1750 May 29 (Tuesday). My Kinsman Nathaniel Parkman[1] accompany’d by Daniel Hastings came to See me. My Son Thomas also came home to See us. They all lodg’d here; and their Horses are all kept here. N.B. A Most Shocking Account of Mr. William Williams[2] of Weston. And hear of Sudden Deaths from Day to Day.
[1]Parkman’s nephew, the son of William Parkman of Boston.
[2]Williams was accused of “heinous miscarriages,” and a church council of Oct. 24, 1750, which dismissed him, found him guilty of “gross Lasciviousness in Diverse instances.” Sibley, V, 297-298.