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
• Charitable Contributions – Table (including entries from the Westborough Church Records)
• Christmas – Parkman’s Entries on Christmas Day
• Fires – House and Barn 
• Marriages by Day of the Week, Westborough
• Medical
  • Anodyne 
  • Asthma
  • Blood and Bleeding
  • Cancer
  • Canker
  • Casting
  • Cholic (Bilious, Nervous)
  • Consumption
  • Dysentery
  • Measles
  • Quinzy, Quinzie, Quincy, Quinsy
  • Purges
  • Rickets
  • Smallpox and Inoculation
  • Sore Throat
  • Teeth and Toothache
• News and Newspapers
• Raisings – Houses, Barns, Meeting Houses, and Other Structures
• Under-Registration of Female Births, Westborough
• Work House