January 1, 1754

1754 January 1 (Tuesday).  Through the Tender Mercy and Longsuffering of God I see the Morning of another New Year, and am at Brookfield.  Esquire Howard had Sent a Message to me Yesterday, and this Morning came himself to invite me and my son Ebenezer who is with me, as well as Mr. Forbush[1] and his Wife, to a New Years Dinner.  It prov’d a fine Day, which with good Company, and fine Eating, made it a chearful Time.  Thanks be to God for his great Goodness in which He is rich unto all!  May it be a truely happy New Year!  Captain Wit[2] and I rode from Esquire Howards up to Mr. Abraham Smiths to talk with him about his place, with a view to my son Ebenezer’s living there.  At Eve return’d to Mr. Forbush’s.

[1]Parkman’s son-in-law, the Reverend Eli Forbes.

[2]Ebenezer Witt.