1755 October 9 (Thursday). Lecture on Eph. 1.3. N.B. Mr. Grow work’d a.m. Mr. Manning with my Daughter Forbush at Eve from Cambridge and Boston. My Kinsman William Bowes Parkman generous in sending Me another Pamphlet concerning Affairs in America. This is the Present State of North America — of the Discoverys of the English and French Claims Rights and Possessions etc.,[1] and therewith he sent me a Letter handsomely written. A great Trouble to be straitened as to Water. My Wife daily in Pain and her Life much afflicted, as her Time approaches.
[1][Ellis Huske], The Present State of North America (London, 1755). A Boston reprint followed in 1755.