1739 February 26 (Monday). The Doctor came to see my wife. I rode down to Cambridge on occasion of sister Lydia Champneys illness. Very bad riding by the Hollowness of the Earth by the Frost. Met with Dr. Convers at Mr. Harringtons[1] Tavern at Waltham. Found sister Lydia better. Her Face, Chin and Throat had been very much tumifyed [?] and enflam’d and lanc’d, and she was in great Extremity for some Days last week, but is much more comfortable. N.B. Trouble by Brother Champney’s [2] courting one Abigail Stearns.[3]
[1]Daniel Harrington. Charles A. Nelson, Waltham, Past and Present (Cambridge, 1879), 88.
[2]Samuel Champney, Jr., of Cambridge, brother of Parkman’s first wife.
[3]Of Concord. Intention of marriage to Champney was recorded Oct. 24, 1739. The marriage itself is not recorded. Paige, Cambridge, 507.