April 20, 1742

1742 April 20 (Tuesday).  Catechetical Exercise No.  5 at the Meeting House, above 30 young women (I Suppose) were present.  N.B. Mary Bradish[1] with me afterwards, being in some Spiritual Difficultys.

[1]Mary Bradish (b. 1715) was the author of the letter that Parkman read to his fellow ministers on June 16.  See “A Letter of a young woman after her passing through Some Singular Spiritual Conflicts and Trials,” 1742, signed M.B., Ebenezer Parkman, Commonplace Book (Massachusetts Historical Society), 92-95.