1737 February 22 (Tuesday). A number of Hands came to get wood. Mr. Grout[1] with his Team, Mr. Tainter[2] with his and Mr. Harrington[3] with his, Mr. Grow,[4] Daniel Hardy, Dan. Forbush,[5] Elias Rice, Noah Rice,[6] James Fay,[7] James Bowman, Zebulon Rice, Solomon Rice, John Rogers, Timothy Warren, Jonathan Forbush, jun., Thomas Winchester, David Baverick, Ebenezer Nurse, Simon Tainter, jun. and Samuel Bumpso.
[1]Walett: Joseph Grout.
[2]Forbes: Simon Tainter, and his son Simon, Jr., were always good friends of Mr. Parkman. The father in his will styles himself “gentleman” and bequeaths his “silver cup,” valued in the inventory at £1, 6s. 8 d., to his grandson Simon. He died in 1763 and Mr. Parkman writes in his journal under date of April 2: “My dear friend and brother, Deacon Simon Tainter Dyd! He expired about 11 A.M. May God Sanctify this death in a peculiar manner to me and mine. Tho my good deacon is gone, yet God who is All-Sufficient lives and is unchangeable.” And April 5 he writes: “I read Isac. 51. Preached A. M., on the occasion of the Sorrowful Death on I Thess. 4-18, read also 14, but could not handle that.” “His duty,” says the Boston Evening Post – in a piece probably written by Mr. Parkman, “was manifested by his high regard to the house of God, his constant attendance there, his esteem of the ordinance and ministers thereof.
“His deeds of Charity were unstinted, his heart and hands being ever open, to relieve and help, and to supply the necessitous, who now deplore the loss of such a friend and father.”
Simon, Jr., was born in 1715.
Mr. Parkman’s later Journals are full of instances of Dea. Tainter’s kindness to him – breaking in an unruly mare, killing, with his son’s help, cattle or hogs, inviting him and his wife to dinner, when “they had dressed a very large Pigg to entertain us,” sending him fresh meat and wood, a bottle of Madeira, or a few oysters from Boston, selling divers sorts of edibles for Mrs. Parkman in the Boston markets, ploughing, sowing and reaping, and helping him in a thousand ways, and the pastor writes: “I hope he does all sincerely and as to the Lord, for I am utterly unworthy, but this conduct must quicken me to endeavor to deserve it. May God reward him with Abundant Special Blessings.”
He lived on Mt. Pleasant Street, in the house now known as the Wadsworth house.
Walett: Deacon Simon Tainter.
[3]Walett: Samuel Harrington.
[4]Walett: Samuel Grow.
[5]Walett: Son of Deacon Jonathan Forbush.
[6]Walett: Son of Thomas Rice.
[7]Walett: Son of Captain John Fay.