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The Diary of Rev. Ebenezer Parkman

The Diary of Rev. Ebenezer Parkman

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The Diary of Rev. Ebenezer Parkman

Diary Themes: Topics

The following PDF files contain entries pulled out from Rev. Ebenezer Parkman’s Diary by topic and were created by Prof. Ross W. Beales, Jr. Also visit the other Diary Themes: People and Animals, Crops, and Food.

  • Accidents
  • Angels
  • Bellows
  • Charitable Contributions – Table (including entries from the Westborough Church Records)
  • Christmas – Parkman’s Entries on Christmas Day
  • Fires – House and Barn 
  • Hats and Hatters
  • Marriages by Day of the Week, Westborough
  • Medical
    • Anodyne 
    • Asthma
    • Blood and Bleeding
    • Bone-Setters
    • Cancer
    • Canker
    • Casting
    • Cholic (Bilious, Nervous)
    • Consumption
    • Deafness
    • Dropsy
    • Dysentery
    • Measles
    • Quinzy, Quinzie, Quincy, Quinsy
    • Purges
    • Rickets
    • Salivation – Sarah Green – 1760
    • Smallpox and Inoculation
    • Sore Throat
    • Teeth and Toothache
  • News and Newspapers
  • Ordinations and Installations (Chronological)
  • Raisings – Houses, Barns, Meeting Houses, and Other Structures
  • Stillbirths and Miscarriages (in the Diaries of Ebenezer Parkman and Breck Parkman)
  • Work House

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Why Don’t the Days Listed in the Diary Entries before Sept. 15, 1752 Correspond to the Days on the Calendar above?

In 1752, Great Britain and the American colonies switched from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar, which we use today in a slightly updated form.

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  • Home
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  • Sermons and Other Works
    • Sermons
    • Westborough Church Records
    • Marlborough Association of Ministers Records
    • Miscellaneous Writings
    • Parkman Manuscript Holdings
  • Westborough and Its People
  • Parkman Family
  • Scholarship
  • Historical Resources
  • About this Project
    • Contact Information
    • Project Partners
    • What’s New on the EPP Website?
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