1742 April 1 (Thursday). Mr. Hooper[1] at the public Lecture on 1 John.4.13. Dined at Brother Samuels.[2] N.B. Great Disgust given by Mr. Barnards[3] sermon last Thursday, and now continued among some by Mr. Hooper: as appeared to me at Evening at Mr. Coopers.[4]
[1]William Hooper (d. 1767), Edinburgh 1723, minister of Boston’s West Church, 1737-1746; Trinity Church, Boston, 1747-1767. Frederick Lewis Weis, The Colonial Clergy and the Colonial Churches of New England (Lancaster, MA, 1936), 110.
[2]Parkman’s brother, Samuel Parkman
[3]Either John Barnard (1681-1770), Harvard 1700, assistant minister at the Brattle Street Church, Boston, 1705; chaplain, Annapolis, Canada, 1707, and for the ship Lusitania, 1709; in England, 1709-1710; minister at Marblehead, 1715-1770; SHG, 4:501-14; or John Barnard (1690-1757), Harvard 1709, minister at Andover, 1718-1757; SHG, 5:475-79.
[4]William Cooper (1694-1743), Harvard 1712, minister of Boston’s Brattle Square Church, 1716-1743. SHG 5:624-34.