May 18, 1726

1726 May 18 (Wednesday).  I rode to Boston.  My Mother not well.  My Brother John Tyley[1] return’d from Honduras, having been taken by Ned Low the Pirate.  Towards Evening I went back to Charlston for my Horse at Boylstons,[2] where I met Mr. Cotton[3] of Newton and a Company of his Neighbours, Mr. Ephraim Williams,[4] etc., who had all been out afishing.  I rode with them to Cambridge and then parted to go to Father Champneys where I lodged.

[1]Parkman’s brother-in-law, husband of Elizabeth Parkman.

[2]Richard Boylston of Charlestown.

[3]Reverend John Cotton.

[4]Colonel Ephraim Williams who moved to Stockbridge in 1739.