1740 September 26 (Friday). We rode to Dr. Roby’s[1] and din’d there. From thence to Marlborough to see Colonel Woods who was by this Time reduced to a very low State by the Hydrops Pectoris. In the middst of many Fears respecting his Sincerity, he maintained an humble Hope in God. I pray’d with him and took leave. Call’d at the Doctors and return’d Home (with my Sister Willard[2] with me). N.B. Mr. Baines came on the 23d near night, and the next Day his Young Man, one Merritt, and they both work’d daily at the Well. Sam Bumpso came on the 24 and pinch’d up my Thrashing Floor. Mr. Thomas Billings came for Lieutenant Holloway and Sow’d nigh Three pecks of Rye upon my New Ground on the South Side. And the Cattle were brought from the woods. Sam Bumpso and Ezekiel Pratt wrought wheat.
[1]Ebenezer Roby, the physician of Sudbury.
[2]Mrs. Josiah Willard of Salem, Parkman’s sister Susanna.