1738 July 6 (Thursday). I was again at College. Broke fast at Sir Mowers. Din’d at Sir Davis’s at the Chamber they kept over the Common. N.B. I admonish’d Daniel Champney, junior,[1] at Sir Davis’s, for his Drinking. N.B. Mr. Robert Sharp[2] and his Sister Mrs. Susan[3] at College. Mr. Robert led me to his Sister at Sir Whites[4] Chamber, but it was at Eve and they were soon removing home. I lodg’d at Father Champney’s. My Kinsman Parkman walk’d over with me.
[1]Of Cambridge. He was the nephew of the first Mrs. Parkman.
[2]Son of Captain Robert Sharpe of Brookline.
[3]Susanna Sharp, whom Reverend Parkman had courted after the death of his first wife. See Diary for February 17, 1737 and March 3 and 4, 1737.
[4] Benjamin White (Harvard 1738), sometime schoolmaster at Gloucester. Sibley, X, 338.