March 9, 1745

1745 March 9 (Saturday).  Captain Maynard, who came up from Boston last Night, brings Me Brother Samuels Mournfull Letter of the Death of his Wife,[1] on Monday Eve last, about 6 o’clock.  The Lord Awaken all of us to a due Sense of his holy Will!  May He be very gracious to those more immediately Suffering under So Sore a Bereavement.  And may we all be quicken’d to and assisted in all due preparation for our own Decease!  Sister Dorcas had been long languishing and wasting, and much Confin’d from Publick Ordinances but I have learnt Nothing of the State of her Mind.  N.B. Small pox Said to have been at Boston.

[1]Dorcas (Bowes) Parkman died March 14, 1745.