1739 December 5 (Wednesday). My Wife in very great Pain and Distress all the forenoon. P.M. Easyer. At Eve Captain Eager here. Brother Samuel Breck,[1] and Gad Hitchcock came from Springfield, after having had the Meazles up there. N.B. Samuel Baker rode my Mare to Boston to bring up a Maid from thence, who Brother Elias had recommended.
[1]Parkman’s brother-in-law, the physician of Springfield, Mass.