Day: November 30, 1779

1779 November 30 (Tuesday).  Read Judge Hale of a good Method to entertain unstable and troublesome Times — and of Redeeming Time.[1]  In the Evening unbent a while with reading Mr. de Lange’s Journal at Peking.

 

[1]See “A Good Method to Entertain Unstable and Troublesome Times” and “Of the Redemption of Time. How, and Why It Is to Be Redeemed,” in Contemplations, Moral and Divine.  In Two Volumes.  To Which Is Prefixed, an Account of His Life and Death.  By the Right Reerend Dr. Gilbert Burnet, Lord Bishop of Sarum (Glasgow, 1763), 1:3366-71, 373-84.

1779 November 30 (Tuesday).  [Note: The published version of the diary has two entries for November 30.]  Miss Rebecca Nurse here and gave me her Relation.  By reason of a debate about those votes aforesaid by a Friend that came in, Sent to Col. Wheelock, the Town Clerk, for the Transactions of the Town yesterday, relative to me: who wrote that They voted and granted to make up the Rev. Mr. Parkman’s Stated yearly Sallery for the year ensuing £1300.  Voted to get the Rev. Mr. Parkman 40 Cord of Wood the year ensuing.  Signed Moses Wheelock, Town Clerk.  My Kinsman Parkman Bradshaw came from Cambridge by the way of his Father’s, and lodges here.  I wrote to my old and esteemed Friend, Mr. Quincy, having much Solace in this Correspondence.

 

Thus ends the short month of November — An Emblem of this short Life!  On Retrospect, how very little has been done of the Grand Business, with all the Advantages in my Hands!  but how many my Deficiencies, how many and grievous my Miscarriages!  May the blood of Jesus Christ cleanse from all my Guilt and Errors!