1740 March 10 (Monday). I visited divers afflicted people a.m. Din’d at Captain Williams’s,[1] who with old Captain Brigham[2] perswaded me to go to the proprietors Meeting to Speak to the proprietors in Answer to Mr. Richard Barns’s Objection against Two Acres and Thirty Rods of Land which I took up on the North End of Powder Hill. To compass an Agreement we Chose Two Men, Mr. Barns chose Mr. Joseph Stratton,[3] and I chose Captain Nathan Brigham, and the Proprietors put in a Third, Scil. Justice Samuel Brigham, the Moderator of the Meeting. Then I return’d home. Here I met Neighbor James Fay who acquainted me with his Mothers[4] Death, and desir’d me to attend upon her Funeral which they had appointed to be on Wednesday, although they knew (being inform’d by Mr. Whipple[5] on Saturday) was the Day of the Fast at Marlborough which I had promis’d to attend.
[1]Abraham Williams, Parkman’s brother-in-law.
[2]Nathan Brigham of Marlborough.
[3]Of Marlborough.
[4]Mrs. John Fay.
[5]Francis Whipple of Westborough.