1727 August 28 (Monday). I Catechiz’d the Children and I happen’d to appoint the Same hour and Place that the Town meeting was warn’d, but I was earlier than they and they waited till our Exercise was finished. Diverse persons were at my house in the Evening. I heard Yesterday and again today that my sister Tyley[1] was very ill after Delivered in childbearing.
[1]Parkman’s sister Elizabeth, who married John Tyley of Boston. She died August 30, 1727.