nIn 1762, when most of the farms in the Shoe were annexed to\\nWestborough, he was left behind in Shrewsbury entirely sur-\\nrounded by Westborough. We do not know, sa3 S the West-\\nborough Historian, whether he loved Shrewsbury more or West-\\nborough less; but the General Court, with more regards for indi-\\nvidual wishes than in town divisions of the present day, allowed\\nhis farm to remain a part of vShrewsbury. In 1793 this farm was", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "154\\nDIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAX.\\nmake up their Difference was informed by him also y Mr.\\nSamuel Fay would have me go to his House. I went in to\\nTimothy Whitney s, visited at Mr. Joseph Hardy s, went to\\nsee Mr. Eli Whitney and his new Wife called at Mr. Phin.\\nHardy s went to Mr. Elisha Forbes, Mr. Tainter and his\\nannexed to Westborough, in response to a petition of Elijah Whit-\\nney, his son. Eli Whitney was of another family, and was the\\nfather of Eli Whitney, the inventor of the cotton-gin. He lived on\\nthe well-known farm on Eli Whitney Street, in the house whose pic-\\nture has been preserved for us by Barbour s Historical Collections.\\nThe son Eli, at this time, was a boy of fourteen. The large monu-\\nment in the Memorial Cemetery, near the Whitney house, marks\\nthe spot where Eli Whitney and his first wife, Elizabeth Fay, who\\ndied in 1777, were buried. No mention appears on the stone of the\\nnew wife, Judith Hazelton, whom he had married a month or\\ntwo before this time.\\nELI WHITNKV HOUSK.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "DIARY OK REV. EBENEZER PARKMAX. 155\\nson Benj s Family. I made a Business of Seeing and dis-\\ncoursing^ with y^ Stranger Polly Brown drank Tea at\\nForbes s.\\n10. The Season for getting Hay has been singularly dif-\\nficult, by reason of so much foul Weather. Yestei day indeed\\nwas fair, but today arose a Thunder Storm and poured\\ndown heavy Showers. At eve I wrote to Mr. Quincy.\\n1 1 Sent my Letter to Mr. Q by Breck, who hurried me\\nso y I was obliged to send him a mere Fragment, without\\naccomplishing my Plan. The Hay Business is attended with\\ngreat Difficulty, by reason of much Wet Weather. Divers\\nPeople have many Loads under Water.\\n12. Still Cloudy and rainy broken Time for Workmen.\\nSunshine p. m. They go to y*^ Hay at y Swamp between 4\\n5. N. B. Mr. Nathan Kenney s little Lucy about 4 years\\nold) was scalded by squatting into a Tray of Hot Water. Dr.\\nHall of Sutton calls here in Return from Boston. Major\\nPeter Harwood of Brookfield came to see my Dauter Bald-\\nwin. He leaves us to go to his Grandfather s, Capt. Hub-\\nbard of Worcester y^ Eve.\\n13. Parker went to my little Flock in vSquire Baker s\\npasture, got a Lamb, killed it did not weigh it it was\\nvery small. Breck returned from Boston but was much\\novercome by y^ Rain and Fatiegue of his Journey young\\nHenry Pigeon here and dind with us. p. m. Rev. Fitch,\\nhis wife and sucking son Elijah they dind here. Lent\\nMr. Fitch, Stillingfleet s Origines Sacrae. Mrs. Hawes\\nand her Cousin, Miss Jerusha King, at Tea here.\\n14. Elias to Northboro, and carrys to Mr. Whitney,\\nMr. Charles Stearns Book of y Art of Speaking.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "156 DIARV OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n15. Read Levit. 19 to v. 18, and took v. 12 for my Text\\nto introduce my Exercise on Zech: v. 4 from page 70 to 74.\\np. M. repeat Sermon on II Peter i. 10 to y end of page 8,\\nwith omissions of what related to y Lord s Supper. At\\nevening repeated principal parts of it.\\n16. Elias shews me his Quarter Bills which are not paid,\\nviz.\\nto Feb. 26. i77q which is i7- 3- 4\\nThe 4th Quarter Bill from Feb. 26 to May 2S. 1779 is ^S. 5. o\\nwhich\\ndeduct. 64. S. 4 buttery\\nBesides these Mr. Philips Paylons Buttery bill added\\nSizing from Nov. 27. 1778 to July 14. 1779 3S. is. o not paid. is lo;,. 6. 4\\nN. B. This gave me some Difficulty that these several\\nBills were unpaid, seeing I gave Elias an Hundred Dollars\\non March 17, and with a View to his discharging that Bill\\nwhich was due on Feb. 26 last. Besides which he had\\nmore of me at different Times in y Spring particularly on\\nMay 31, 14 Dollars, delivered by Breck more by Breck\\nagain about y^ same time ^22. 4. o. (that is 74 Dollars,\\nwhich with tlie 14 Dollars on May 31, as aforesaid, made\\n88 Dollars.\\nN. B. The Town met p. m. to .see whether they would\\nconcur with what the Convention of Worcester have re-\\nsolved upon as to y Prices of Things, Lab Goods c, and\\nconsented thereto. Chose also a Committee of three to Set\\na Price on Ics.ser Articles, which y Convention omitted.\\nThey were Dr. Hawes, Mr. Jo.seph Harrington and Capt.\\nFisher. X. B. Drury Fairbanks desires to be marryed, tho\\nhe has not been 14 days on y*= Town Clerk s Book. Mr.\\nWeare Isaac Forbush came willi him, but I refused.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PAKKMAN. 1 57\\n17. I had an Horse of Deacon Wood to go to Minister s\\nMeeting at East Sudbury. Breck being gone to Ashburn-\\nham. I delivered to Elias 100 Dollars for y Steward c.\\nIn riding y Journey I overtook Mr. Stone, and we remarked\\ny^ great Loss of Hay on Sudbury Meadows, by y late Rains.\\nAt Mr. Bridge s were Messrs. Stone, Goss, Whitney, New-\\nell but Mr. Smith was gone a Journey and was not re-\\nturned. The same as at last Meeting, was Moderator. Mr.\\nBridge prayed. After dinner our Subjects were, Mr. Goss\\ngrievances, and y Dissensions at Marlborough mentioned\\nby Mr. Whitney. I would fain have recommended to have\\na Concio, or Collections, or some Questions answered y we\\nmay redeem our Time, and render our associating y more\\nprofitable. When we broke up., I rode to my Son Wil-\\nliam s and lodged there.\\n18. Rode from my Son s to Coll. Week s, where my\\nHorse as well as myself was refreshed. The Colonel re-\\nquested I would visit old Mr. Sam l Wit, who was very old\\nand weak and he would go with me. We went found\\nhim in a good Frame. He spoke to the following purpose\\nin a raised. Strong and Solemn Manner. I had rather\\nhave the Glorious God for my Portion, and an interest in y\\nMerits of Jesus Christ, than to be Lord of y-^ Whole World.\\nAt his Desire I prayed with him. At taking leave, he ex-\\npressed himself as much obliged to me, glad I would visit\\nhim asked my Prayers still for him. I called a little at\\nMr. Simon How s, who lent me Mr. Hubbard of Ipswich s\\nNarrative of y Indian Wars. Isaac Baldwin came from\\nBrookfield to his Mother s great Comfort. Mr. Jacob Fos-\\nter, late minister of Berwick, came and lodged.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "158 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n19. My Dauter Baldwin left us, waited on by her son\\nIsaac. Mr. Foster went on his Journe} to Canterbury.\\n20.\\n21. Winslow Brigham having led an Horse to Ashburn-\\nham, for Pamela Coolidge to live with us but returns with-\\nout her, to Mrs. Parkman s great disappointment.\\n22. On Zech: v. 4. to page 73, but used for my Text\\nagain Levit. 19. 12. p. m. delivered 3 re.st of Di.scourse\\non II Peter i. 10. with some additions. At eve read a part\\nof Mr. Culverwells on that Text entitled The White Stone,\\nwhich may God bless\\n23. Read part of Clark s Lives. Isaac Baldwin and\\nNeddy Parkman came from Brookfield and lodged here.\\n24. Elias to whom I delivered 30 Dollars more see on\\ny 17th) left us to return to Cambridge and with him Isaac\\nBaldwin. Neddy goes with y to bring back y*^ Horses.\\nBreck has Carpenters at work to raise y* Back Roof of his\\nStore. Mrs. P. is carried to Squire Baker s. At eve she\\nreturns with a present of vSalt Beef and Six neets Tongues\\nfrom y^ old Gentlewoman.\\n25. Mr. Hez. Maynard of Marlboro here on account of\\na Draught of a Covenant to be used in their Assembl)^ pre-\\nvious to Baptism he having brot one that was deficient. I\\naltered and copyed it. Neddy Parkman returned from\\nCambridge he brot my Virgil and TuUy and some other\\nBooks from Elias. Neddy lodges here. The sad news from\\nPenobscot is confirmed.\\n26. An exceeding rainy time. Neddy cant return to\\nBrookfield. Stephen Maynard here and has brot a Relation.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 1 59\\nI read Mr. Fish s reply to Foster of Leicester on Infant\\nBaptism.\\n27. Neddy goes on his Journey to Brookfield.\\nMy son Wilham came with his Chaise for his Mother to\\ngo with him, to Concord (his Wife drawing near y*^ Time of\\nTravail). He, Capt. Goddard of Sutton, Dr. Stinson now\\nof Marlboro and Mr. Caleb Harrington dind with us. p.\\nM. Mrs. P. to Concord.\\nThe notorious Thomas Cook^ came in (he says) on pur-\\n1 Tom Cook is one of the picturesque characters of the day, aud\\nwe wonder, as we hear of his exploits, how he escaped the sad fate\\nof Hugh Henderson and Johnson Green, the latter captured in\\nWestborough and hanged as late as 1786 for breaking into three\\nhouses in Shrewsbury one night aud stealing, according to his own\\nconfession From Mr. Baldwin i pair of Shoes i pair of Silver\\nBuckles I furstan jaccot two all woll Do one Shirt cotton and linnen\\none bottle of New England Rum, two Cakes of Gingerbread 21\\ncoat and jaccot Buttons and four or five shillings in cash from Mr.\\nFarrar one pair of Shoes, i pair of Shoe Buckles silver one Pair\\nof Sizars 20 or 30 Coppers a remnant of black Sattin lasting one\\nlinnen pocket handkerchief from Mr Wyman about fifteen or six-\\nteen shillings in Cash part Silver and part Copper.\\nTom Cook, notorious even in Mr. Parkman s day, was supposed\\nby the good people of the town to have been pledged by his mother\\nthe Eunice Forbush who married Cornelius Cook and lived in\\nthe old house on the corner of East Main and Lyman streets to\\nserve the devil, an obligation which he willingly assumed as he\\ngrew up, and which he found of great assistance to him in the\\npursuit of his profession.\\nHe was known as the honest thief although he preferred to\\nbe called the leveller. He figures in many a tale of theft and\\nhighway robbery, but he rarely used his ill-gotten gains for him-\\nself, but usually bestowed them on some one lacking in this world s", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "l6o DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAX.\\npose to see me. I gave him what Admonition, Instruction\\nand caution I could. I be.seech God to give it Force He\\nleaves me with fair Words thankful and promising.\\n28. L,t. Townsend here to get a Dismission for himself\\nand Wife. The Front Wall of y East yard next y^ Road,\\nbuilt out to y*^ Fence that turns up to y House. A Barrel\\nof Cyder made at Lieut. Jon. Grout s.\\n29. I went on with y Exercises upon Zech: v. 4, but y\\ngoods, He selected his victims thoughtfully, choosing only those\\nwho could afford to help their needy neighbors and did not.\\nHe was arrested many times, and once was sentenced to be\\nhanged, but as he informed the Judge, when he heard the awful\\nwords, until you are dead- dead dead, he was not there that\\nday da} day, and he lived to a good old age and is still remem-\\nbered by a few in our midst.\\nHe is one of our legends now, and we write of him\\nIt was a superstitious age\\nWhen he first saw the light,\\nAnd boldly did his spirit guage\\nIts narrow rule of right.\\nAnd because he would not travel\\nIn the regulation wax-\\nHe was thought a son of Belial,\\nAnd beneath Satanic sway.\\nHe saw no more than we can see.\\nXor felt he more the fact\\nThat justice means equality,\\nHe only dared to act.\\nPoem read by Dr. Corey on Parkman Day.\\nHe was l^orn in 1738, consequently at this time was forty-one\\nyears old. He lived to be nearly ninety, and died on a run-away\\ntrip from the home provided for him by the town. His final level-\\nling cost the town forty dollars.\\nSee note on Dana s Tavern, Oct. 4, 1737.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF KRV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. l6l\\nText was Lev. 19. 12. Read Ex. XX. a. m. Read p. m.\\nActs 17. took V. 30 for my Text. Delivered both y Ser-\\nmons (with some omissions and a few Additions) which I\\npreached ahnost Ten years ago. Mr. Sumner being gone,\\nsundry Shrewsbury people were at Meeting here. Elmer\\nGushing Crosby dind here.\\n30. Breck goes to Boston. I read y Life of eminently\\npious Mr. John Janewey, which may God be graciously\\npleased to bless to my Quickening and eternal Profit\\n31. I took a Walk to Mr. Abr. Bonds to visit him and\\nhis Wife., under their great Affliction by their son John s\\ncontinued Lameness. I also went to see and talk with Mrs.\\nBarns being under y Guilt of Fornication. I solemnly called\\nher to Repentance, and I spent some time with Francis\\nWife. Then went to y^ Men who were out at plough.\\nWhen returned Home, I found here Rev. Mr. David Ripley\\nof Abington in Connetic. who dind with me and went on\\nhis Wa}\\nSeptember 1779.\\nBreck returns from Boston, brings me a joyful Letter\\nfrom W that his Wife was delivered last Saturday morning\\nat 8 A. M. of a Son, baptized John. p. m. My Dauter-in-law\\nKezia of New Marlboro came from Framingham and lodged\\nhere.\\n2. Kezia was going home to New Marlboro alone. The\\nDifficulty in finding y*^ Road to Lancaster, engaged me to\\ngo with her so far. I went. We dind at Mrs. Wilder s in\\nLancaster. Thence I went with my Dauter to t other Side\\ny*^ Meeting House, and set her in y Road to her Brother s", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "1 62 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nin Fitchbourg I turnd into Mr. Sheriff Greenleaf s thence\\nto Mr. Harrington s, he not at home, and sat out for home\\nbut in Northboro was compelled to go into Deacon Paul\\nNewton s to raising Supper, lodged there.\\n3. Broke fast at Mr. Whitney s borrowed Bp. Hall s\\nWorks, folio, and came home. Thanks to God. Col. Gush-\\ning and Major Brennan dind here. Four men to be raised\\nfrom the Town to go to Providence, for two months. A\\nLetter received from Sister Champney at Sutton.\\n4. Breck to Sutton, but I knew it not in season to write\\nan answer by him. A terrible Storm of Thunder and Light-\\nning, a very violent Crack suddenly and close by us. Afraid\\nwe shall hear of Sad effects. The Lord be prai.sed for our\\nPreservation. O y* Power and Goodness of God\\n5. Preached A. M. on Zech v. 5-8. p. m. on Prov. 15.\\n16, which may God graciously please to bless Appointed\\ny Communion and Lecture, but put by y private Meeting\\nwhich would otherwise have been at Mr. Tainter s. Mr.\\nDan l Forbes has been with me and desires y next Meeting\\nmight be at his House (Tainter agreeing to it) by rea.son of\\nold Mrs. vStone who lives there.\\n6. I wrote early to Rev. Mr. Stone of Southboro to\\npreach my Lecture on y^ 8th and sent it by Mr. Adonijah\\nPutnam of Sutton. I wrote to Sister Lydia Champney at\\nMr. Jonas Bond s in Sutton in reply to hers of Aug. 31. At\\neve came Nathan Flag from Grafton with a message from\\none Mrs. Mary Hasham, requesting me to attend y Funeral\\nof her Husband tomorrow at 2 p. m.\\n7. I rode to Grafton dind at Mr. Grosvenor s (He was\\ngone to Conway) I praj-ed at y Funeral of Mr. Hasham.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 1 63\\nat Mr. Aaron Willard s, paid him eleven Dollars for mend-\\ning my Watch. Mr. Simon Willard went with me to Mr.\\nJoseph Brown s and shewed me a Perambulator which he\\nhad made and fixed to Mr. Brown s Chaise. Alexander\\ncame and lodged here.\\n8. I received a note from Mr. Stone y he could not\\npreach my Lecture. The Town of Southboro meet today\\nto consider his Salary. I preached my Self. The Text was\\nRomans 15. 13. May God bless my Endeavors Alex-\\nander went to Marlboro but returned and lodged here.\\nSquire Whipple came in after Ivccture, gives but an indif-\\nferent Account of y*^ State of Things in New Braintrey.\\nThey go on under Mr. Foster, as if all was right.\\n9. This morning our neighbor Eamson who has been a\\nlong time very miserable was delivered of a fine large Boy,\\nto our great Rejoicing. Blessed be God, y God of Salva-\\ntion and may He perfect her Recovery Alexander and\\nBreck go to Worcester and return. David Fay and Pa-\\ntience Hovey were married. My son Alexander is .still\\nhere, and lodges here.\\n10. Alexander leaves us to go to Ashburnham and then\\nhome. I thought it my Duty to visit Mrs. Lam.son to rejoice\\nwith her and stir her up to y Duty of Dedicating her child\\nto God. p. M. came Mr. Charles Stearns of Leominster\\nlodged here. N. B. He informs y Mr. Whitney of Peters-\\nham dyed on Wednesday.\\nAt eve came Mr. John Belknap and Mr. Daniel Forbes\\nthey want that Mr. Dan. Adams should be desired to for-\\nbear coming to y^ Sacrament. I dont consent without they\\nwrite and sign it, which they do.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "164 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n11. Mr. Stearns goes to Mr. vStone s. Mrs. P. came home\\nfrom Concord with my son W and his little Sophy is with\\nher Father, and after Dinner, they return to Concord. A\\nLetter from aged Mr. Eb Hartshorn of Concord. I wrote\\nand .sent a note to Mr. D. Adams, concerning his forbearing\\nto come to y* Communion tomorrow.\\n12. I read Ps 116. Preached on Ps. 36.7. Adminis-\\ntered y Lord s Supper. Mr. Knight of Boston was at y\\nCommunion. Mrs. Maynard dind here p. :\\\\i. delivered y\\nLatter Sermon on Roms. 15.13. At eve, Mr. Stone came\\nhere, having preached at Northboro He lodged here.\\n13. I visited Katy Biglow, ill of a Fever and hysteric\\nDisorders. At her Desire, I prayed there. Had some con-\\nversation with Mr. Daniel Adams about his Wife living from\\nhim. He tells me he desires she would return and that he\\nwould do anything reasonable to obtain it p. m. he came\\nhere, .shewed me a Copy of a Letter which he had .sent to\\nher some time ago, desiring her to let him know what are\\nher Difficultys, and what she would have him do. To which\\nletter .she returned him no Answer.\\nN. B. Dr. Stimson and Miss Nancy Jones of Hopkinton\\nhere and dind.\\n14. Had .some Debate with Dr. Hawes about Tim. Bry-\\nant s Work for him last year. X. B. Mr. John Thayer\\nfrom New Haven Coll. came here in his wa\\\\ to Boston,\\ndind here. Received a Letter from Mr. Zebulon Rice of\\nBrookfield concerning Rev. Mr. Buckminster s preparing to\\nanswer Mr. Isaac Foster s ordination Sermon, and consult-\\ning an Association at Sturbridge thereon.\\n15. Sent I vph Wheelock witli a load of Apples to", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 1 65\\nLieut. Grout s to be made into Cyder by him at hi.s Mill.\\nBroke Fast at Capt. Wood s. Had conversation with Dea.\\nWood and with Mr. Tho. Twitchell about Mr. Adam s Af-\\nfair with his Wife. Visit and prayed with Katy Biglow^\\n16 The Day was mainly spent in Retirement-See\\nNatal.. but just at eve came to my Sorrow, Mr. Adams and\\n1 He writes uuder this date in the small blank book in which,\\nduring his long life, he recorded his birthday meditations\\nSepr. 5. O. S. Westb.\\nNatalitia, 1\\nThis Day I separated myself from Worldly Delight, Care and\\nEncumbrances, as my Circumstances xVd alio.-, and gave myself\\nto relicnous exercises and Retrospections.\\nP aitin.. and adoring ye most High, ye grt Almighty Author of\\nmv Be my merciful Preserver and bountiful Benefactor, who\\nhas gracfousl upheld me through the Revolutions and Try^a s o\\nanother Year and has vouchsafed me a wonderful measure of Hea th\\nand Comfort in such advanced Age. I implore y^\\nand Pardoning Mercy under so much Guilt and Unworthiness, thro\\nye Blood and Merits of my dear Redeemer, and importune ye Gra-\\ncious Almighty aids and ye sanctifying, comforting and estabhs^i-\\ning Communications of ye Holy Spirit of Grace. And renewed my\\nResolutions and Engagements to walk with God and to be faithful\\n%^gTnning another Year still thro ye Lords Long-suffering to-\\nwards me, I ardently beg His all sufficient and powerful Grace to\\nsustain me under my Decay -a ^f\\nAnd O yt I might obtain clear and well-grounded Evidences of\\ndivine Faith and Love and a full Assurance of Hope to the End\\n6 old stile Rev. Messrs. Reed and Turner of Middleboro in-\\nform me of ve Death of two of my classmates viz :-Mr. Shepherd\\nFiske and Rev. Mr. Wm. Rand of Kingston. There being now\\nonly Four of us surviving. Dr. Chancy, Messrs. Bucknam and U ight\\nand I.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "l66 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nwith him Lieut. Levi Warrin, who ask (and with some Re-\\nluctance) I gave a Copy of Messrs. Belknap and Forbes Re-\\nquest to me to send to Mr. A. to forbear coming to y Com-\\nmunion last Lord s Day.\\nMessrs. Reed of Middleboro and Turner of same Town,\\ngoing to y Ordination of Mr. Reed s son at Warwick, came\\nlodged here. Mr. Jacob Broaders was married to young\\nKatharine Fessenden. N. B. The above named ministers\\nprayed before and after y Covenant.\\n17. The ministers go on their Journey. A School is\\nkept at y*^ Grout vSchool-house by Mr. Hazzletine.\\n18. A no of Theeves who have stole from Mr. Henry\\nPrentice of Grafton, are taken and one of y whip d at Dea-\\ncon Wood s y^ Chief of y Money is recovered.\\nI earnestly beg of God, deeply thoroly, to imprest my Soul here-\\nwith that I may be always actually ready for my own Departure\\n-How old Jacob Broaders was at this time, the records say not,\\nbut Katharine Fessenden lacked four days of being sixteen. She\\nwas the oldest daughter of John Fessenden. A few years after this,\\nhe bought the house then vacated by Isaac Davis, and known since\\nhis day as the Broaders House. Katharine had three children, and\\nwas left a widow at the early age of twenty-three. She was allowed\\nafter her husband s death to take of his personal property,\\nAn old fine shirt 3/6.\\nI pr. Silver Shoe Buckles 14/6.\\nOne pair Silver knee buckles 5/6.\\nOne pair Silver Sleeve Buttons is.\\nHis clothing was sold by the Vendue Master, and show him\\nto have been a well dressed and prosperous man of the day, for he\\nhad A great Coat, a velvet waistcoat, and two others besides, a blue\\ncoat and a red coat, and a pair of Red breaches which Amasa\\nMaynard bought, and Woolling Stockings.\\nHe was the grandfather of Hiram D. Broaders.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 167\\n19. On consideration of my beginning a New Year I\\npreached A. m. on Isaiah 46:3.4 and by reason of y*^ Death\\nof my two classmates, Rev. Mr. William Rand and Mr.\\nShepherd Fisk, I made up a sermon on Isa: 57.1-2. with\\nproper observations and additions, especially of y*^ character\\nof Mr. Rand, whom I was much more acquainted with.\\nI informed y^ Congregation of y^ Fast, to be God willing,\\non y^ next Thursday, at Mr. Dan Nurse s, on account of\\nhis two Sisters.\\nWe had a Contribution for y Relief of Mr. Artemas Bruce,\\nof New Fane, who.se House was lately burnt.\\n20. The Contribution yesterday was ^48.77/. and a Per-\\nson who was not prepared at y^ Time desired 20/ be added\\nfor him, which he promised to repay, which was I suppose,\\ndone. Bruce was here. I gave him y^ Money he gave me\\na Receipt and thanks to y*^ People and to me.\\nMrs. Lambson very ill. Visited and prayed with her. N.\\nB. The Town met to see what they would do in Compas-\\nsion to y Town of Boston, who are suffering by reason of\\nMarket people refraining to go in with y^ Necessarys of\\nLife.\\n21. Wrote to Cousin Briant. At eve call to see Mrs.\\nLambson. I rode to Mr. Joseph Grout s to see Mrs. Adams\\nwho lives there. I dind there, though Mr. Grout and his\\nWife were gone to Boston. Mrs. Adams seems to be utterly\\nunwilling to go to live with her Husband again.\\n22. N. B. This morn I sent my Letter to Cousen Bri-\\nant by Mr. Moses Potter, going to Ipswich and with it a\\nBundle containing for Timothy, Seven yards of White tow\\ncloth c c See Memorandum Book. The Widow Fav", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "l6S DIARY OF REV. EBKXEZKR PARKMAN.\\ndind with us. Spent y Afternoon with Mrs. P\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and drank\\nTea. I read in Clark s Lives, Mr. Hugh Broughton s, and\\n.several other Parts of that useful Book, was much moved\\nand stimulated by their excellent Examples. N. B. I have\\nreceived a letter from Mr. John Forbes of Otter Creek, with\\ny Constitution of y* State of Vermont.\\n23. Attended a Fast at Miss Lydia and Miss Rebecca\\nNurse s Mrs. P. with me. I began with Prayer. Mr.\\nSumner preached a seasonable Sermon, from 3 Epistle of\\nSt. John V. 2 Beloved I wish above all Things c p.\\nM. Mr. Fairbank preached on Matt. VI. 10. latter part\\nThy Will be done on Earth S:c I prayed after Ser-\\nmon. May God be pleased to accept our Humiliation and\\nSupplications, and give His Bles.sing to y Word so fitly\\ndelivered N. B. The two Fays, Messrs. vSamuel and\\nJeduthun, Mr. Knight, Mr. Hazzletine .school-ma.ster\\nMr. Zebulon Rice c were there. Mr. Z. Rice here in y*^\\nevening, with Mr. D. Forbes.\\n24. more closely applied to my preparations.\\n-5-\\n,26. Read Ps. 44. Took y^ first verse for my Text, tho\\nI go on with my subject on Fsa: 46. 3-4 p. m. on Isa: 47\\n1-2, had .some Regard to y^ Death of Rev. Mr. Whitney of\\nPetersham, which may God Sanctifie to us After Exer-\\ncises it rained plentifully, Cousen Saml. who has lately\\nbeen graduated at Dartmouth Col. here at eve and lodges\\nhere. In y^ Evening Exercise of y^ Family, I read A\\nKempis.\\n27. Brigham returned to his F. Maynards. I^reck goes\\nto Cambridge Boston. I am reading Mr. Cuthbert Sid-", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 1 69\\nenham on Hypocrisie. and wish it may be deeply impressed\\non my own Soul It is printed very incorrectly, and under\\nmuch Disadvantage, but contains many useful Things.\\n28. Catechized at y^ Meeting-House a. m. 32 Boys, p.\\nM. 23 Girls. May a Blessing accompany my instructions\\nand Warnings to them of each Sex\\nAt eve Mr. Brigham brot Master Hazzletine to see me.\\nHe borrows Mr. Edwards on Original Sin. Mr. Brigham\\nhas 2^ vol. of Montesquieu.\\n29 Mr. Amos Parker and wife dind here. Capt. Ed-\\nmund Brigham calls me to visit old Mr. Gale, who lies in a\\nDving State. I prayed by him. In returning visit old\\nLieut Forbush and his Wife. Breck returns from Boston,\\nand brings Sally and her son Sam. A letter from Mr.\\nMoore, says his Negro man Cato is dead.\\n30 Squire Benj. Whipple from Otter Creek here. Rode\\nto Shrewsbury Lecture-had Deacon Wood s Horse. I\\ndind at Mr. Sumner s, Mr. Whitney there, also several\\nyoung Students, Stone and Crosby. I preached on Luke\\n22 15. not much enlarging on y^ Answers to questions i\\nReturned at eve. I marryed Mr. Edward Brigham to\\nMiss Sally Miller, heretofore of The Fee given was\\n20 Dollars. Old Mr. Abr Gale dyed.\\nOctober 1779\\nI would thankfully acknowledge y^ Goodness of God in\\npreserving me to another month, and pray I spend this to\\nye divine Glory. I was closely engaged\u00e2\u0080\u0094 but Mr. Bathenck\\nis urgent to talk with me about y^ Affair of Mr. Adams\\nand his Wife.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "lyO DIAKY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n2. Surprizing Stor^- concerning a negro Familj of\\nNatick, whom one Mr. Damon has sold, Surprized and sent\\noff as slaves, they are recovered, and now on y^ Road\\nreturning to Natick.\\nMr. James Bellows of Rutland here, and receives from me\\na Certificate concerning his Wife Thomasin. Old Mr. Gale\\nwas buryed. I attended and prayed at y^ Funeral. N. B.\\nhad a good deal of conversation with old Mr. John Crawford\\nof North Shrewsbury, who was at y Funeral.\\n3. I met with so much interruption this last week.\\ny I was obliged both parts of y Da\\\\ to improve former\\npreparations on 2 Thes 3.1. to page 1 7 May divine Energy\\naccompany y^ Word and render it effectual Mr. Abijah\\nGale and his sister Jones dind with us.\\n4. Mr. Langton and his .son returning from Farmington\\nhotiie to York, call here. Capt. John Wood s wife sends\\nfor women p. m. Mrs. P. goes and tarrys.\\n1 The historian of Natick and the Boston newspapers of the day\\ndo not mention this surprizing story, but Mrs. Harriet Beecher\\nvStowe uses it in her chapter in Old Town Folks, entitled A Raid\\non Old Town.\\nWal, says Sam Lawson, it s Aunt Nancy Prime s children.\\nLast night the kidnappers come to her house an took her an\\nevery single one of the child en an goin to carry em off to York\\nState for slaves. They were rescued and restored to their home\\nthrough the instrumentality of Ellery Davenport and Sam Lawson.\\nA letter from a pupil of Prof. Stowe s, who had heard him, and\\nhis own parents as well, tell the story, says that The familj\\nname of the stolen negroes was Boston, and they lived on the\\nother shore of Lake Waban, opposite Wellesley College and in\\nplain sight of the college. The home of the Bostons was in the\\nWilderness and no neighbors were in sight.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. IJ^\\n5. Mrs. P. at y^ Groaning still. Sally and Sophy, though\\nit is a stormy Day, ride in her chaise to Capt. Maynard s\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nat night Mrs. P. returned with Joy for y Deliverance\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a\\nDauter is born. To God be glory and praise\\n6. Read Reynolds Gt. Revenge against Murder. Albe-\\nmare Clara c. c.\\n7. Elias comes up from Cambridge for money to pay his\\nQuarter Bills to May 28 last, which he says is \u00c2\u00a3M- 8- 4-\\nwhich gives me .some Perplexity, seeing I have given him\\nso much especially last August to pay tho.se Bills. N. B.\\non August 17 an hundred Dollars and on Y 24 thirty Dol-\\nlars more. Mr. Jacob Foster has been with us and dind\\nhere. He is returning to New Castle. I visit old Neighbor\\nPratt and his wife, Warren c.\\n8. Breck lends me the money I want for Elias viz. 231\\nDollars. We are unhappily low in y^ Meat Tub which\\ninduced me to go to r Squires Deacons, to enquire about\\nSupplys. Drank Tea at y^ Groaning House (Capt. Woods)\\nthere being both old and young Mrs. Bakers.\\n9. EHas is up before Day to set off for Cambridge\\nI gave him y whole of y^ Money which I borrowed of Breck\\nfor him. viz. 231 Dollars, which was to enable him to pay\\nhis Quarter Bills.\\nID. A. M. Read Deut. 32. In preacjiing read v. 7\\nbut carried on y .same subject which was begun on Isa. 46.\\n3-4. The Selectmen were together at noon, after ser-\\nmon on 2 Thes. 3. i from p. 17 to 22. administered Bap-\\ntism. Mr. Gale came up to y*^ Pulpit to desire me to read\\ny Congress s Circular Letter, which after Y Bles.sing, I\\nread part of, and then left y^ Congregation to read among", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "172 DIARY OF KEY. EBENEZEK PARKMAN.\\nthemseh-es, \\\\Yhich I suppose they did. N. B. I read after\\nsermon the Yotes of Convention concerning Boston, as Dr.\\nHawes requested. Dr. Hawes was with me with the YOte\\nof the Convention at Concord concerning y*^ Distre.s.ses of\\nmany people in Boston, to be read publickly)\\n11. Tliis day we cutt up, carted home and hu.sked out\\nour Indian Corn. Eph Tucker went with my Team and\\nDeacon Wood with his. about nine dind here. There were\\nforty or more of Men and Boys at Eve, and .several Neigh-\\nbors were so generous as to contribute to y Entertainment.\\nSquire Baker above 50 lbs of Meat, Mr. Eb Forbes, Beef\\n3 cabbages Lt. Bond, Pork, Mr. Barnabas Newton, a\\nCheese, Breck, sufficient Rum. Thro y Goodness of God\\nwe had a good crop Sound Corn and y Joy of Harvest. To\\nHim be all Honor Glory I We sang latter part of Ps. 65.\\n12. Breck waits upon Sally and her son Sam to Concord,\\np. M. I preached at Mr. Daniel Forbes s, especialh^ to old\\nMrs. Stone, heretofore of Charlestown, a Maiden about 75\\nyears old.\\nText was Eph. i 14 which may God succeed and prosper\\nWhen I came home to my Surprise found Sister Lydia\\nChampney was here, brot by Mr. Caldwell of Sutton and he\\nwas gone before I returned from Meeting.\\n13. Breck returns from Concord, and dines with us. p.\\nM. He is with y Officers at Coll. Wheelock s preparing\\norders to send out Men immediately according to Requisi-\\ntion from Gen l Washington. Mr. James Dix has been here.\\nHe desires me to a.sk Capt. John Wood, whether he did not\\nwrite the word [Nov in a certain Instrument presented\\nbefore me? My Answer was, Mr. Dix, I am ready and", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 1 73\\nwilling to Serve you in any Matter or Affair which is fit and\\nwhich is prepared according to Gospel Rule 77//V is not at\\npresent.\\nI directed him to wdiat is written in Proverbs 25 g,\\nMat: 18. 15. 16 c Luke Baldwin from Brookfield and\\nlodges, a pretty, agreeable, hopeful Lad May God make\\nhim a great Blessing\\n14. I was obliged to leave my Study and ride up to\\nLieut. John Grout s about some Cyder which Mr. Eli\\nWhitney gives me. I dind at y Lieut s. Meet with Mr.\\nJoseph Grout there, and he has much to say about y*^ sad\\ncase of his Sister Adams. I advi.sed to have it laid before a\\nfew Brethren, and not suffer it to come into y^ church. I\\ncalled at Squire Bakers found Reason to urge y Same\\nThing. Mr. Gushing from Ashburnham. He has led an\\nHorse for Sophy to ride there. He lodges here.\\nA Letter from Mr. Quincy dated Sept. 23 X. B. Luke\\nBaldwin goes on his Way to Cambridge to wait on his\\nBrother Isaac in going home.\\n1 Luke Baldwin was the youngest child of Mr. Parknian s daugh-\\nter Lucy and Col. Jeduthan Baldwin, and was ten years old, while\\nhis brother Isaac was a lad of fifteen.\\nCol. Jeduthan, whom Mr. Parkman often mentions, was a lead-\\ning man in Brookfield, and in the army. He was captain in 1755 in\\nan expedition against Crown Point, and served in the Revolution.\\nHe was a member of the Provincial Congress, and an original sub-\\nscriber to the fund for Leicester Acadenn-, giving ioo. He died\\nin 1788, and after his death his widow married her brother-in-law,\\nthe Rev. Eli Forbes.\\nLuke was married in 1789 to Polly Avery, of Boston, and settled\\nin West Boylston.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "174\\nDIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nJUnCE EUMfNI) OUIXCV.\\n15. Mr. dishing and Soph}- set out early for Ashburn-\\nham. At Night arrived the two Baldwins from Cambridge\\nand lodge here.\\n16. Baldwins to Brookfield.\\n17. Preached a. m. on Isa: 46. 3 4 p m. on 2 Thes.\\n3. I. Mrs. Maynard and Mr. Hazzeltine dind here. N.\\nB. Capt. Fisher after y Blessing desires y Company to-\\nmorrow morning.\\niS. A sort of Military Gathering for y^ purpo.se of rais-", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 1 75\\ning men to go to y westward for y Continental Service, for\\n3 or 4 men.\\nI visited Asahel Biglow who is exceeding bad of Inflam-\\nmation of his Bowels prayed with him.\\n19. I rode to Mr. Biglow s at West Sudbury it being\\nMinister s Meeting. Mr. Stone, Mr. Smath and Mr. Bridge\\nwere all that came. Mr. Biglow prayed no Concio con-\\nversation on y\u00c2\u00ab Difficulties Ministers undergo by y depre-\\nciated Currency. I prayed at y^ Close. Mr. Stone and I\\nlodged there, and very agreeably.\\n20. In y morning perplexed^Our Horses had left us.\\nI rode Mr. Biglow s Horse in Search after y Found y\\nat Mr. Samuel Sherman s in Marlboro. l went on to Mr.\\nStone s and informed his Son who sent back Mr. Biglow s\\nHorse and his Father s from Mr. Sherman s, so y^ I came\\nhome. Elias was come from Cambridge and with him\\nGen l Ward s Son (whose Brother led down Breck s Horse\\nfor Elias to come up on) and Parkman Bradshaw here like-\\nwise he lodged here and Master Foot, going to Colchester.\\nN. B. Mr. Johnson of Lyn his Lady had been here\\nwhile I was absent.\\n21. I visited and prayed with A.sahel Biglow, who is\\nmuch better On his Horse I rode to Southboro\\npreached y*^ Lecture on Luke 22. 15. which may God\\ngraciously own and bless Returned at eve.\\n22. Breck is building another small Store. Mr. Jacob\\nFoster and his Lady going to Canterbury, called and dind\\nhere. Nigh night came Lydia and Suse Parkman from\\nConcord and lodged here.\\n23. Sorrowful news from Cambridge of y Drowning of", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "176 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\na young Studtnt at fresh Pond in Cambridge yesterday.\\nHis name was Charles Cutter, a soph-more. The Body not\\nfound at nine this morning. May y*^ Lord sanctifie it to all,\\nespecially his own Classmates and Friends. Breck raised\\nhis new Store.\\n24 Preached once more on Isa. 46. 4. nobody dind\\nhere. I consulted y Deacons about having y^ Communion\\nnotwithstanding the Trouble with some Members, about\\nMr. Adams. Preached on Prov: 27. i, occasioned by y\\nlate Disaster at Cambridge. N. B. My son Elias was so\\nfar effected by that Providence, that he, by a note, desired\\nPrayers in y Congregation that God would Sanctifie it to\\nhim.\\nI appointed y Communion and lecture.\\nAt eve, Breck and vSuse, her Brother Elijah c. were\\nwith us and Sang.\\n25. Breck to Boston. In his way carrys Suse and y\\nChild to Col. Brigham s. Mr. Francis Whipple of New\\nBraintree makes us a visit. I began to read Mr. Buckmins-\\nter against Mr. Isaac Foster, which was sent me by y au-\\nthor, by means of Mr. Maccarty. But was interrupted by\\ny coming in of Mr. Belknap and after him half a score of y-\\nBrethren of y*^ Church besides, one after another, to confer\\nabout Mr. D. Adams and his Wife. Those that came (be-\\nsides Mr. Belknap) were Deac. Bond and Deac. W^ood,\\nMessrs. Daniel Forbes, Benj. Tainter, Joseph Grout, Jon\\nGrout, Levi Warren, Eli Whitney, Joseph Harrington, Jon\\nForbes. They agree upon a small number of them to go\\nto Mr. Adam s tomorrow, to advise him to consent to choos-\\ning together with his wife. Referees before whom to try", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 1 77\\ntheir Affair, or at least to take Counsel of them in order to\\nSettlement, and Mr. Adams is to be apprized y these Breth-\\nren request y notice be given after y^ next Lecture y as\\nmany of y*^ Brethren as shall incline to are desired to stop\\na little for further Conference upon those Matters.\\n26. Stephen Fay desires to be Marryed next Thursday,\\nand that the wedding may be at Mr. Andrews who requests\\nI would go to his House. I am preparing for next Sabbath.\\n27. Mr. Stone came to my Help. He dind here and\\npreached my Lecture on Rev: 22. ir former parts Let\\nhim that is unjust c. And may God graciously afford\\nHis Almighty Blessing A number of Brethren stopped to\\nconfer together about Mr. Daniel Adams case. A few had\\nbeen to him to know whether he would join with his Wife\\nto choose some Men to hear and advise y but he refused\\nand did now before y^ Brethren y were together today.\\nN. B. Dea. Phelps, Mr. Jon Twitchell, and Coll. Aaron\\nPerry, all of Holliston were at Mr. Adams Request with\\nus. But nothing was done Except y* Mr. Adams in defend-\\ning his Refusal to do any more, pleaded how much he had\\ndone in going to her, to persuade her to return, taking men\\nxvith him icriting to her c I left y But I was in-\\nformed when I was come away Mr. Adams warned all of\\nthem again.st entertaining his Wife. At eve, about 8 or 9\\nBrethren were here at my House, viz. Messrs. Belknap,\\nDan. Forbes, Batheric, Two Grouts, Eli Whitney, Jon\\nForbes. They agree to have 2 or 3 of them to go to Mr.\\nAdams in .some short time, to see what his mind is since\\nhis Three Friends advising. Mr. Lsaac Parker and his\\nWife desire to come and join y*^ Church. N. B. A num-", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "1 78 DIARY OF REV. KBENEZER PARKMAX.\\nber of young Gentlemen, Graduates, were here to see\\nElias.\\n28. Elias goes to Worcester in Room of Mr. Elijah\\nBrigham to fetch y Spy in his stead. He brings it, and\\ncontains Mr. Dan Adams Caution^ to all people not to trust\\nhis Wife.\\np. M. by desire I rode to Mr. Andrews and marryed\\nStephen Fay to Betty Andrews and John Warren to Anna\\nForbush.\\nN. B. A great deal of Company and plentiful Entertain-\\nment. We Sung part of Ps. 45. N. B. In administering\\ny^ Covenant, I made a Mistake in mentioning y Names of\\ny*^ Brides.\\nWhen I came home, found here my Kinsman Bryant, and\\nher Dauter, Mrs. Pearn Atwell, her little Girl, Pearn,\\nin a Chaise. Timothy also came to wait on his Mother and\\nSister. They lodged here.\\n29. Mrs. Grout (wife of Mr. Joseph) came to y*^ Door,\\nupon her Reading the Publication in yesterday s Spy.\\nSpoke of y great Reason her poor Sister has to refuse to\\nlive with Adams any more.\\n30. One John Fletcher, who says he was of Pomfret, but\\n1 From the Worcester Sp) of Oct. 28, 1779.\\nWhereas Perces, the wife of me the subscriber, has absented\\nherself from me and family, and refuses to return to her duty, al-\\nthough often requested by myself and others, and I am apprehen-\\nsive she may run me in debt. These are therefore to caution all\\npersons against trusting her on my account for I will not discharge\\nany debt she may contract from and after this date.\\nDaniki, Adams.\\nWestborough, (State of Massachusetts Bay). Oct. 19. 1779.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 1 79\\nhas been a Prisoner and is come from Halifax Jayl, wants\\nRefreshment, which was given him, but there was Reason\\nto suppose he drinkd too much. Elias brot home Suse from\\nhis Father Brigham s. p. :m. Breck returned from Cape\\nAnn.\\n31. I preached again on Ps. 36.7 and dilated on some\\nInstances, particularly Mr. Joseph Alleine, and the Two\\nJaneways.W y^ Father and John. I administered y Lord s\\nSupper\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a number of Strangers with us. My kinswoman\\nAtwell, member of Mr, Roby s Church at Lynn, partook.\\nMaster Hazzletine dind with us p. m. preached on Isa\\n50.10. I received today by Mr. Francis Barns, a proclama-\\ntion for a Day of Humiliation Supplication, which I\\nread.\\nN. B. I baptized Mr. Davis s son Isaac. N. B. I was\\ngreatly Spent insomuch y I went down to y Elder s Seat\\nwithout praying, but prayed there. At eve, Breck read\\nMr. Henry s Communication, Comp. Ch. 12 in part.\\nNovember 1779\\nMay God grant y*^ Grace, that as Time is swiftly Spend-\\ning, I may do with my might what my Hands find to do\\nI am much concerned about my preparations for y^ Day of\\nSolemn Humiliation before us It being unusual, and called\\nin y^ Proclamation, neither Fast nor Thanksgiving. I have\\nalso much interruption by y^ Company which still continue\\nwith us yet they are dear to me.\\n2. My Kinswoman and her vSon and Dauter are pre-\\nvented journeying by Rain, till it w^as (they conceived)", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "l8o DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAX.\\ntoo late. Mr. Aaron Crosby^ of Blandford here, in his way\\nto Boston.\\n3. It being bright, tho cold, my Cousin Bryant and her\\nchildren leave us to return to Stoneham N. B. I gave\\nher 14 Dollars for making and mending 3 pair of Shooes\\nby her Son Elias Bryant to Tim, Leather for a pair of\\nShooes. Mr. Parkman Bradshaw came from Brookfield,\\nis going to Stougtonham and thence to Cambridge. He\\ndines here Seems to be a solid, pious young man, and a\\nLover of Learning. I engage him to befriend my dear son,\\nthat he may continue at College, tho it must be with no\\nsmall Difficulty, as my Circumstances now are. But I pray\\nmy Confidence may be in God alone, who has ever provided\\nfor me, and helped me hitherto I D. G I\\n4. A Day of Humiliation and Prayer with Thank.sgiv-\\ning. I named for my Text a. p. m. Ps. 51. 17 made a\\nlarge Introduction, explaining the Proclamation, and then\\nused some former Preparations on that, mentioned pas.sage,\\nwith various alterations and additions. I had expected Mr.\\nCrosby to help me, but he came not till near y Close of y\\nExercises. He was with us at eve and then went to his\\nBrother vSamuel s. Three Brethren of y Church, viz.\\nMessrs. Batheric, Gale and Dr. Hawes came here and de-\\nsired me to give notice to y other Brethren of y Church,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Aaron Crosby was a son of Samuel Crosby, of Shrewsbury, and\\nbrother of Dr. Samuel, who had married Azubah Howe, of West-\\nborough. This Aaron was a missionary to the Indians. Dr. Crosby,\\nwhom Aaron goes to see, lived in the southeast part of Shrewsbury,\\non Boston Hill. He was a surgeon in the Revolution, and practiced\\nin vShrewsbury till 1781.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. i8i\\nafter ye Kxercises of next Sabbath, to tarrj and confer a lit-\\ntle further upon y*^ Adams affair.\\n5. Elias went early to Brookfield for y rest of my Cattle\\nat Coit Hill. Benj. Grout was here for his pay for making\\n3 pair of Shooes and I therefore wrote him a note to Breck,\\nfor 63/ old Ten of old value.\\n6. Elias returned with y Cattle, had a good Jour-\\nney. N. B. He paid Landlord Jones^ of Worcester 2 Dol-\\nlars for pasturing one yearling. He asked a Dollar per\\nweek.\\n7. I preached a. m. on Ps 36.7. p m. on Prov. 1.23. for\\nnext Thursday has been appointed for y^ Execution of David\\nYoung. Mr. Moses Brigham Mrs. Maynard dind here.\\nAt eve a Letter received from Mr. Caleb Alexander.\\n8. I vi.sited and prayed with Asahel Biglow. p. m. Mrs.\\nDolly Rice here and drank Tea with us. Five Men are\\nrequested to go to Mr. Adams to his Wife to perswade y\\nto Reconciliation. They are. Squire Baker, Deac. Wood,\\nMr. Daniel Forbes, Mr. Gale and Mr. Twitchell.\\n9. Mr. Levi Warrin here to kill a Cow for me, and informs\\nme that the Said Brethren were together and that Mr. Adams\\nwas with them. That they were together till midnight, and\\nthen adjourned to next Sennight.\\nThe Cow turns out well. Mr. Warrin dines here, gives\\nhis work. p. m. Mrs. Baker and her sister Bowman of Oxford\\nmake us a vi.sit.\\n1 Landlord Jones kept the Jones Tavern in New Worcester, on\\nthe corner of Leicester and Apricot streets. It would be on Elias\\nroute as he came down from Brookfield.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "1 82 DIARY OF KEY. EBEXKZER PARKMAN.\\n11. Elias goes to Worcester to y*^ Execution of Robert\\nYoung, who was condemned and hanged for a Rape on Jane\\nGreen of Brookfield. At Eve. I went to Capt. Fisher s, who\\nreads part of y Report of y Committee for forming a plan\\nof Government. I borrow of him y*^ new Military Dictionary\\nvol. 2. by T. Simes Esq.\\n12. Have news of y poor Criminal s Behaviour yester-\\nday. Mr. Maccarty^ preached.\\n13. Mr. Isaac Parker was here and brot his own and his\\nWife s Relations. He excused the incorrectness of his for\\nwant of Time, took it again.\\n14. Thro y*^ great Goodness of God I am allowed to\\nbegin another year of Sabbaths, and would gratefully praise\\nHis Glorious Name I preached a. m. on Deut 32. 46-47,\\nwhich may God graciously impress us with I Mr. S. Barrett\\nand his Dauter Nancy with us and dind here. p. m. deliv-\\nered y*^ Remainder of sermon on Prov: i. 28 as being season-\\nable Warning after y*^ late Execution. O y my own Soul\\nmight be deeply impressed propounded Isaac S: Margery\\nParker to join with y^ Church.\\n15. Ephraim having rid home on Saturday eve, returned\\nthis morning. I visited Capt. Wood s Wife and prayed\\nwith her, she being very low. p :\\\\i. By Mr. Hezekiah\\nMaynard of Marlboro, I sent Mr. vSimon How s Book of y^\\nIndian Wars.\\n16. Visit Mrs. Wood again. Having read I returned to\\nRev. Thaddeus Maccarty, pastor of the old South Church in\\nWorcester from 1747 to 1784. He was tall, sleuder and thin with\\na black, penetrating eye, which added to his effectiveness in speak-\\ning.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF RKV\\nKBENEZER PARKMAN. I 83\\nCapt. Fisher his Draught of y Plan of Government Dnicl\\nat Squire Baker s. Consult him about paying my Young\\nMan (Parker) and I went to Lt. Joseph Bond s on y^ same\\nAffair. Miss Rebecca Nurse here to be examined. Widow\\nRhoda Maynard here with her.\\n17. Messrs. Brigham and May lodged here last night.\\nElias goes to Cambridge and Boston. Mr. Kendal of\\nSouthboro here to look of (Sic) my Sheep. Mr. Isaac\\nParker with his Relation.\\n18. Read several Lives in \\\\o\\\\. II (B) of Biographical\\nDictionary. Mrs. Parker (Isaac s Wife) Miss Anna\\nParker Eph- s Sister) made us a Visit. Deacon Doliber\\nsends me a Present of Fish.\\n19. Deac. Doliber calls here in his way home gives\\nme account of the Grants of their Society at Marblehead to\\ntheir Minister for r year, p m. Elias returns home from\\nCambridge, but has not seen the President, tho I wrote\\nhim by Elias.\\nLetters from Ashburnham informing that Mrs. Cushmg\\nwas delivered of a Son^ on Wednesday Oct. 27, and it is\\ncalled Doddridge.\\n20. Have been and am now much engaged in y^ Pro-\\nphetic Visions of Zechary. May God greatly illuminate\\nmy Soul with Truth\\n21. On Zech: v. 9-1 1. And finished my exercises on\\nthat chapter, p. m. preached my sermon on Isa. 63. 9-15-\\n1 Doddridge Cushiag, born Oct. 27, i779- was the sou of Mr. Park-\\nman s daughter Sarah and the Rev. John Gushing. He died un-\\nmarried in 1866.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "184 DIARY OF REV. EBEXEZER PAKKMAX.\\nI propounded Rebecca Nurse to join in full Comiiiunion\\nwith y^ Church.\\nSometimes we have no Singing in y F amily on so much\\nas vSabbath Evenings. But we had this evening. Josiah\\nBrigham is wont to lodge here and assisted in y Singing.\\n22. Master Elijah goes to Ashburnham, expecting Sophy\\nto return. I wrote by him. I visited Mr. Jon Tainter s\\nsick Child prayed therewith. I rode up then to Mr. Eli\\nWhitney s dind there, and visited Mr. Benj. Wood and\\nhis Family (no Kindred between Deac. and him. Some\\nwords pass about his .son Reuben s living with me. Went\\nin also to Mr. Eben Miller s. N. B. At vSquire Baker s\\nwas assured that Mr. D. Adams did verily sign what was\\nlast published in y Spy retracting what was publi.shed\\nbefore. Eph Parker comes up this evening to reckon\\nwith me for his nine months Work for me first for six\\nmonths, and for them asks my biggest Oxen, for which I\\nam told I may have 500, and for y^ other three months as\\ny^ price is stated. But he would have me ask Advice of\\nmy Neighbors.\\n23. I walked to Mr. Eb Forbush, to talk with him, and\\nhe not being at home spent some time with his Father and\\nMother. In returning I made an Opportunity with Mr.\\nWhereas the subscriber through my own weakness and imper-\\nfection, have inadvertently advertised and cried down Perces my\\nwife in the three preceding papers, these are therefore to give public\\nnotice, that I am convinced of my imprudence in so doing, am very\\nsorry for my conduct, and for the injury done her, desire her for-\\ngiveness and do now recall the former inconsiderate publication.\\nDaniel Ad.\\\\ms.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZKR PARKMAN. 1 85\\nElijah Hardy, who tells me that he gave his Young Man\\nfor six months, not /250, and Mr. Benj. Fay not more. I\\nnext talked with Mr. Barnabas Newton, who will take it\\ninto Thought. At eve, speak with Caleb Harrington. But\\nParker is gone over to his Brother Elisha s.\\n24. Mr. Brigham returned from Ashburnham and Sophy\\nwith him. Left all well there, Mrs. Winchester is will-\\ning to send me her W\\n25. Mr. Elisha Parker came, and Eph and I came to\\nsome agreement viz to give him my Principal Oxen for\\nseven months of his work and to pay him in Money or In-\\ndian Corn for y two Months of October and November, ac-\\ncording to common custom, in y old way or in proportion\\nas men s wages are for youths\\n26. I had too many anxious Thoughts about y high\\nDemands of Eph\\n27. Elisha Parker came when I was about paying Eph-\\nraim, but a Controversie arose concerning ]Vhatzvasy Usual\\nCustom at this time of y great Alteration of Money -within these\\nfew iceeks. Eph would take no less than /60 for y^ Two\\nMonths. I was not willing to give any more y 55. But I\\nwas obliged to borrow y^ money of my son Breck, and they\\nall went to y Shop, where Breck gave Ephraim y^ whole\\nSum he required, viz /60, and so he went to his brother\\nElisha s with y Cattle on y\u00c2\u00ab Cart to carry his Chest and\\nthings there, promising to come and make up y Time, viz. 5\\nDays y yet remains next week onward.\\n28. Preached a. p. m. with new Introduction, Ser-\\nmons on Heb. 5.9. to p. 12. Mrs. Maynard dind here, as", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "1 86 DIARY OF REV. EBKNEZER PARKMAX.\\ndid Eph Parker p. :si. read proclamation for Thanksgiv-\\ning.\\n29. Mr. Dan. Matthis of New Braintry was here to con-\\nsnlt me about their Troubles with Mr. Foster s Doctrines,\\nbut I could not tarry long with him, because I was prepar-\\ning a line to send to y*^ Town (of Westb. who this Day have\\na Meeting to Consider my Sallery. They met. Mr. Gale\\nwas Moderator. I humbly waited upon God most high in y^\\nfirst place and then sent my Paper, entertaining myself with\\nJudge Hale s Meditation on Contentation. My mind was\\nwrot into a placid F rame in some Measure resigned to y\\nDisposals of Providence. At eve, by Lieut Grout I under-\\nstood y y Town has voted to make up my Sailer^- i300,\\nand 40 Cord of Wood. For which G. D.\\n30. Read Judge Hale of a good Method to entertain\\nunstable troublesome Times and of Redeeming Time.\\nIn y Evening unbent a while with reading Mr. de Lange s\\nJournal at Peking.\\n30. Miss Rebecca Nurse here and gave me her Relation.\\nBy reason of a debate about those votes aforesaid by a\\nFriend that came in, Sent to Col. Wheelock, y^ Town Clerk,\\nfor y Transactions of y Town yesterday, relative to me\\nwho wrote that They voted and granted to make up the Rev.\\nMr. Parkman s Stated yearly Sallery for y year ensuing\\nVoted to get the Rev. Mr. Parkman 40 Cord of Wood the\\nyear ensuing. Signed Moses Wheelock. Town Clerk.\\nMy Kinsman Parkman Bradshaw came from Cambridge\\nby y way of his Father s, and lodges here. I wrote to my", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF KEV. EBENEZER PARK:MAN. 1 87\\nold and esteemed Friend, Mr. Ouincy, having much Solace\\nin this Correspondence.\\nThus ends y*^ short month of November An Emblem of\\nthis short lyife On Retrospect, how very little has been\\ndone of y^ Grand Business, with all y*^ Advantages in mj\\nHands but how many my Deficiencies, how many and\\ngrievous my Miscarriages May y blood of Jesus Christ\\ncleanse from all my Guilt and Errors\\nDecember 1779\\nIt is of God s great Goodness I am thus indulged to begin\\nanother Month. Breck to Boston and Dr. Havves and his\\nWife make us a visit and drink Tea.\\n2. Deac. Wood brings Mr. W Campbell, heretofore of\\nOxford to see me. He offers to buy my Sheep, but I dont\\nincline to sell part without he takes y*^ whole. I read Lives\\nof Squire Boyle, Charles Boyle others.\\n3. The Doctor brings me a Third Vol. of Biographical\\nDictionary from Mr. Cranch. Mr. Joseph Grout brot me a\\nlyCtter from Mrs. Abigail Davis, (heretofore Nichols) who\\nhad lived ten years at Mr. Moses Warrin s, bearing testi-\\nmony concerning y Harmony between him and his Wife\\nPersis, y present Mrs. Adams. Mr. Eben Maynard came\\nand acquainted me that his mother Winchester Expired last\\nnight, at 10 o clock in her 79 year. The Lord prepare me\\nfor my own Decease\\n4. Breck returns from Boston, my Relations well there.\\nHe brings me a present from my son Samuel, a valuable\\nSilk Handkerchief of Fifty Dollar price, much wanted my", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "I88 DIARY OF KEY. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nson William his Wife and Young Child John, rode here in\\ntheir Chaise, arrived in y^ Evening.\\n5. Preached A. M. on Zech VI. 1-7. p. m. went on with\\ndiscourse on Heb 5. 9 admitted Isaac Parker and Wife,\\nalso Rebecca Nurse into Communion. May God accept\\nthem and make them Ornaments to Christianity.\\n6. Was called away to see a young Son of Capt. Jonas\\nBrigham viz. his son William in his 12* year, who was\\nthot to be under extremely dangerous Symptoms. I went,\\nprayed, breakfasted there. p. m. Town Meeting by\\nAdjournment. Capt Morse was here, full of earnest\\nadvice Entreaty that I would send something to y^ Town\\nof my Thanks for what they had done lately for me, and\\nmy satisfaction in it. I accordingly wrote a paper and sent\\nit by Mr. Joseph Harrington, and he was here at eve to\\nacquaint me how it was accepted, and he believed it was zee//.\\n7. Mr. Edward Brigham came to acquaint me that his\\nBrother dyed this morning and to desire me to attend y*\\nFuneral on Thursday, at nine A. m. I remonstrated, but\\nit was settled, I suppose.\\n8. Mr. Samuel Forbush, Mr. Solomon Batheric, Mr.\\nNathan Maynard jun came with their Teams and brot\\nWood. The two former two Load, the latter, one.\\n9. General Thanksgiving thro out the States.\\nI did not go to Capt. Brigham s, as I was at first desired,\\nMr. Edward had come yesterday and told me his Father\\nwould conform to y proposal to bring y*^ Corps to y^ Meet-\\ning-House. They did so, and I prayed there. After this\\nthey proceeded to y Interment and I went to y^ Grave\\nwith v", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 1 89\\nWe re-entered y Meeting-House and having prayed\\nalready began with singing. Preached on Ps. 68. 26-28.\\nI took to my House a Stranger, one Mr. Jo.seph Thompson,\\nby Birth, a Philadelphian. At eve we had singing at my\\nHouse, a number of young Gentlemen came, besides Mr.\\nElijah Brigham, and Josiah Brigham, Mr. Moses and Mr.\\nSaml Brigham, Mr. May (the two last lodged among us)\\nand Master Hazzletine. This evening also Eleazar Wheelock\\nand Thankful Maynard (Captain s Dauter) were married\\nsuch a Variety of Exercises had I in one Day May God\\nforgive what was amiss, and accept what was (thro Grace)\\nsincere\\n10. Breck, Suse and Sophy (by invitation) ride in y\\nSleigh to Col. Brigham s. Mr. May goes to Boston. At\\nMr. Stone s Request I headed a number of Papers of Sub-\\nscriptions for printing a spirited Letter against Mr. Isaac\\nFoster, Sent one to Mr. Stone, gave to Mr. Simon How, to\\nMr. Moses Brigham, Mr. Isaac Parker, to Master Sam\\nBrigham, each of them a Paper in Trust to promote Sub-\\nscribing. The account from Northboro is confirmed that\\nthey have there voted Mr. Whitney for this year 3ooo/^\\nMessrs. Forbush and Batheric bring old W^ood, 2 Load\\napiece. The weather prevented my visiting Mr. Jon Childs\\nsick Dauter. I wrote to Mrs. Winchester of Ashburnham\\nconcerning her son Billy to come and live here.\\n1 1 Sent to Ashburnham by Harvey Maynard. I cant\\nchange with any minister. I there review and make large\\nadditions to former preparations, which I humbly hope God\\nwill graciously accept through Jesus Christ.\\n12. Mr. Benj. Wilson jun came from y Widow Eager", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "igO DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nof Northboro to desire me to attend y*^ Funeral of her\\ndaughter Cutter tomorrow, (the wife of Ebenezer who is\\namong y*^ British troops. I preached A p. m. on i Pet.\\nI. 8. Administered y Lord s Supper. Master Hazzleton\\nand Mrs. Maynard dind here. May God graciously accept\\nour offerings N. B. Cold, stormy, few at Communion.\\n13. Deacon Wood came with his chaise to go to Mrs.\\nCutter s Funeral, but it was too stormy for me to venture.\\nElias rode with him.\\n14. I sent by Dr. Hawes, Mr. Cranch s 2 Vol. of Biogr.\\nAlso my Watch for a new Crystal. Mr. Elisha Parker brot\\nme several worthy presents. Beef and Tea, 10 lb. of one, Y-z\\nlb. t other.\\n15. Read part of Biographical Dictionary. The Lives of\\nConfucius c. Messrs. Sam. Forbush and Sol. Batheric\\nsledding wood from the Minister s Lot. Newspapers from\\nBoston and Worcester. Received a Letter from Bethiah\\nParmenter, alias Wheeton, dated Hopkinton, Oct. 19. 1779\\nopen dirt\\\\ desiring a Contribution.\\n16. Went to Deac. Wood to inquire about y Letter\\nreceived la.st evening. Wrote to Mr. Fitch about it en-\\nclosed it. Sent it to Deac. Wood by young Asa Brigham\\nfor conveyance. Messrs. Forbush and Batheric more wood.\\nGave y^ former a Receipt for ten cord. He tells me y*^ Town\\noted to give 7^ per cord to Four of y 70^ apiece for 10\\ncord each. viz. Sam Forbu.sh, Solomon Batheric, Nathan\\nMaynard Jun Jon Maynard, who have undertaken to\\nbring 40 cords.\\n17. Breck to Sutton in y*^ Sleigh to get Paper. Succeeds", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. I91\\nbut in part. Elias has borrowed a mathematical manuscript\\nwhich he is transcribing.\\n1 8. It is exceeding Stormy, snowing, blowing and very\\ncold, but thro God s great Goodness, we have Shelter, Wood,\\nBread, Meat, Drink, Cloths but especially Health, Reason,\\nabove all y*^ Day of means of Grace to His Name be praise\\nand glory May God commeserate y* exposed, and y\\nNecessitous\\n19. Difficult getting to Meeting, but few there. I w^as\\nfirst, preached A. M. on Zech. vi. 8* and from v 9-11. P.\\nM. Went on with and concluded Sermon on Hab. 5.9.\\nwhich may y Lord bless to us At eve read part of Flem-\\ning s Confirming Work of Religion.\\n20. A very cold season, continues so. I am engaged\\nin Biographical Dictionary. C. Confucius, Cato, Casaubon,\\nMons. L,e Clerk c.\\n21. Mr. W Chandler of Pomfret in straight for a sled\\nto go to Framingham. I have let him have mine, he\\nleaves his Waggon here.\\n22. I am taken up very much with Biography. The\\nLife of Lucius Cary who is Lord Falkland, Dr. Sam l Clark,\\nold Mr. Calamy, Des Cartes c.\\n23. Young Chandler returns and solicits for my sled to\\ngo to Pomfret. I yielded to his Importunity and for Mr.\\nLamson s putting two Guards in front, and for his Journey\\nto Framingham he pays me 10 Dollars and for y*^ Sled 50\\nDollars, p. m. came Mr. Nathan Goddard to desire me to\\nchange with him, who is to be in Mr. Sumner s stead, while\\nhe is to go to Hubbard s Town to preach for Mr. Parker.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "192 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nMr. Peter Whitney here and relates y Proceedings of his\\nParish in granting him 3000/\\nAt eve, Mr. Ruben Puifer and his Brother with a Letter\\nfrom Fisk concerning y* said Puffer s Examination. I re-\\nferred him to y^ three Ministers which are near to him\\nviz. Messrs. Bridge, Biglow, and Newell.\\n24. Breck and Suse, Mr. Brigham and vSophy rode in y\\nSlay to Mr. Whitney s.\\n25. I rode up to Shrewsbury^ to Mr. Nathan Goddard s\\nwho has persuaded me to take this cold ride. Went to Mr.\\nSumner s who was gone with design to preach tomorrow at\\nHubbard s Town. I lodged at Mr. Sumner s.\\n26. Preached at Shrewsbury, a. m. on Ps. 74. 17. p. m.\\non Ps. 90. 10. which may God graciously own and bless\\nlodged there again.\\n27. Breakfast at vSister Cushing s. Vi.sit Mr. Farrar s\\nWife who is sick, dind at Mr. John Maynard s, called at Mr.\\nGershom Brigham s^ and begin to take Thomas s Spy of\\nhim went in to Mr. Sam Fay s, but neither he nor his\\nWife at home arrived safe at home. D. G. Mr. Goddard\\npreached for me yesterday. His text a. p. m i Cor 23.\\n24. Dr. Hawes brot me my Watch from Mr. Cranch the\\nnew Chrystal cost 12 Dollars.\\nThis evening came W Winchester to live here.\\nMr. Nehemiah Maynard came with him. N. B. His\\nfather Mr. Nathan Mayjiard sat by and heard. I told Mr.\\n1 Mr. Gershom Brigham was the son of Dr. Gershom, of Marlbor-\\nough, and the father of Dr. Gershom of Westborough, and grand-\\nfather of Col. Josiah, whose portrait, with those of his wife and son,\\nhangs in the hall of the Historical Society. The Gershom Brig-", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n193\\nMaynard that I would do what I could conveniently rea-\\nsonabl}^ in teaching influencing him in Reading, Writing\\nand Cypering, according as his Business in taking care of\\ny Cattle, Cutting y^ wood c. would give opportunity and\\nas his Capacity should admit it. This was in answer to\\nwhat Mr. Maynard delivered me as Mrs. Winchester s Er-\\nrand to me by him.\\nham place was but little out of Mr. Parknian s way as he rode dowu\\nfrom Shrewsbury, and the old house still stands. The new house\\nnow standing on the opposite side of the road, was built not long\\nbefore 1810.\\nGKRSHOM BKIGHAM S HOUSI", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "194 DIARY OF KKV. EBENEZKK PAKKMAX.\\n28. Read Biogr. A close time for study, but a great\\nvStorm abroad. God be merciful to y*^ poor and to all y Ex-\\nposed\\n29. A very dismal morning. vStorm continues till about\\nnoon. Snow-Banks very high one nigh my saddle-house 6\\nfeet high. Roads blocked up. What can have become of\\npoor Mr. Goddard, who proposed to .set out with Wife\\nchildren c. on his great Journey to W^alpole, has sold at\\nShrewsbury and would now move.\\nMy son Breck had also designed to go in a double vSleigh\\nto Ashburnham, but no Team nor vSleigh can Stir. How\\nwonderful the Works of y Great God\\n30. I keep close to my vStudy, tho Mr. Antipas Brigham^\\nhad requested me to go to Capt. Edmund s to marry him.\\nBut nobody disturbs me. Enough to do to keep warm.\\n31. Jejan.(?) and Prec. Reflections on y^^ Year past,\\nwith prai.se for Preservation and numberless Benefits. Hu-\\nmiliation and Penitence for Ingrat. Deficiencies and Miscar-\\nriages. May a gracious merciful God remitt through\\nJesus Christ So teach me to number my Days y^ I may ap-\\nply my Heart to true Wisdom Et. John Forbes from Ot-\\nter Creek here and gives me account of y State of ermont.\\n1 7 So.\\nJani akv\\nIf I have heretofore had great Cau.se to bless and praise\\n1 Antipas Hrighani was the son of Capt. Jonas, who lived on his\\nfather David s homestead. He married Hepsibath Brigham, the\\noldest daughter of I)ea. Edmund, a distant cousin of his.\\nSee Journal January 24, 1780.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 1 95\\ny^ Name of God for his Wonderful Mercy Goodness in my\\nand my Families Preservation, What have I now to be per-\\nmitted to begin a New Year. I would celebrate His Praises,\\nwith all Hearty Gratitude. And in Special in so difficult a\\nSeason, of so Much cold and Snow tedious stirring, I am\\nfavoured in divine Providence, with ye Necessarys and so\\nmany of y Comforts of Life. But in peculiar for y protract-\\ning y Day and Means of Grace, and y blessed Influences of\\ny*^ Holy Spirit. I would magnifie y Lord and hope in His\\nSalvation.\\nPeople are chiefly employed in making Roads, providing\\nfor y*^ Fires, taking Care of Cattle, c. But y Lord pitty\\ny poor and exposed\\n2. Exceeding Difficult getting to Meeting. A. M. I\\nwent on with the discourse on y*^ Everlastingncss of God,\\nbegun on y last Year first Sabbath, from Ps. xc. 2. Mas-\\nter Hazzletine dind here. p. m. I repeated part of Disc,\\non Ps. 39, 4. O that God would awaken us, and teach us to\\nprofit hereby At night, another Snow storm.\\n3. The storm is very severe, much more snow has fallen.\\nIt was higher than y*^ Red Fence before my House by y^\\nStorm last week it is now higher, and y*^ Front Gate is not\\nto be seen.\\n4. God has his Treasures of Snow and Hail and Wind.\\nPOWER belongeth unto GOD! How distressing to y^\\nPoor Read Biographical Dictionary, Cicero, c.\\n5. Thro Divine Favour this was a bright, pleasant Day.\\nBoth my Sons and my Steers join with a number of y*^ Street\\nNeighbors with Cattle and Shovels to break y Roads. Tis\\ndifficult to compute y*^ Heighth or Depth of it. I am almo.st", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "196 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nready to conclude that there has not been so much Snow\\nupon y Ground at a Time ever since y Great Snow in\\nyear 17 17.\\n6. The great God has his Treasures of Snow has\\nsupreme Command of all y^ Meteors. It is very stormy\\nagain, and y*^ Snow deeper, and tho y Sun was visible a\\nlittle while in y*^ p. M, yet it was soon clouded, y*- vStorm\\nrages at night.\\n7. An astonishing morning for y dreadful Storm\\nrather increases. Besides the snowing and blowing with\\nviolence the cold is ver\\\\^ intense. This is thought to be\\nthe most tedious of any that has come hitherto. May God\\nmost compassionate pity and relieve me, and also support\\nand provide for y*^ poor Who can stand before Thy Cold\\n1 The snow of 1717 was a terrible storm, of which Cotton Mather\\nhas left a minute description. This storm of 1780 also passed into\\nhistory. All the harbors and bays on the Atlantic coast, writes\\nBarbour, as far south as Virgina were frozen. Loaded sleds\\npassed from New York to Staten Island; Long Island Sound was\\nfrozen into a solid highway, where it is several miles in width.\\nThe birds that winter in this climate almost all perished, and in\\nthe succeeding spring a few solitary warblers only were heard in\\nour groves. The snow was nearly four feet deep in the northern\\nAtlantic vStates, for at least three months.\\nUnder date of January 15, Rev. Mr. Hall, of Sutton, writes in\\nhis Journal Preached last Sabbath in my own House, about 30\\nhearers to this day the snow is vastly deep and the weather\\nextravagantly cold. I walked out one day this week about 40 rods\\nto a few neighbors, and was much worried, besides not been from\\nhome almost three weeks, and again on January 29: Extream\\ncold vet attends. I am a poor Creature and the cold is almost too\\nhard for me", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "DIAKV OF REV. EBENEZKR PARKMAN. 1 97\\nN. B. All y^ Pains taken about breaking Roads, in great\\nMeasure frustrated. ery few persons can stir abroad at all.\\n8. Hardly ever was y-^ Sun more welcome\u00e2\u0080\u0094 but yet y*^\\ncold is so Sharp and y Wind so high, it is very difficult to\\nundergo the Hardships we are called to. But what becomes\\nof y^ poor who have not the Favors which through y^ great\\ngoodness of God I enjoy\\n9. Tho I had prepared an exercise. it was a long one,\\nyet it not being calculated for y Season, I did not use it.\\nI was in Doubt whether there would a Meeting. But a few\\ncame upon Racketts and I repeated what remained from\\nlast Sabbath s Entertainment upon Ps. 39. 4 A p. m. for I\\nwas obliged for my own Sake and for y*^ Sake of y*^ People\\nto be exceeding brief. A number of men came to my\\nkitchen at noon, and I shortened y Intermission. Mr.\\nD. Forbes is extremely bad, desires Continuance of\\nPrayers. At eve I read to y Family part of Mr. Shep-\\nherd s Doubting Christian drawn to Christ, in my study y^\\nLife of Susanna, Countess of Suffi^lk.\\n10. The Life of Mr. Daniel Forbes is much doubted of,\\nbut I cant get to him by reason of y deep snow, and difficult\\nstirring. I am chiefly reading lives of eminent Persons.\\n11. Mr. Forbes still alive, but no Horse can go in y\\ndeep snow, but I have no Racketts nor Strength to go far,\\nas to visit him. Send my Love and Sympathy by those who\\n(eight of y draw on an Hand Sled his two Dauters For-\\nbush and Bond to see him before he dies. My Heart is much\\nwith him, to God for him. Mr. Hannaniah Parker return-\\ning from him comes in at eve to let me know he is yet alive,\\ntho with signs as they think of Death upon him. May it", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "198 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARK:MAX.\\nplease God to be almightily present with him His Brother\\nFisk has been on Racketts there.\\n12. Fair, but too rough and severe for me to go abroad,\\nand therefore cant visit Mr. Forbes, who I hear is yet alive.\\nRead y lives of several remarkable persons, particularly\\nin Biogr. y^ Life of Oliver Cromwell, in Clark s Lives, the\\nLife of Rev. Mr. Vine. Elias reads Earl of Chesterfield.\\n13. A very cold day we think the severest of any that\\nhas come. May God almighty support us thro these Ex-\\ntremities but especially y^ poor and destitute p. m. Mr.\\nElisha Forbes came and informed that his Father was dead\\nthat he expired last evening about 8 o clock. He -was 69\\nyears old last October. It was conceived that his Distem-\\nper was bilious had his senses to y^ last, was calmly\\nresigned to y Sovereign Will of God. The Funeral pro-\\nposed to be tomorrow, and he, Elisha, will take effectual\\nCare of my comfortable Transportation.\\n14. Squire Baker and two or three hands with him, which\\nsoon increased to half a dozen, drew me on a sled to y^ House\\nof Mourning. It was sharp cold, y Wind piercing, y sled\\ngoes over y^ Tops of Walls Fences. Tho it was very dif-\\nficult to get there, yet there were many People as it is said\\nb} y that were with him most he dyed happily; so he was\\nburied honourably, great Respect shown to his Remains.\\nMay God graciou.sly Support y*^ Widow, who solidly mourns\\ny*^ Loss may y Fatherless find Mercy with Him y was their\\nFather s God. Mr. Forbes has left, of Children, C^rand-\\nchildren, and one Great grandchild about 60. His Brother,\\nhis vSister, his oldest vSon were not could none of y be noti-\\nfied (S: therefore were absent. There were .so many Persons", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. I99\\nwith Snow vShoes y there was a good Path and y Corps was\\ncarried on a Bier, on Men s Shoulders. I was drawn by a\\nnumber of Rackettmen, in a very handsome Sleigh, with\\nWidow, Mrs. Abigail Forbush, his sister, Mrs. Daniel\\nBond. It was too tedious for me to stay at y^ Grave. I\\ncame away before the Coffin was let down by that time I\\ngot to Breck s Store, I was nigh overcome, by one means\\nanother. The Mourners, Bearers c. came to my House,\\nto hear y*^ Will. Dr. Hawes read it. At request, I in y^\\nEvening wrote a Letter to Mr. Forbes of Gloucester. I wish\\nardently that I may truly profit by y^ Providence Elias fin-\\nishes y^ first \\\\^ol. of Earl of Chesterfield s Letters.\\n15. It holds an uncommon cold, difficult sea.son.\\n1 Daniel Forbes lived on Jackstraw Hill, and he was buried in\\nMemorial Cemetery, back of the Soldier s Monument. Eli Forbes,\\nof Gloucester, was his brother. Mr. Parkman writes in the funeral\\nsermon of January 16 We, of this church, have fresh reason to\\ntake notice of the Holy Providence of God in removing from among\\nus one of the aged and useful members hereof, the late Mr. Daniel\\nForbes, who, besides his great regard for religion, and forwardness\\nto promote the interest of true piety and godliness among us, was\\nremarkable strenuous in the cause of liberty and for maintaining\\nour just rights and privileges, civil and sacred. He was also much\\nengaged and much employed in reconciling differences\\nHe had not been long sick of his last illness before he was persuaded\\nthat it would prove fatal to him, and accordingly he set himself to\\nimprove his short space and set his soul and his house in order, and\\nwith so much success, through the grace of God, that he had great\\nserenity and comfort, even in the midst of grievous pains and dying\\nagonies.\\nHis oldest son, Daniel, was living in Brookfield, where he was a\\nwealthy farmer. Mistress Abigail was an unmarried daughter, at\\nthis time fortv-five vears old.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "200 DIARY OF REV. EHKNEZER PARKIMAX.\\ni6. Preached A. m. on Zech 6. 13. p. m. on Ps. 92. 12\\nand mentioned y Death of Mr. Daniel Forbes, with some\\nshort character of him. N. B. The Widow Forbes, Mr.\\nJohn Forbes of Otter Creek and Master Hazzletine, dind\\nhere as did Breck and his family also Mr. Winslow Brig-\\nham. May God graciously add his Blessing Breck c.\\nattended here in y Evening.\\n17. I am reading y*^ Life Letters of Philip Dormer\\nStanhope, Earl of Chesterfield. The Letters to his .son\\nPhiHp Stanhope Esq. Deac. Wood here with a Spare Rib.\\n18. As no Team of Oxen or Horses can pass, people are\\nobliged to go to Mill with Hand. Sleds. Elias went today\\nwith a Bushel of Indian.\\n19. Mr. Timothy Parker, his Wife and Child came a\\nwhile ago in a Sleigh from Templeton, to visit their Friends\\nhere, but are not able to go back, except himself, who\\nreturns on Racketts. His wife and her sisters Newton and\\nWheelock visit at Breck s and I was desired to drink Tea\\nwith y\\n20. Elias goes again to Mill and Breck with him carry\\nof Rye Indian Oats, Six Bushel. Mr. Eli Harrington of\\nAlstad makes me a long Visit. He dines here. Dis-\\ncourse of Church Covenant Church Government c.\\n21. Mr. Solomon Batherick his Brother came and\\nkilled my principal Hog, which weighed 190. I read in\\nCapt Bell s and Mr. De Lange s Travels to Lspahan, Peking,\\nDerbeni Constantinople and finished y second ol.\\nof that work.\\n22. Elias goes on Racketts to Mr. Ger.shom Brigham s.\\nA new.spaper of Dec. 30 is y^ Last.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF RE\\\\ EBENEZER PARKMAN. 203\\n23. Preached a. m. on -Zech: 6. 13. p. m. on Ps. 92. 13.\\n14. 15. Ephraim Parker dind here. A considerable Con-\\ngregation, tho very cold.\\n24. An urgent message from Mr. Antipas Brigham to\\ngo to Capt. Edmund Brigham s, with request to marry him\\nI went, but with great Difficulty, by reason of y deep\\nsnow. My sons Breck and Elias drew me on a light sled\\nas far as Mr. Haskill s,^ nigh which a number of young\\nmen, Brighams accompanied me on foot to y^ House, where\\nI performed y Solemnity. After y Supper they brot me\\nto Mr. Gale s, who kindly obliged me to lodge there. Mr.\\nG. Andrews there invites me to dine tomorrow.\\n24. Mr. Gale his wife, also Capt. Edmund accom-\\npanying me to Mr. Andrews, where I was kindly rec d and\\nentertained. Capt. Brigham Mr. Gale went to Deac.\\n.Woods, on an Arbitration. The Subject was a Diiference\\nbetween Mr. Pierce Mr. Joseph Smith, both Black-\\nsmiths, where manj- are a.ssembled to hear W Stearns of\\nWorcester, Esq. advocate for Smith.\\nN. B. Mr. Andrews waited upon me home. By y^ way\\nvisit old Lieut. Forbush.\\n25. Elias leaves his Studys and helps those who are\\nbreaking the Roads with a yoke of Cattle. I read Ld\\nChesterfield s Letters.\\n26. Squire Baker is so engaged in breaking Roads that\\nhe has got Elias a yoke of my Cattle, on y*^ Road again\\nEphraim Parker being at work for me in dressing Flax for\\nMr. Haskell s is one of the few houses in town still occupied by\\nthe descendants of those living: there in Mr. Parknian s dav.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "204 DIARV OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nme brings in a quantity of it on a Pole hangs it before\\ny Fire to drie it. I had a good deal of Reluctance at it,\\nremembering that Capt. Gouge s House at Hopkinton was,\\nsome years ago, burn t down by Flax taking Fire.\\n27. As y^ Flax aforesaid hung before y*^ Fire, notwith-\\nstanding y*^ Distance it was placed at, a Coal was snapped\\nout from the Fire, began immediately to burn in it,\\nwhich had it occurred last night, while we Slept, what\\nwould have been y Event\\nAll hearty Thanks to our great Preserver\\nElias is gone again with y*^ Cattle today to break and\\nshovel y* Road. Mr. Andrews and Mr. Gale, generous to\\ny have got to y crotch of y Road, below Mr. W Wood s.\\nThe northern Neighbors have tryed to plough their Road\\ntoday. I read Lord Chesterfield s Letters.\\n28. The latter part of this was y most remarkable Cold\\nDay that we have had (as every bod}- is free to allow) and\\nElias goes again with Squire Baker, and drives two pair of\\nmy Steers, to breaking y Road down to Taplin s in South-\\nboro The evening and night were .so extremely .severe that\\nI was much concerned for him till he returned and did sur-\\nvive though he had been in Danger of being overcome with\\nCold Fatigue. N. B. Miss Mary Bradish came p. m\\nand lodged here.\\n29. The morning was y* most severe and sharp Elias\\nthinks some of his Eimbs are froze, but (God be thanked)\\nhe is about with usual Currency.\\n30. Preached a. m. on Zech vi. 14. 15. p m. on Joh\\n18.18 wath .some Alterations and Additions. May God bless", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAX. 205\\nHis Word to us At Eve, read Fleming s Confirming Work\\nof Religion.\\n31. Read in Fleming Chesterfield s Letters.\\nMr. Nathan Maynard borrows several of Mr. Prince s\\nSermons. Hear that Sue Bimeleck^ was lately frozen to\\nDeath. This whole month has been Cold to admiration.\\nWe have scarce ever known its Equal.\\nThe Cold of this Day is to high Degree of F:xtremity.\\nMay God Almighty sustain and support us, protect and\\nsupply us, extend Compassion to all y*^ Indigent, the aged\\nand y^ Exposed\\nFebruary 1780.\\nI am reading Lord Chesterfield s Letters. I highly prize\\nsome of them. They shew him to be a man of very exten-\\nsive Learning Sagacity. Read Mr. Isaac Foster s .ser-\\nmon on Luke 2.14 delivered at New Salem June 9 last at y^\\nOrdination of Mr. Joel Foster.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 p. m. 1 went to Mr. B. New-\\nton s reckoned and paid all by a note to Constable John\\nHarrington, was at Capt. Fisher s, at Mr. Graves Nichols.\\nMrs. P. was at Deac. Wood s, where I drank Tea. We\\nwalked on y Top of y Snow, which was many times as\\nhigh as y Top of y Fence.\\n2. It w^as too cold for me to go out. I go on with y^\\nLetters. Elias sits with me in y Study reads Vol. 11. of\\nStanhope.\\niSue Bimeleck was the daughter of Abimeleck David a son of\\nold David Muuuanaou, mentioned by Mr. Parknian in 1737. She,\\nwith her sisters, lived where her father had his wigwam, under the\\nshadow of the old Chestnut Tree near Williams Pond.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "2o6 DIARY OF REV. EBENHZER PARKMAN.\\n3. I walked over to see old Mrs. Kelly and prayed witli\\nher-dind there (at Mr. Beeton s^) called at Mr. Eb May-\\nnard s and at old Mr. Pratt s. At my return here was Lieut.\\nMarble. Mrs. Lambson c who drank Tea here. N. B.\\nBreck to Boston\u00e2\u0080\u0094 gave him 126 Dollars towards an Hatt for\\nKlias. Sent by him a letter to Mr. Quincy to be left at Mr.\\nPattins for Conveyance.\\n4. Not very well after my yesterday s Walk. The Calves\\nof my Leggs were sore, was indisposed in Body.\\n5. My Indisposition increases. Hear that Mr. David\\nGoodall and his Wife were come from Athol, passed b}^\\nto Capt. Maynard s yesterday. He has been to Otter Creek,\\nand relates that Enemies have come upon a Town there\\n(Soby) and destroyed it. He is going to Marlboro his\\nFather being dyed lately.\\n6. I was much indi.sposed still both last night and today.\\nN. B. I was in my preaching a. m. I was very unable to\\nsee what I had written in my Notes, by reason of y Lines\\nappearing in Rinkles. I carryed no Spectacles\u00e2\u0080\u0094 borrowed\\nDeac. Wood s, but to no purpose. I was able to give some\\nJ Mr. Beeton was living in the old parsonage, on Lyman School\\nHill. He was a young Scotch blacksmith, who had walked over\\nfrom Hopkinton with his wife bringing some bags filled with Eng-\\nlish coin, thirty years before, when he had heard that I\\\\Ir. Park-\\nman s farm was for sale. The minister firmly refused to consider\\nthe matter he wished to sell only to a man of quality, hut the\\nyoung vScot was canny, and interested Stephen Maynard in his be-\\nhalf, and Mr. Parkman was only too happy to sell to the wealthy\\ncaptain, who in turn passed a deed to John Beeton. He proved a\\ngood citizen of the town, and Mr. Parkman cordially recognized his\\nworth, and l)ecanie his good friend.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBKXEZER PARKMAX. 207\\naccount of what I had prepared, tho not erbatim, after a\\nwhile could see more distinctly, preached on Zech. vi. 15.\\nBreck and his Family dind with ns. So did Mrs. Maynard\\nand her son Brigham.\\nHave heard y^ sorrowful news of y Death of our Brother\\nof y Association\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the Rev. Thomas Goss of Bolton by a\\nFever. The Lord sanctifie this Providence to me, to the\\nmournful Widow, the bereaved Children, to y-^ Association\\nof which he was a Member, but especially the Church of\\nwhich he was Pastor, and to y^ whole people of Bolton 1\\nThat now they may be directed into methods of Peace, and\\ny^ new Church especially may be wholly settled. edified,\\np. M. I preach on Ps 55.22 former part (which I delivered\\nin Oct 1773) now to y end of page 8. which may God\\ngraciously succeed In y evening Exercise, Breck read Flem-\\ning s Confirming Work.\\n7. vSeveral young Women, viz. Lucy Maynard and Anna\\nFay, hired by Mrs. P. to spin, came here for this week, came\\nduly.\\np. M. Mr. Jon Forbes brot a Cheese c made me a\\nVisit. At evening Ephraim Parker borrows the History of\\nhuman Nature c. Advises concerning y^ sowing my\\nIsland with Clover c.\\n8. Providence further frowns upon us in sending another\\nsnowstorm, which covers y^ Rackett Tracks fills y*^ Roads\\nagain. Mr. Elisha Forbes dines here, spends most of y\\nAfternoon\u00e2\u0080\u0094 will endeavor to provide me some Quantity of\\nHay seed. I read Chesterfield s Letters\\n9. Elias goes with Breck others to break y-^ Roads to\\nSouthboro. Mr. Daniel Forbes from Brookfield, Mr. Isaac", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "208 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nPratt of Hardwick. N. B. I am troubled that Elias\\nshould so readily leave his Books to join with them whose\\nGain and Interest prompted to clear y^ roads for their Teams\\nto be going again, seeing that he could have no great\\nInducement, but Benevolence, public Spirit c. which had\\nbeen sufficiently served by five times before now, exposing\\nhimself in Cold and Dangers by Night and by Day in this\\nwork and all of it Gratis. This Sixth Time, when his own\\nTime is so extremely precious in which he has so much to\\nread and write before he can be fit to return to his College\\nExercises again. And yet this is not y*^ most trying, he\\nis planning an luiseasonable journey to Cambridge to fetch\\na Table from thence now at y very Day when y Vacancy\\nis fini.shed, and he should go to stay there, the rather be-\\ncause he has been absent from y Recitations .so long, that\\nhe ought to be one of y^ first that returns at this Term.\\nHe proposes also to go and return incog, presuming that y\\nA acancy is prolonged by reason of y^ difficult stirring\\nenormous price of wood.\\nID. The plan for going to Cambridge is so ripened that\\nI can t defeat it. The affair is chiefly Breck s, who loads a\\na sleigh with Grain c. loads up with Rum has pro-\\nvided two Horses as well as y Sleigh. And his Brother\\nJosiah Brigham was to go down to Watertown therewith,\\nbut Elias is .so urgent to undertake it, and has already\\nagreed to go with David Fay, who is going likewi.se. that\\nthis morning to my no small Di.squietment, sat out. Master\\nThis I)eautiful old table is still in the possession of Mr. Park-\\nman sdescendants, being given now an honored place in Mr. Park-\\nman Dennv s library, in Leicester. The slate was broken and has", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. KBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n209\\nHazletine dind with lis. p. m. Elias returns, not being able\\nto proceed on his Journey.\\n1 1.\\n12. P. M. Am called from my .study to visit old Mrs.\\nBaker. Mr. Andrews takes me into a double Sleigh with\\nhis wife and wnth Capt. Jonas Brigham s Wife, who are\\ngoing also to see their Mother). She was very dangerously\\nill of an Asthma. Discoursed and prayed with her.\\nbeen replaced by wood\u00e2\u0080\u0094 but the oddly carved frame is still strong\\nand beautiful. No wonder Elias made up his mind that it was a\\ngreat bargain, for which he was willing to put himself to no little\\ntrouble.\\nEI,I.\\\\S TABLE.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "2IO DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n13. A. M. on Ps 92. 15. p. i\\\\i. used notes on Ps 55.22\\nfrom page 9 to bottom of page 13. After meeting at eve,\\nSquire Baker sent his Sleigh for me. Mrs. P. and I went\\nup to his Mother. Examined and prayed with her. We\\nreturned in y^ Sleigh safely.\\n14. Elias rides in a Sleigh to Cambridge, p, m. Mr.\\nHazeltine makes me a visit and returns Edward s on Orig-\\ninal Sin, the three pamphlets he borrowed. He now bor-\\nrows Bp. Cambray on y^ Divine Existence. Breck invites us\\nto Coffee at y*^ Shop we complyed. Read Lord Chester-\\nfield.\\n15. Walked to Mr. Nurse s on various small Affairs.\\nThe air is exceeding thick, p. m. it rains, the snow wastes.\\nI finish Lord Chesterfield s first volume. Many admirable\\nExcellencys in these Letters, and they evidence him a Man\\nof great Understanding, extensive Reading and accurate\\nTaste, yet too extremely indulgent to his Son s Pleasures\\nthrows him into dangers that it must be a Miracle if he\\nescapes. And what affectionate wise, pious Parent could\\nfind in his Heart to take such pains to breed him to be a\\nMan of this World, to y^ so shameful neglect and Inattention\\nto another notwithstanding all y*^ Care of his Religion de-\\nvolved upon his Preceptor who he ought at least to have\\nseconded.\\nAt eve a Storm of Wind and Rain which beat vehemently,\\nyet unexpectedly Elias came home from Cambridge, brot\\nRum for Breck and a valuable, tho old fashioned chamber\\nTable, with large .slate in y*- Middle, for himselfe. He got\\nthro y* Storm with great Difficulty.\\n16. A fine dav after such a violent vStorm. Tlie Snow is", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 211\\nmuch sunk, but it is so pervaded by y* Rain that y Creatures\\nslump very deep, and no Horse can pass y*^ Road. I begin\\nto read lyord Chesterfield s 2^ Vol. I am called away to visit\\nold Mrs. Baker. Two young men Enoch Greenwood John\\nBaker draw me on a Sled to y* House. She is very low and\\nin great Distress for want of Breath. She is able to. say but\\nvery little. I at her request prayed with her. The same\\nyoung men brot me home. May God prepare me for my\\nown Turn\\n17. Mrs. Baker expired last eve a little after I left her.\\nMay God grant His Omnipotent Grace to Survivors\\nMr. Sam l Harrington of New Braintree here. Mrs. P.\\nand I dind at Breck s. Our lowest and best well has been,\\never since y^ great Storm, froze up and filled with Snow that\\nwe have not been able to use it, till todaj^ when we got it\\nopen.\\n18. Closely engaged in preparing a Discour.se on i Thes.\\n4. 13. At eve Squire Baker here and desires me to attend y\\nFuneral tomorrow.\\n19. Squire sent a Sleigh for me to go to his Hou.se. Mrs.\\nP. vSophy, Suse with her child, and little Suse of Concord\\nrode with me, to y*^ House of Mourning. I prayed at y^\\nSolemnity. N. B. Breck, Elias, Josiah Brigham, the two\\nWilliams (Winchester and Spring there. Rev. Bowman and\\nhis Wife came after prayer. I did not go in to y^ Burying\\nplace. I could not comfortably especiall} stand on y^ snow.\\nI came home. Breck and his Family dind with us. P. M.\\nPursued my preparations.\\n20. Rev. Mr. Bowman, who attended y Funeral ye.ster-\\nday, came in the morning to my Assistance. In y*^ A.ssem-", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "2 12 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n]A\\\\, I prayed first, Mr. B. preached a. m. on Phil: 4.11. p.\\nM. he both prayed and preached. His text was Matt: vii.\\n24-27. At eve, he repeated y latter sermon, but did not\\nlodge here, he returned to his spouse at Squire Bakers.\\nAt dinner were poor Deacon Miles and Master Hazzle-\\ntine. May God graciously awaken and quicken us\\n21. Elias went with me in y* Sleigh to visit aged Mr.\\nJames Maynard, who being weak and deca^nng, desired\\nPrayers yesterday found him better and conversible was\\nnot asked to pray. I went in to Amasa s.^ N. B. Tho\\nAmasa has kept House above twenty years, yet had never\\nlift up his Hand for Minister s Sallery. At eve, came Wil-\\nliam s brother Jonathan from Ashburnham, brot him\\nvShirts and Frock Shooes and Stockings c. he lodges\\nhere. Mr. Bowman and his Lady made us an evening Visit.\\nX. B. His people make very little provision for him.\\n22. Mr. Winchester went from us intending as far as\\nLancaster. N. B. Josiah Brigham is gone for Breck to\\nBoston in y*- Sleigh. But today it is very difficult passing\\nby reason that y snow is exceeding soft. It is foul weather\\np. M. The rain spoils travelling\\n22. Yesterday and today Chesterfield s Letters.\\n23. ery bad Travelling. Josiah Brigham with diffi-\\nculty gets home.\\n24. Mrs. Lamson (wife of Mr. Thomas) comes to work\\non Elias s Cloths. Mr. Hez. Taylor of New Fane makes a\\nvisit and dines with us. Capt. Morse came in to see me.\\nAmasa Maynard lived in the house on the Northborough road,\\nwhich has been enlarged into the Wayside Cottage, belonging to\\nthe Lyman School. He was much given to practical jokes.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 213\\n25. Mr. Buckminster and his Brother Col. William call\\nhere.\\nN. B. Mr. B. owns to me that he is Author of y Let-\\nter which is advertised to be printed he tells me also that\\nin his Paraphase on Romans 10, 4. p. 13 by another in his\\nNeighborhood he means Mr. Mellen of Chauxit, in his\\nlarge Book on Justification. My Dauter in-law receives a\\nyoung Cow which her Father Brigham gives her. She is\\nput into my Barn to be kept.\\n26. Mrs Lamson about 3 P. M. attempts to go home, but\\nthe rain prevailed so that she turned back tarrys with\\nus.\\n27. A. M. Delivered y*^ remainder on Ps 55. 22\\nP. M. on I Thes 4. 13-14 prepared on y*^ Occasion of\\ny*^ Death of Mrs Persis Baker. Mr. Hazeltine Mrs.\\nLambson dind here. She went home after Meeting. N.\\nB. My son Breck not well. A Letter from Alix, dated y\\ni8 he writes of y*^ Birth of a little Dauter on Nov. 16 last.\\n28. Old Mr. Jonah Warren dyed about 10 a. m.\\nI wrote by Mr. Levi Brigham of Fitz-William to my .son\\nAlexander. I read part of Lord Chesterfield. My son\\nBreck grows worse. At eve came Master Hazeltine and\\nlodges here. Anna Fay begins to learn to write.\\n29. I have spent some time in reading Ld Chesterfield\\nand cant but take notice again that a Father with so much\\nLearning and Sensibility has so little to say to a Son in whom\\nhis Soul is so bound up, about Religion and y^ Eternal Con-\\ndition of his immortal part. As much pleasure of mind as\\nI feel for my son Elias s Education Settlement in y World\\nor Serviceableness in his Generation, vet I have (I think)", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "214 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nquite other Solicitude about his most inestimable Interest,\\nthat of his Soul, and his Condition in another, an unchange-\\nable State in another world. And O y^ God would grant\\nhim, each of my dear Children His renewing and sanc-\\ntifying Spirit Breck removes to lodge here, Suse and y*^\\nChildren also.\\nMiss Polly Howard makes us a visit tarrys with us.\\nWe have now a pritty round Family, of ye whole.\\nMarch 1780.\\nNotwithstanding y*^ Rain and very difficult travelling, I\\nwent A. M. to y*^ Funeral of old Mr. Jonah Warren, who\\nexpired in y Eighty year of his age many people at-\\ntended. I prayed ventured to come home on foot. The\\nSnow and Ice made it dangerous to ride. Breck is some-\\nwhat better. At night he grew worse. My Family and\\nhis united are 14.\\nThe Harvard Vacancy is up today; but y weather rough\\nand Roads very bad. Elias cannot go to Cambridge.\\n2 Am engaged in my preparations for y Sabbath Breck\\nis recovering D. G.\\n3. Miss Polly Howard goes to Capt Maynard s. Breck\\ngoes to his Shop.\\n4-\\n5. On I Thes 4.14, on occasion of y Death of old Mr.\\nJonah Warrin. Cousin Maynard, Misses Brigham (as well\\nas Breck and his Family) fill our Dining Board.\\np. M. repeated on 2 Tim 3.7 to page 9 bottom.\\nCousin Maynard lodges here. N. B. Rec d a Letter\\nfrom Mr. Quincy by Mr. Thomas Whitney, dated Feb. 12.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 21 5\\n6. Town Meeting. Mr. Eb Maynard and Dr. Hawes\\ncame to me with y^ Town s Request to go to y Meeting\\nHouse and pray with y I went, prayed and add a few\\nwords of address to y but no word concerning my own\\nCase. Mrs. Maynard and her son, (Master Samuel) dine\\nwith us and at eve a number of young Scholars, Hazletine,\\nSam l Brigham.\\n7. Mrs. Maynard and her son went home.\\n8. Breck Suse and y^ Child moved back to their Home.\\nRead Lord Chesterfield, At night, Pearson on y Subject\\nI am preparing upon for y* next Lord s Day.\\n9. Mr. Thad. Warrin came and killed two Piggs for me,\\nboth of y weighed 226. p. m. at Mr. Stockwell s Desire\\nI rode down to Mr. Tim. Warrin s. Elias went with me to\\ndrive y^ Sleigh. I marry ed Stephen Belknap to Eunice\\nWarrin supped there. Elias went for me again at even-\\ning, and we returned safely, notwithstanding y^ badness of\\nye .^ay y Horse breaking in to y*^ Snow banks, oftentimes\\nand y Sleigh tossing uncomfortably, being also in y^ Rain.\\nN. B. A number of Westboro combine to take again\\ny Worcester News.\\n10. I agree with Breck to pay half y^ Price of Thurs-\\nday s Worcester paper. Anna Fay goes home, though the\\nweather is bad.\\n1 1 The weather is still .so rough and y^ Roads so unfit\\nfor Travel, Elias remains at home, to my great Regret but\\nit cant be helped. I desire to resign y\u00c2\u00ab^ whole matter to y\\nDivine Providence.\\n1 2 Preached again on i Thes 4 14\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and rose again\\np. M. went on with 2 Tim: 3. 7 to y^ end of page 16, which\\nmay a Divine Blessing accompany It was so great a", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "2l6 DIARY OF REV. HBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nStorm of Snow and Rain that there were but few at meet-\\ning especially in y afternoon.\\n13. Adjournment of Town Meeting. N. B. A sad\\nConte.st between Mr. Benj. Fay Col. Wheelock, about a\\nChestnut Tree, cut down by y* latter in y*= Time of y late\\nExtremity for Wood. Anna Fay again.\\n14. We are much reduced as to wood, but y Weather\\nis still too cold to be indifferent about it. No going to y\\nMinisterial lyOt. Elias goes to sundry places, and gets Hay\\nseed to sow y Fields at y Island.\\n15. Elias Sows Hay Seed upon y^ Snow. Col. Brigham s\\nDauters Mind well and Anna come up in y^ morning on y^\\nSnow and lodge here. Elias prepares to go to Cambridge\\ntomorrow.\\nI wrote to y president to Mr. Ouincy to my son Wil-\\nliam.\\n16. Elias depended upon Mr. F^li.sha Parker to go to\\nBoston and in returning to bring up our Horse but by Par-\\nker not going, Elias is disappointed and does not go.\\nI finished reading Ld Chesterfield s Letters, but y Miscel.\\nno farther than page 578. We have such another Winter\\nby y Storm of Snow, which came today as makes us think\\nof y^ Value of Wood, and pity such as are destitute.\\n17. Mr. Nathan Maynard jun and Mr. Isaac Parker brot\\nWood. Two loads apiece. Elias p. m. got Hay Seed at Mr.\\nBatherick s, several Baggs: which William .sowed at y*^ Island.\\niS. Mr. Mo.ses Nurse brings a load of Wood for Mr\\nMaynard. N. B. The Measuring of Wood has been chiefly\\nperformed by Elias, and sometimes by Breck at y^ Shop.\\nMr. Amos Parker here. He relates what occurred last tues-\\nday at North Shrewsbury by y deliriousness of Mr. Ger-", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nshorn Flagg, who did mischief at Mr. Fairbank s new erected\\nHouse, but chief!} at y*^ Meeting House. Mr Parker speaks\\nalso of y^ Drowning of several men attempting to pass over\\nMerrimack River\\nPreached on i Thes 4.14 p. m. on 2 Tim:\\n19.\\n^y0L.\\nA PAGE OF A PARI", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "2l8 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n4.7 which may God bless N. B. I read today Zech. 7,\\np. M. I did not read, but we sung twice, began y*^ 119th\\nPsalm.\\n20. Elias is still disappointed of going to Cambridge, p.\\nM. I rode to Squire Baker s. He gave me (as I understood\\nhim) y^ Tallow I wanted of him. I was too destitute of\\ncommon money, therefore went to y^ Treasurer Newton\\nfor Supply but there was none for me but he offered to\\nlend me an hundred pounds of his own Money. I was at\\nDeacon Wood s am grieved at its being such a Seat of Lazy\\nTyplers. N. B. I returned by Dr. Hawes, W. R. Cranch s\\nBiog. Univ.\\n21. N. B. I delivered to Elias Four Hundred Dollars\\nof which one hundred and seventy-six from my own Desk\\nand borrowed 224 Dollars of my Son Breck. Breck goes\\nfor Boston. Sent by him to Mr. Quincy and to my kins-\\nwoman, Mrs. Eliz. Bradford. Elias on Mr. Elisha Forbes\\nhorse to Cambridge, and by him I sent to y^ President, and\\nto my Son William at Concord.\\nI borrowed 20^ of Money of Mr. Barney Newton, Treas-\\nurer, which he must have again from y Constable when he\\ncan gather it of y People.\\n22. Gave Mrs. P. 33 Dollars to pay Miss Lucy\\nMaynard.\\nMr. Stone came dind preached my Lecture, on Isa:\\n53. 6, tarried over night. N. B. We read a Narrative of y\\nJournal^ and di.scoverys of two of General Gage s Officers,\\n^This was probablj the report of Capt. Brown and Ensign D Ber-\\nniere, who reconnoitred, in disguise, the roads between Worcester\\nand Boston, and Boston and Concord, in the early part of 1775.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 219\\nwhen reconnoitring y Roads and as far as Worcester pre-\\nvious to Lexington Fight.\\n23. Mr. Stone and I walked up to Squire Baker s to y\\nstones and to see 4 great Oxen, of uncommon Bigness and\\nFatness. Mr. Stone returned home. Breck returned be-\\nfore night brot two letters from Mr. Forbes to me. One\\nfrom Mrs. Rebecca Wetmore at London to Mr. W Spring.\\nOne also from Mr. Thomas Barrett of Cambridge to Miss\\nLydia Champney, which relates y^ Death of her Brother,\\nMr. Samuel Champney, Feb y 3^ last.\\nBreck brot also a present of a Barcelona Handkerchief to\\nhis Mother from Samuel and another from y^ same to\\nSophy, and another from y* same to Suse. I perceive y* he\\ngave 50 Dollars apiece for y\\n24. Breck unhappily brot back ye Letter I wrote to my\\nson William, about Wood for Elias. I wrote another, but\\nknow of no conveyance. It is so rugged Weather that I\\nam much afraid Elias will be put to Difficulty, and be obliged\\nto buy at y excessive Cambridge price.\\n25. Mr. Nathan Maynard jun brot one load of Wood,\\nwhich my son Breck measured, and says is 77 feet. But in-\\nasmuch as (to deal rightly) several loads of late have been\\nof exceeding crooked wood, this today has such a quan-\\ntity of small wood I told my son I would be glad to have\\nmore allowance made on those accounts.\\n26. Preached again on i Thes. 4. 14. read y verses\\nfollowing. I administered y*^ Lord s Supper. O y it might\\nbe accepted thro y*^ Merits and Intercession of Jesus Christ.\\nOld Mrs. Green dind with us. p. m. I went on with the\\n.subject from 2 Tim 3. 7. From page 23 to page 29. which", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "220 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nmay God graciously own and bless In y^ eve read part of\\nMr. Henry on Due Return from y Lord s Table.\\n27. Dr. Crosby came in to see me. He is about selling\\npart of his place in Shrewsbury, viz, His Buildings, and\\nabout 60 acres of his Land, to old Mr. Rider. W Win-\\nchester remains much unwell. I was obliged to get Josiah\\nBrigham to tend my Cattle in y*^ Morning.\\nBreck has received two Letters from Mr. Moore.\\n28. Jo.siah Brigham goes to Boston. I write and send\\nby him to Mr. Moore and also to Elias at College John\\nBarrett of Hopkinton came to see me dines here. His ar-\\ndency is still to go to College. He is now desirous to go to\\nthat at Dartmouth. He borrows two pamphlets of Mr.\\nHutchinson s Sermons W Winchester still complains of\\nmuch Indisposition, yet has been to y Barn.\\n29 W grows worse, takes physic of Dr. vStim.son, who\\ncalled to see us and dines here. p. m. Mrs. P to Harring-\\nton s. Suse goes to her Fathers, Breck takes care of y^\\nCattle for me. Kph. Parker was here at livening. I try\\nto ha\\\\e him live here, but I cant succeed.\\nN. B. Mr. Nathan Maynard jun Lieut. Bond, bring\\n-SO much Wood as compleats (as they, Maynard and Breck\\nsay) Maynard s Ten cord, so y I gave a Receipt for it.\\n30. Parker came to w^ork on our Flax, but found it not\\nrotted sufficient, therefore breaks off and returns. Mr.\\nAbr. Holland here and gives me a more perfect Account of\\nMr. (rershom P lagg s Frenzy. We cant but remark how\\nuncommon y^^ Cold has been and continued.\\n31. I)r vStimson came from Sutton and returns to Hop-\\nkinton dines here he gives W Winchester a omit.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF RP:V. EBENEZER PAKKMAN. 22 1\\nwhich works well, but he remains sick and exercised with\\nPain, in both Head and Stomach The months flie apace 1\\nmay I have a due sense of my own hastening hence\\nApril.\\n2. Preached on 2 Thes: 4. 15-16. Mrs Beeton dind\\nwith us. p. M. on 2 Tim: 3. 7, finished y^ Discourse\\nexcept y- Additions. O y I might be duly affected myself\\nwith what was delivered At eve Breck and his attended\\nRepetition c.\\n3. Went to Mr. Nurse s and Mr. Thad. Warrin s, to\\nbespeak Spring and Summer Work, but y*^ Earth is as yet\\npartly covered with snow, and where it is open, is froze.\\np. M. Col. Brigham here upon an important errand in\\nbehalf of his Son Elijah, with regard to Sophy, which I\\ngave my Consent to.\\n4. Preached at Deac. Woods on Eccl. 12. 13. There was\\na considerable Assembly. Mr. Knight and Mr. ODonald of\\nBoston were there, I had an Opportunity of conversing\\nwith both after Meeting. Col. Baldwin and his son Isaac,\\nalso my grandson, Thomas P. A Letter by them from my\\ndear Ebenezer, dated Morris Town State of New York,\\nMarch 10. 1780, when he was well, tho he had endured\\nHardships, and .suffered by cold, lying on y*^ Ground. They\\nlodge here and have three Hor.ses.\\n5. Col. c leave us to go to Cambridge. My son Breck\\nundertakes a long, circular, difficult Journey, to Bridgewater,\\nBoston c. Very much perplexed with a flock of Sheep\\nbelonging to Dr. Hawes, daily feeding on y Rye at y^\\nIsland. Stephen Maynard who has y Care of y^ Dr s Affairs", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "222 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nhere in y Evening to tell me y he could not take Care of y\\nDr s Sheep, being in preparation to go to Market.\\n6. Disappointed of Help to repair my Island Fence., and\\ntherefore those Sheep are in again upon my Rye. Young\\nWinchester is poorly pain in his Hip is his principal Com-\\nplaint, but ofttimes in his Head.\\n7. Mr. Thad. Warrin works for me, mending my Island\\nFence, and Fences before y^ Meeting House. A Letter from\\nmy .son Alexander. Miss Betsey Taylor of Grafton here\\ntells me Mr. Grosvenor goes sometimes to hear Mr. Hen-\\nstick, y Baptist Minister: and y many others do .since Mr.\\nG. cannot preach. At eve Capt. Wood and Mr. Jon Fay\\nhere.\\n8. Fresh Troubles with y^ Docf Cattle Sheep on j\\nRye, notwithstanding all y pains used j^esterday to make\\nye Pence Secure and strong. 4 times today.\\nMr. Thomas Stone here, wants y Association Records\\nfor his Father, which I gave him, and a number of Papers\\nbelonging to y*^ Association.\\n9. At night sent for to vi.sit Lt. Bond s Child went and\\nprayed there. It was very rainy, a. m. preached again\\non I Thes. 4. 16-17.\\np. M. on 2. Cor: 4. 1-3. O y we might grow wiser and\\nbetter by all y means.\\n10. Deac. Wood came to acquaint me y there was at his\\nHouse an Indian in Gentleman s Habit, who was a Scholar\\nand Preacher from Dartmouth Coll. I sent for him he\\ncame his name was Daniel Simon. The Brigham Scholars\\nwere well acquainted with him. His Credentials were (be-\\nsides his Diploma and his name in y Catalogue) his recom-", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 223\\nmendation by y President, Trustees and Tutors, License\\nfor preaching by Rev. Grafton\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Presbytery\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a Letter from\\npresident Wheelock to Rev. Mr. John Sargent of Stock-\\nbridge, and a Certificat from y Selectmen of Stockbridge.\\nI also examined him myself.\\nThe Deacon urged he might preach in y afternoon and\\nhe would take care to notifie ye people. Mr. Simon was\\nnot forward, but would not deny. I could not refuse. He\\ndind here. At 3 p. m. a Congregation was gathered. He\\npreached on i Pet: 2. 7 To them who believe, he is pre-\\ncious. It was a serious and Methodical Discourse,\\ndelivered decently. I hope it was useful and profitable.\\nA number of Scholars, who were acquainted with Mr.\\nSimons, came in at eve to see him and he lodged here.\\nN. B. The people made a Collection and presented him\\ny^ Sum of one hundred and twenty-four Dollars\\nOne Ebenezer Crosby came here to let himself and lodged\\nhere. N. B. Dr. Hall going to Boston calls here.\\n11. The Indian Preacher leaves us to go on his Journey\\nto Stockbridge. Mr. Crosby insists for Cloths to pay for\\nHis Labour; which I not being able to engage him, he\\nleaves me. I catechized at y^ Meeting House. Boys 32.\\nGirls 17. Dr. Hawes has brot me Another Vol. of y*=\\nBiographical Dictionary from Mr. Cranch. Vol. 4 Letters\\nD and E.\\n12. Read Col. Ethan Allen s Narrative of his Captivity\\nSeveral Lives in Biography aforesaid, viz. M and\\nM Daciers, John Daille, author of de User Patrum, John\\nDee, mathematician. Conjurer c. De Foe, Demosthenes,\\nThomas Dempster, noted for his remembering whatever he\\nread, and yet commonly read 14 hours in 24.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "224 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n13. Mr. John Maynard brings Turns of Wood in\\nall Dr. Hall from Boston. N. B. Gen Hancock\\nexceeding Generous to him. Col. Baldwin Thome Park-\\nman, Mr. Eliot, Tutor and Mr. Zechary Hicks here. The.se\\n5 last dind here.\\nCol. Baldwin brot two letters from Elias, one of March\\n30th y^ other April. Am informed y Mr. Samuel Williams\\nof Bradford is chose professor instead of y*^ late Dr. Win-\\nthrop that Rev. Mr. Harrington of Lancaster was married\\ny night before last, to Mrs. Bridge of Framingham.\\n14. My kinsman (Elias Parkman of Boston) sent me a\\nCopy of y Addre. is of the Convention and Plan of Govern-\\nment, p. M. walked (on .some special occasions) to Dr.\\nHawes. Having no man yet and 3 oung Winchester lame\\n6 infirm, my business is behind. Breck works in y Gar-\\nden plows and hires Mr. Kenney part of the Day to renew\\nand mend up y Garden Fence. B. sows Peas there.\\n15. Breck and W Winchester at times in y*^ Garden.\\nI cannot afford any time to it, nor have I any Inclination.\\nJosiah Brigham returns from an Excursion to purchase Cat-\\ntle he has been as far as to Fitz William and has brought\\ntwo Cows, one has a Calf, t other with Calf. They are put\\ninto my Barn to keep. Breck has now- four Creatures there,\\nhis Hor.se and 3 cows besides y young Calf.\\n16. A. M. on I Thes 4, 17-1.S. p. m. on 2. Cor: 4. 3-4\\nread A. M. Zech 9. Mr. Brigham dind here, as did Cousin\\nMaynard. At eve Breck and his Family (as they have done\\nfrequently came to ye Repetition.\\n17. A very snowy Morning (Apr. 6. old style anno 1732\\nwas a time of exceeding deep snow I sent a Letter to Dr.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 225\\nHawes who would go to Boston, for Elias, at College. Was\\nat Mr. Newton s about driving 5 oung Cattle to pasture at\\nCoi s Hill.\\niS. Rode to Minister s Meeting at Stow. Met Mr.\\nStone at Mrs. Speakman s. Borrowed of her Pope s Essa}-\\non Man, with Warburton s Notes. We called at Mr. Jon\\nLoring s, and delivered him Beard s Theatre of God s Judg-\\nments which I had borrowed of him. At Mr. Newell s\\nwere Messrs. Stone, Smith, Bridge, Whitney and Biglow,\\nand occasionally Messrs. Adams of Acton, Stearns and Al-\\nlen, preachers. Mr. Mellen of Chauxit. Some debate\\nabout a Concio, whether if there be not a Concio prepared\\non purpose, we mayn t have a Sermon for our Christian Ed-\\nification. Mr. Bridge opposes it. I asked advice about y*^\\ncase of Mr. Daniel Adams his wife. Answer was to\\nprevent its being heard in y Church till it is heard in y*^\\nCivil Law, if y Woman s Complaint must be supported by\\nher Oath.\\nMr. Allen prayed at y Conclusion of our Meeting.\\nNext Meeting by divine leave to be at my Hou.se. Old\\nMrs. Gardner (at whose House we were) was not able to\\nsit at Table when we dind Mr. Stone and I rode together\\nto Marlboro I visited our Kinsman, Lt. Uriah Brigham,^\\nwhere I lodged.\\n19. A Storm of Rain and Snow but I ventured to try\\nfor Home. Sat out in y*^ Morning under another Disad-\\n1 Uriah Brigham, in 1750, had married Sarah Gott, a niece of Mrs.\\nParkman s, and sister of Mrs. Stephen Maynard. He lived in the\\nsouth part of Marlborough, says the Marlborough Historian, in\\nthe style of the English gentry, receiving the visits of the elite far", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "226 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nvantage, viz., the Horse lame^got to Capt. Edmund Brig-\\nham s and dind there. Arrived safe at home about 3 p. m.\\nAll Glory to God, my Guardian at home and abroad Am\\ninformed that Dr s Sheep have still been troublesome.\\n20. Mr. Nathan Kenney here agrees (if I dont hire\\na man) to take my North Field to plant to y halves; and\\nlikewise to take another piece of Ground for Flax, in y like\\nmanner.\\nI read y Conventions Address to their Constituents, with\\nDeclaration of Rights Form of Government.\\n21. Was forced to go to Dr. Hawes on y Account of his\\nSheep, which were again yesterday upon my Field of Rye,\\nand was at Neighbor Caleb Harrington s, his Hogs having\\ndone Mi-schief several times in my Garden, and mentioned\\nto him my putting out my Chauncey Meadows to y halves,\\nmuch interrupted and tossed in spirit by having no man to\\nwork for me, when so many different affairs to mind, in\\nlooking after my Husbandry at this Season, and Creatures\\nto guard from transgressing.\\n22. Mr. Eleazar Rider, who saws at y Whipple saw-\\nmill having given me Slabbs c, Stephen Maynard in Dr.\\nHawes Service, goes with my Cart and Steers, puts in y\\nDr s Steers, to y Saw- Mill, brings a Load.\\n23. I have for a great while thought of repeating my\\nSermons on Mat 3. 10. which were preached above 30 years\\nsince. I undertook it today, though with alterations and\\naud near he kept an open house, and showed a hospitality witliout\\nmeasure or stint. He left quite an estate, but so involved that it\\ntook his administrators thirty years to di.sentangle it. It is said he\\nnever did a day s work in his life.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZKK PARKMAN. 227\\nadditions. N. B. Have read y*^ Ch. publickly. At eve\\nread a sermon of Mr. Flavell s England s Duty; on Rev:\\n3. 20.\\n24. Mr. Hez. Maynard of Marlboro here as was Mr.\\nSimon How, afterwards came Mr. Joseph Mottey, a preacher\\nat Marlboro, with Mr. Elijah Brigham. They dind here. Mrs.\\nP. walked to see her Cousen Maynard and tarried there. N.\\nB. James Hopkins of Mansfield came to let himself, and he\\nlodged here. I have made him y^ be.st Offer I could.\\n25. Hopkins goes to work uses my Steers and Deac.\\nWood s Oxen Harrow Ben Wood helps, in harrowing\\ngetting out muck. Mrs. P returns at evening. I am\\npreparing on Zech 7. 5-7.\\n26. General Fast thro out y*^ States. Preached on y^\\nText above.\\nIn going to Meeting p. m. was informed y Mr. Whitney s\\nHouse of Northboro was burnt down this very noon. I\\npreached on Ps 107. 43 took occasion frequently to apply\\nit to y*^ present Occurrence, .so surprising and affecting May\\ny Lord sanctifie it to y Sufferers to us all The Brethren\\nby desire was stayed to confer about y Adams Difficulty. I\\nmanifested ni}^ Desire to keep it out of y Church, but they\\nsaw cause to appoint a number to go to her. See Church\\nRecords.\\n27. In y^ Morning, I rode over to see y Ruins, sym-\\npathize with those who are bereaved. I found y sad\\nCause to be, Mrs. Whitney made a Fire in her Oven, that\\nmorning, .sat in her Food to be baked for Supper but y*^\\nFire, while y^ People were at Meeting in y forenoon,\\nkindled in y Kitchen Chamber, was discovered by Mr.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "228 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nSam Allen in y time of y last prayer. Many goods in y\\nlower rooms, y*= Church plate c were saved, but the\\nLibrary and Papers, which were of great worth 4 feather\\nBeds, all their Cloths and Linnen, except what the} had\\non. Corn, Cyder, Sauce, c. c. burnt. Mr. Sumner came\\nalso and carrj-ed various Things. I went in to see Mr. Jonas\\nBadcock, whose Hair, Face and Hands were much Scorched,\\nSwelled and blistered by y*^ Flames. I dind at Mrs. Briggs s\\nwhere Mr. Whitney and his Family had repaired to. Mr.\\nSumner and Mr. Allen, preacher at Bolton, dind there also.\\nThe people meet this afternoon to see what they can do\\ntoward assisting. N. B. A great deal has been brot in\\nalread} I rode to Mr. Seth Rice s for Flax seed. I there\\ninformed Mrs. Adams, of y Church s Appointment yester-\\nday relative to her. I was at Capt. Maynard s visit old\\nMrs. Kelly, drank Tea there. When I came home am\\ninformed of y*^ Conduct and Language of Hopkins.\\n28. Hopkins desires to go off, and tho it throws me into\\nmuch perplexity I consent and he goes awaj^, giving in his\\nwork and offers to pay the Damage of Disappointment. I\\nwent over to Mr. N. Kenney and got him (again) to take\\nmy North Field to ye Halves which he agrees to.\\n29. Kenny and his Son came to get out muck, and has\\nmy Steers and Cart. Mr. Moses Nurse joins with his\\nHorses and waggon. I was obliged to go up to Deac.\\nWood s and Squire Baker s to forward a Contribution, but\\nneither of y at home. Deacon came p. m. My son W Ly-\\ndia W from Concord came to tarry over y Sabbath here.\\n30. On consideration of y^ burning of Mr. Whitney s\\nHouse, I preached (with alterations repeated) on Lam: 3.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 229\\n22-23. both A. P. M. Baptized Capt. Godfry s Twins,\\nSullivan and Salmon. Appointed y^^ Communion, but no\\nLecture Appointed contribution for Rev. Mr. Whitney\\nnext Sabbath. At noon conferred with vSelectmen as well\\nas Deacons about y Contribution. At eve in y Family\\nread Mr. Flavel s Sermon on Gal 5. 24. See his works p.\\n254. Vol. I.\\nMay 1780.\\nThe Town met to read y Address of y Convention, with\\nthe Draught they had made of a Form of Government for\\nthis State. I understood that they read it over, and after\\nsome debating upon it, they adjourned to this daj three\\nweeks. May God y^ Fountain of Wisdom, grant them\\nKnowledge and understanding. Wrote a long letter to my\\nson Ebenezer at Morris Town, New Jersey to be read}- for\\nCol. Baldwin to carry. Billy and Lydia here yet.\\n2. Wrote to Mr. Quincy to y^ care of Breck, who goes\\nto Boston Sophy to Mr. Whitney s and to y Fulling MilP\\nat Northboro I went to Mr. Thad. Warrin s, his wife sick.\\nI was lamed by a slab falling on my right Foot. A very\\ncold damp season. Too cold for Billy and Lydia to go\\n1 About half a mile from the meeting house on the post-road,\\nand on the river Assabet, there is a mill for the fulling of cloth, and\\nworks for carrying on the clothiers business in all its branches,\\nwhere about 7000 yards of cloth are annually dressed and the work\\nis most acceptably performed to the honour and advantage of the\\ntown, and the interest of the community. These works are the\\nproperty of two brothers, Captains Samuel and Abraham Wood\\nbut the business is performed at present by the latter only.\\nPeter Whitnev in his History of Worcester Co.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "230 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nhome. W Winchester out of Health .still Stomach ache,\\nLame in his Hips, can do very little.\\n3. Sheep more than ordinarily Troublesome., My af-\\nfairs are much perplexed. W Parkman and his Sister\\nLydia leave us to go to Concord. Mr. Jo.seph Harrington\\nhas been here, and tells that Providence had prevented the\\nCommittee of y^ Church that were appointed to go to Mrs.\\nAdams, so y* y^ went not, for Deac. Bond was too infirm to\\ngo, Mr. Davis was very ill, and confined by a Fever, or\\npleurisie Mr. Harrington went, to little purpose.\\n4. While much embarrassed and prittj lame, Stephen\\nBatherick came within Reach, and was very much at I,eis-\\nure. I hired him for 15/ per Day to be paid according to y\\nold wa} and he came and worked y*^ afternoon.\\nBreck returns from Boston, brings a Letter from Elias at\\nCambridge, concerning y Installment of Mr. Sam l Williams\\nheretofore of Bradford, Professor of Mathematics experi-\\nmental Philosophy a marvellous time.\\nAt eve came Lieut. Jon Grout, Messrs. Eli Whitney\\nJon Forbes, and are concerned about Brother Adams s com-\\ning to Communion. I advised y to go and make him a\\nvisit, and after that let me know.\\n5. Old Mr. Hardy came in Warmth (S: inveighed against\\ny Contribution for Mr. Whitney, because he has not asked\\nany to be made for him. He is a very rich man, said he,\\nmight take it as an Affront to him, except he desired it.\\nI endeavored to inform him better, chid him for his Rash-\\nness. Mrs. P\u00e2\u0080\u0094 visits Mr. Davis and Mr. Thad. Warrin s\\nWife\u00e2\u0080\u0094 both sick.\\n6. Mr. James Dix came but I refu.sed to meddle at all\\nwith his Ouarrells.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 23 1\\n7. None of those Brethren about Adams s Matter, make\\nme any Return, preached on Ps: 133. 12-3. Administered y\\nLord s Supper. Mr. Adams did not stay to commune or\\ndisturb us. Mrs. Maynard dind with us. p. m. repeated\\nsermon on 2 Cor 8,7. expecting a Contribution, but Messrs.\\nBelknap and Gale inform me, it is very much desired by con-\\nsiderable numbers y y Contribution might be deferred to\\nanother Sabbath for as much as y Town when together\\nlast Monday were so engaged in y^ weighty affairs then\\ndepending unhappil}^ forgot to mention it, and therefore\\nwere not so prepared as might be wished, and may be hoped\\nfor, if they might have further time. It was therefore de-\\nferred till next Lord s Day but advised y the Sermon\\nwhich had been delivered might be improved as an Excite-\\nment and Preparatory thereto. N. B. As to Mr. Adams,\\nI understand that he went away from y Communion because\\nhe was himself offended. Also Capt. John Wood s Wife for\\nsome Reasons withdrew.\\nAt evening worship read y*^ 2^ of Mr. Flavell s Sermons\\non Rev: 3. 20.\\n8. William Winchester left us to go to A.shburnham. I\\nwrote by him to his Mother. I gave him 10 Dollars, Mr.\\nBarnard s Sermons to young people and on y*^ Earthquake,\\nand furnished him with various Things to accomodate him\\nfor his Journey. May God grant him Health and Grace\\nI have now neither Man ijor Boy but Billy Spring to tend\\nCattle and Sheep. Dr. Hawes, y*^ Court being Dissolved,\\nis returned visits and dines with me.\\n1 Dr. Hawes was representative in the General Court for the years\\n1778-80.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "232 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n9. Wrote to Mr. Moore. The Referee.s upon y* Case of\\nCapt. John Wood, versus Benj. Fay, his Mother-in-law,\\nset here at y*^ Meeting House. They are Judge Dorr,^ Tim.\\nPain Joseph Wheeler, Esq. The Lawyers are, for\\nWood, W Stearns, Esq., Dan l Biglow,^ for the Fays,\\nMr. Sprague. The latter came to see me. I attended part\\nof y^ p. M. A most unhappy Strife May God pity y\\n10. Attended y Court, part of y Day. Mr. Andrews\\ndelivers me a Letter from Mr. Whitney, concerning our Con-\\ntribution for him, manifesting his Satisfaction in our defer-\\nJudge Dorr was Joseph Dorr, of Ward (now Auburn), appoiuted\\nJudge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1776.\\n-Timothy Paine held a number of important offices in Worcester.\\nHe was the father of Dr. William Paine, and of Nathaniel Paine\\nthe Judge of Probate for Worcester County for thirty-five years.\\nJudge Wheeler, also, was a Worcester man. He was at this time\\nthe Register of Probate, being at the time he came to Worcester, a\\nretired clergyman. His house, known as the old Wheeler Man-\\nsion, stood on Main Street, near Lincoln Square, until a few years\\nago.\\nWilliam Stevens, was a prominent lawyer in Worcester, from\\n1776, when first admitted to the bar,^until his early death, in 1784.\\nHe possessed good sense, respectable bearing, lively wit and much\\nkindness of feeling. He was associated for one year with Daniel\\nBigelow (afterwards County Attorney), in the publication of the\\nMassachusetts Sp)\\nDaniel Bigelow was a young man, having been born in Worces-\\nter, in 1752 the third of the name. He was a nephew of Col. Tim-\\nothy Bigelow, of Revolutionary fame, and was himself a distin-\\nguished lawyer, senator, counsellor, etc.\\nMr. Sprague was probably John Sprague, of Lancaster, first Dis-\\ntrict Attorney of Worcester County, being appointed to that posi-\\ntion in 1780. He was succeeded by Daniel Bigelow.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. E;BENEZER PAR K:\\\\IAX. 233\\nring it, and how gratefully he will accept of what soever\\nshall be afforded. Mr. Joseph Hardy was here, was\\nexamined in order to his joining with y*^ Church. Mr.\\nJoseph Smith and his Wife made us a visit. Mr. Smith\\nmanifested his Desire of y^ Ordinance of Baptism for their\\nChild but I was in much Suspense about proceeding with\\nhim.\\nIT. The Pleading finished last night about lo o clock.\\nThe Judges are together a. m. draw up their Determina-\\ntion, p. M. Judge Dorr here. N. B. Send my lyetter\\nto Mr. Moore by Master Crosby, going to Boston, to be left\\nat Gill s Office for conveyance. Pamela Cooledge of Ash-\\nburnham came to live here. Mrs. Hardy, wife of Mr. Jo-\\nseph.\\n12. It is but a Melancholly Time with me. Nothing at\\nall doing in my Husbandry, having neither Man nor Boy to\\nassist me. The weather is indeed cold, y*^ season back-\\nward.\\nMr. Thomas Adams of Medfield came to see me and lodges\\nhere.\\n13. Mr. Adams wants my Volume of Chubb s Tracts in\\n4to.\\nHe gives me Dr. Brown Languith s Modern Theory and\\nPractice of Physick Dr. Goodman s Penitent Pardon.\\nJudge Hale s Contemplations, part 3. with his Life, and\\nMr. Durham on Scandal. Besides Chubb, he has Dennis s\\nAdvancement Reformation of Modern Poetry, and leaves\\nme two Pamphlets, viz Dr. Cardogan on y Gout c. and\\nMr. S. Web.ster s two Discourses on Infant Baptism. He\\npromi.ses Dr. Owen on Sp Mindedness for which he takes", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "234 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nwith him Dr. Bray s Bibliotheca Parochialis. Further I\\nlent him Cornelius Agrippa of y*^ Vanity of y^ Sciences. To\\nbe sent to my son Sam Boston. Mrs. Harrington here p.\\nM. Makes Return of their Visit to Mrs. Adams. gives\\nme a Paper signed by her, y^ Committee.\\n14. Although I have attempted something in prepara-\\ntion for today s Exercises, yet had so many interruptions\\nand avocations, that I was obliged to laj- it by, preached\\non Mat 5. 7. a. p. m. N. B. After y^ forenoon Exer-\\ncise, I read some parts of Mr. Whitney s Letter to me on y^\\n8 to y Congregation. Appointed a Church Meeting to be\\np. M. A Contribution for Rev. Peter Wliitney. At eve\\nread Flavel on Rev. 3. 20. Serm. III.\\n15. Deac. Wood here to count y Contribution made\\nyesterday. It was in Notes 262/, in Money (including 5\\nPistareens, 175 In all to Mr. Whitney 438^. There was\\nalso a number of Dollars which were included in a paper\\ndirected to y^ Selectmen, for the Benefit of y poor Cripple\\nJohn Forbes.\\n16. I rode to Mr. Fessenden to try to put out my Sheep,\\nbut in Vain. I dind there, p. m. rode over to Mr. Whit-\\nney s and conveyed y^ Contribution which we made for him\\nin Mone} and Notes, took his Receipt. I delivered him\\nSix Books as v^y own Contribution viz. Calvin s Harmony,\\nMorning Exercise, Pierce s Sinner inplead, Claggetl s Abuse\\nof Grace, Butler s Sermons, Bradbury and Pike on Trinity,\\nwent to Mr. Wood s y*^ Clothier, returned at eve. Stephen\\nBatherick works here.\\n17. I keep Stephen in planting in y Beeton Field, p. m.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 235\\nwent to Mr. Levi Warrin s, obtained easily of him to bear\\nmy Message to Mr. Daniel Adams concerning y^ Church\\nMeeting to be next tiiesday come Sennight at y Meeting\\nHouse 2 P. M. oc.\\n18.. Stephen still works for me in planting various\\nThings, and Mending the fences c. went with him to y\\nIsland, to shew him what was most necessary but at night\\ngoes home. p. m. Elias came up from Cambridge, with Josiah\\nBrigham. The last brings a Letter from my son Samuel\\nconcerning W Parkman of Boston (son of Nat.) his pro-\\nposal to buy out y^ several Heirs to y Mansion House c.\\nCousen Maynard made us a Visit, and drank Tea here.\\nMy Friend, Col. Joseph Buckminster^ of Framingham was\\nburyed.\\n19. A very Cloudy Day. It rained some part of y^ Morn-\\ning, when it held up it not only remained very cloudy, but\\n1 Col. Joseph Buckminster was made colonel in 1739, and served\\nin the French and Indian Wars, and in the Revolution. He was\\nselectman for twenty-eight years, town clerk for thirty-two, and\\nrepresentative for nineteen. He lived west of the old cemetery in\\nFramingham. He was the father of Rev. Joseph Buckminster, of\\nRutland.\\n^The famous Dark Day of History.\\nMr. Parkman and the people of the town seemed to take it as\\ncalmly as Col. Davenport, of Conn., whose common sense and cour-\\nage have been sung in verse and story. I think this is the only in-\\nstance in these years of the Journal where Mr. Parkman speaks of\\nenjoying, especially, any article of food.\\nA different scene was being enacted in the neigboring town of\\nSutton, as we learn from the Journal of the Rev. Dr. Hall. He\\nwrites: Ye Day was so dark as yt we needed candles at noon\\nday. People came flocking to the meeting-house, and desiring my", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "236 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAX.\\nfrom about 10 a. m. it grew very dark the Obscurity in-\\ncreased by about 1 1 it was too dark to read unless at y\u00c2\u00ab\\nWindow by 12, I could not read anywhere in y*^ House\\nWe were forced to dine by Candle Light. It was very awfull\\nand surprising. Thro divine Goodness y^ Light gradually\\nreturned I wrote this before two. Before Night, I find y*\\nthe unusual Darkness has given general Surprise. At eve\\nwent to Supper at Breck s, on agreeable Haddock. The\\nNight was exceeding dark, insomuch y the Committee\\nwhich sat at Deac. Woods, on y Affair of y Form of Gov-\\nernment could not without Difficulty find their way home.\\nSeveral of y did not get home at all.\\n20. I am concerned for my Neighbor Thad.Warrin, who\\nis so behindhand in his Business. I have offered him my\\nCattle and plow and I have said so much to him to per-\\nsuade him that he uses y today.\\n21. On account of y*^ late unusual JVicnoyncnon, I read\\nA. M. Amos 5. and preach on x. 4.5.6.7.8. Messrs. Brigham\\nand Hazletine dind here. p. m. I went on in Repeating\\nSermon on Mat. 3.10 from page 9 with some Omissions, at\\nEve read latter part of Mr. Flavells Third Sermon on Rev.\\n3. 20, which may God graciously bless to us\\n22. Mr. Jo.seph Hardy here with his Relation, which\\nrequires many alterations. Esq. Baker, Mr. Batherick and\\nMr. Joseph Harrington came to me from y Town Meeting,\\nto desire me to go with y to pray with y give y my\\nPresence. I went and prayed with tbeni, and preached a sermon\\nto yi Extempore from Joel 2., r. part of ye 2d- 4 ye people\\nwere very attentive. The I ord Sanctifie his Hand and awaken us\\nup to our duty", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAX. 237\\nAdvice, they being assembled upon y very important Affair\\nof y^ Plan of Government, went and prayed joined with\\ny in voting. Voted y* Bill of Rights Voted y*^ Introduc-\\ntion of y first part on Government voted Article 1. then\\nadjourned Elias studys Anatoni}-.\\n23. Mr. Elijah Brigham in Squire Baker s Chaise, waits\\non Mrs. Parkman to Boston. I wrote to my son Sam my\\nConsent to my Kinsman W Parkman s having, for rea-\\nsonable price, my Right in that which was m late Honored\\nMother s House.\\n24. I met with y Town on y Adjournment. N. B.\\nStrenuously insist that the Gov shall not only declare him-\\nself of the Christian Religion, but a Protestant. It was\\nobtained to have y*^ Word Protestant inserted ye Vote had\\ntwo against it. Capt. Fisher and Mr. Hananiah Parker.\\n25. Mr. Joseph Hardy s Wife here, have so many\\nCorrections to make, that it was necessary to transcribe it.\\nThis I did for her. Elias is reading Chesselden s Anatomy.\\nMr. Elijah Brigham returns from Boston Says Mrs. P\\nhad a good Journey. N. B. I found that my son Breck is\\nFREE MASON}\\n26. I discover also that my son Sam is that Capt. Elias\\nand y^ Coll. Baldwin are.\\nN. B. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences ioviweH,\\nconstituted And Made a Body politic Corporate b} an act\\nof the General Assembly of this State, at y^ present Ses-\\nBreck Parkman was one of the members of Trinity Lodge, of\\nLancaster the first lodge west of Boston. This was founded in\\n1778. In the early part of the present century he became a charter\\nmember of the Northborough Lodge of Free Masons.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "238\\nDIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nsions. The Names of y Members are published in todays\\nSpy. It is matter of Joy to me But it was also of Sur-\\nprise, as I cant trace its Conception nor Author, nor Fan-\\ntors the char Qualifications, Duty, Immunitys,\\nEmoluments.\\n27.\\n28. Read a. m. Zech. x. with some Exposition of it.\\nPreached on Amos 8. 9, p. m. on Mat. 3.10. read in y Even-\\ning part of Mr. Flavell s 3 4 Sermon on Rev. 3. 20.\\n29. Rec d a Letter from Rev. Whitney to request me to\\ndine with him to attend the Raising a New House for\\nThis new house still stands under the large elms.\\nPETKK WHITNEY S NKW HOUSE.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 239\\nhim. In riding over there met with Mr. McCarty he was\\ngoing to Boston. But turned about and went with me to\\nNorthborough. Mr. Stone came also. We dind at Mrs.\\nBriggs, there Supped. Mr. Maccarty went to Boston.\\nMr. Stone and I went to the Raising. I prayed and gave\\ny^ Psalm (ps. 127). Mr. Stone made y^ last prayer. N o\\nEvil occurrence. Blessed be God Mr. Elijah Brigham\\nwas my Compan}^ home. An Excellent Frame, a great\\nCompany\\n30. A.M. Assist y^ Selectmen in forming their Return\\nto the Convention, with y^ Exceptions and Alterations.\\nP. M. Attended y\u00c2\u00ab^ Church Meeting. Opened it with\\nPrayer. The first Affair was that of Sister Persis Adams,\\nwife of Mr. Daniel Adams who was present but her Hus-\\nband, tho notified seasonably by a Messenger, sent on pur-\\npose by y Pastor to him, to acquaint with y*^ Meeting, for\\nwhat, when zvhere, did not come. This caused us to\\ndefer the Hearing any Complaint against him, till we might\\nhave accuser accused Face to Face Act: 25. 16. The\\nChurch Meeting, as it relates to this Controversie, is ad-\\njourned to y last Monday in August next, at 2 p. m.\\nThe other Matter on which we met, was to choose two\\nDeacons and chose Dr. James Hawes for one, Br. Jon\\nChild for Y other by 17 Votes\u00e2\u0080\u0094 y^ rest scattering. The\\nDr. desired leave to take so weighty a Concern into Con-\\nsideration. The other denyed and again refused, but he\\nwas urged to consider of it, not be too resolute in Deny-\\ning.\\nThe Meeting concluded with prayer and y*^ Blessing.\\nMr. Cushing came from Shrewsbury (from Ashburnham", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "240 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZF.R PARKMAN.\\nyesterday) and lodged here. Has two Horses, one for Mrs.\\nCotton to ride upon.\\n31. I have writ a Letter to Mrs. P. and Dr. Hawes was\\nto have carryed it, but he went too early this morning for it\\nto reach him. However Mr. Lemuel Grosvenor and his\\nSister called here in their way to Boston, and took it. We\\nhad a cheerful and good Day praising God for his Good-\\nness to his People in continuing our Liberties and Privileges\\nand Oppt y y*^ Day for y^ Exercising y and supplicating\\ny^ Divine Presence with the People in their Solemn Assem-\\nbly; y*^ Ministers in their Convention.\\nElias rode over to Hopkinton to wait upon Mrs. Cotton,\\nbut she was not well eno to come today, Elias brings me\\nfrom Mr. Barrett s the illustrated Sir Francis Bacon s Ad-\\nvancement of Learning. A Book of Stupendous Fame\\nJune.\\nMr. Cushing Sets out for Ashburnham, I again go to y^\\nMeeting House to assist y Towns Men in their making Re-\\nply to y Convention at Boston, and Breck is desired to\\ntranscribe it for Capt. Fisher to carry with him. A variety\\nof Company interrupts and discomposes me. I read in Brog r.\\nDictionary At Hve. Mr. Elias Harding Thankful Forbes\\nmarryed.\\n2. Tho it is Friday, I seem obliged to go out and look\\nafter my Affairs. My Cattle begin to be unruly. I went\\nto Mr. Isaac Parker s to see what he would do about work-\\ning for me instead of his Br. Ephraim, some of whose Time\\nremains to be made up, and to make some Agreement with\\nhim to take my Young Oxen to keep. Elias goes to Hop-", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZKR PARKMAN. 24 1\\nkinton again with Mr. dishing s Hor.se with him for Mrs.\\nCotton, who comes here at evening. Mr. Hazletine waits\\non Miss Nabby Marty n and two of Squire Baker s Dauters,\\nMiss Mindwell Brigh.am who all (of y last) drink Tea\\nhere. Dr. Gershom Brigham makes me a visit respecting y^\\nBaptism of his new-born Twins. Mrs. Cotton lodges here.\\nI am much prevented studying.\\n3. Ensign Snow brings his Dismission from Southboro\\nand desires to be admitted into y^ Church here. N. B.\\nFrederic Lock who works for me today in moving and .set-\\nting up a Fence at y^ Island to make a Lane from y^ Road\\nto my Pasture, meets with a Disappointment by y^ unruli-\\nness of my Steers, and leaves y Work undone\u00e2\u0080\u0094 which pre-\\nvents my pasturing my Cows there.\\n4. Read Zechariah II. Preached a. p. m. on Luke\\n16.23 by divine Help, I accomplished y whole. I humbly\\nask y^ Grace Power of God may be magnifyd in y Awak-\\nening of many Souls In y eve read part of another Ser-\\nmon of Mr. Flavell s on Rev. 3.20. N. B. Dr. Hawes has\\nbrot. me from my son Samuel, Melmoth s Sublime beatif.\\nMr. Ripley of Concord is y Proprietor.\\n5. Hear that Mr. Henry Quincy is dead! If .so, I heartily\\nsympathize wath my old Friend, his Father.\\n6. Elias setts out on Breck s Horse for Cambridge. I\\ngave him to pay his Quarter bills and other Expenses, to be\\nused with the utmost Prudence, Eight hundred Dollars.\\nMr. W Knight of Boston, Chandler made me a Visit,\\n1 Joseph and Benjamin Brigham married Hannah and Lucy\\nHardy.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0247.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "242 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PAKKMAN.\\nSO did Mr. Grosvenor of Grafton, whom, to my Joy, I now\\nhear, speak with much Audibleness and plainness. They\\ndine with me. After dinner, I rode with Mr. Knight in his\\nChai.se to Mr. Gale s, and preached there, on Eph. 5.2, those\\nwords As Christ Also hath loved us, hath given Himself\\nfor us. Had to my Grief, but a small Company, but it was\\nchiefly occasioned by his aged Mother s long Confinement.\\n7. Breck goes to Boston rides with Mr. Gale. I wrote\\nto Mrs. P by my Son and by him sent my Watch to\\nMr. Cranch to be mended.\\nIn much perplexity about my Cattle which are missing\\nnor have they been seen ever since some time Yesterday\\nlate in y*^ day they are brot home. Am reading The\\nSublime Beautiful of Scripture. Mr. Jon Forbes at\\nEve. His Heart is Friendly toward me under my Suffering\\nby y*^ depreciations.\\n5. Tho Things are Dark as to outer Circumstances, yet\\nGod is my Refuge. I would beg Grace to hope and trust\\nin Him Squire Baker came and invites me to the Raising\\nof a Grist Mill and a Saw Mill. I went. The Company\\nwas double, but all supped together at Mr. Rider s. No evil\\nOccurrence befell anyone D. G. In y latter part of y Day\\ncame Mrs. P from Boston with various Tidings in her\\nMouth. First y^ joyful y Sally was\\n9. Safely delivered, and had been favoured with a com-\\nparatively easy Travel, has a fine fat Dauter, and very like\\niThe mill which gave the name to the Old Mill Road. It\\nwas the upper mill site on that road. It was built by Rider, who\\nlived in the old house occupied until lately by Mr. John Johnson.\\nThe mill has long since disappeared.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0248.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENKZER PARKMAN. 243\\nto do well. The praise to God for all His Mercys! But y^\\nsorrowful news is from y Harbour of Cape Anne, that Mrs.\\nForbes departed on Monday night last, in Child bed. She\\nhad been delivered of a Dead Child about two Hours before.\\nA sad loss to my poor Son-in-law The Lord sustain him\\nand pity y^ Motherless Children, for there are pritty many\\nof them hope they will all find Mercy! I am informed y\\nMr. W Parkman, Grandson of my Brother, lives in y^\\nAntient Mansion.^\\n10\\nII. My son Samuel s Chaise being here, Breck rides\\nwith me to Northboro I preached there on II. Cor: 5. i\\na Building of God c. p. m. on Col: 3. 1-2 Sett your\\nAffections c Mr. Whitney here on being saved by\\nHope.\\nN. B. The Congregation sung without Reading lineally.\\nI baptized Mary, an infant of W Brigham.\\nWe each of us returned home at evening. Coll. Cushing\\nhas been here to raise Recruits here for y Army at New-\\nYork.\\nThe Antient Mansion was on Battery Street, a large, square,\\nwooden house, with the door in the middle. It remained in the\\npossession of Wm. Parkman, and his son, grandson and great-\\ngrandson of the same name until about thirty years ago. Then\\nit was sold, and made into a store. For more than a hundred\\nyears after the Rev. Ebenezer called it ancient, it stood as it did in\\nhis day with the front door opening at the side on the yard, and\\nthe shingles growing blacker, but never putting on the modern\\nfashion of paint. Only five years ago Battery Street was widened,\\nand Mr. Parkman s early home and the home of his honored\\nmother gave way to the spirit of improvement.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0249.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "244 DIARY OF REV. EBEXEZER PARKMAN.\\n12. Visited Mr. Simeon Bellows, (who was prayed for\\nyesterday. being confined by various Disorders. I dind\\nthere, prayed with them. Visited at eight of y*^ houses of\\nthat Corner, as far as to Mr. Belknaps.\\nMr. Elijah Brigham and vSophy rid in Sam s Chaise to\\nHopkinton, Visiting Dr. vStimson. They returned here at\\nnight.\\n13. Wrote to my son Ebenezer at Head Quarters, Morris\\nTown New Jersie. Was at Deac. Woods. N. B. We dis-\\ncoursed of y^ late Deac. Tainter s Legacy of fifty pounds^ old\\ntenor, to this Church.\\n14. I should have depended upon Mr. Grosvenor to\\npreach for me today, but it was too foul weather. I preached\\nmyself on Ps 63. 8 to page 5 and part of y*^ Additions at\\ny bottom continued for several Pages. By Desire of y\\nDeacons y church Stopd The Business was to Consider of\\nMr. B. Tainter s Note of Hand, by which he is bound, to\\n1 Dea. Simon Taiuter died in April of 1767, and left by will unto\\nthe First Church of Christ in Westboro aforesaid, of which I am a\\nmember, the sum of Six pounds, thirteen shillings and fourpence.\\nI know of no other Dea. Tainter to whom Mr. Parkman could refer.\\nHis son Benjamin was unfortunate financially, selling the farm\\nwhich his father had deeded to him, a little while before his death,\\nfor Continental money, which proved of little value. He went to\\nVermont, as Mr. Parkman records on the 20th, where he died in\\n1810.\\nHe was taken prisoner by the Indians in 1746, and had many\\nstrange experiences among them. In person he was tall, straight\\nand robust and was rough with the Indians, who liked him the\\nmore for it and during his captivity he became a great favorite\\nwith them.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0250.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PAR KM AN. 245\\npay y^ Legacy his Father left. Deacon Bond put it to vote,\\nwhether they would do anything about that Note? It went\\nnegatively, for there was no Hand lifted up that I saw.\\n15. No certain news yet that Charlestown, South Caro-\\nlina, is taken, but reasons to fear it is, are greatly increased.\\nSad accounts from y^ West on Mohawk River. May it please\\nGod to extend Pity and Compassion to them, as their case\\nmay be fit us in these parts, for His Sovereign Will\\nFinish reading Courtney Melmoth s Sublime and beautiful\\nof Scripture.\\n16. Mr. Abr Holland and Miss Crosby visit here. I\\npurchase of him Lord Somers on Government entitled The\\nJudgment of Kins and Nations concerning the Rights c.\\nof Kings and y^ Rights c. of y^ People. I gave Mr. Hol-\\nland for this eminent Book, Mr. Prince s Compendium Logi-\\ncal and 3 Pamphlets besides. Mrs. Snow and Mrs. (wife of\\nW\u00e2\u0084\u00a2 John.son. The former desires to be propounded for ad-\\nmission c. Suse goes to her Father s with a view to Wean\\nher child. Further Alarms more men called for.\\n17. Capt. Fisher returns from Boston: informs y two\\nthirds of y^^ people of this State appear to accept of y^ Plan\\nForm of Government which y Convention had drawn up\\nrecommended That y Convention is Dissolved and y\\nsome very important letters from Congress and from Gen l\\nWashington had arrived recommended most immediate\\nvigorous Exertions in raising men and furnishing Pro-\\nvisions for y Army.\\nHe also brings a Letter from Elias, who writes that as the\\nConclusion of all Collegiate Exercises was at 3 o clock y\\nafternoon of y 13 and no public Performances to be on y", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0251.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "246 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAX.\\n21 as was expected, by reason of y immense Expense of\\nnecessarys there, so there is nothing to hinder his returning\\nhome on Monday next c.\\n18. Read Ps: 63 preached on Ps 63. 8. Administered\\ny^ Lord s Supper-Mrs. Maynard and Mrs. Davis dind here,\\np. M. on Ps 133. 3.\\n19. Dr. Hawes rides down to Court designing (as I sup-\\npose) that Elias shall ride up from Cambridge on his Hor.se.\\n20. The Association was at my Hou.se, but we were only\\nThree. Mr. Stone and Mr. Whitney. They would main-\\ntain Order and therefore had a Moderator, who prayed and\\ngave an ab.stract of an Exerci.se on Ps. 133. N. B. While\\nwe were dining came in Elias from Cambridge. The reason\\nof Mr. vSmith s ab.sence was his very low afflicted State of\\nBody. Perhaps for the same reason his son Bridge, is ab-\\nsent. Mr. Newel Raises an House today, and Mr. Whitney\\nmakes Haste back to Northboro to carry Nails for his. Mr.\\nSam Thurston here and was examined. Mr. Benj. Tainter\\nSons, with their Wives Children, Goods c. move from\\nWestboro and try to go towards New Fane.\\n21. Took an Opportunity to reckon with Elias, as to his\\nExpen.ses. I found there was so great Alteration of Times,\\nCustoms Charges as was very astonishing especially\\nconsidering that no alteration was made by y^ Constable, or\\ny Town as to what is paid to me.\\nRead y Life of y^ Celebrated Erasmus in Biogr. Diction-\\nary. Reced a letter from my Son Forbes dated y 6 con-\\ntaining an account of his Wife s Death. I undertook to\\nwrite him an answer to it Great Difficulty in raising Men", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0252.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 247\\nfor y^ War. Twelve are called for, but 9 obtained yet\\n(I hear) Orders are immediately for twelve more.\\n22. My wife and Suse ride to her Father .s and to Capt.\\nJones s. They bring home Httle Hannah, who was been\\nWeaning. I walked to visit several Neighbours, was at\\nMr. Newton s, Parker s, Warrins, Isaac Parkers, (where I\\ndrank Tea) Davis s, old Mr. Pratt s. My Kinsman Cover-\\ning here from y^ Hamlet, lodged here.\\n23. N. B. have been in uncommon Surprise at Elias s\\nwanting so large a Sum of Money as was called for to pay\\nhis Buttery Bill, which amounts to ^321.6. I gave him\\n300 Dollars of my own, borrowed of Breck 620, and am\\nobliged to send money for the Degree which must be 30/\\nhard Money, which at 60 for one (as now y Cu.stom is)\\ncomes to 300 Dollars. These I receive of Breck, and offer\\nhim 5 Milled Dollars. So y I now give Elias 1220 Dollars,\\nhe goes to Cambridge to clear off and finish there. Lov-\\nering goes on his journey to Westfield.\\nN. B. He gives strange account of several Praeteruatural\\nBirths lately, of y Worms destroying y Trees, in his\\nNeighborhood.\\n24. My son Elias returned home from Cambridge, hav-\\ning now finished at College, taken up my Bond which I\\ngave to Stew^art Hastings, on Oct. i. 1776.\\n25. Read Zech 12. Preached on Luke 16, last v. p. m.\\nread Luke 17. repeated and preached on esp X. 32. which\\nmay God graciousl}^ bless ^y Request of Selectmen and\\ncommanding Officers, I warned the Company of Soldiers to\\nmeet tomorrow morning at 7 o clock. Mr. Elijah Brigham\\nand Mrs. Susan Snow propounded.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0253.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "248 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAX.\\n26. The Town met, and y*^ two Companys of Soldiers to\\nraise men to go into the war\u00e2\u0080\u0094 15 to be compleated for six\\nmonths, and there are orders for 14 for three months. Mas-\\nter Sam. Brigham and Winslow Maynard (son of y late\\nJames Jr. deceased) dind here.\\nN. B. Mr. Gale takes account of y Acres I own in West-\\nboro viz. ab t 66.\\n27. vSophy rides to Boston in her Brother Sam s Chaise.\\nJosiah Brigham goes with her and carrys Suse Parkman to\\nher Father s. N. B. Sent by Sophy a letter to Mr. Forbes,\\nGloucester. Another to Mr. Thos. Adams at Medfield,\\nalso to Mr. Ripley, his Melmoth on Sublime and Beautiful\\nof Script. Rev. Mr. Ebenezer Sparhawk of Templetonhere,\\nand dines with us. p. m. came Mrs. Sarah Thurston to be\\nexamined in order to her joining with y*^ Church. Mr. Jo-\\nsiah Bowker and his Wife, with Deac. Wood s Wife, make\\nus a Visit, drink Tea here.\\n28. The Companys meet again to raise Men. Mr. Thad.\\nWarrin mows part of my Square but is catched in y Rain.\\nTwo of y^ Selectmen, viz. Mr. Eb Maynard Mr. Tim\\nWarrin here, to inform me that they are going to call a\\nTown Meeting, and they ask me whether I would have any\\nThing put in, relative to my Circumstances. I consented\\nthat they should. Master Sam Brigham lodges here.\\n1 Mr. Thomas Adams was remarkable for bis literary proclivities.\\nHe was the father of Hannah Adams the anthoress, the pioneer\\nof feminine culture in America. He was born in 1725 and died in\\n1812. He kept a Diary of minute events from 1750 till his death,\\nand altogether must have been a very congenial friend to Mr. Park-", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0254.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 249\\n29. I have y^ Comfort to have my square Piece of Grass\\nmowed and the mower, Mr. Warrin dind with us. But y\\npeople are in trouble for they cant raise the men that are\\ncalled for. Viz 15 for Six months 14 for three months.\\nThey meet again this afternoon. Old Mr. David Maynard\\nDeac. Wood here.\\n30. Josiah Brigham returns from Boston Concord,\\nwith little Suse.\\nThus we finish this month, but with very gloomy and\\ndoubtful Apprehensions concerning the Events of the Next.\\nBut may a good God Support us\\nJuly 1780\\nThe chief Conversation is about y Men who are to be\\nraised for Six Months, and those which are for three Months,\\np. M. Mr. Huntington Porter, a young Preacher, was here\\nin his Way from Ward, where he has been preaching, to\\nHopkinton where he is expected to preach tomorrow.\\n2. Read Zech. 13. I delivered y^ latter part of Sermon\\non Luke 17. 32 Mr. Elijah Brigham dind here. p. m.\\nread Ps. 92 and preached on Luke 16 ult. At eve read\\npart of Mr. Flavell s 4 Sermon on Rev 3. 20.\\n3. Much hindered by both y-^ old and y young Bees\\nswarming. Went to Mr. Warren s to see his Wife, re-\\nquest him to come and mow my Grass which is dying, but\\ncould not succeed.\\nMr. Z. Hicks does not come for Si.ster Champney as she\\nexpected.\\n4. Notwithstanding it was very rainy, I went to Private\\nMeeting at Mrs. Newton s and preached on Lsa 64. 9, occa-", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0255.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "250 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nsioned by these unhappy Times. I have writ to my Dauter\\nBaldwin.\\n5. Breck is gone to Boston. I read Warburton s Notes,\\non Pope s Essay on ^Nlan. Mr. Thos. Kendal who has\\nbeen Preaching at Kittery, is returning there again but\\ntarrys today, while he is here Mr. Sam Brigham commis-\\nsioned to be a Lieutenant to those that are y^ Militia, and\\nfor three months. Desires prayers a Sermon, in behalf of\\nnot only himself, but others that go with him. Old Mr.\\nDan Hardy, who went to Brookfield yesterday A. M. re-\\nturns from there today about three p. m. By him came\\nnews not only from My Dauter Baldwin, but that she has\\nhad Letters of June 15 from her Hu.sband Br. Eb\\nMr. Zech. Hicks came for his aunt Champney, lodged\\nhere.\\n6. vSister Lydia Champne} removes from hence to Sut-\\nton, both herself and her Goods, by y* Assistance of Mr.\\nZech. Hicks, tho this parting from us is wath no small\\nRegret.\\nAt eve I was miserably dull unfit for any Thing. The\\nlittle Sleep and Multitude of heavy Cares Trouble have\\nmade me very soggy and incapable of laudable Exertion.\\n7. But this morning am (thro God s Goodness) in toler-\\nable Plight had an Opportunity to discourse with Ensign\\nJames Miller, who being commonly an Opposer of y*^ Town s\\nAdding to my Salery, I enquired of him the Reasons,\\nendeavored to obviate them.\\nA.M. Breck returned from Boston P.M. P^nsign Snow\\nWife. She brot her Relation.\\n8. Four Men came kindly to give a Morning Jobb, cut", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0256.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 25 1\\ndown y^ English Clover Grass in my West Field. They\\nwere Messrs. Thad. Warrin, Paul Lamson, Jon Pierce\\nEb Force. They worked till nine o clock a. m. Mr. Brig-\\nham brot home Cloth from Clothier Woods, Northboro.\\n9. Read Zech. 14. Preach a. m. on Gal: 6. 7-8. Mr.\\nBridge of Worcester, Mr. Jon Fay, and Lieut, Sam Brig-\\nham din d here. p. m. preached on Deut. and addressed\\ny^ Soldiers who sat by themselves. Mr. Brigham and Mrs.\\nSnow were admitted into y^ Church. So was her Husband,\\nwho removed from Southboro\\nAt eve in y Family read Flavell on Rev. 3. 20.\\n10. Town Meet Early to compleat y^ Number of Sol-\\ndiers, but they are .so unhappy that they cannot do it.\\nMr. Jon Pierce and Isaac Ruggles came to work for me.\\nElias had spoke to them. They finished y^ Mowing of y\\nWest Field, p. m. went to the Island. Ruggles lodges\\nhere.\\n1 1 The foresaid Men work here and Mr. Pierce all day\\nat y\u00c2\u00ab Interval. Mrs. P rode over to Capt. Wood s to\\nEnquire into y^ Cause of spoiling a piece of black Cloth.\\nShe had no Recompense. Mr. Sam Thurston here about\\nhis joining to y*^ Church.\\n12. P. M. Came Mrs. Thurston and her Mother Har-\\nrington with her to assist her in her Examination.\\nN. B. Mr. Brigham sat out for Boston and going thro\\nMarlboro. I sent Mrs. Speakman s Pope s Essay on Man.\\nA Piece well worth Reading\u00e2\u0080\u0094 At eve I visit Capt. John\\nWood s Wife being in deep Grief for y^ Eoss of their Babe.\\nThe mowers here yet. But Elias towards night gives up is\\nsick and goes to bed.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0257.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "252 DIARV OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n13. Elias lies by wholly: but y hired Men attend to my\\nWork, mowing Raking and Carting they bring home one\\nLoad of Hay.\\n14. Elia.s is better, and though feeble he Carts Hay. 3\\nlyoads.\\nMr. Brigham returns with Sophy, from Boston, late at\\nnight.\\n15. Mr. Pierce does not come to work, but Ruggles\\ncomes for the forenoon only. Two load more from the\\nInterval.\\nAt ev g came Mr. Daniel Adams with a Paper which is\\naddressed to y Church, he complains of hard Usage: is\\nin some warmth with me. I told him I could not lay it\\nbefore y^ Church tomorrow, because there were various\\nthings to be done c.\\n16. Read Malachi, Chap. I. forenoon Exercise was\\nupon y^ beginning of it. N. B. Mr. Brighaju a)id Sophy\\nwere published. Capt. Fisher, with leave, read to y*^ Con-\\ngregation, after y Blessing, his very urgent Orders for\\nraising Soldiers. Mrs. Maynard dind.\\np. M. I preached on Gal VI. 7-8. On account of y*^ Har-\\nvest. At evening I read further Mr. Flavell on Rev. 3. 20.\\n17. The Militia Soldiers 14. under Lieut. Brigham\\nmarched.\\nMr. Corn. Biglow came to reap my Island Field of Rye.\\nI had conference with Mr. Han. Parker. Elias does not\\nwork, but waits upon Miss Lois Burnet, who is here at work\\non his Coat which is made of y^ Cloth which Mr. Wood of\\nNorthboro had dyed black fulled, lately for us.\\nToicn Meet, partly to see whether they will do anything", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0258.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 253\\nin regard to my Salary. I sent them a Paper, which was\\nread I hear that they voted thirteen Hundred to make up\\nthe Deficiency of y last year. I thank God for thus much.\\nMay I have grace to improve it\\n18. Am sadly disappointed of y Work which I hoped\\nfor. Elias, being not well, can do nothing tho everything is\\npressing and urgent only he went up the street to speak to\\nMr. Joseph Smith, who had told me once and again that he\\nwould work for me but is now engaged to Deac. Wood,\\nElias fetched me y* Paper (which the Col. as Town Clerk\\nhas) which I sent y* Town yesterday and he copy d it.\\n19. Many Interruptions and Avocations from my Studys,\\n.so that I can but imperfectly prepare for y Solemnity ap-\\nproaching, but would humbly commit myself, my Way, my\\nWork to God.\\nElias has been so out of health, that he has not been able\\nfor Several days to work. But today he went a while to y-\\nInterval there being part of a I^oad of Hay in Cock there,\\nhe mowes 3 or 4 Cocks, and with my Team he brot it home\\nand p. M. he went to y^ Island, where Mr. Biglow is reap-\\ning, and (Mr. Biglow pitching it) Elias brot home a Load\\nof Rye of 12 Shock and 1 Sheaf. N. B. Miss Lois Burnet\\nat work here and part of p. m. her Kinswoman Henrietta\\nwith her. Miss Patty Fisk here and dines with us. We are\\nunder y Holy Frowns of Heaven, by parching Heat and\\nDryness. May the God of infinite Pity and Mercy .send\\nRelief to us\\n20. A Day of Humiliation, FASTING and Prayer, on\\naccount of the uncommon Distress. Preached a. m. on i.\\nKings 20.28 last clause and tho I wrote much, and was long", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0259.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "254 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nin y*^ Exercise, yet could not be so particular in Application\\nas I designed, very much desired. p. m. I delivered\\nsome parts of Discourse on Eccl. 8. ii and added Appli-\\ncations, Reproofs, Exhortations Cautions. When we\\nreturned, found ni} Grandson Isaac Baldwin from Cam-\\nbridge here, going home. He lodged here with us.\\n21. Was forced to go out and look up Workmen. Capt.\\nFisher is gone to mowe for me at Middle Meadoic, (or my\\nInterval). Mr. Biglow again reaps, Elias part of y^\\nforenoon, p. m. goes to y Interval, to look after y Hay\\nthere. When he returns he goes up to y Flock of Sheep.\\nN. B. A Fire prevailed a while in Hill Nigh Wood s\\nField, but did not much Dammage, tho a dry Time and\\nsomewhat Windy.\\nMrs. Hannah (wife of Mr. Thomas) Andrews here\\npasses Examination freely, as to knowledge and hopeful\\nExperience. D. G.\\nPaul Biglow comes with Joshua Twitchell Fortunatus\\nMiller.^ The two latter being Deserters: to see Gen l Wash-\\nington s Proclamation of Pardon to such And P. Biglow\\nwould for a large Reward, go in Miller s stead.\\n22. Three men are mowing at y^ Interval, viz Capt.\\nFisher, Mr. Elijah Force (who goes for Mr. Joseph Smith,\\nhe is instead of Mr. Lsaac Parker, who will work for\\nSmith instead of it.) Mr. Thad. Warrin also works A. m,\\nbut no longer. Elias brings home a Load of Hay at noon.\\nAt Night another, but too late.\\n1 Fortunatus Miller, about a year after this, married Ebenezer\\nForbush .s daughter Patty.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0260.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 255\\n23. Read part of II. Chron. 6 preached on 6 to 31. on\\nConsideration of y*^ uncommon Dryness of y*^ Weather, p. m.\\non Gal. 6. 8 former part. N. B. The Church was stayed\\nand I read Mr. Adams Paper dated July 21. 1780 signed\\nDaniel Adams. The consideration of it was deferred to y*\\nAdjournment of y Church Meeting, which is to y^ last Mon-\\nday in August next (God willing.\\nN, B. Mr. Brighara Sophy were published y last Time.\\nAt eve Read part of Mr. Flavell s 5 Sermon on Rev.\\n3. 20.\\n24. Mr. Biglow comes again to reap. Capt. Fisher\\nworks at the Interval partly for me, helping Elias in getting\\nthe Hay there read5^ and Elias brings home one Load,-\\nhaving Deac. Wood s Oxen added to our Team Elias\\ncarrys one Load of y^ Interval Hay to Capt. Fisher, and at\\neve he fetches home one Eoad of Rye.\\nMiss Lois Burnet and her Kinswoman (Henrietta at work\\nhere again on making Cloths for Elias.\\n25. Mr. Bigelow reaps. Elias with our own Team only,\\nbrings home two Load from y^ Interval. Capt. F. helps\\nhim somewhat (but his chief work was at Lieut. Bond s).\\nMiss Lois and Henrietta finish for y*^ present.\\n26. Elias went with our Team, and Breck went with him\\nto load and tho it was but a small Jagg, it was y\u00c2\u00ab= last from\\ny Interval. In all thirteen times, y Team has gone for me,\\nonce for Capt. Fisher, p. m. Elias goes to reaping, for\\nMr. Biglow reaps but slowly. Mr. Beriah Ware^ here, and\\n1 Beriah Ware s name appears only ouce in the History of West-\\nborough as living in 1789 in the Sixth School Squadron, the same\\none to which Capt. Mayuard belonged. Who he was or what he did,", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0261.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "256 DIARY OF REV. KBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nwas in great, singular and distressful trouble, but not so\\nmuch upon spiritual as temporal accounts. Remarkable un-\\neasiness by reason of a Disappointment c. c. This was\\ny more noticeable as y*^ Man is well towards 40 years of age.\\n27. My Affairs are in a very uncomfortable situation.\\nMr. Biglow reaps, is too old and feeble to do much there\\nis a great part of y*^ Field of Rye yet remaining. No body\\noffers to assist, though divers talked of it. The late Grant of\\nthe Town was for my present Necessity but y*- Money cant be\\nraised and paid a Man or Men provided till y^ Grain\\nGrass are lost. The Newton Meadow is untouched no\\nhelp provided. In this critical Juncture, Elias would fain\\nbreak off from work and rest himself, intending tomorrow\\nto go to Brookfield and then to Springfield tho there is no\\nman that can by any means possibly be obtained When Mr.\\nBiglow finishes y*^ Reaping, there can be nobody to cart it\\nhome. Elias reaped part of y Day. I walked up to Mr.\\nWarrin s acquainted him with my present State. He sent\\nhis son John. I went to Mr. Kenney, who sent his son Joel\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094those Boys reaped p. m. Capt. Morse came in to see me.\\nNo Hope from him of any Help. Capt. Fisher agrees to go\\ncut my new Swamp, he is to allow me as he finds is\\njust. The Drought is become very intense. The Corn suf-\\nfers very much, all Vegetables. An holy Frown of God\\nMay we be suitably affected with it, prepared for y\\nDivine Will! Elias carted home about 11 Shock of R3e at\\nevening.\\nwe know not, only that four years later his distressed heart found\\npeace, and he and Hannah Hardy were Joyned in Marriage by\\nJames Hawes. He lived in Westborough until his death, in 1832.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0262.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 257\\n28. Mr. Bigelow reaps A. M. Elias also. Breck took\\na morn-spell at it. Deac. Wood has y^ Oxen part of A. M.\\nBreck has them p. m. He sends them down to meet a\\nTeemer, who is bringing up a Load from Boston. P. M.\\nAbout a quarter after two o clock, God was pleased to\\nremember us in Mercy and sent Rain, together with Thun-\\nder and Lightning. To His Name be Glory! Mr. Biglow\\nwent home about 4 P. M, Elias to reaping again.\\nAt eve heard that Mr. Abra Bond s Barn was burnt by\\ny Lightning.\\n29. Went in y^ Morning to see y sorrowful Desolations,\\nsympathise with y*^ Sufferers May y Lord sanctifie y\\nsad Loss to y\\nElias goes again to Squire Baker s Pasture to look for y\\nLamb which he sought for before, but returns empty.\\n30. I preached on I. Cor: 11-29. Administered, y\\nLord s Supper: before which Sam Thurston and Sarah his\\nwife were admitted into y*^ Church. Mrs. Maynard and Mr.\\nHazletine dind here. p. m. on Gal: 6.8. At eve read\\n(Breck, his wife c. attending with us as usual) another\\npart of Mr. Flavell on Rev: 3.20. May God gracioush\\naccept\\n31. J/j son Elias left iis to go to Springfield, to keep\\nSchool there. Carrys principal Classicks, expecting to\\nteach Grammer.\\nI wrote a letter to Brother Breck. It is an article which\\nmuch Affects me. May God Almighty bless him, make\\nhim a Blessing Delivered him 170 Dollars.\\n17", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0263.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "258 diarv of rev. ebenezer parkinian.\\nAugust 1780.\\nA Message by Mr. Elijah Brigham from Mr. Sumner, to\\npreach his Lecture borrowed Mr. Ware s Mare to ride\\nthere, made several short Visits in y^ Street dind at\\nSquire Baker s, but he came not home as was expected.\\nN. B. The Private Meeting was, according to Custom, to\\nhave been at his House today, but it was put off because of\\ny*^ Busyness of y Season, few Hands to do it.\\n2. Rode to Shrewsbury. Mr. Fairbank came here and\\nwas my Company to Mr. Sumner s: where I dind. Preached\\nhis Lecture to an extremely thin Auditory. Text Rev: 14,\\n6-7. After Lecture came Mr. Whitney to Mr. vSumner s\\nHouse. N. B. Col. Symmes Widow there also. At eve\\narose a Thunder Storm. I lodged at Dr. Crosby s.\\n3. In returning called to see Mr. Joseph Knowlton s\\nWife, who relapses somewhat to her old state visit Mr.\\nGershom Brigham s Wife, who languishes. I went in to\\nMr. Sam Fay s, his wife having been lately much indis-\\nposed but he treated me with roug/imss. At Deac.\\nWood s I .saw one Mrs. Abigail Giles, Dauter of Mr. W\\nJenison, that was of Salem, widow of Mr. Sam l Giles.,\\ngreatly reduced lame. p. m. Mrs. Hawes, Squire s\\nDauter, Polly Wood at Tea.\\nN. B. In Biog r. Diet. X ariety in Human Life. Egin-\\nhard s Wife, Dauter of Charles the Great) carry d him on\\nher Back from her Apartment thro y*^ Snow, y the prents of\\nhis Feet might not be discovered yet her Father saw them\\nfrom his Window. Oueen Elizabeth s Life notable for her\\nWit and Learning, affected Grandeur (S: power, Magnificent", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0264.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF RKV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 259\\nDress, Entertainment, Amours,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 but a secret reason is given\\nby Mezeray why she would not Marry. Equatius (John-\\nBaptist). This great Man had ahnost a divine Memory:\\nwhatever he had read or heard, he could relate by Heart,\\nin a very agreeable manner. He was born at Venice 1473.\\n4. Have writ to Mr. Quincy and to Mr. Moore, and\\ncommitt y^ Letters to Mr. Elijah Brigham, who is going to\\nBoston.\\n5. I was much interrupted by being obliged to go to the\\nIsland to mend Fence, that the Cows might not break in\\nupon Mr. Andrews. Mr. Abr Bond was here with his\\nPetition for a Contribution. Mrs. Fay (Mr. John Fay s\\nWife) came to be examined, but I could spend but a little\\nTime with her.\\n6. I had partly prepared on Malachi First, but was\\nobliged to lay it aside, and went on considering y Harvest\\nSeason, with my Repetitions, with additions and alterations\\nof Sermon on Gal. 6. 7-8. a p. m. and finished y Subject.\\nMay God be plea.sed to add his special Ble.ssing I read\\nBond s Petition for Contribution. Mrs. Maynard dind here.\\nAt eve read in Mr. Flavell on Rev 3.20\\n7. Was anxious about Breck s Hor.se, which Elias rode\\nto Springfield, and is not come back but before noon came\\nyoung Joshua Johnson of Bolton, who returning from his\\n3 years Warfare rode Horse from Springfield hither, thereby\\n.saving Charge, and brot a Letter from Elias, who has taken\\ny*^ School there, for a year upon settled pay to his Satisfac-\\ntion. Thanks be to God for y Favour.\\n8. Mr. Sam Crosby (young preacher) dind here.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0265.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "26o DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nP. M. Mrs. Giles spent y P. M. here drank Tea\\nwith us.\\nAt eve, Eben Chamberlain jun full of earnest Conversa-\\ntion about Sallery.\\n9. Extracts from Biog r. Dict\\n10. Messrs. Motla}^ Ezek Savage, preachers, and one\\nMr. Pearson of Newbury, made me a Visit, dind c.\\n11. Mrs. Mehitable Fay (wife of John) here with her\\nRelation, which I corrected and copy d. Josiah Brioham\\ncauic to Brcck again to live with him. The}- clear y^ lower\\nWell.\\n12. Mr. John Fay was examined left a Relation to be\\ncorrected transcribed. He dines here.\\n13. Preached on Malachi: Ch. I. V 6-9. p. m. previous\\nto a Contribution for Mr. Abr Bond, I preached again on\\nJohn, 4.10. At eve read Flavell on Rev. 3.20. Serm. 6.\\n14. Rode over to Mr. Beeton s to visit old Mrs. Kelly\\nand prayed with her, of which she said she mis.sed but\\nlittle. Her Conversation generally sp and savoury. John\\nBeeton s Wife is greatly recovered from her Lameness.\\n15. Tho it was a very hot Day, I rode to Southboro,\\nhoping to meet y* other Brethren who would associate there\\nbut no other Members came. We nevertheless improved\\ny Opportunity in Prayer (S: attendance on a Discourse Mr.\\nStone read on Gal, and I read an Extract from Cicero on\\nOld Age. Ch: XIX.\\nA contril)ution for Mr. Abraham Bond, when were gathered\\n593X Dollars, and thirteen notes of Grain, Labour and other\\nthings necessary and usefnll. His Barn was l)urne(l by Lightning\\nFriday July 28th last. Church Records.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0266.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 26 1.\\nMr. Stone has lately been exercised with the Gravel, and\\nparticularly last Lord s Day. p. m. did not go to Meeting,\\nbut is somewhat better.\\nI returned at eve. Mr. Elijah here dc die in diem. His\\nBrother Josiah is gone to Medway in order to Miss Eliz.\\nBeal s Return to Westboro again.\\n16. Benj. Wood and his Brother John came here to be\\nset to work. I employed Benj. in mowing in my Newton\\nMeadow. John hoed a little with Billy Spring in Beeton\\nField It was but of trifling Value.\\nP. M. Ben mowed a while, and y^ lesser Boy reaped and\\ncocked but they were all beat off by Rain, Thunder\\nLightening.\\n17. Sent by Breck to Mr. Stone s for Notes y I inad-\\nvertently left there. Breck goes before Day, designing for\\nBoston.\\n18. Mrs. P. out of Health. Dr. Hawes to see her.\\n19. Breck returned from Boston he brot me a large let-\\nter from Mr. Quincy, who since Y Death of his Son Henry\\nis moved to Boston, and for y^ present lives with his Dauter-\\nin-law, who (with her children) dwells in William s Court.\\nThis Week was filled with Encumbrance.\\n20. Read a. m. y*^ Latter part of Joh. 4, and repeated y*^\\nlatter part of Discour.se on V. 16. At noon, Breck and his\\nFamily, Mr. Brigham and his Sister Anna, Mrs. Maynard,\\nIsaac and Luke Baldwin (who came from Shrewsbury this\\n^Williams Court still appears on the maps of Boston under the\\nsame name, althouo^h familiarly known as Pie Alley. It is not the\\nplace that the Ouincys would now select for their home. It is usually\\ncrowded with hungry newsboys, seeking a five-cent dinner, with an", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0267.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "262 DIAKY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nmorn) dind with us. p. m. did not read before it but preached\\non Isa 55. lo-ii p. 191 to y bot. of p 202. N. B. baptized\\nSix Children of Mr. Sam l Thur.ston. At eve read in my\\nFamily part of Mr. Flavell s sixth Sermon on Rev: 3. 20.\\nRec d a I^etter from Mr. Forbes of Gloucester. Mrs. P. is\\nso indisposed that she has been but little at Meeting for a\\ngreat while: could not go today: is sick, faint, and weak.\\nThe Child also has been not well, for some days.\\n21. My young Baldwins take leave for Cambridge\\nBy field.\\n22. A very dr) hot Season. After a great deal of Pains\\nand Trouble, Benj. Woods, who tho but a Youth, works\\nwell and with y Help of Josiah Brigham, a few Hours,\\nthey get in y last of my Newton Meadow Hay. I have\\nbeen employed in making Extracts from the Biog r. Diet.\\n23. I am too much taken up with my Farm Affairs,\\nparticularly to have my Fences repaired, that my Cattle\\nmay have Feed, and cant attend much to my Studys. Mr.\\nJohn Fay and Mr. Thad Warrin are employed.\\n24. Mrs. Nabby Martyn is at work here for Suse. I\\nattended y*^ Burial of Mr. Abijah Gale s Child, Sarah, of\\nmore than four months, it dyed somewhat suddenly. I\\ncalled to see Mr. Eben Forbes, who (and his Wife) had\\noccasional hungry lawyer hurrying through their midst for a more\\nexpensive lunch at Young s.\\nIt is entered now, as in Mr. Ouincy s da)^ under an archway on\\nWashington Street, between School and Court streets.\\nIn the first quarter of this century a residence in Williams Court\\nwas considered much more aristocratic than on Beacon Street, which\\nwas too far out in the country.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0268.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 263\\nbeen sick. Visit also y old Folks. Mr. John Fay, with\\nhis Relation here, and signs it.\\n25. Mrs. Persis Adams here and prays y^ Church Meet-\\ning (to be otherwise next Monday) may be adjourned to\\nsome future time, inasmuch as she cannot get ready.\\nN. B. Breck Suse with little Hannah go to Col.\\nBrigham s, at eve, to lodge there, in their way to Ashburn-\\nham Marlboro\\n26. Breck and Suse, leaving their little Girl, at North-\\nboro proceed on their Journey. Mr. Daniel Adams came\\nhere to enquire whether any Complaint against him, was\\nlodged here. There was none.\\n27. Read Ps. 104. preached on Mai. i. 9. 10. 11. and\\np. M. on Isa. 55. V. II So shall my Word be c. Three\\npersons taken into y^ Church. The Church Meeting was\\nadjourned. x\\\\t eve, I read further in Mr. Flavells, Eng-\\nland s Duty on Rev. 3. 20.\\n28. On Deac. Wood s Horse I rode to Mr. Gershom\\nBrigham s to .see his Wife, who is dangerously ill. The\\nState of her Soul deplorable as well as her Body. She was\\nvery sorry y^ she had neglected y^ I^ord s Supper. She was\\nin much Confusion. I prayed with her and y^ Family. I\\ndind there. Thence went to visit y North West Corner of\\ny^ Town, Messrs. Gleason s, Joh Maynard s, Sam\\nRiders, Mr. Thomas Lamson s (on Edmund Rice s place)\\nold Mr. James Maynard, his son Amasa s.\\n29. An uncommonly burning Season, hot Sun drying\\nWind.s so y^ y^ Droughth is much increased.\\n30. Exceedingl} taken up with y*^ Creatures breaches for", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0269.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "264 DIARY OF RKV. EBEXEZER PARKMAN.\\nwant of Feed especially my Oxen Mr. Belknap and his\\nwife here.\\np. M. Mr. David Andrews of Northboro here to reqviest\\nme to visit his little son extremely bad (Mr. Whitney being\\ngone to Northboro I went, pra^^ed c\\n31. Mr. Gershom Brigham brings his Wife s Earnest\\nDesire y^ I would visit her again preach a Sermon there\\ntoday. I complyed delivered a short Discourse (as I could\\nfrom several passages in Isa. 55. hear and your Soul shall\\nlive. May God bless what was delivered Mrs. Br. is brot\\nvery low. At eve found Sophy ill. vShe has taken physick\\nMr. Elijah Brigham with her.\\nSeptember 1780\\nBreck and Suse return home having been to visit their\\nBrothers Gushing, Levi Brigham Alexander.\\nCapt. Goddard of Sutton calls at Breck s Shop relates,\\nThat y*^ Scholars at College (from whence he was come) had\\nso generally signed a petition y Pres. Langdon might be\\ndismissed, that he himself had asked a Dismission and that\\nit was granted him. Whence this has arisen, I know not.\\n2. Sophy has been poorly several days.\\n3. Read Ps. 105. preached on Isa: 55. 12. Mrs. May-\\nnard dind here. p. m. preached on Exodus 18.21 on Con-\\nsideration of y- Election of y Morrow and therefore added\\na new introduction and application, to what I heretofore\\nprepared on that text. But it being rainy there were but\\nfew to hear it. At eve, Mr. P lavell on Rev. 3. 20. Breck\\nread. Mr. Brigham here\\n4. Deacon Wood in no small Trouble on account of his", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0270.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 265\\nWife s Difference with his son John and his Wife, who\\nhave had grievous Contentions and Threatening to complain\\nto y* Grand Jur}^ tomorrow.\\np. M. Y^ Grand Meeting of y^ Town to choose a Gov-\\nernor, Lt. Governor, Senators Mr. Batherick\\nLieut. Grout came with a Message from y^ Town to desire me\\nto go and open y* Meeting with Prayer went and prayed\\nthe Chairman of y*^ Selectmen prevented my going out by\\nasking me to tarry and sit with ym. The hon. Mr. John\\nHancock was elected Governor by sixty-one votes. There\\nwas one vote only besides, which was (mine) for Mr. James\\nBowdoin.^ Votes for Lieut. Governor were for Hon. James\\nWarrin, out of 55, 50. I voted for Mr. Bowdoin The\\nmeeting was adjourned to Wedne.sday, 4 p m.\\n5. By Deac. Wood s Desire, I went in y Morning to his\\nHouse, with Capt. Joseph Wood of Hopkinton Mr.\\nThos. Wood of Brookfield. Deacon s W^ife asked me to go\\nalone with her, and manifested a penitent Frame desired\\nme to go into her son s Room, and talk with him and his\\nWife, which I did. then met together and through y Good-\\nness of God, we brot each of y^ Party s to Condescentions,\\nmutual acknowledgment, and asking forgiveness promises\\n1 Hancock was the son-in-law of Mr. Parkman s old friend, Mr.\\nQuincy. James Bowdoin had been very forward during the Revo-\\nlutionary disturbances in opposition to the royal governor, he had\\nbeen president in 1775 of the council of Government and also pres-\\nident of the convention assembled for the formation of a constitu-\\ntion. He succeeded Hancock as governor of Massachusetts. Bow-\\ndoin College was named for him, by his son who gave lavishly to\\nit. It was not founded until after James Bowdoin s death, who\\nleft a legacy to Harvard College.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0271.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": "266 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nof Reformation. The Deacon desired me to pray and give\\nthanks to God. Whereupon we all parted in Peace and\\nJoy. Glory be to God alone Josiah Brigham goes to Bos-\\nton.\\nMr. Gleason came and informed y Mr. Gershom Brig-\\nham s Wife dyed this morning: and y Survivors desire me\\nto attend y Funeral next Thursday-.\\n6. Mr. Grosvenor came, dind and preached. Text was\\nGal 6.7, latter clause. His voice not only audible, but sono-\\nrous, but especially y Matter good, and y Manner agreea-\\nble. After Meeting y Church .stopped to receive the Answer\\nof y two elected Deacons. The Doctor delivered a paper in\\nwhich he acquiesced in y Choice if there was no Objection,\\nif y* Choice was unanimous otherwise he refu.sed. The\\nvote was then tried (though y* members present were but\\nfew) upon which there was ever)- Hand, and he was declared\\na Deacon of this Church. Mr. Child s answer was verbal,\\nand still refused and y^ Meeting ended.\\nThen came on y Town Meeting by adjournment, and they\\nelected five Counsellors for this County.\\nMy .son Alexander and his Wife and young Child came (S:\\nlodged here. Mr. Elijah Brigham privately spoke to me of\\nhis joining in Trade with Breck would be glad to live\\nhere this winter. But I could not determine.\\n7. I rode one of Alexander s Horses to y Funeral of Mrs.\\nBrigham (wife of Mr. Gershom) prayed there. When I\\nreturned, here was Mr. W Spring from Brimfield. He brot\\na suit of Clothes for his son Billy. He dind with us, as did\\nMr. Elijah Brigham (who keeps Shop for Breck). Sister\\nCushing and ]\\\\Ir. Daniel Goddard s wife dind here also, but", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0272.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 267\\nshe rode to Col. Brigham s and lodged there; y*^ re.st\\nhere.\\n8. Mr. Spring changes his volume of Rojal Magazines,\\nviz Some parts of Vol. I and Vol. II. bound together, but\\nmany numbers missing for Osterval s Causes of y^ present\\nCorruption.\\nMrs. Cushing, Alix and his Wife, dine with us, but p. m.\\nthey all leave us, t^ Billy Spring goes home for a while with\\nhis Father.\\n9. My Circumstances are somewhat singular the Diffi-\\ncultys thence arising, not a few. I made some preparations,\\nbut did not near perfect them and I have entered upon\\nsuch Repetitions as I think I had best go on with\u00e2\u0080\u0094 correct-\\ning and amending as I review them.\\n10. It being Sacrament Day, I (after reading Ps. 106\\nformer part to verse 25) went on with my Discourse on i.\\nCor: II. 27-29 first part. I administered y^ Ordinance\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nthe new Deacon Hawes officiating, without any special\\nCeremony as to his Induction. N. B. Deacon Dolliber of\\nMarblehead, Mrs. Barrett Mr. Stephen Stimson of Hop-\\nkinton were present. Mr. Barrett and his Wife dind here,\\np. M. preached on Isa: 55. 12 to ye End of page 225.\\nAt eve read part of Mr. Flavell s seventh Sermon on Rev:\\n3. 20.\\n1 1 This Day begins y^ 44th year since my Marriage\\nwith Mrs. P May God be praised for His great Good-\\nness May all our Sins throughout all the.se Years, espe-\\npecially y^ last, be freely forgiven May we both of us be\\nsp ly Espoused, mystically united to Jesus Christ, and", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0273.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "268 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nmay God grant us Grace to discharge y Dutys incumbent\\non us in the Conjugal Connexion\\nI dind at Mr. Graves s with Deacon Dolliber, Alexander\\nand his Wife, with their Child, from Framingham and lodge\\nhere. [Note in pencil. Married Sept. ii. 1737, he being\\n34 years old, minus 5 days see next page.]\\n12. Sent a Letter to Mr. Buckminster of Medvvay by\\nSq Singleterry^ of Sutton. My son Alex, wife and child\\np. M. undertake their Journey home. Messrs. Elijah and\\nMoses Brigham dind here. p. m. Mr. Sumner came to\\nsee us,\\n13. Rode to Mr. Abr Bond s gave him a book, as ray\\nContribution to him under y\u00c2\u00ab= Frown of Heaven. N, B.\\nA number of Neighbors are at work in framing a Barn for\\nhim.\\nI visited other Neighbours thereabout, and dind at Mr.\\nFro.st s. p. M. at Mr. Hananiah Parker s.\\nSquire Singleterry, from whom the poud iu Sutton derived its\\nname, was the first male child born in Sutton. He never attended\\nschool, but through his own persistent improvement of every\\nopportunity which came to him, he became one of Sutton s most\\nprominent men, and served for many years in the Legislature, be-\\nsides holding other important offices. An anecdote is related of\\nhim which shows his character, by Rev. Geo. Allen, of Worcester,\\nwho knew him well. During a season of revival iu the north\\nparish, Mr. Samuel Waters, a manufacturer of hoes in what is now\\nMillbury, being under concern of mind, and seeing Mr. Singleterry\\napproaching, rushed out of his shop and called out, O Squire\\nvSquire What shall I do to be saved The Squire scarcely\\nstopped the horse he was riding as he replied, Put more steel in\\nvour hoes", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0274.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 269\\n14. With some difficulty as to an Horse I rode to Graf-\\nton and dind at Mr. Grosvenor s, and preached his Lecture\\nin his House on Mat 17.4. May God grant His Blessing\\nI returned home safe at eve. N. B. A. Mellancholy story\\nis current of Gen Gates being defeated in y South. The\\nparticulars are not yet known. N. B. One Sibly is sent to\\nJayl at Worcester under vSuspicion of Murthering an In-\\nfant.\\n15. On Consideration of my finishing my seventy-seventh\\nyear, I was much employed in Retrospections, Humiliations,\\nand Supplications. May y^ Lord graciously accept of my\\nimperfect Petitions, pardoning c. thro Jesus Christ. Mr.\\nPeter Whitney here and Mr. Daniel Adams jun Wife also\\nis examined.\\n16. This Day I begin my 78 year. Thanks be to God,\\nwho hath sustained me I still continue a Monument of his\\nsparing Mercy and Goodness. To His Name be all Praise\\nand Glory See Natilitia^\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mrs. P being very much out\\nof Health rode to Dr. Crosby s At eve came my Dauter\\nCushing from Ashburnham. Mr. Fitch, wife and Dauter\\nfrom Connecticut, p. m. Mrs. Dolly Rice.\\ni i78o\\nSept. 5. O. S. Westb.\\npro Natalitiias.\\nI have passed such a year as I never saw before. The as-\\npects in Divine Providence have been very changing. Several times\\nexceeding gloomy, particularly on account of the Successes of the\\nbritish Forces especially in taking Charlestown in South Caroline\\nand ye Ravages of y^ Salvages in yt Western and Northwestern\\nParts. Besides which this year has been very remarkable with me\\nand my Family on ye Acct. of Labour on My Grounds, inasmuch", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0275.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "270 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAX.\\n17. Read Ps. 23 \u00c2\u00bbS: 24, and on Consideration of my begin-\\nning a new year of my Life, I preached on Ps. 23.6, and P.\\nM. on Isa 55.12 and may y great End and Design hereof\\nbe answered.\\nAt eve read again in Mr. Flavell- Neither my Wife nor\\nDauter Gushing were well enough to go to Meeting, either\\npart of y Day.\\n18. Wrote to Dr. Cro.sby, by his son John. My Wife\\nbeing no better. At eve came my son Forbes, but from\\nDedham, where he had preached yesterday .brot with one\\nof his Sons-in-law, Joseph Saunders, about 8 years old. They\\nlodge.\\n19. Mr. Forbes and little Boy left us to go to Brookfield.\\nDr. Cro.sby here to see Mrs. P p. m. She grows very\\nas not hiring a man to work statedly for me, I was forced to forego\\nmany Benefits, from ye Produce of my Land, and was obliged to\\nrun into Debt for ye unavoidable Work done. But God has upheld\\nand preserved me and mine nevertheless unto this Day. For which\\nI would heartil}- praise and bless His glorious Name;, and desire\\nstill to commit Myself and Mine to Him for vSulisistence, Protection\\nand Supplys. But in peculiar implore divine Grace to furnish me\\nfor Christian and ministerial Duty and assist me in yi^^ right dis-\\ncharge of it.\\nWill God be graciously pleased to remember my dear son Eben-\\nezer under all ye Hardships and Tryals of his Warfare and pro-\\nvide for his Family in his Absence Make him useful in his place\\nat Fish Kill and grant him in due time a Safe Return\\nMay God mercifully regard ye severall states and conditions of\\nye rest of my Children particularly Alexander at his distance and\\nunder his difficulties; and Elias in his Youth and vSettiug-out in\\nthe world yt God might be his Guardian ^S: ijuicken him to ye due\\nimprovement of his Time and Talents", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0276.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBKNEZER PARKMAN. 27 1\\nsick, but it may be owing to some Pills which y Doctor\\ngave her. At eve, she continues ill and goes to bed.\\nMr. Gushing comes from y^ Cape, having been to see his\\nSister Stone at Yarmouth, came back thro Rochester,\\nWrentham, Sherbourn.\\n20. Mr. Gushing last evening brot me from Mr. Moore,\\nShuckford s Condition vol. i. He also, having been with\\nvarious Gentlemen in his Journey, discovers to me some of\\ny^ probable Reasons of y*^ Dismission of Pres lyangdon.\\nMrs. P. somewhat better Thanks to God for y^ Favour\\nof Heaven to us p. m. Mrs. Fisk of Brookfield her son\\n(who belongs to College dind here. My son W his Wife\\nand Child John, came up from Concord unexpectedly. After-\\nwards my Son Sam and his Wife with their Baby, Sukey,\\ncame from Boston. They all lodged here.\\nN. B. Mr. Brigham asked me whether it would suit me\\nto have the Marriage of my Dauter to him to be tomorrow\\nI asked him, where he intended to live? he repl5 ed Here,\\nif I should like it. I answered that I was willing to do what\\nwas in my Power for him. Sent my Complements to his\\nFather and Mother, Request they would come likewise\\nhis Brothers and Sisters. He acquainted me with his Desire\\nto wait on Squire Baker and his I^ady with his Invitations\\nto y^ Wedding, also y two eldest Dauters. To which I con-\\nsented. My Dauter Cushing rode to Capt. Maynard s to\\ninvite him and his Wife. The Return was that Mrs. May-\\nnard was confined with illness.\\n21. Mrs. P. I hope is better. Sophy has unhappily a\\ngood deal of a cough. I had a most agreeable sight of ni}-\\nchildren their Consorts at Dinner, viz: W and Lydia,", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0277.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "272\\nDIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nMr. Gushing and Sarah, Breck and Suse, Sam^ and Sail}-,\\nMr. Brigham with Sophy. To God be Praise and Glory\\nCI.IJAH URIC.HAM.\\nTowards evening according to Invitation, Jo.seph Baker\\nE.sq. and Lady, Mr. Winslow Brigham and Miss Alice\\nGushing of Shrewsbury, Mr. Hazzletine and Miss Mindwell\\nBrigham, Master Fisk and Miss Anna Brigham, and Mr.\\nJosiah Brigham came to wait on y Solemnity of the Mar-\\nriage of Mr. Elijah Brigham to my Dauter Anna Sophia,", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0278.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 273\\nwhich was performed, and after y Covenant, Mr. Gushing\\nprayed. Mrs. P. was not able to attend with us.\\nN. B. I began to write Mr. Quincy.\\n22. My son W\u00e2\u0084\u00a2. and his Wife sat out earl} for Concord.\\nMr. Cushing and his Wife when y*^ Day got up, for\\nShrewsbury.\\nDr. Crosby to see Mrs. P. p. m. Sam and Breck with\\ntheir Wives wait on y^ Bridegroom and Bride, to Coll.\\nBrighams.\\nMrs. P. has had a poor Day. At eve came Mr. Forbes\\nand his little Boy, Jo Saunders.\\nMr. F. delivers me a letter from Col. Baldwin to his wife,\\ncontaining an account of General Gates s Defeat. An\\nextract from it I send to Mr. Quincy\\nMr. Forbes goes to see his Sister, y*^ Widow of his\\nBrother Daniel. N. B. My Flax is spread a large piece.\\n23. My son Sam and his Wife Child left us. Sent\\nmy Letter by him to Mr. Quincy. Mr. Forbes came and I\\ndelivered him his first volume of Robin.son s Hist, of Scot-\\nland. He and his Joseph Saunders left us to go to Concord.\\nAt eve came Mr. Grosvenor, requesting expecting I\\nwould preach for him tomorrow. But I had engaged to\\npreach at Northboro. He lodged here.\\nN. B. Mrs. Persis Adams was here to acquaint me that\\nshe could not be ready for y^ Church Meeting next tuesday\\nprays it may be further adjourned to y^ 2 Thursday in\\nNovember.\\n24. Mr. Grosvenor to Northboro I rode to Grafton\\nand preached on i Chron. 29. 15. a p. m. Returned\\nhome at eve. Mr. Whitney preached here on Roms. 3. 7. 8.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0279.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "274 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nA P. M. At Dinner were Doct. Crosby, Mrs. IMaynard.\\nN. B. Mr. Whitney read to y Church a paper from me\\nacquainting y^ Brethern with Mrs. Adams Request and\\nthere was no Objection, so that y^ Meeting of y Church\\nwas adjourned to y^ time she desired.\\n25. Breck is roused by an Information that one Wilhams\\nwho is Debtor to him in a considerable sum is seized and\\nput into Jail. My son is gone to his House in N. Shrews-\\nbury.\\nI read Shuckford s Connection Vol. i. But I am sorry\\nto see my Husbandry fast asleep, no body at work for me,\\nthough ni} apples are rotting and wasting, and Flax seed\\non stry,(?) unwinnowed on y^ Barn Floor.\\nMr. Dan l Adams, Ben. Tainter, Levi Warrin complain\\nof y^ adjournment came here, but nothing could be done.\\nMrs. P. something more comfortable. D. Gratis\\n26. Am obliged to go frequently to Mr. Thad. Warrin s\\nfor Help, and today in particular, he left his own Bu.siness\\nand came to mine.\\n27. I obtained of My Neighbor Newton to send his Boys,\\nJohn and Stephen to pick Apples and carry a Load, with\\nBarrells to make Cyder at Mr. Frost s Mill.\\np M. Mr. Zebulon Rice and his Wife of Brookfield came\\nto see us and drank Tea here.\\n28. Dr. Crosby came to desire me to befriend Mr. David\\nBrigham of Shrewsbury, and attend y Funeral of his little\\nson David who dyed suddenlj-^ of Worms Al 3.\\nI went with y^ Doctor and dind at his House, p. m. to\\nMr. Brigham s and prayed and discoursed with y Assem-\\nbly but I went not up to y Interment. In returning I", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0280.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 275\\nwent into Mr. Coas s Sibley s\u00e2\u0080\u0094 at Mr. Noah Hardy s\\n(where I was regaled with Tea c. went to Mr. Isaac Park-\\ners c. Mrs. P somewhat better.\\nBreck to Boston. N. B. The Dr. brot me No s i to 4 of\\ny^ Rise Progress of y^ American War.\\n29. Wrote to My Dauter Baldwin with my returning\\nher Husband s Letter concerning Gen l Gates Defeat\\nFlight. Sent y by Lt. Joseph Bond. Mr. Daniel Adams\\njr. here with his Wife s Relation but carryed it back again.\\n30. Mrs. Adams herself with her Relation tran-and\\nsubscribed. Mrs. P. is exercised still with her distressed\\nstomach, but not in so terrible a Degree.\\nMr. Thad Warrin very kind in coming to take Care about\\ngetting home my Cyder from Mr. Thos. Frost s. When\\nhis son John brot it, Josiah Brigham unloaded, and got it\\ndown to place in y*^ Cellar.\\nOctober ij8o\\nDid not read publickly. preached on Mai. i. ir. p m.\\nrepeat Sermon on Isaiah 55. 13. Admitted Mrs. El. Adams.\\nAt eve read Mr. Flavell s Serm. 7 on Rev. 3.20.\\nN. B. To my sorrow, my Oxen have been breachy at\\nMr. Isaac Parker s and let in Cattle with y into his Corn-\\nfield.\\n2. I rode to a number of Familys in y^ South viz. Capt.\\nMorse s Lieut, and Ensign Warrin s Mr. Elisha Forbes,\\nwhere I dind, and he was very generous in a number of\\npresents. I went also to y^ Widow Forbes s, where I had\\nopportunity to see old Miss Stone, was also at Mr. Phin.\\nHardj- s, but could find no Body there.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0281.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "276 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nN. B. Lt. Warrin kindly sent his young Man at eve, for\\ntwo of my Calves to pasture y till weaned.\\n3. I preached at Squire Baker s on Ezek. 20. 11. May\\nit please God to accompany it with His Special Blessing\\nMay we have Grace to keep God s vStatutes Judgments,\\nwhich we ought to be thankful God has given us. Since if\\na man do y he shall even live in them. Squire got home\\nfrom Boston at abt 3. yet sat out at Charlestown 25 minutes\\nafter 9 a. m.\\n4. Mr. Nathan Maynard came with a 3^oke of Oxen,\\nDr. Hawes Oxen my own, having Squire s Plough,\\nMr. Joseph Harrington s Lad, namely Aaron Miller\\nCapt. Wood s son Benj. to drive and they plowed part of\\nmy West Field left it in a broken condition.\\n5. A Storm of Rain. Read Ri.se and Progress of War.\\n6. Dauter Baldwin sends me a packet of L,etters one\\nfrom Col. to her: 3 of Eben to her, which show him to have\\nbeen in a distressed, disconsolate and now in a sick and\\nweak Condition. I wrote a Letter to him. though I am not\\nsure how I .shall send it. I am much perplexed and disap-\\npointed about getting my West Field y*^ rest of what I\\nproposed) plowed.\\n7. Intended to have gone to Shrewsbury, but rec d a\\nLine from Mr. Sumner neg. recommending tomorrow\\ncome sennight. I took great pains to get another Day s\\nplowing done, but it was all in vain, neither could I find\\ntime to prepare any New Discourse for tomorrow.\\n8. Went on with reading in y^ Psalms read Ps. 106 to\\n24. And I proceeded in Repetition of Sermon on Isa. 55.\\n13 A p. M to page 251. which may God bless to our High-\\nest Good!", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0282.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 277\\nRec d a Letter from Master Nathan Fisk jun of H. C.\\nand another from Mr. Quincy. At eve Breck c. came, and\\nhe read another part of Mr. Flavell on Rev. 3. 20.\\n9. Jon Frost with my Oxen, Oliver Death with two\\nyoke of Oxen from Squire Baker s, and Joel Kenney to help\\nto driving, plowed in y West Field.\\n10. Hear much of Beai s One is killed by Capt. Jonas\\nBrigham, others. weighed 300. I dind at Capt, Brig-\\nham s, I visit at Col. Brigham s. p. m. Mr. Eb Forbush\\nconducted me to y^ thick Swamp, where is y hideous Dwell-\\ning of Jacob Garfield,^ and I went in, tho with Difficulty, to\\nsee it. Garfield himself led my Horse out, I visited at\\nMr. Tim. Warrin s but my principal visit was to Mr.\\nDaniel Stock well s young Child, which was sick I prayed\\nwith it and then went to y^ poor at y^ Work House\\nAt my return home was informed that Mr. Fitch of Hop-\\nkinton had been here, brot home Dr. Stillingfleet s Orig,\\nSacrae.\\n11. I am obliged to take unspeakable Pains to get a very\\nlittle work done have obtained Mr. Thad. Warrin to thrash\\na little Rye to Sowe, and he winnows it 2 bushels Mr.\\nLangton called here.\\n12. In y^ Morning, Mr. Brigham and Sophy sat out for\\nRochester. I have writ by them to Mr. Moore, to Mr. Fitch\\nand to Mr. Thos. Adams. Catechized at y Meeting House.\\nhad but 28 Boys. p. m had 34 Girls. And may God gra-\\nciously accompany y\u00c2\u00ab^ Influence and Warning with His spe-\\ncial Blessing\\n1 There is an island in the swamp still known as Garfield s Island,\\nand a cellar-hole marks the site of this hideous dwelling.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0283.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "278 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nMr. TI10.S. Lamson here, to thrash today, but cannot ob-\\ntain any more.\\n13. I attended y^ Funeral of Mr. Stockwell s Infant\\nprayed. The Town met to choose a Representative for y\\nfirst Assembly of y^ New Government. Mr. John Harring-\\nton at eve, pays all he was to collect.\\n14. Mr. Eb Maynard very kind in sowing harrowing,\\nboth yesterday till afternoon and today a. m. with his son\\nand yoke of Oxen. He did it gratis.\\nDeac. Wood is in a sad Contest with one Chafej^ who\\nwith his Wife Child, boarded several months there, but\\nrefuses to pay him for it. I rode to Mr. Sumner s and\\nlodged.\\n15. I preached at Shrewbury. A. M. on Jer: 8. 20 p m\\non Job. 31. 24 young Mr. Crosby prayed publickly. p. m. I\\nappointed y* Communion and L,ecture there, and returned\\nhome at evening. Mr. Sumner rode to Westboro in y^\\nMorning. Preached for me A. p. m on i Pet: 2. 21. last\\nclause left us an example c. He baptized two Chil-\\ndren, viz: Polly and Sam Hall of Dan Jr. and Elizabeth\\nAdams.\\nMr. Sumner returned at eve. Col. Wheelock is come\\nhome.\\n16. Mr. Kenney refuses to husk my Corn, tho I con-\\nceived he took my Field to y^ halves as Dr. Hawes did, who\\ntook y^ whole care of husking 5^^ Corn, carrying it into\\nthe Corn Barn. However, we came to an agreement. I\\ntold him he should ask y*^ Neighbors to assist, in an after-\\nnoon, and tho I would not make an Entertainment, yet I\\nwould give y some Drink.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0284.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 279\\n17. I rode to East Sudbury to Minister s Meeting, at\\nMr. Smiths. (So it is called, tho at Mr. Bridge s House).\\nOnly Mr. Whitney absent. Mr. Smith very full of pain\\nc and P was Moderator prayed. A Committee\\nfrom Marlborough, about a Fast there, Another Committee\\nfrom Bolton, with new Difficulties there. Before we broke\\nup, Mr. Newell prayed.\\nNext Meeting to be next April at y^ same place.\\nI went to my son William s where all was well, and I\\nlodged there in comfort and Health D. G.\\n18. I payd W an hundred Dollars for so much sent to\\nElias, last Winter, he paid me Six Silver Dollars which\\nI lent him some time ago. I returned to Westboro. On\\nmy way, dind at Col. Weeks in Marlboro. Proceeded to\\nMr. Elizur Holyoke s, a joiner at Col. W Col. Brig-\\nham s, at Mr. Francis Barns s.\\n19. Mr. Kenney brot from y^ North Field my part of y^\\nCorn, and a number of Neighbors husked it out. Breck was\\nvery generous in treating y^ Huskers with Eiquor.\\nMr. Stephen Johnson and his Wife, from Lyne and their\\nson Eliot of Watertown, with his new Wife, Mr. Johnson s\\nDauter, all lodged here.\\n20. The Company leave us expecting to meet a number\\nof Watertown people at Westown to dine there.\\nMr. Sam Crosby preached my I^ecture on Luke 2. 11,12.\\nAfter Lecture, Messrs. Hazletine and Fisk here at Tea c.\\n21.\\n22. I preached a. m. on Mat. 26. 21-22 to p. 3. Admin-\\nistered y Sacrament. Mrs. Maynard at dinner, p m. on", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0285.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "28o DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nRev. 5.5. At eve Mr. Brigham read another part of Mr.\\nFlavell s Sermon 7 on Rev. 3. 20.\\n23. The Widow Hill s little Son, Silas, of about 4 years\\nold, very bad. I visited and prayed with him. After much\\nAnxiety and Trouble, Capt. Wood s two sons work for me\\nin my small Ingathering, Apples and Potatoes.\\n24. The} come again and finish Beeton field and Orchard.\\nRev. Mr. L^amson, returning from Connecticut, calls here\\nBen Wood goes with my few Apples Barrells at even-\\ning to Mr. Frost s. Breck cut his Foot with an Ax.\\n25. We esteem this y^ Da}^ of y^ Commencement of y^\\nhonorable Revolution. The Ne7( Constitution of Government\\nnow begins The Election of Governor c.\\nIt is exceedingly to be desired and prayed for, y* y^ minds\\nof y*^ People were properly affected with the great Impor-\\ntance of this so unexampled Time direct y*^ weighty Affairs\\nof it and grant an happy Issue to His Glory and y Public\\nWeal\\n26. I have been so much disappointed by those I have\\nspoke to to work for me y* I am forced to improve Capt.\\nWoods two Boys\\n27. to plow for me. We try the new Horse my son\\nAlexander sent me, with my Oxen I have a sufficient\\nTeam for splitting and harrowing in Rye. Mr.\\nBrigham has returned I visit and prayed with little Silas.\\n28. Lieut. Levi Warrin brot me a Barrell of Cyder,\\np. M. I rode to Hopkinton S: Mr. Fitch came here, tho\\nvery rainy.\\n29. I preached at Hopkinton on Prov. 18. 10. May\\nGod grant Success to my own Soul especially. At eve, I", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0286.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 28 1\\nwent to Mr. Barrett s and lodged there! Mr. Fitch returned\\nfrom Westboro. tells me y^ sick little Boy (Silas) dyed\\nlast night. N. B. Ye Sad News from y^ North West is\\nconfirmed. Mischief done at Royalton, Schoharie c.\\n30. I took some time in viewing Mr. Barrett s Books,\\ndind at home Mr. Sam Crosby with me. p. m. attended\\ny^ Funeral of Silas Hill, a very large Company there.\\n31. Breck and Brigham have a drove of Oxen brought\\nto sell. I read. Mr. Thos. Hunter s Reflections on hd Ches-\\nterfield, very just and most elegant.\\nNovember.\\nThe Month comes in with a Violent Storm. In some\\npart of y^ Day rained hard but it soon turned to snow,\\nand the continuance of it brings on a very winter pros-\\npect. Thro divine Favour, we have Wood, Shelter and\\nClothing.\\n2. Wintry Scenes. Earth covered with Snow. Cold\\ntedious.\\nMr. Cushing Mrs. Cotton from Ashburnham, came this\\nMorning .from Shrewsbury, and dind here. Mr. Cushing\\np. M. returned to Shrewsbury. Mrs. Cotton lodged here.\\nN. B. Sent Hunter s Reflections on I^d Chesterfield s Let-\\nters to Dr. Crosby p Mr. Cushing.\\n3. Mr. Brigham waited on Mrs. Cotton to Hopkinton.\\nSent Mrs. Abbe Vol. 2 of De Foe by Mrs. Cotton. N. B.\\nIt was brot me by Dr. Stimson some time agoe.\\nAs night came on, Elias with Letters from Br. Breck\\nfrom Springfield. He brings home five young Cattle from\\nCoi s Hill. The two largest Steers have been taken out of\\nPasture by Alexander some time ago.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0287.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "282 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nBreck sent Mr. Th. Lamsoii, who cutts wood for me at y\\nDoor.\\n4. Elias goes and fetches my 12 Sheep from Sq. Baker s\\nPasture. N. B. The principal Weather is missing, and a\\nstrange one is brot in his stead.\\n5. Preached a. m. on Rev. 5. 6. Mr. Fisk and Cousen\\nMaynard dind here. p. m. on John 10. 11. I stayed y^\\nChurch and read y^ lyctter from Bolton, requesting our Help\\nin Council. When proposed to y^ Church there was no vote.\\nThere were but few Members, but there were but 4 Hands.\\nIn y^ eve, Mr. Brigham read Mr. Flavell on Rev. 3. 20. Ser-\\nmon 8.\\n6. T/ie Toii H Meeting. Granted my Wood and Capt.\\nMaynard to cut and bring it. But as to Sallery, I dont per-\\nceive y they have voted anything, but y^ naked Sum with\\ny^ Courts Depreciation.\\nRev. Johnson I,ady call here in their returning home.\\n7. Mr. Gale was at eve thrown by his Horse and much\\nhurt, but after a while returned home. Suse and Sophy ride\\nto their Father Brigham s. Had some Converse with Capt.\\nFi.sher about y*^ Town s Transactions yesterday. M3 grand-\\nchildren Isaac and Betsy Baldwin from Shrewsbury this\\nmorning came to see us. Isaac leads an Horse, besides one\\nin his Surkey these (with Elias s, Breck s and my own)\\nmake six Horses which are kept here this Night. Mr. Jon\\nF ^orbes here at eve. talks of y Doings of y*^ Town yester-\\nday with great concern, he speaks also of Mr. Benj.\\nFay^ Mrs. Th. Whitney s contests.\\n1 Benj. Fay seems to be always quarrelling with some one. March\\n13. Mr. Parkman has recorded his sad contest with Col. Wheelock,", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0288.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 283\\n8. The adjournment of y Town Meeting. By Advice I\\nsent a written Message y if they would grant me the Same\\nAllowance of Depreciation which I was required by every\\none to pay for every Article, I would submit myself to be\\ntaxed. Thereupon y*^ Town chose a Committee to treat\\nwith me, viz. Capt. Maynard, Capt. Morse and Capt. Fisher.\\n9. The Council at Bolton met. I had told y^ Church I\\ndid not incline to go. See y^ Result at y^ end of this Book.\\nThe Church met by adjournment to consider Mrs. Ad-\\nams Case. The Woman was present but y^ Man, though\\nwarned was not, and therewith Mr. Adams paper dated\\nJuly 23 last. As to y^ Former, Mrs. Adams pleaded that\\nshe had not got her Evidences ready, but she would have\\nspoke to her Husband, before y^ Church but he was not\\nthere which was to our Surprise, Since he knew that at\\nthis Meeting his own paper was expected to be read con-\\nsidered. It was declared that he was at y^ public Meeting\\nwhen Rev. Mr. Whitney read my paper of Adjournment,\\n(which was consented to by y^ Brethren) and he had reason\\nto expect y the Meeting upon these affairs would be now\\ndissolved The Pastor has also repeatedly told him he was\\nnot debarred from Church Meetings but was desired and\\nexpected to come. But since he was now absent, nothing\\nabout the chestnut tree. It was his affair with Capt. Johu Wood,\\nupon which the foremost citizens and lawyers of Worcester had\\nheld their two days sitting in the old church in May, and now he\\nseems to be in another contest.\\nIn the French and Indian War he was captain of a company, later\\nhe is called lieutenant, he was selectman for eleven years and town\\ntreasurer for five.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0289.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "284 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nmore could be done about his Paper, than to read it and\\nthen y Letter sent to him which he was disturbed by, but\\nwhich had nothing of grievous Nature in it which being\\ndone, and nobody there to Sustain y^ Said paper, nor make\\nReply to y*^ Exceptions made against y^ palpable mistakes\\nit was founded upon, it was voted to be dropped and see-\\ning that Mrs. Adams was now supposed to be trying for\\nRelief in y*^ Civil lyaw, the Meeting was dissolved, upon\\nwhich I prayed and gave y Blessing. At eve, Col. Silas\\nBailey here, returning from Rhode Island, his son Timothy\\ndyd there is buryd.\\n10. Capt. John Wood was here upon y*^ Affair of his son\\nBen s living with me, and he wants that John shall live\\nwith my son Breck. Elias has set out early this morning\\nfor Boston.\\n11. The Winter Weather continues. Elias returns from\\nBoston between six and seven o clock. He brings me from\\nSam No 2 to 6 (5 Books) of y^ American War. I have read\\n4. He brot also Dr. Evans which Sam had to read, but now\\nreturns.\\n12. Preached again on John 10. 11. p. m. on Mai. i. 11.\\nCousen Maynard dind here. At eve Mr. Brigham read\\nFlavell on Rev 3. 20 part of Serm 8.\\n13. A committee from y*^ Town came to treat with me\\nabout my Sallery. They were Capt. Maynard and Capt.\\nMorse, but Capt. Fisher, who was the third (I think) was\\nnot with them. Their errand was to know what I appre-\\nhended my Sallery should be. I answered y the Covenant\\nwas 55^ Lawful Money, to be made i^ood to its then J^alue.\\nAnd as to what was now due, the Depreciation which now", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0290.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 285\\nan\\nI have actually paid, and am required to pay is partly\\nhundred and eight to some an hundred, to others 90. If\\nthe Town would allow me the Medium, that is, an hundred,\\nthen out of Pity to y People in this Day of their Trouble, I\\nwill deduct my Proportion to bear so much of y^ Charge of\\ny War, for y^ present year. My grandson, Isaac Baldwin\\ncame this evening from his Tour to Newbury, Dummer\\nSchool c.\\n14. The Town meet by adjournment The Committee\\ncarry my Answer (as above) to y After meeting, two of\\nthe Comittee come, (Captns Maynard Morse) and acquaint\\nme y* the Town had granted me for this year the sum of\\n^4000, which though it was 1500 short of my just due) I\\naccepted on consideration of their Distresses thanked\\nym (^ye Committee) for their Pains in y Affair. Capt.\\nFisher came in when y^ rest were going away: but he\\nstayed not.\\n15 My Baldwins (Isaac and Betsey) leave us to return\\nhome. I wrote by y to their mother. Capt. John Woods\\nmoves and his Wife Children except Ben who is to live\\nwith me. Capt. Wood gave me a Barrell, almost full of\\nCyder.\\nN. B. Ben is to live with me for y sake of getting\\nLearning. to Satisfie me,, for Instruction, Board, Washing\\nLodging, he must tend my Cattle, cut wood, needful\\nchores, go of Errands c. he must tarry with me till\\nnext April.\\nAt eve had a message from one Mrs. Mary Nottingham,\\nwho lies sick at Deac. Wood s, to make her a visit. I went", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0291.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "286 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\naccordingly and discoursed with her praj-ed with her as\\none extremely bad, in a Dangerous Condition.\\n1 6. I went to Coll. Wheelock s, Capt. Fisher s, Squire s\\ncalled to see Mrs. Nottingham, who is no better. Mr.\\nHarrington with ni) Team fetches me a Cedar Pole for my\\nWest Stanchells. Mr. James Gibson here to buy my young\\nOxen. Thad. Wait was marryed to Sally Morse.\\n17. Mrs. Eunice Hill of Douglass here I sent by her to\\nCol. Caleb Hill of Douglass (who married Mrs. Ruth Hicks)\\nto remember their aunt Champney. At eve, Mr. Beriah\\nWare in Trouble.\\n18. Joel and Gardner,-^ Sons of Mr. Isaac Parker, have\\nbrot home a Calf, which their Father has kept a great while\\nfor me.\\n19. Heavy rain, few at Meeting. I preached on Mai. i.\\n12-13. Mrs. Maynard dind here. p. m. I preached on\\nProv: 18.10. At eve, Mr. Brigham read in Flavell s Works\\n-Rev 3 20.\\n20. Elias setts out for Springfield. I wrote by him to\\n1 Gardner Parker, born March 14, 1772, a boy at this time, kept\\nhis name alive in Westborough by starting a mill at the place we\\nnow call Parker s Folly, and building a large dam there. He was\\na clockmaker by profession, having studied with the Willards of\\nGrafton. In 1809 he built an organ into the old meeting-house.\\nHis brother Joel, two years older, was more or less prominent in\\nlocal politics. Isaac Parker lived in the Sixth School Squadron as\\nit was divided in 1789\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the same as Beriah Ware, Gershom Brig-\\nham, Capt. Maynard and John Fessenden. Joel owned the mill on\\nthe old mill road, the raising of which Mr. Parkman attended in\\nJune of this year. It is spoken of now by our older citizens as Park-\\ner s Mill.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0292.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 287\\nBr. Breck.^ The Town meets again b}^ adjournment to set-\\ntle their Accounts. I visited Mrs. Nottingham again. Mas-\\nter Fisk here at eve lodges here.\\n21. Mr. David Kellogg, preacher at Framingham dind\\nhere, but I was obliged to leave him to Mr. Brigham, who\\nwas his acquaintance, p. m. I preached at Mr. Jon Childs,\\nto y^ Widow Smith, on Ps 73. 26, which may God bless\\nRec d IvCtter from Mr. Moore of y g inst.\\n22. Very stormy, or I should have visited Mr. Abijah\\nGale, who has not got well from his Lameness. Read Hist,\\nof y^ American War, No 5.\\n23. Mrs. Nabby Martyn has my Horse to ride to Bolton.\\n1 Rev. Robert Breck, of Springfield, was the oldest sou of Rev,\\nRobert Breck, of Marlborough, and uext older in age to Mrs.\\nParkmau, being three years her senior. He was settled in Spring-\\nfield after a bitter controversy as to his soundness, which was started\\nby a sentence in a sermon he had preached at New London.\\nWhat, he asked, will become of the heathen who never heard\\nof the Gospel? I do not pretend to say, but I cannot but indulge a\\nhope that God, in his boundless benevolence will find out a way\\nwhereby those heathen who act up to the light they have, may be\\nsaved.\\nThis was considered alarming, and his former life was thoroughly\\nsifted for further evidence of unsoundness in character or doctrine.\\nHe was finally ordained in 1736, after the intervention of various\\ncouncils, courts and even of the legislature itself.\\nThe historian of Springfield, in speaking of this combat between\\nBreck and Jonathan Edwards, says: Scholars have since bowed\\ndown to the genius of Edwards, but the people live the principles\\nof Breck.\\nThe Brecks evidently lived in some little style in Springfield, for\\nMrs. Breck s fame rests on her having owned the first carpet in\\nthe town.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0293.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "288 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nMrs. P. employs Mrs. Garfield to spin for her from Day to\\nDay. Pamela helps her. Ben follows his writing c.\\n24. Mr. Jon Childs brings and gives a Barrell of Cyder\\na Bag of Apples. Mr. Hezekiah Maynard of Marlboro\\ncame and had two Bushels of Rye for y two Bushel of Malt\\nwhich I had of him last Spring. I wrote by him to Mr.\\nElizur Holyoke.\\n25. A great Storm of Rain, Wind c. Towards night it\\nheld up and Miss Nabby Martyn returned on my Horse\\nfrom Bolton.\\n26. I have been so many ways interrupted, my mind\\ndiscomposed that I could make but slender preparations,\\ntherefore I went on with y*^ last Sabbath subject both a\\np. M. but took those words for my Text, in Prov. 21. 31,\\nlast clause with new Introduction.\\nMr. Fisk Mrs. Maynard dind with us. At eve, Mr.\\nBrigham. read y rest of Mr. Flavell s 8 Sermon on Rev:\\n3. 20. God forgive my Dullness and unprofitableness.\\n27. Robert Wightman came to thrash for me. Mr. Ha-\\nzletine wants Henry s Exposition. Mr. Cornelius Waters\\ncame is with Mr. Brigham, lodges here.\\n28. Mr. Waters and Mr. Brigham go to Boston. Wrote\\nto Mr. Moore. N. B. Wightman was in y Burgoine Army\\nat Saratoga.\\nMr. Jonas Bond and his Wife here in their way to Cam-\\nbridge. Coll. Brigham and Wife make a visit to both\\nHouses. Mrs. Baker very generous, visiting and bringing\\nwith an open Hand. I was called to Mr. Barker s, his Dau-\\nter Betsey being very ill. I went prayed with her.\\nisit Mrs. Nottingham prayed there.", "height": "2797", "width": "2092", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0294.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 289\\n29. Wightmaii here. Mr. Thad. Warrin and his son\\nJohn came at almost ten o clock a. m carted Muck.\\n30. Was at Neighbor Newton s where was his Br. Tim-\\nothy of Hardwick, who gave me a sorrowful account of his\\nson son-in-law s Captivation^ by y Indians last August\\nfrom Barnard s Town, their wives pregnant, exposed to\\ny^ woods, destitute but now at Hardwick. Mr. Brigham\\nreturned from Boston in y*^ Night.\\nDecember ij8o\\nRob. Wightman is so successful in his getting out and\\ncleaning y*^ Rye that in these few Days he has thrashed and\\nwinnowed (as he has counted) 40 Bushels besides that he\\nplowed for me half a Day, which he gave in he carry s\\naway 4 Bushels for his wages.\\nI was called away to see Betty Barker, as being near her\\nEnd. I went found her very bad, of bilious Fever. She\\nwas too delirious to converse much. I prayed with her, and\\na number more. Called to see Mrs. Nottingham, who seems\\nto be in more hopeful state.\\n2. I find it a very difficult thing to write Sermons now\\nin my old Age from what I did formerly and cannot thro\\nDimness and Trembling, make Despatch as then. As my\\noutward Man. decays, I ought to labour to have my inner\\nman to be renewed Day by Day.\\nijohn Newton was taken prisoner by the Indians Aug. 9, 1780,\\nand carried to Canada where he was detained until the next Spring,\\nwhen he escaped and returned to his family after suffering great\\nhardship. History of Hardzvick.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0295.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "290 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nMr. Jonas Bond and his Wife returned home, but I saw\\ny not.\\n3. A very cold stormy tedious Day and it was doubt-\\nful whether we could attend y Solemnities proposed yet\\nthe Snow which fell was not very deep. I attempted, and\\nGod was pleased to carry me through. A. M. on Mai: i. 13\\nAnd they brot that which was torn c. Administered\\ny Lord s Supper to y^ few which came. Mrs. Maynard\\ndind with us. p. m. on Rev: 3. 2. i. May God graciously\\nforgive, accept bless! At eve, Brigham, Flavell on Rev.\\n3. 20 Sermon g former part.\\n4. A great Disappointment arose by means of nine young\\nCattle of Squire s which broke in upon and destroyed a\\ngreat part of my Straw which was designed for several\\nuses Harrington lays up a part of it on y^ Hovel and Cart\\nShed but, y^ Cattle very troublesome, and a sad interrup-\\ntion to me after they had been driven away,\\n5. Mr. Corn. Waters and Miss Sarah Shepherd going\\nfrom Newtown to Sutton call dine here. Mr. Corn. Big-\\nlow came for his Rye, to pay him for his reaping. He re-\\nquires 4 Bushels and half, but releases a peck.\\n6. Deacon Hawes brings me from Mr. Cranch another\\nvolume (y^ 5th) of Biog. Diet. Letters F. G.\\n7. Thanksgiving. Preached on Jer: 3. 23 last clause,\\nwhich may God graciously prosper! Betsey Barker is dead.\\nMr. Elisha Livermore was marry d to Miss Lucy Maynard,\\n8. A cold and Hoarseness increased to such a Degree\\nupon me that (it being also a Wet Day) I did not go to y^\\nBurial of Betsey Barker, who dy d on Wednesday morning,\\nand Mr. Barker sent for me to-dav: but I had no audible", "height": "2869", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0296.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 29 1\\nVoice. May God graciously teach and comfort y and y*^\\nsurviving Children!\\n9. In compliance with Mr. Corn. Waters Request, I\\nbeing somewhat better recovering my voice in some\\nmeasure, I rode to Southboro and Mr. Stone to Framing-\\nham. I went also to y Widow Wood s, on an affair of my\\nWife s to bespeak some weaving. Lodged at Mr. Stone s.\\nI o. A wet Day but (thro divine Goodness) I felt so well\\nthat I went to Meeting and preached (at Southboro a.\\np. M. on Ps. 124 Several verses, using with some variations,\\npart of y^ Introduction to y^ late Thanksgiving Sermon.\\nMay God grant Success! Mr. Stone returned at eve. It\\nwas too rainy for me, and they urging, I stayed there.\\n11. In my way home called at Mr. Gale s, Got home\\nsafe D. G. Understand that Mr. Grosvenor preached for\\nme: on Rev. 3. 2. Capt. Wood dind here. I visited at\\nMr. Barker s, under their Bereavement, and went to Squire\\nBaker s.\\n12. Mr. Brigham goes to Boston. Wrote by him to\\nMr. Thos Adams. Ben Wood at his Father s Desire, goes\\nto Worcester to attend at Court, as a Witness.\\n13. My Hovel, overloaded with straw, in y late Storm\\nof Rain, broke down Mr. Lamson and Stephen Maynard\\nkindly came and repaired it. They dind here. I read in\\nBiog. Diet. Vol. 5. F. G.\\n14. Mr. Brigham returned in y Night from Boston and\\nhe\\n15. delivers me a letter from Mr. Quincy of y^ 6 Rev.\\nMr. Israel Evans, a Chaplain to Gen Poor s Brigade, rec-\\nommended to me by Mr. Grosvenor, came and lodged here.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0297.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "292 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nHe relates how Gen Washington was in Arnold s plot, was\\ndesigned to be Surprised and taken, at Col. Beverly Robert-\\nson s House in Philip s Manor, over against West Point.\\ni6. Mr. Evans left us to go to Concord. N. B. He\\npresented me his Sermon delivered at Easton Oct. 17, 1779\\nto y^ Officers Soldiers of y^ Western Army, after their\\nReturn from an Expedition against y^ five Nations of hos-\\ntile Indians, published at y^ particular Request of y^ Gen-\\neral (Sullivan) y*^ Field Officers of y Army, printed at\\nPhiladelphia\\n17. A. M. on Rev. i. 3. Mrs. Maynard dind. p. m. on\\nI Cor: 10. 4 Mr. Silas Brigham dismissed. Mr. Brigham\\nread Mr. Flavell at Even.\\n18. I attended y^ Funeral of old Mr. Isaac Woods.\\np. M. was a Town Meeting to raise Men for y^ Continental\\nArmy to provide Beef for y Army. c.\\n19. Mr. Beeton has made a Crane for our West Room\\nChimney, which I have put up.\\nBreck Suse and little Hannah are gone, tho it is a\\nlowery Day, to Col. Brigham s. Breck designing to go to\\nBoston. Constable Maynard now first paid me any peny of\\ny^ Grant made last July, paid ]oi.i6.\\n20. Took a walk among my Neighbors to reckon with\\ny that I might pay them for their Work for me, last Sea-\\nson, this being y first time that I have had any Money to\\ndo it. I went to Mr. Kenny s, dind at Mr. N. Maynard s,\\nwas at Mr. Thad, Warrin s. Visit Mrs. Nottingham, who\\nis yet ill and prayed with her. Two Letters from Camp from\\nH^ben and from Col. Baldwin of Nov. 14, with Gen Orders.\\n21. Mr. George Morey of Norton preaches here and", "height": "2869", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0298.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 293\\ndines With US. He informs me that there is a Fa.st at Marl-\\nboro in order to their Calling a Minister. Mr. Eben\\nGrosvenor being there at present.\\n22 Mr Dan Miller of Fitz-William dmd here. Mr.\\nBrigham returned from Boston, says Mr. Ripley recovers.\\nTown Meeting by Adjournment to endeavor to raise\\nRecruits for y^ Continental Army; also Quota of Beef\\nto purchase Corn for ye payment of 3 months men. At eve\\nMr Fisk who keeps y^ East School, here.\\nCapt. Edmund Brigham here, on his Humihation.\\n24 Dark weather again. A. M. Mai: i. 13. last part\\nand 14. former part. Mrs. Maynard dind with us. p. m.\\non I Cor: 10. 4. And that Rock was Christ.\\nMr. Brigham at eve still reads in Flavell on Rev. 3. 20.\\nI read after Exercise, Pierce s Vindic. of Dissent.\\n2s In morning Family Exercise read Luke i. 25 to y\\nEnd Ch. 2. divers parts, which peculiarly respect y\\nNativity of our B. L. and give Thanks therefor. Breck\\nand his Family dind with us. O that we might uprightly\\nand most gratefully join with all true Christians, and with\\nall our Souls magnifie y^ Lord, rejoicing forever m God our\\nSaviour!\\n26 Winter cold. Sharp, Frost: difficult stirring, it is so\\nrough, icy, with y^ Snow that has covered y^ Ground but\\nwe are favoured with Health, Food, Raiment, Fuel Hab-\\nitation, c. D. G. Read Biogr. Diet. F.\\n27 Am forced to keep House by reason of y Sharp Air.\\nMr Brigham brot Mrs. Jotham Bush to dine with us. I\\nread, as yesterday, Biogr. Dictionary, now part of G.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0299.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "294 DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\n28. Several Neighbours came killed 1113^ largest Hog.\\nThey were Messrs. Thad Warrin, Sol Batherick Caleb\\nHarrington. They would not stay to dine with us. The\\nHog weighed 316 pounds. At eve, Master Fisk here, N.\\nB. Breck brings in a Letter from Eben at Fishkill.\\n29.\\n30.\\n31. I preached a. m. on Mai 1.14 the latter part, p.\\nM. on Eccl. 12.13. It is deeply to be regretted that those\\ngreat and Serious Subjects have so slender Effect upon our\\nMinds, Since they do so nearly, so inf.ly concern us\\nI have great Reason to be astonished at myself, that I am\\nso far below what I ought to be I beseech God most gra-\\nciously to awaken me to a proportionable Exertion\\nAt eve Mr. Brigham read Mr. Flavell on Rev. 3. 20.\\ny I might have a Frame of Spirit suited to y^ Close of\\ny^ Year, that I might have a lively Apprehension of y^\\nClose of Life, y I may be found ready for it.\\nWe know of uo later volume of the Journal.\\nThe last entry in any book that we have was written by Mr. Park-\\nman under the date of Sept. 5, O. S. 1782 in the Natalitia\\nI have still fresh Cause to praise and extol ye name of ye most\\nHigh who endures me and permits me to live in His World, to en-\\njoy innumerable Advantages and especially to enjoy both ye Day\\n1 These last sermons on this last day of the year were preached\\nfrom the texts\\nFor I am a great King, saith the Lord of Hosts, and my name\\nis dreadful among the heathen and in the afternoon\\nLet us hear the conclusion of the whole matter; I ear God\\nand keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.", "height": "2869", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0300.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 295\\nye Means of Grace-would therefore offer up a sacrifice of Praise\\nand Thanks to His glorious Name\\nThat my Senses have been continued in such a Measure and\\nparticularly That my Light has not been utterly taken away-but\\nthat I can in such a Measure both read write that especially\\nthe Day and Means of Grace are continued, that I am yet permitted\\nto Serve in ye Sanctuary and have my Furneture Ability for it\\n(May I myself savingly profit thereby\\nBut while I have been thus highly indulged, O what Ingratitude\\nUnworthiness I have been chargeable with.\\nTherefore\\nAs he turned the page he found he had written some items on the\\nother side-there was no more room in the book. He commenced\\non its first page in 1727-he had now-an old man-reached the\\nlast.\\nHe lived but a short time after this birthday, dying on the 9th of\\nDecember.\\nAn article in the Worcester Spy reads\\nWestborough Dec. 16. 1782.\\nOn Monday evening the 9th inst. departed this Life that aged\\nand venerable man of God, the Reverend Ebenezer Parkman, pas-\\ntor of the Church of Christ in this place, in the 8oth year of his age\\nand the 59th of his ministry, and this day his remains were decently\\nand honorably interred. He was a gentleman and a scholar, a\\ngood divine and real christian. He was a lover of religion and of\\nlearning: a lover of the college in Cambridge (where he had his\\neducation) and an honour to it a lover of good men given to\\nhospitality. He loved his brethren in the ministry, was an orna-\\nment to the order. He was a friend to his country, and to these\\nchurches and a firm supporter of their order constitution, op-\\nposed all attempts to subvert the same. By nature, education\\ngrace, he had much done for him to furnish him for the various\\nservices of the pastoral office and he was diligent eminently\\nfaithful in improving all his gifts for the glory of God the good\\nof his people. He had a singular talent in private conversation", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0301.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "296\\nDIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN.\\nhis communications were always edifying ministered grace to\\nthe hearers.\\nHe took heed to himself and unto his doctrine and continued\\ntherein to the very last and we believe (through grace) has saved\\nhimself and many who heard him. Having obtained help of God,\\nhe continued his ministerial labor for more than thirty of the last\\nyears of his life, without any intermission, through bodily infirmi-\\nties, until Six Sabbaths before his death.\\nHis widow and children with a beloved flock, and an extensive\\nacquaintance mourn his departure; But sorrow not as they who\\nhave no hope, for they believe he has gone to rest which rest re-\\nmaining for the people of God was the subject of his last discourse\\nto his people. The great head of the church has said. Be thou\\nfaithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of glory.\\nTHE P.\\\\RKMAN GRAVES.", "height": "2869", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0302.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "DIARY OF REV. EBENEZER PARKMAN. 297\\nMr. Parkman s grave the only oue in Memorial Cemetery with\\na horizontal slab, has been protected in recent years by an iron\\nfence. For many years it was used by the boys of Westborough as\\na convenient table for their games, or for a seat in the rare moments\\nwhen they sat. The Inscription reads\\nHere lies deposited\\nthe mortal part of that mau of God\\nthe Revd Ebenezer Parkmau A. M.\\nwho was born Sepi 5. 170.^\\nordained the first Bishop of the Church\\nin Westborough, October 28th 1724;\\nand died on the ninth of December 17S2\\nhaving completed the 79th year of his age\\non Septr. 161I1 the 58 year of his ministry\\non November 8th preceding.\\nHe was formed by nature and education to\\nbe an able minister of the New Testament,\\nand obtained grace to be eminently faithful\\nin the work of the Lord\\nHe was a firm friend to the faith, order and\\nConstitution of the New England Churches.\\nHe was a learned pious good man\\nfull of the Holy Ghost, faith unfeigned\\nand answered St. Paul s description\\nof a Scripture Bishop, being blameless\\nVigilant, Sober, of good behaviour,\\ngiven to hospitality, Apt to teach.\\nBe thou faithful unto death.\\nAnd I will give thee a Crown of life\\nSays Christ.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0303.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\nAn Inventory of the Goods Chattels, Rights Credits\\nenezer Parkman, late of Westborough, Clerk, deceased\\nHis Ivibrary, including as well single Sermons\\nand pamphlets as bound Books, 80.\\nHis wearing Apparel, given to his Son Ebenezer in\\nhis last Will and Testament, including a Golden)\\nRing, Sleeve Buttons and Shoe Buckles\\nPewter ib 60 weight\\nA brass Kittle 36/ two small do 6/\\nA brass Skillet 6/ brass Skimmer 1/\\nStanding Caudle Stick 24/ two brass Candle Sticks 2/6\\nFive iron Candle Sticks 2/ three pair Snuffers 2/\\nTin Tunnel /4 two tin Dippers /4 Canister 1/6\\nA Spit 2/ Gridiron 2/8 A Baster /8\\nA dripping Pan 4/ Toasting Iron 1/6 Skewer /6\\nA large Iron Pot 5/ Small do 2/ Iron Kittle 3/6\\nSmall iron Kittle 2/ Iron Skillet 2/\\nWarming Pan 7/ Six Pattie Pans 2/\\nTea Kittle 5/ flesh Fork /6 Bellows 1/\\nHand Irons fire, Shovel Tongs in ye Kitchen\\nEarthen Ware 10/ Coffee Pot 1/ Pepper Box /2\\nPair Pincers 1/ two Gimblets /6 Awls /8\\nKnives and Forks 3/, Dish Cover 2/6 Cullender 1/6\\nThree Silver table Spoons 9/ Seven tea Do 8/\\nA vSilver Cup 5/ i sett china Cups Saucers 6/\\n3 Cream coloured Bowls 3/ cream cup /3\\nA Shugar Bowl /4, three delf Plates 1/6 Mugg 1/\\nBlock tin tea pot 2/ Table Linnen 45/\\nI great Chair 3/ Six lath baskt Chairs 24/\\n9 black Chairs 15/ five leather bottomed Do 20/\\nof Eb-\\nS. D.\\nS 14.\\n6.\\n4-\\n10.\\n2.\\n2.\\n0.\\n7-\\n6 I.\\n6.\\n6\\n0.\\n4-\\n0.\\n2.\\n2\\n0.\\n5-\\n4\\n0.\\n6.\\n0.\\n10.\\n6\\n0.\\n4-\\n0.\\n9-\\n0.\\n6.\\n6\\n0.\\n12.\\n4\\n0.\\nII.\\n2\\n0.\\n2.\\n2\\n0.\\n7-\\n0.\\n17-\\n2.\\nII.\\n0.\\n3-\\n3\\n0.\\n2.\\n10\\n2.\\n7-\\nI.\\n7-\\nI.\\n15-", "height": "2869", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0304.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "APPENDIX.\\n299\\n6 low back Do 18/ Six Kitchen Do 9/\\n2 Pails 2/ a Mortar Pestle 2/\\nBest Bed, Bedding, bedstead Cord\\nBest Bedding Bedstead in the front Chamber\\nBest Bedding, Bedstead Cord in back Do\\nBest Bedding, Bedstead Cord in the Bedroom\\nTrundle Bed Bolster 18/\\n55 Maps and Pictures together with Atlas (so called)\\n(This Atlas so-called is now in the possession of Mr.\\nHenry D. Staples, of Westborough.)\\nStudy Chamber i Desk large 18/ Do small 8/ Book-\\ncase 15/\\n1 Press /6 Sett Shelves 6/ Cabinet 12/ one Table 2/\\nPair Bellows 3/6 Prospect Glass 6/ Slate 2/\\n2 Pair Hand Irons 4/ Tobacco Tongs 3/6\\nShovell Tongs 2/6 Gun Accoutrements 16/\\nWest Great Chair Cushing 6/ Table large 14/\\nRoom Tea Table 6/ looking Glass 28/\\nBedroom. Wooden Chair round stand 2/\\nSquare table 4/\\nRound Table 2/ Steelyards 12/ Shovell Tougs 4/\\nCarried over.\\nBrot over\\nSmall looking glass 2/ old Chest with Drawers 8/\\nPart of a Suit of Curtains 8/\\nFive pair old Sheets 18/ Seven good Sheets 70/\\n5 Pair Pillow Cases 8/ Knapkins 13/\\nBack Sole leather Calf Skin 16/\\nChamber. Saddler s Tools 2/ Raisors 1/ Bdls 2/8\\nOne large Wheel 2/8 two foot Wheels 6/\\nA Meal Sieve /6 Bread Trough /8\\nCider Barrels, Meat Tubs old Casks\\nII.\\n7-\\n0.\\n6.\\n0.\\n18.\\n148.\\n10.\\n9\\nS.\\nD.\\n148.\\n10.\\n9\\n0.\\nID.\\n0.\\n8.\\n4-\\n8.\\nI.\\nI.\\n0.\\n16.\\n0.\\n5-\\n8\\n0.\\n8.\\n8\\nI- 5-", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0305.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "300 APPENDIX.\\nvS. D.\\n2 Doz. Glass Bottles 12/ nine Square Do 9/ i. i. o\\nI Square Table 12/ A Flute 2/ a Jack 4/ o. 18. o\\nA Meal Chest Churn o. 6. o\\nTramels Hooks in ye Kitchen o. 4. o\\nThree Axes 7/ Beetle Wedges 4/ o. 11. o\\nSeven old Scythes, Snath Tackling o. 8. o\\nPick Ax and Hatchet 1/6 Garden Hoe 1/6 o. 2. 6\\nCart Wheel 80/ Wheel Barrow /6 4. 2. 6\\nIron Bar 8/ Plough Irons 6/ o. 14. o\\nOld Iron 5/ Scythe Snath /8 o. 5. 8\\nCurtain Rods 6/ Hand Irons (Dogs) 2/ o. 8. o\\nA Draught Chain 5/ o. 5. o\\nRye Meal Indian Corn i. 12. o\\nA Horse /j. 10 Sadie Stirrups 18/ 8. 8. o\\nI four year old Stear 80/ i pair 3 year old Do 90/ 8. 10. o\\nI Cow 100/ Young Do 9/ i Heifer 45/ 11. 15. o\\nOne Silver Watch 3. o. o\\n200. 4. II\\nThe Mansion House, Barn, Corn Barn and other\\nsmall Buildings together with fifteen acres of land 300. o. o\\nnigh ye Same J\\nEight Acres of Interval (so-called) 80.\\nThe Island (so-called) 4 acres adjoining 50.\\nThe Newton Meadow (so called) 6.\\nPine Lot (so called) 34-\\nAbout 5 acres of Swamp 8.\\nAbout 7 acres Cedar Swamp 7.\\nI685. 4- II\\nWestborough, June 20, 1783\\nJames Crosby\\nJoseph Baker Apprizers.\\nStephen Maynard J", "height": "2869", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0306.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.\\nParkman Coat-of-arms.\\nFlaggon and Baptism Bason,\\nDea. Tainter s House,\\nOld Cook House,\\nSam i, Forbush House,\\nHannah Breck s Wedding Slippers,\\nWigwam Tree,\\nHouse of Rev. Isaac Burr,\\nPaul Dudley,\\nHugh Henderson, broadside,\\nThe Parsonage,\\nThe Arcade\\nHarvard College,\\nBreck Parkman,\\nBreck Parkman s Shop,\\nStephen Maynard House,\\nStephen Maynard Chimney,\\nGale Tavern,\\nLieut. Forbush House,\\nForbes Homestead,\\nJoseph Sumner,\\nPeter Whitney,\\nSumner Houses,\\nSam l Parkman,\\nPage\\nFrontispiece\\nVII\\n12\\ni6\\n17\\n22\\n24\\n31\\n33\\n46\\n50\\n53\\n56\\n60\\n61\\n63\\n65\\n69\\n73\\n87\\n88\\n90\\n95\\n100", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0307.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "302\\nLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.\\nFirst Davis House,\\nMadam Hannah Parkman,\\nThos. Whitney House,\\nEli Whitney House,\\nJudge Edmund Quincy,\\nGershom Brigham House,\\nHaskell House,\\nElias Table,\\nA Parkman Sermon,\\nPeter Whitney s House,\\nElijah Brigham,\\nParkman Graves,\\n142\\n153\\n154\\n174\\n193\\n202\\n209\\n217\\n238\\n272\\n296", "height": "2869", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0308.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\nAbercrombie, Robert, 56.\\nAbington, 161.\\nAcock, Wm., 79.\\nAdams, Daniel, 135, 163, 164, 165, 166, 176, 177, 178, 184, 225, 230,\\n235- 239. 252, 255, 263, 274, 283.\\nAdams, Daniel, Jr., 269, 275, 278.\\nAdams, Eliphalet, 92.\\nAdams, Elizabeth, 277, 278.\\nAdams, Hannah, 248.\\nAdams, Persis, 167, 173, 187, 230, 234, 239, 263, 273, 283.\\nAdams, Peter, 92.\\nAdams, Polly, 278.\\nAdams, Sam. H., 278.\\nAdams, Thos., 137, 140, 147, 233, 248, 277, 291.\\nAlexander, Caleb, 113, 114, 181.\\nAllen, Eben r, 149.\\nAmsden, Abrm., 28.\\nAmsden, Joseph, 28.\\nAndover, 115.\\nAndrews, Benj., 84.\\nAndrews, Betty, 178.\\nAndrews, David, 264.\\nAndrews, G., 203.\\nAndrews, Hannah, 254.\\nAndrews, Thos., 72, 144, 145.\\nArcade, 43, 51, 53, 103.\\nAshburnham, 39, 125, 134, 157, 158, 163, 173, 174, 183, 184, 185, 189,\\n212, 231, 233, 239,- 240, 263, 269, 281.\\nAssabet, 229.\\nAtwell, Mrs. Pearn, 178.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0309.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "304 INDEX.\\nAuburn, 232.\\nAvery, Polly, 173.\\nBadcock, Jouas, 228.\\nBadcock, Lemuel, 52, 72, 84, 86, 87, 94, 97.\\nBaily, Benj., 117, 118.\\nBaily, Silas, ri8, 284.\\nBaily, Tim., 284.\\nBaker, Lieut. Edw., 43, 65..\\nBaker, John, 65, 115, 211.\\nBaker, Joseph, 43, 65, 77, 97, 107, 109, 124, 131, 155, 158, 172, 173, 181,\\n198, 203, 210, 218, 219, 228, 236, 241, 242, 257, 258, 271, 272, 276,\\n277, 288.\\nBaker, Persis, 43, 83, 209, 211.\\nBaker, Hon. Sam l, 107.\\nBaldwin, Betty, 282, 285.\\nBaldwin, Isaac, 76, 123, 128, 148, 150, 157, 158, 173, 174, 221, 254, 261,\\n282, 285.\\nBaldwin, Col. Jeduthan, 82, 105, 109, 116, 128, 173, 221, 224, 229, 237,\\n273-\\nBaldwin, Lucy Parkman, 99, 116, 150, 158, 250, 275, 276.\\nBaldwin, Luke, 173, 174, 261.\\nBall, Mary, 130.\\nBall, Nathan, 42.\\nBall, Dr. Stephen, 130.\\nBancroft, Benj., 126, 127, 128.\\nBarker, Betsey, 288, 289, 290.\\nBarnardston, 289.\\nBarns, Francis, 179, 279.\\nBarrett, John, 220, 240.\\nBarrett, Nancy, 182.\\nBarrett, Sam l, 133, 152, 182.\\nBarrett, Thos., 219.\\nBartlett, Frank V., 20.\\nBatheric, Solomon, 188, 189, 190, 200, 294.\\nBatherick, John n, 113, 131.\\nBatherick, Stephen, 234.", "height": "2869", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0310.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "INDEX. 305\\nBattery Street, 243.\\nBaverick, David, 13, 27.\\nBeals, Eliza, 131.\\nBeals, Elizabeth, 261.\\nBeeman Family, 14.\\nBeeman, Ebea r, 42.\\nBeeman, Major Ezra, 126.\\nBeeton, John, 206, 292.\\nBeaton, Nanny, 58, 59.\\nBeeton, Mrs. John, 260.\\nBelcher, Alethina, 57.\\nBelknap, John, 131, 132, 133, 144, 163.\\nBelknap, Stephen, 215.\\nBellows, James, 170.\\nBellows, Ithamar, 128, 133.\\nBellows, Simeon, 244.\\nBellows, Thos., 126.\\nBennington, Vt., 15.\\nBerwick, 157.\\nBigelow, Dan l, 232.\\nBiglo, Thos., 98.\\nBiglow, Asahel, 175, 181.\\nBiglow, Corn., 252, 253, 255, 257, 290.\\nBiglow, Katy, 164, 165.\\nBiglow, Paul, 254.\\nBiglow, Rev. (of Sudbury), 129, 175, 192, 225.\\nBimeleck, Sue, 205.\\nBlaudford, 180.\\nBolton, 70, 114, 117, 127, 129, 135, 136, 151, 207, 228, 259, 279, 283,\\n287.\\nBond, Abraham, 161, 257, 259, 260, 268.\\nBond, Mrs. Daniel, 199.\\nBond, Hannah, 36.\\nBond, John, 132, 161.\\nBond, Dea., 151, 176, 245.\\nBond, Jonas, 67, 137, 143, 162, 288, 290.\\n20", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0311.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "3o6 INDKX.\\nBond, Joseph, 115, 1S3, 220, 275.\\nBoston, 17,25,29,83,84,103, 106, 117, 120, 123, 126, 128, 134, 137,\\n149, 161, 167, 176, 180, 183, 187, 189, 190, 206, 212, 216, 218, 221,\\n229, 235, 237, 240, 248, 249, 250, 251, 261, 276, 284, 289, 293.\\nBoston Hill, 180.\\nBowdoiu, James, 265.\\nBowker, Josiah, 248.\\nBowman, Rev. 211, 212.\\nBowman, James, 13.\\nBradford, 224.\\nBradford, Elizabeth, 21S.\\nBradish, Jonas, 52, 55, 131, 132.\\nBradish, Mary, 204.\\nBradshaw, Benj., 68, 80, 86, 92, 99.\\nBradshaw, Nathan., 86.\\nBradshaw, Parkman, 68, 69, 115, 180, 186.\\nBradshaw, Wm., 94.\\nBraintree, New, 70, 131.\\nBreck, Hannah, 17, 21, 25, 29.\\nBreck, Rev. Robert, 21.\\nBreck, Robert, Jr., 2,57, 281, 287.\\nBridge, Eben r, 67.\\nBridge, Rev. Josiah, 66, 68, 129, 157, 175, 192, 225, 279.\\nBridgewater, 221.\\nBrigham, Anna, 66, 216, 261, 272.\\nBrigham, Anne, 62.\\nBrigham, Antipas, 194, 203.\\nBrigham, Asa, 190.\\nBrigham, Benaj., 8o.-\\nBrigham, Benj., 241.\\nBrigham, David, 14, 25, 37, 38, 42, 274.\\nBrigham, Edmund, 169, 194, 203, 226, 293.\\nBrigham, Edward, 169, 188.\\nBrigham, I^li, 138.\\nBrigham, Elijah, 61, 65, 66, 68, 70, 92, 97, 106, 108, 113, 115, 117, 122.\\n127, 128, 136, 176, 178, 183, 184, 189, 192, 221, 224, 237, 239, 244,\\n247, 249, 251, 252, 255, 258, 259, 264, 266, 268, 271, 272, 277, 288.", "height": "2869", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0312.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "INDEX. 307\\nBrighani, Elizabeth, 78.\\nBrigham, Gershom, 192, 200, 241.\\nBrighani, Mrs. Gershom, 258, 263, 264, 266.\\nBrigham, Hepsibath, 194.\\nBrigham, Capt. Jonas, 83, 122, 131, 188, 194, 209, 277.\\nBrigham, Joseph, 241.\\nBrigham, Josiah, 77, 105, 184, 189, 208, 211, 212, 220, 224, 235, 248,\\n249, 261, 262, 264, 272, 275.\\nBrigham, Col. Levi, 59, 65, 66, 122, 179, 189, 216, 221, 263, 277, 279,\\n282, 288, 292.\\nBrigham, Levi, Jr., 264.\\nBrigham, Mary, 243.\\nBrigham, Mindwell, 66, 77, 216, 241, 272.\\nBrigham, Moses, 87, 97, 106, no, 115, 181, 268.\\nBrigham, Nathan, 28, 51.\\nBrigham, Phineas, 98.\\nBrigham, Dr. Samuel, 62, 130, 168, 215.\\nBrigham, Samuel, 189, 248, 250, 251, 252.\\nBrigham, Silas, 26, 292.\\nBrighani, Timothy, 42.\\nBrigham, Uriah, 225.\\nBrigham, Wm., 188, 243.\\nBrigham, Mrs. Wm., 133, 243.\\nBrigham, Winslow, 66, 158, 200, 272.\\nBrimfield, 266.\\nBroaders, Hiram L., 112, 166.\\nBroaders, Jacob, 133, 166.\\nBrookfield, 68, 69, 80, 82,86, 94, 99, 105, 107, 109, 115, 116, 123, 124,\\n126, 148, 150, 155, 157, 173, 174, i8r, 199, 207, 250, 265, 270. 274.\\nBrookfield, North, 83.\\nBrookline, 10, 35, 122.\\nBrown, Mrs. Elizabeth, 122, 124.\\nBrown, Rev. Joseph, 132.\\nBrown, Joseph, 105, 136, 163.\\nBrown, Polly, 155.\\nBryant, Lieut. Daniel, 120.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0313.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "3o8 INDEX.\\nBryant, Elias, 113, 180.\\nBryant, John, 113.\\nBryant, Timothy, 134, 164. 178, 180.\\nBruce, Artemas, 167.\\nBuckminster, Col. Wm., 213.\\nBuckminster, Rev. Joseph, 75, 213.\\nBuckley, Capt. Joseph, 9.\\nBumpso, Sam l, 13.\\nBuruett, Henrietta, 253, 255.\\nBurnett, Lois, 252, 253, 255.\\nBurr, Aaron, 58.\\nBurr, Rev. Isaac, 31, 37, 39, 40, 44, 45.\\nBurr, Thaddeus, 58.\\nBurroughs, Mrs. Richard, 39, 41.\\nBurying Ground, 43, 51, 78, 100, no, 128, 153, 154, 199, 297.\\nBurying Ground in N boro 133.\\nBush, Mrs. Jotham, 293.\\nByfield, 76, 109, 128, 262.\\nByles, Capt., 25, 37, 38, 39.\\nCambridge, 9, 16, 35, 43, 68, 70, 72, 80, 82, 93, 124, 126, 148, 149, 158,\\n168, 171, 175, 180, 183, 208, 210, 218, 230, 241, 246, 262.\\nCamlet, 80.\\nCampbell, Wm., 187.\\nCanterbury, 175.\\nCape Ann, 98.\\nCastle, the, 35, 36.\\nChamberlain, Daniel, 126, 129.\\nChamberlain, Eben r, 260.\\nChamberlain, Eben r, Jr., 113, 128.\\nChamberlain, Nat., 127.\\nChampney, Mary, 9.\\nChampney, Lydia, 9, 18, 29, 67, 71, 109, 134, 137, 162, 172, 219,\\n249, 250.\\nChampney, Ruth, 14.\\nChampney, Sam l, 9, 16, 17, 18, 35, 219.\\nChandler, Wm., 191.", "height": "2869", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0314.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "INDEX. 309\\nChandler, Coll., 21.\\nCharltou, 109.\\nCharlestown, 124, 172.\\nChauncey Poud, 38, 40.\\nChauxit, 59, 213, 225.\\nCherry Valley, 77.\\nChild, Jonathan, 67, 287, 288.\\nChubb, Eben r, 43.\\nClark, David, 125.\\nClark, Capt. Isaac, 19.\\nClung, John, 30, 37.\\nCommon, the, 48.\\nConcord, 9, 39, 45, 62, 122, 134, 139, 172, 175, 211, 218, 241, 249, 271,\\n273, 292.\\nContention Road, 126.\\nCooledge, Pamela, 158, 233.\\nCook, Cornelius, 16, 55, 72, 120, 159.\\nCook, Molly, 16,\\nCook, Robert, 120.\\nCook, Stephen, 120.\\nCook, Tom, 16, 35, 72, 120, 159.\\nCorey, Dr. F. E., 160.\\nCoi s Hill, 92, 181, 225, 281.\\nCrawford, John, 170.\\nCrookes, J.. 83.\\nCrosby, Aaron, 180.\\nCrosby, Ebeuezer, 223.\\nCrosby, Master John, 233, 270.\\nCrosby, Sally, 118.\\nCrosby, Sam l, 180, 220, 259, 269, 270, 274, 278, 279, 281.\\nCurtis, Dr. Wm., 51.\\nCashing, Alice, 272.\\nCushing, Doddridge, 183.\\nCushing, Madam, 152, 192.\\nCushing, Col. Job, 40, 82, 96, 126, 135, 162.\\nCushing, Rev. Job, 37, 39, 40, 45.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0315.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "3IO INDEX.\\nGushing, John, 85, 120, 128, 135.\\nGushing, Rev. John, 40, 120, 173, 183, 239, 240, 271, 273, 281.\\nGushing, Sarah Parkman, 81, 82, 148, 271, 183, 269, 271, 273.\\nGutter, Gharles, 176.\\nDana s Tavern, 35.\\nDalrymple, Sam., 108.\\nDanforth, Thos., 9.\\nDark Day, 235.\\nDartmouth Gollege, 66, 127, 168, 222.\\nDavid, Abimelech, 205.\\nDavis, Abigail, 187.\\nDavis, Isaac, 62, iii, 152, 166, 179, 247.\\nDavis, Gov. John, 62, iii.\\nDavis, Joseph, in.\\nDavis, Phineas, in.\\nDeadman, Wm., 120.\\nDeath, Martha, 65.\\nDeath, Oliver, 277.\\nDenny, Parkman T., 208.\\nDerby, Elias Hasket, 103.\\nDix, James, 172, 230.\\nDolliber, Deac, 183.\\nDorr, Joseph, 232, 233.\\nDudley, Paul, 32, 46.\\nDummer School, 76, 123, 285.\\nEager, Gapt. James, 30, 39, 42, 43.\\nElectrical Machine, 105, 136.\\nEvans, Israel, 291.\\nExecutions, 48, 182.\\nFairbank, Drury, 150, 156.\\nFairbank, Eleazar, 148.\\nFairbank, Eph., 118.\\nFairbanks, Isaiah, 136.\\nFairfield, 58.\\nP aneuil Hall, 103.\\nP aneuil, Peter, 10^.", "height": "2869", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0316.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "INDEX. 311\\nFarrar, Joseph, 67.\\nP ay, Anna, 207, 213, 216.\\nFay, Benj., 137, 153, 185, 216, 232, 282.\\nFay, David, 163, 208.\\nFay, Elizabeth, 154.\\nFay, Ensign, 121.\\nF ay, Gershoni, 42.\\nFay, Jeduthun, 168.\\nFay, James, 13, 38.\\nFay, John, 81, 259, 260, 263.\\nFay, Jonathan, 124, 138, 251.\\nFay, Mehitable, 260.\\nFay, Rebecca, 121.\\nFay, Sam l, 154, 168, 192, 258.\\nFay, Stephen, 11, 14, 15, 22, 177, 178.\\nFesseuden, John, iii, 134, 166, 234.\\nFessenden, Katharine, 166.\\nFisher, Capt. Nathan, 89, 125, 151, 156, 174, 182, 205, 237, 240, 245,\\n252, 254, 255, 256, 283.\\nFishkill, 78, 133, 145, 270, 294.\\nFisk, Master EHsha, 76, 81, 82, 85, 95, 97, 105, 108, 287.\\nFisk, Nathan, 80, 277.\\nFisk, Patty, 76, 119, 253.\\nFiske, Shepherd, 165, 167.\\nFitch, Rev. Elijah, 139, 146, 151, 155. 190, 280, 281.\\nFitch, Elijah, Jr., 155.\\nFitchburg, 162.\\nFitzpatrick, Dennis, 69.\\nFitz-William, 293.\\nFlagg, Gershom, 217, 220.\\nFlag, Nathan, 162.\\nFlanders Road, 126.\\nFletcher, John, 178.\\nForbes, Daniel, 72, 82, 90, 107, 135, 138, 162, 168, 172, 177, 181, 197,\\n199.\\nForbes, Mrs. Dan., 273, 275.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0317.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "312 INDEX.\\nForbes, Dauiel, Jr., 86, 199, 207.\\nForbes, Ebenezer, 172.\\nForbes, Rli, 82, 97, 98, 107, 124, 126, 131, 137, 139, 151, 199, 219, 243,\\n248, 262, 270, 273.\\nForbes, Klisha, 75, 77, 79, 81, 131, 134, 137, 148, 154, 155, 198, 207,\\n218,275.\\nForbes, John, 86, 116, 128, 130, 168, 200.\\nForbes, Jonathan, 38, 72, 87, no, 116, 176, 177, 207, 230, 242, 282.\\nForbes, Mary Parkman, 39.\\nForbes, Patience, 32.\\nForbes, Thankful, 240.\\nForbush, Abigail, 199.\\nForbush, Anna, 178.\\nForbush, Dan, 12.\\nForbush, Eben r, 72, 184, 262, 277.\\nForbush, Hannah, 72.\\nForbush, Isaac, 156.\\nForbush, Patty, 72, 79, 80, 254.\\nForbush, Rebecca, 38.\\nForbush, Sani l, 16, 36, 40, 131, 135, 190.\\nForbush, Thos., 127, 144, 169, 203.\\nFoster, Edmund, 134.\\nFoster, Isaac, 131.\\nFoster, Jacob, 157, 171, 175.\\nFramingham, 19, 61, 106, 161, 191, 224, 235, 268, 287.\\nFrisbie, Levi, 69, 76.\\nFrost, Amariah, 57.\\nFrost, John, 275, 277.\\nFrost, Thos., 274, 275.\\nGale, Abijah, 69, 115, 170, 171, 181, 186, ,203, 242, 248, 262, 282, 287, 291.\\nGale, Abraham, 169.\\nGarfield, Jacob, 277.\\nGarfield, Lydia, 146.\\nGibson, James, 286.\\nGiles, Abigail, 258.\\nGiles, Sam l, 258.", "height": "2869", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0318.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "INDEX. 313\\nGloucester, 107.\\nGoddard, Benj., 38.\\nGoddard, Daniel, 266.\\nGoddard, Edw., 38.\\nGoddard, Nathan, 192.\\nGodfry, Ruth, 52, 135.\\nGookin, Daniel, 40.\\nGoodell, David, 78, 79, 99, 105, 136, 206.\\nGoss, Rev., 68, 129, 137, 151, 207.\\nGoss, Thos., 129.\\nGott, Anna, 62.\\nGott, Benj., 21, 29, 42, 62.\\nGott, Sarah, 225.\\nGrafton, 13, 26, 41, 6r, 92, 93, 105, 114, 138, 145, 151, 162, 222, 242,\\n269, 273.\\nGreenwood, Enoch, 211.\\nGrosvenor, Dan., 13, 86, 93, 105, 121, 123, 136, 138, 162, 222, 242, 266,\\n269, 273, 291.\\nGrosvenor, Eben r, 293.\\nGrosvenor, Lemuel, 240.\\nGrosvenor, Nathan, 93.\\nGrout, Benj., 78, 181.\\nGrout, Daniel, 92.\\nGrout, Jonathan, 78, 160, 165, 173, 176, 186, 230, 265.\\nGrout, Joseph, 78, 80, 105, 145, 167, 173, 176, 178, 187.\\nGrout, Joseph, Jr., iii.\\nGrout, Mehitable, 87.\\nGrout, Moses, 78.\\nGrout, Wm., 78.\\nGreen, Jane, 182.\\nGreen, Joseph, 80, 92.\\nGreenleaf, Sheriff, 112, 162.\\nGuildford, New, 92.\\nHall, Rev. David, 48, 85, 121, 155, 196, 223, 224, 235.\\nHall, John u, 147.\\nHamilton, John, 30.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0319.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "314 INDEX.\\nHancock, John, 58, 91, 265.\\nHardy, Constantine, 26, 83.\\nHardy, Daniel, 12, 71, 250.\\nHardy, Elijah, 105, 114, 136, 185.\\nHardy, Hannah, 241, 256.\\nHardy, Joseph, 154, 233, 236.\\nHardy, Lucy, 241.\\nHardy, Noah, 127, 275.\\nHardy, Phineas, 135, 275.\\nHarding, Elias, 240.\\nHardwick, 115, 208, 289.\\nHarvard College, 56, 58, 82, 265.\\nHarrington, Caleb, 70, 79, 115, 159, 185, 226, 294\\nHarrington, Eli, 200.\\nHarrington, John, 123, 205, 278.\\nHarrington, Joseph, 69, 79, 135, 138, 150, 156, 176, 188, 230, 236, 276.\\nHarrington, Joshua, 43.\\nHarrington, Molly, 75.\\nHarrington, Sam l, 211.\\nHarrington, Thos., 78.\\nHartshorn, Eben r, 164.\\nHarwood, Peter, 155.\\nHasham, Mary, 162.\\nHastings, Stewart, 247.\\nHawes, James, 55, 82,84, 94. ii4. nj, i37. M3- 156, 164, 172, 180,\\n187, 190, 192, 215, 221, 223, 226, 231, 239, 240, 241, 246, 256, 261,\\n266, 276, 290.\\nHawes, Mrs. James, 155, 258.\\nHayward, Daniel, 45.\\nHazelton, Judith, 154.\\nHazeltine, Master, 166, 168, 169, 174, 179, 189, 190, 195, 200, 209, 211,\\n213, 236, 241, 257, 272, 279.\\nHenderson, Hugh, 20, 31, 37, 40, 41, 44, 46, 48.\\nHenstick, Rev., 136.\\nHicks, John, 9, 30, 43.\\nHicks, Ruth, 286.", "height": "2869", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0320.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "INDEX. 315\\nHicks, Zechary, 224, 249, 250.\\nHill, Caleb, 286.\\nHill, Silas, 280, 281.\\nHitchcock, David, 107, 109.\\nHobby, John n, 139.\\nHolbrook, Dan., 127.\\nHolland, Abr m, 117, 220, 245.\\nHolyoke, Elizur, 279, 288.\\nHopkins, James, 227, 228.\\nHopkinton, 98, 133, 146, 147, 152, 164, 204, 206, 220, 240. 244, 249, 265,\\n277, 280.\\nHoughton, Ezra, 55.\\nHovey, Patience, 163.\\nHow, Ben, 28, 67, 128.\\nHow, Daniel, iii, 117, 128, 130, 133.\\nHow, Eleazar, 21.\\nHow, Oliver, 109.\\nHow, Simon, 157, 189, 227.\\nHowe, Azubah, 180.\\nHoward, Polly, 119, 148.\\nHowell, Benj., 80.\\nHubbard, Capt., 155.\\nHubbardston, 192.\\nHutchinson, Aaron, 13.\\nHutchinson, Aaron, Jr., 113, 114.\\nHystop, Mehitable, 122.\\nIndian Harvest, 25.\\nIndians, 20, 25, 144.\\nIpswich, 76, 167.\\nJackstraw, 75, 199.\\nJarvis, John, 16.\\nJenison, Wm., 258.\\nJohnson, Edw., 129.\\nJohnson, Elliot, 279.\\nJohnson, John, 242.\\nJohnson, Joshua, 70.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0321.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "3l6 INDEX.\\nJohnson, Stephen, 279.\\nJohnson, Susannah, 57.\\nJohnson, Wm., 144.\\nJohnson, Mrs. Wm., 245.\\nJones, Landlord, 181.\\nJones, Nancy, 164.\\nJones, Sam l, 117.\\nKelley, John, 120.\\nKelly, Mrs., 59, iii, 128, 206, 228.\\nKellogg, David, 287.\\nKendal, Thos., 60, 250.\\nKenney, Joel, 256, 277,\\nKenney, Nathan, 155, 226, 228, 278.\\nKeyes, Justice, 14.\\nKing, Jerusha, 155.\\nKittery, 250.\\nKnight, Wm., 241.\\nKnowlton, Mrs. Joseph, 258.\\nLambert, Julia, 91.\\nLamson, Paul, 251.\\nLamson, Thos., 263, 278, 282.\\nLamson, Mrs., 149, 163, 212, 213.\\nLancaster, 161, 224.\\nLangdon, Pres., 113.\\nLawson, Sam., 150.\\nLee, Joseph, 125.\\nLeominster, 163.\\nLewis, Mary, 79.\\nLittleton, 113.\\nLivermore, Elisha, 290.\\nLock, Frederic, 241.\\nLoring, Father, 1:7, 122, 124.\\nLoring, Jonathan, 105.\\nLynde, Benj., 46.\\nMaccarty, Rev. Thaddeus, 176, 1S2, 239.\\nMcTaggart, James, 78.", "height": "2869", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0322.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "INDEX. 317\\nMallet, Mrs., 122, 125, 127.\\nMansfield, 124, 227.\\nMarble, Henry, 68, 70.\\nMarblehead, 79, 129, 183.\\nMarlborough, 9, 16, 18, 21, 25, 28, 42, 100, 109, iii, 113, 129, 134, 136,\\n157. 163, 175, 182, 206. 225, 263, 279, 293.\\nMartha s Vineyard, 30, 149.\\nMa}^ Wm., 124, 125, 139.\\nMaynard, Amasa, 83, 212, 263.\\nMaynard, David, 151, 249.\\nMaynard, Eben r, 57, 59, 70, no, 187, 206, 215, 248, 278.\\nMaynard, Eben r, Jr., 104.\\nMaynard, Harvey, 189.\\nMaynard, Hezekiah, 158, 182, 227, 288.\\nMaynard, James, 83, 212, 263.\\nMaynard, James, Jr., 248.\\nMaynard, John, 51, 119, 192.\\nMaynard, Jon n, 93, 190, 224, 263.\\nMaynard, Lucy, 207, 218, 290.\\nMaynard, Nathan, 65, 67, 80, 83, 151, 192, 205, 219, 276.\\nMaynard, Nathan, Jr., 79, 92, 98, 188, 190, 216, 220.\\nMaynard, Neh h, 81, 82, 192.\\nMaynard, Rhoda, 183.\\nMaynard, vStephen, 62, 63, 79, 83, 84, iii, 119, 122, 123, 130, 137, 168,\\n171, 206, 214, 221, 228, 271, 283, 284.\\nMaynard, Mrs. Stephen, 71, 76, 78, 81, 85, 99, 106, in, 113, 117, 121,\\n127, 133. 135. 139. 149. 150, 164, 174, 181, 185, 190, 215, 225, 227,\\n231, 246, 252, 257, 259, 261, 271, 274, 279, 282, 286, 288, 290, 293.\\nMaynard, Stephen, Jr., 84, 97, 121, 130, 158, 226, 291.\\nMaynard, Thankful, 189.\\nMaynard, Winslow, 248.\\nMartyn, Nabby, 76, 241, 262, 287, 288.\\nMather, Rev. Sam l, 18.\\nMathias, Dan, 186.\\nMedfield, 112, 140, 147, 233.\\nMendon, 134.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0323.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "3lS INDEX.\\nMessenger, Esther, 57.\\nMilford, 57.\\nMiller, Aaron, 276.\\nMiller, Dan l, 293.\\nMiller, Eben r, 184.\\nMiller, Fortunatus, 72, 254.\\nMiller, Isaac, 107, 127.\\nMiller, Jatiies, 250.\\nMiller, Sarah, 130, 169.\\nMonanaow, David, 25, 205.\\nMontague, 125.\\nMoore, Rev. John u, 94, 109, iii, 140, 169, 220, 232, 233, 259, 287.\\nMorey, George, 292.\\nMorse, Sally, 286.\\nMorse, Seth, 100, 109, 188, 212, 256, 275, 283, 284.\\nMottey, Joseph, 227.\\nNatalitia, 165, 269, 294.\\nNawgawwoomcom, 25.\\nNeed ham, 149.\\nNeedhani, Thos., 133.\\nNewel, Rev. 117, 157, 246, 279.\\nNew Connecticut Road, 30.\\nNew Fane, 212.\\nNew Haven, 30, 147, 148.\\nNew Marlboro 161.\\nNewton, 149.\\nNewton, Abner, 20, 45, 120.\\nNewton, Barnabas, 92, 95, 125, 137, 172, 185, 205, 218.\\nNewton, Charles, 76, 93.\\nNewton, John, 274, 289.\\nNewton, Josiah, 25.\\nNewton, Paul, 162.\\nNewton, Stephen, 274.\\nNorthborough, 30, 61, 89, iii, 117, 130, 133, 137, 139, 162, 190, 227,\\n239, 243, 246, 263, 264, 273.\\nNorthampton, 21.", "height": "2869", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0324.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "INDEX. 319\\nNottingham, Mary, 285, 287, 289.\\nNourse, B. A., 121, 153.\\nNurse, Beuj., 121.\\nNurse, Eben, 13, 119.\\nNurse, Daniel, 121, 130, 136, 139, 152, 167.\\nNurse, Lydia, 121, 136, 168.\\nNurse, Mary, 121.\\nNurse, Moses, 145, 216, 228.\\nNurse, Priscilla, 121.\\nNurse, Rebecca, 121, 136, 168, 183, 184, 186, 188.\\nNurse, Wni., 121.\\nOld Mill Road, 242.\\nOld, Town Folks, 170.\\nOliver, Alexander, 82.\\nOtter Creek, 77, 86, 105, 116, 168, 200.\\nOxford, 48, 109, 181, 187.\\nPackard, Winslow, 56.\\nPaine, Timothy, 232.\\nParker, Anna, 183.\\nParker, Amos, 121, 125, 128, 152, 169, 216.\\nParker, Elisha, 89, 92, 93, 113, 185, 190, 216.\\nParker, Ephrm., 106, 107, 109, 117, 128, 135, 146, 149, 155, 182, 184,\\n185, 203 207, 220, 240.\\nParker, Gardner, 286.\\nParker, Hannaniah, 59, 80, 107, 197, 237, 252, 268.\\nParker, Isaac, 59, 106, 151, 177, 182, 183, 188, 189, 216, 240, 247, 254,\\n275, 286.\\nParker, Joel, 286.\\nParker, Margery, 182.\\nParker, Timothy, 113, 200.\\nParkhurst, Wm., 92.\\nParkman, Abigail, 100.\\nParkman, Alexander, iio, 163, 213, 264, 266, 268, 280.\\nParkman, Anna Sophia, 60, 66, 75, 77, 109, 119, 128, 131, 136, 137,\\n174, 184, 219, 221, 244, 248, 252, 264, 272.\\nParkman, Breck, is mentioned too often to index.\\nParkman, Ebenr., Jr., 29, 66, 99, 105, 107, 221, 244, 292, 294.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0325.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "320 INDEX,\\nParkman, Elias (Brother), 17, 35.\\nParkman, Elias (Son), is mentioned too often to index.\\nParkman, Elizabeth 10.\\nParkman, Eliza S., 103.\\nParkman, Francis, 103.\\nParkman, Hannah, 100, 247, 292.\\nParkman, John, 161, 188, 271.\\nParkman, Kezia, 161.\\nParkman, Lydia, 161, 175, 228, 229.\\nParkman, Neddy, 158.\\nParkman, Sally, 86, 100, 123, 124, 128, 149, 172, 242, 271, 273.\\nParkman, Sam l, 100, 117, 123, 126, 187, 219, 234, 243, 248, 271, 273.\\nParkman, Sophy, 164.\\nParkman, Sukey, 271.\\nParkman, Suse (Concord), 175.\\nParkman, Thos., 221, 224.\\nParkman, Wm. (Boston), 10, 39, 235, 237, 243.\\nParkman, Wm. (Son), 109, 154, 159, 164, 218, 228, 229, 271, 273, 279.\\nParnienter, Bethiah, 190.\\nParsons, Sol., 124.\\nPerry, Aaron, 177.\\nPetersham, 91, 163, 168.\\nPhilip s Manor, 292.\\nPierce, Francis, 39.\\nPierce, Jon n, 251.\\nPigeon, Henry, 155.\\nPigeon, John, 147, 148.\\nPollard Place, 43.\\nPomfret, 89, 105, 191.\\nPorter, Huntingdon, 249.\\nPowder Hill, 30.\\nPotter, Moses, 167.\\nPotter, Mrs. J. D., 100.\\nPratt, Eleazar, 26.\\nPratt Eliz., 151.\\nPratt, Isaac, 208.", "height": "2869", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0326.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "INDEX. 321\\nPratt, John, 36.\\nPratt, Molly, 92.\\nPratt, Susanna, 93.\\nPrentice, Heijry, 166.\\nPrentice, Sol., 13, 14, 19, 26, 30, 41.\\nPrescott, Dr. Jon n, 9.\\nProvidence, 105.\\nPuffer, Reuben, 192.\\nPurpoodock, 145.\\nQuincy, Dorothj 58.\\nQuincy, Edmund, 46, 57, 112, 140, 155, 173, 174, 187, 206, 214, 218,\\n229, 259, 261, 273, 277, 291.\\nQuincy, Eunice, 140.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Quincy, Henry, 57, 140, 241.\\nQuincy, I., 148.\\nQuincy, Jacob, 58.\\nRand, Wm., 165, 167.\\nReading, 9c.\\nRemington, John n, 46.\\nRevere, Paul, 103.\\nRice, Adonijah, 125.\\nRice, Dolly, 130, 149, 181, 269.\\nRice, Edmund, 83, 263.\\nRice, Elias, 13.\\nRice, Nahor, 100.\\nRice, Noah, 13.\\nRice, Moses, 43.\\nRice, Seth, 25, 42, 228.\\nRice, Solomon, 13.\\nRice, Thomas, 20, 37, 45.\\nRice, Zebulon, 13, 164, 168, 274.\\nRider, Eleazar, 226.\\nRider, Sam l, 242, 263.\\nRipley, Rev. David, 161.\\nRipley, Rev. Ezra, 71, 109, 134, 241.\\nRobertson, Beverly, 292.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0327.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "322 TNDEX.\\nRochester, 149.\\nRogers, John, 13, 28.\\nRogers, Sarah, 103.\\nRogers, Wm., Jr., 38.\\nRuggles, Isaac, 251.\\nRutland, 37, 75.\\nSalem, 133, 144, 258.\\nSaltonstall, Rich., 46.\\nSanders, Mrs. Lucy, 82.\\nSanger, Dave, 84.\\nSargent, Henry, 103.\\nSargent, John, 223.\\nSaunders, Charlotte, 137.\\nSaunders, Jo., 270, 273.\\nSavage, Ezek., 260.\\nSavvfyer, David, 106.\\nSchools, 82, 87, 166, 293.\\nSewall, Sam l, 32, 58.\\nSharpe, Robert, 10, 18, 35.\\nSharpe, Susanna, 10, 18.\\nShaw, Coll. R. G., 103.\\nShaw, Sam l, 103.\\nShaw, Sarah, 100.\\nShaw, Wm., 103.\\nShawmut, 25.\\nSherman, Nath., 75.\\nSherman, Sam l, 175.\\nShrewsbury, 30, 40, 88, 97, 117, 120, 125, 128, 135, 148, 152, 153, i6r,\\n169, 180, 192, 194, 239, 258, 272, 273, 274, 276, 278, 281.\\nSimon, Daniel, 222.\\nSingleterry, Squire, 268.\\nSlave labor, 62.\\nSmall pox, 98.\\nSmith, Rev. Aaron, 68, 129, 137, 157, 175, 225, 246, 279.\\nSmith, James, 107, 125.\\nSmith, Joseph, 123, 233, 253.", "height": "2869", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0328.jp2"}, "329": {"fulltext": "INDEX. 323\\nSmith, Sarah, 152.\\nSnow, Ensign, 127, 144, 241.\\nSnow, Mrs. Susan, 247.\\nSnow, Thos., 10.\\nSouthborough, 42, 69, 71, 96, 162, 163, 175, 183, 207, 241, 260, 291.\\nSparhawk, Ebenezer, 113, 248.\\nSprague, John, 232.\\nSpring, Billy, 77, 135, 211, 219, 231, 261, 266, 267.\\nSpy, Wore, 85, 144, 178, 184, 192, 215, 295.\\nSquam, 124.\\nStearns, Wm., 203, 232.\\nStevens, Chas. E., 31.\\nStevens, John, 124.\\nStillman, Major, 126.\\nStimsou, George, 127, 128.\\nStimson, Jeremy, 98, 109, 120, 159, 164, 220, 244.\\nStimson, Stephen, 267.\\nStockbridge, 120, 223.\\nStockwell, Daniel, 277.\\nStone, Benj., 97.\\nStone, N., 41.\\nStone, Thomas, 71, 222.\\nStone, Rev., 96, 112, 115, 129, 137, 157, 162, 163, 175, 189, 219, 225, 246,\\n261, 291.\\nStoneham, 134, 180.\\nStony Point, 148.\\nStorm, 81, 162, 195, 196.\\nStoughtonham, 86, 180.\\nStow, 117.\\nSturbridge, 164.\\nSudbury, 11, 19, 66, 129.\\nSumner, Increase, 10, 17.\\nSumner, Rev. Jos., 88, 93, 95, 96, 117, 136, 152, i6r, 168, 169, 192, 228,\\n258, 268, 276, 278.\\nSutton, 48, 58, 85, 120, 126, 130, 136, 143, 162, 172, 196, 220, 264, 268.\\nSwamp, Wild Cat, 26, 146.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0329.jp2"}, "330": {"fulltext": "324 INDEX.\\nTainter, Benj., 154, 162, 176, 244, 246, 274.\\nTainter, Simon, 11, 51, 56, no, 244.\\nTainter, Simon, Jr., 14, 43.\\nTaylor, Betsey, 222.\\nTaylor, Hezekiah, 212.\\nTempleton, 113.\\nTewksbury, 122, 123.\\nThankso^iving, 70, 71, 81, 180, 291.\\nThayer, John, 164.\\nThomas, Isaiah, 144.\\nThompson, Joseph, 189.\\nThurston, Sam l, 246, 251, 262.\\nThurston, Sarah, 248, 251.\\nThyery, Dr., 14, 15, 19, 22.\\nTilestone, Mary, 10.\\nTomlin, Isaac, 112.\\nTownsend, 122.\\nTownsend, Lieut., 160.\\nTrowbridge, Lieut., 9.\\nTucker, Eph m, 172.\\nTuckerman, Mrs. Edw., 22, 39.\\nTwitchell, John n, 177.\\nTwitchell, Joshua, 254.\\nTwitchell, Thos., 165.\\nUpton, 105, 151.\\nWait, Thad., 286.\\nWalcott, Sol., 124.\\nWall, Caleb, 31, 44.\\nWalley Brethren, 118.\\nWalpole, 194.\\nWaltham, 135.\\nWard, 232, 249.\\nWard, Artemas, 95, 175.\\nWard, Dfeborah, 27.\\nWard, Increase, 45.\\nWard, John n, 112.", "height": "2869", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0330.jp2"}, "331": {"fulltext": "INDEX. 325\\nWare, Beriah, 255, 258, 286.\\nWarren, Aarou, 125.\\nWarren, Benj., 143.\\nWarren, Eunice, 215.\\nWarren, James, 265.\\nWarren, John, 178, 256.\\nWarren, Jonas, 121, 146, 213, 214.\\nWarren, Levi, 71, 166, 176, 181, 235, 274, 280.\\nWarren, Moses, 151, 187.\\nWarren, Thad., 69, 106, 215, 221, 222, 229, 236, 248, 251, 254, 262, 274,\\n275, 289, 292, 294.\\nWarren, Thos., 97.\\nWarren, Tim., 13, 145, 277.\\nWarwick, 166.\\nWatertown, 9, 11, 106, 279.\\nWaters, Cornelius, 288, 290, 291.\\nWaters, Sam l, 268.\\nWebber, James, 145, 147.\\nWeeks, Coll., 157, 279.\\nWeston, 109, 134.\\nWetmore, Rebecca, 219.\\nWheeler, Joseph, 232.\\nWheelock, Eleazar, 189.\\nWheelock, Eph., 164.\\nWheelock, Moses, 172, 186, 217, 278, 286.\\nWhipple, Squire, 139, 163, 169.\\nWhiting, Rev. John, 9, 39.\\nWhitney, Aaron, 91, 163, 168.\\nWhitney, Eli, 92, ii3 I54- i73. 176, i77. 184, 230.\\nWhitney, Elijah, 154.\\nWhitney, Hannah, 123, 136, 140.\\nWhitney, Mrs. Israel, 9.\\nWhitney, Nath., 136.\\nWhitney, Peter, 68, 89, 114, 117, 119, 129, 137. 138, 151, 155, 157, 162,\\n192, 227, 229, 230, 232, 234, 238, 246, 258, 264, 269, 273, 279, 283.\\nWhitney, Thos., 59, 153, 214, 282.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0331.jp2"}, "332": {"fulltext": "326 INDEX.\\nWhitney, Tim., 59, 154.\\nWightman, Rob., 288, 289.\\nWigwam Tree, 25, 205\\nWilder, Luke, 115.\\nWillard, Aaron, 145, 163.\\nWillard, Benj., 145.\\nWillard, Simon, 145, 151.\\nWilliams, Lucy, 89.\\nWilliams, Sam l, 119, 224, 230.\\nWilliams Tavern, 25.\\nWilson, Benj., Jr., 189.\\nWilson, Rob., 59.\\nWiman, Sarah, 135.\\nWinchester, Billy, 189, 192, 211, 212, 220, 222, 224, 229, 230.\\nWinchester, Jon n, 212.\\nWinchester, Thos., 13.\\nWit, Sam l, 157.\\nWood, Abr m, 229, 234, 252.\\nWood, Benj., 67, 184, 227, 262, 276, 280, 284, 285, 291.\\nWood, Dea. James, 28, 89, iii, 114, 122, 157, 165, 166, 172, 176, 181,\\n187, 190, 200, 205, 206, 218, 221, 222, 228. 234, 244, 248, 253, 255,\\n257, 264, 278.\\nWood, Capt. John, 112, 122, 127, 170, 172, 182, 222, 231, 251, 276, 280,\\n283, 284, 291.\\nWood, John, 261, 265, 284.\\nWood, Joseph, 265.\\nWood, Polly, 258.\\nWood, Reuben, 184.\\nWood, Sam l, 229.\\nWood, Seth, 144.\\nWood, Thomas, 265.\\nWood, Wm., 204.\\nWoods Isaac, 292.\\nWoodstock, 21.\\nWoodward, Sam l, 109, 134.\\nW orkhouse, 145, 277.", "height": "2869", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0332.jp2"}, "333": {"fulltext": "INDEX. 327\\nWorcester, 31, 39, 40, 43, 45, 46, 80, 151, 178, 181, 182, 190, 232, 251.\\nWrentham, 55.\\nYale College, 113.\\nYoung, Robert, 182.", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0333.jp2"}, "334": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2869", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0334.jp2"}, "335": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0335.jp2"}, "336": {"fulltext": "NOV 18 1899", "height": "2869", "width": "2112", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0336.jp2"}, "337": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2846", "width": "2102", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0337.jp2"}, "338": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3082", "width": "2356", "jp2-path": "diaryofrevebenez00park_0338.jp2"}}