1749 September 21 (Thursday). Mr. Cowell[1] presented a black Hickery or Walnutt Stick. My late Kinsman John Parkmans Widow made me a Present of her late Husbands Rocculo,[2] which was a little the worse for Wear. Mr. John Breck presented me Εικωυ Βασιλικη Δεμτερα, and Mr. Edwards of Northampton Sent me by Mr. Bromfield, his Book against his Grandfather.[3] I beg grace to be truely Thankfull to God for so many favours. Sister Lydia Champney rode with me to Cambridge — but I lodg’d in sister Lydia’s Chamber.
[1]Peam Cowell.
[2]The roquelaure was a cloak-like garment often of bright and gay colors. The name was spelled and misspelled in a bewildering number of ways. “Roculo” was one variant. See Alice M. Earle, Two Centuries of Costume in America (New York, 1910), pp. 264-265.
[3]Jonathan Edwards, An Humble Inquiry into the Rules of the Word of God, Concerning the Qualifications Requisite to a Complete Standing and Full Communion with the Visible Christian Church (Boston, 1749). This was an effort to counteract the Halfway Covenant and relative liberalism of his maternal grandfather, the Reverend Solomon Stoddard of Northampton.