September 2, 1749

1749 September 2 (Saturday).  Ebenezer and Thomas went to Mr. Abner Newtons to fetch a Load of Clay for an Oven.  Benjamin Tainter came up from Cambridge with my Chair and brought a Letter from Forbush that he got down well with Mrs. Grice but without sister Lydia Champney[1] whom I now hop’d for; and it was a great Disappointment that she did not come.  He brought me from I know not who a Considerable Box of Pipes.  N.B. Neighbour Hezekiah How here in much Frett about the Meeting House.

[1]Parkman’s sister-in-law.