1738 December 5 (Tuesday). Rain and cold. Din’d at Father Champneys. P.M. I rode to Boston. Small Pox in Town, in several places. Lodg’d at Brother Elias’s.[1] N.B. Brother Samuel[2] had bargain’d for an Irish Lad of 15 years, with Captain Solomon Lombard — for £7.15, and he was lodg’d at Brother Elias’s till my Coming to Town. The Boys Name was John Ridney, born in the county of Waterford in Ireland.
[1]Elias Parkman.
[2]Samuel Parkman of Boston.