April 15, 1742

1742 April 15 (Thursday).  I returned to Cambridge leaving Molly to live at her Uncle Alex’s to go to School with his Daughter Esther.  From Cambridge past 2 o’Clock p.m., with Sarah Sparhawk[1] on the Horse Molly rode down, I rode up to Westborough and got up after 10.

[1]Sarah, dau. of Samuel and Sarah Sparhawk, was born Dec. 22, 1700, but died Oct. 9, 1701; CVR, 1:658, 2:744; Sarah, the daughter of Deacon Samuel Sparhawk was baptized Nov. 3, 1734; ibid., 657.  If that was her approximate date of birth, the Sarah Sparhawk who worked in the Parkman household was not the deacon’s daughter.