1723 August 15 (Thursday). Very Early we prepared (viz. by Prayers, Eating, etc.), and Set out. Stop’d at Jenisons.[1] We call’d again at Willsons,[2] and next at Warham William’s,[3] who had been Sick very lately. We din’d at Each’s. Thence to Boston, But at Charleston Mr. Rice parted with me. I invited him home with me, but he had Business for an avocation. At home I found My Sister Elius[4] (as we Sometimes call her) with a Child that was born the Fourth of this Instant. We Miss’d of being at Lecture, but I walked up to Mr. Edwards’s Shop to hear the News, and see my Friends. At Night our Society Met at Barretts, at which I first pray’d and Mr. Eliot[5] Discoursed from James 1.5, and I Concluded. Thence I went to my Father’s where I Lodged.
[1]Also in Sudbury.
[2]Probably Nathaniel Willson in Sudbury.
[3]Reverend Warham Williams of Waltham (Harvard 1719). Sibley, VI, 361-364.
[4]Elizabeth (Weld) Parkman, wife of Ebenezer’s brother Elias. The child was Elizabeth.
[5]Jacob Eliot of Boston (Harvard 1720), minister of the Third Church, Lebanon, Conn., 1729-1766. Sibley, VI, 380-382.