1749 October 9 (Monday). A.M. I rode over to Mr. Harringtons for the 2 Volumes of Mr. Flavells[1] works which he had brought up for me from Mr. Daniel Gookins[2] of Boston. Also visited Mr. Jonah Warrins Family, one of his Children being ill. Mr. Death[3] of Framingham here to buy my Young Horse, but goes away without him. P.M. rain. Ebenezer to Rutland after the stray Cattle.
[1]John Flavell (1627-1691), a popular English dissenting divine, was the author of numerous books. Parkman may have referred to The Whole Works of… J. Flavel… Now First Collected Together, 2 vols. (London, 1701). Several other editions followed. Numerous individual works by Flavell were published in Boston, but there was no American edition of his collected works.
[2]A bookseller located near the Old South Church in Boston.
[3]Oliver Death.