1742 April 3 (Saturday). Returned Home — calling in at Deacon Sparhawks,[1] who was Sick. At Mr. Williams of Weston where I dined; at Mr. Brintnalls[2] — and at Dr. Gotts. My Family in safety. D.G.
[1]Samuel Sparhawk was elected deacon of the Cambridge church, Apr. 12, 1734; died Apr. 4, 1774. Stephen Paschall Sharples, ed., Records of the Church of Christ at Cambridge in New England, 1632-1830, Comprising the Ministerial Records of Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths, Admission to Covenant and Communion, Dismissals and Church Proceedings (Boston: Eben Putnam, 1906), 287.
[2]Probably William Brintnall (17?-1745), Yale 1721, candidate at Rutland; schoolmaster at Sudbury, 1722-1726; DYG, 1:244-45.