1740 June 2 (Monday). I wrote to Mr. Rice[1] of Sturbridge by Mr. Stearns[2] of Stoughton. Hicks[3] weeding. N.B. I rode to see John Hambleton, at his Request by Eliazar Johnson. Now he had Hope.
[1]Rev. Caleb Rice.
[2]Ebenezer Stearns, later minister of the Baptist Church in Easton, Mass., 1761-1766. William L. Chaffin, History of the Town of Easton, Mass. (Cambridge, 1886), 178-179.
[3]John Hicks, Parkman’s brother-in-law.