1737 March 28 (Monday). Lydia [1]worse, having a bad Ague in her face and it threw her wholly by; but it was so ordered in Providence, that Deborah Ward came to see us and she served us.
Adjournment of Town Meeting. N.B. Brother Hicks[2] had been chosen Constable, but gets off by virtue of a Commission to be Deputy Sheriff. (David Baverick diets here).
[1]Walett: Lydia Champney, the sister of Parkman’s first wife.
[2]Walett: John Hicks, Parkman’s brother-in-law by his first marriage.