1738 June 1 (Thursday). Was not at the Convention, but was at the public Concio by Mr. Barnard[1] of Marblehead on Coloss. 1.18. The Collection for propagating the Gospel amounted to 207£ . I din’d at Mr. Edmund Quincy’s[2] where also din’d Colonel Chandler[3] of Worcester. P.M. I visited my wife’s Aunt Mrs. Loring,[4] and her Kinswoman Mrs. Keggell.[5] I also waited upon Dr. Delhonde[6] for Ebenezer who remains feeble, Sick and Coughing. In the Evening I was at Brother Alexander’s where also was my Wife, and we lodged there.
[1]Reverend John Barnard (Harvard 1700), minister of the First Church of Marblehead, 1715-1770. Sibley, IV, 501-514.
[2](Harvard 1722). A well known resident of Boston. Sibley, VII, 106-116.
[3]John Chandler.
[4]Mrs. Daniel Loring.
[5]Mrs. Parkman’s cousin, Hannah Breck, married Abel Keggell, a merchant of Boston.
[6]Louis Dalhonde, a physician of Boston.