1752 April 14 (Tuesday). Thomas and Molly ride to Cambridge to see their Aunt Lydia.[1] Thomas rode on Mr. Samuel Fay’s Beast: Molly on her Brother Ebenezers. I had word from Deacon Newtons that he was worse. Mr. Maccarty, and afterwards Messrs. Cushing,[2] Martyn and Buckminster[3] rode to Ministers Meeting at Hopkinton but I was oblig’d to stay and visit Deacon Newton, but he not being (as I conceive) altogether so bad as others apprehended, I rode to Hopkinton where I was through the Day and over Night. N.B. The Affair of Father Loring[4] took us up the Chief of our Time; except what Deacon Mellen[5] and his son Daniel had. N.B. The Night exceeding Cold.
[1]Lydia Champney was the sister of Parkman’s first wife.
[2]Job Cushing of Shrewsbury.
[3]Joseph Buckminster of Rutland.
[4]Israel Loring of Sudbury.
[5]Henry Mellen of Hopkinton.