1738 July 7 (Friday). In Riding to Boston I first call’d at Captain Sharps[1] — then I stop’d at Judge Dudleys and din’d there. N.B. Mr. James Cushing[2] and his wife there. The Judge very entertaining and instructing in his Conversation. He led me into his Gardens, into his Library, etc. Stop’d again at Mr. Benjamin Eaton’s Hatter in Roxbury. At Boston my Honored Mother and sister Willard[3] were both ill and kept therein Bed, which was the occasion of my Staying in Town all night. Lodg’d at Brother Elias’s.[4]
[1]Robert Sharpe, Sr., of Brookline.
[2](Harvard 1725). Minister of Plaistow, New Hampshire, 1730-1764. Sibley, VIII, 499-501.
[3]Parkman’s sister Susanna, who married Josiah Willard of Salem.
[4]Elias Parkman of Boston.