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Sermons available online:
- Sermons digitized by New England’s Hidden Histories, Congregational Church Library & Archive – Digitized sermons and sermon fragments held at the Congregational Church Library & Archive and the Westborough Public Library.
- 1727: I will sing of mercy and judgement: manuscript, 1727 Nov. 9 – From the Houghton Library, Harvard Library, Harvard University.
- 1731: Sudden Death of a Child – Transcription by Prof. Ross W. Beales, Jr.
- Ebenezer Parkman’s Addresses to Two Criminals Facing Execution (Jabez Green, 1741; John Hamilton, alias Hugh Henderson, 1737) – Scholarship and transcription by Prof. Ross W. Beales, Jr.
- Sermons: manuscript, 1744 and 1770 – From the Houghton Library, Harvard Library, Harvard University.
- Sermon -Execution of Bathsheba Spooner (July 5, 1778) – Transcription by Prof. Ross W. Beales, Jr.
Note: See also Parkman Manuscript Holdings to find information on libraries holding sermons that have not yet been digitized.
Index to the Sermons of Ebenezer Parkman of Westborough – created by Prof. Ross. W. Beales, Jr.
Date of Initial Delivery: when known
No.: Arabic (A) or Roman (R). Parkman’s early sermons are numbered in Arabic. He later shifted to Roman – then back to Arabic.
Place of Initial Delivery: Westborough (unless otherwise noted)
Location: American Antiquarian Society (unless otherwise noted); WPL (Westborough Public Library)
Note: WorldCat lists three Parkman sermons at the Maine Historical Society (https://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/173617991); another, dated 1729, at PEM (http://www.worldcat.org/title/ebenezer-parkman-sermon-1729/oclc/828417943); at least one other (1774) at the NYPL (http://www.worldcat.org/title/ebenezer-parkman-sermons-1774/oclc/828523138); at least one at the Connecticut Historical Society (http://www.worldcat.org/title/collection-of-connecticut-and-massachusetts-sermons-1681-1823/oclc/611138843&referer=brief_results)
Date of Initial Delivery | No. | Text | Repetition/Notes | Location |
1724 | A-19-20 | Repeated with alterations and additions, Aug. 2 p.m. Aug. 9 p.m. 1747
21 pp. |
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1724-01-05 | A-15-16 | Mat. 28.6 | Jan. 5, 1724
20 pp. (16-17 blank) |
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1724-01-19 | A-17 | 1 Cor. 15.14 | Jan. 19, 1724
11 pp. |
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1724-03-01 | A-21-22 | Act 16:31 | 18 pp. (plus insert). Pp. 19-20 blank | |
1724-03-08 a.m. | A-23 | Act. 16:31 | pp. 21-29 (continuation of above) | |
1724-03-08 p.m. | A-24 | Act. 16:31 | pp. 30-38 (continuation of above) | |
1724-04-19
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A-29-30 | Mat. 19:22 | Delivered at Boston, Private Meeting at Mr. Eyres, April 19, 1724
Westborough, Apr. 26, 1724 a.m. & p.m. Shrewsbury, May 10 p.m. Hopkinton, June 14 p.m. West Sudbury, June 28 a.m. At the young men’s meeting at Mr. Hezekiah Ward’s, June 18, 1728 Repeated (with many alterations besides what are made by a pen), May 17, 1747 p.m. #NB My Dauter Mary was admitted into the Church the same Afternoon 16 pp. |
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1724-05-24 | A-36-37 | 1 Cor. 3:20 | May 24, 1724, p.m.
June 7, 1724, a.m. 15 pp. |
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1724-07-26 | A-43-46 | Act. 2:37-38 | July 26, 1724, a.m. & p.m.; Aug. 2, a.m. & p.m.
Mar. 6, 1737, a. & p.m. (sermons 1 & 3) Mar. 13, sermon 4 Mar. 27, p.m. sermon 2 28 pp. The Authors used in these Sermons are, Dr. Tillotson Vol: 8 Dr. Edwards of Rep. Dr. Taylor’s unum Necessarium Dr. Scot’s xtian Life, V. 1 Dr. Mapletoft principles & Dutys Pool’s Synopsis Criticorum Dr. Burton Alleines Sure Guide The whole Duty of Man |
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1724-08-16 | A-47-48 | Aug. 16, 1724, a. & p.m.
Repeated Apr. 17, 1737, a. & p.m. from Act. 17.30 latter part Note: incomplete, pp. [29]-44 |
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1724-08-23 | A-49-50 | Tit. 2:12 | Aug. 23, 1724, a. & p.m.
Repeated at Westborough, Aug. 30, 1733, Lecture and the Latter Part (with many Additions and Alterations), Sept. 2, p.m. the next following being Sacrament Day. 14 pp. |
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1724-09-06 | A-52-53 | James 1:22 | Westborough, Sept. 6 p.m. 1724 and Sept. 13 a.m.
At Stow, Sept. 20 p.m. At Hopkinton, Oct. 11 p.m. At Marlborough, Oct. 25 a.m. At Shrewsbury, Dec. 27 a.m. June 13 p.m. 1752 to p. 7 11 pp. |
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1724-12-13 | Dec. 13, 1724
Note: the diary is not extant for this date. |
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1725-01-10 | A-77-78, 82-83 | Mat. 6:33 | Jan. 10, a.m. & p.m.}
Jan. 24, p.m. } 1724/5 Jan. 31, a.m. } Repeated Jan. 28, 1733 a. & p.m. 16 pp. The back side of the cover has the inscription “No. 17.18, 22.23,” with the following: Contents of This Discourse. In it I 1. Introduce the words 2. Explain the context and text 3. Inferr Some Conclusions therefrom, which I shall Illustrate and confirm. 4. Make Application thereof. We must always begin with God (Says Mr. Henry on Lev. 23.14) begin our Lives with him, begin every Day with him, begin every Meal with him, begin every Affair and Business with him. Seek first the Kingdom of God. |
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1725-02-14 | A-87-91 | 2 Thess. 1:89 | Feb. 14 a.m. & p.m. }
Feb. 21 a.m. & p.m. } 1724/5 Feb. 28 a.m. } Repeated to p. 14, Mar. 14, 1735/6 Unto p. 18, Mar. 21 a.m.} Finished Apr. 11 p.m. } 1736 22 pp. |
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1725-03-14 | A-96-99 | Heb. 7:25 | Mar. 14 a.m. & p.m.
Mar. 21 a.m. & p.m. Repeated to p. 6, Feb. 24, 1736/7 Lecture 17 pp. |
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1725-04-11 | A-106-109 | Act 26:28 | Apr. 11 a.m. & p.m.} 1725
Apr. 18 a.m. & p.m.} Repeated Westborough Lecture, Oct. 7, 1736 and December 12 a.m. 19 pp. |
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1725-06-13 | A-120 | Rom. 1:20-21 | Rom. 1:20th latter part and beginning of 21st.
Shrewsbury, Aug. 7, 1726 p.m. Westborough, Aug. 24, 1729 p.m. “tho thro much Infirmity” 6 pp. |
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1725-07-18 | A-127-128, 131, 135 | 1 Joh. 5:7 | July 18 a.m. & p.m.
July 25 p.m. Aug. 8 p.m. Repeated Apr. 6 a. & p.m. 1735 17 pp. |
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1725-08-01 | A-132-133 | 2 King 20:1 | Aug. 1 a. & p.m. 1725
At Mr. Dav. Brigham’s Sept. 4, 1729 Jan. 1 a. & p.m. 1758 9 pp. |
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1725-08-08 | A-134, 136 | 1 Cor. 7:29 | Aug. 8 a.m. &}
Aug. 15 a.m. } At Mrs. Dav. Brigham’s, Dec. 2, 1731 9 pp. |
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1725-09-26 | A-148-149 | Psalm 101:2 | Sept. 26 a.m. & p.m. 1725
Again at Westborough, May 30 a. & p.m. 1731 10 pp. (half of last 2 leaves torn, missing). |
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1725-10-24 | A-158, 161-163 | John 12:26 | Oct. 24 p.m. }
Oct. 31 p.m. } 1725 Nov. 7 a.m. & p.m.} At Shrewsbury, Mar. 6 a.m. & p.m. 1725/6 The applic: Quest. Repeated upon John 1.46 at Westborough, Aug. 11, 1728 a. & p.m. Repeated with some few alterations and additions, June 4 a. & p.m. 1732 at Westborough 17 pp. |
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1725-12-19 | Dec. 19 and 24, 1725
Nov. 1, 1731 Note: The diary is not extant for these dates. |
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1726-01-02 | 179-80A | 1 Cor. 16:22 | At Westborough Jan. 2 am. & p.m. 1725/6
At Shrewsbury, July 28, 1726, Lecture Mar. 4, 1730/1 at Mr. Peres Rice’s |
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1726-04-07 | 208, 210-11A | 2 Cor. 1:12 | Westborough, Apr. 7, 1726, Lecture
Apr. 10 p.m. Apr. 17 p.m. Repeated at the Same Place, Xbr. [Oct.] 12, 1731 a. & p.m. Sabbath before the Sacrament |
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1726-06-26 | June 26, 1726; Aug. 21; Oct. 2; Nov. 13
Diary for June 26, 1726: “I preach’d all Day and Administer’d the Sacrament, But I Scarce went through the Business.” Diary for Aug. 21, 1726: “I preach’d a.m. on Heb. 10.22…. P.M. I preach’d upon 1 John 2.1.” Diary for Oct. 2, 1726: “I preach’d a.m. on Heb. 10.22 and Administered the Sacrament of the Lords Supper. P.M. my Text was 1 Pet. 4.3.” Diary for Nov. 13, 1726: “I preach’d a.m. on Heb. 10.22. Administer’d the Sacrament, but immediately before sacrament I admitted Mrs. Holloway into the Church. I preach’d p.m. on Luke 5.32.” |
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1726-08-14 | 238-39, 242-44A | 1 John 2:1 | Aug. 14 a. & p.m. 1726
____ 21, p.m. ____ 28 a. & p.m. Repeated June 3, 1733 June 10 p.m. |
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1726-09-11 | 247-250-A | John 3:19 | At Westborough, Sept. 11 a. & p.m. 1726
Sept. 18 a. & p.m. 1726 Repeated Oct. 12 p.m. 1735 Chiefly sermon 250 And Oct. 19 a.m. principally Sermon 248, 9 |
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1726-10-16 | A-257 | 1 Pet. 14:17 | Westborough, Oct. 16 P.M. 1726. Being the Next Sabbath after the Council at Sutton and not long after the Council at Dorchester, Barrington, etc.
Repeated Mar. 9, 1734/5 just after the Councils at Marlborough and Leicester – Troubles at Salem etc. 5 pp. |
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1726-10-23 | 258-59A | Heb. 12:14 | Westborough, Oct. 23 a. & p.m. “just after the Council at Sutton”
Marlborough, June 21, Lecture, at the Time of the Council at Leicester (1728) Repeated at Westborough, Aug. 12 a. & p.m. from 2 Cor. 13.11 latter part (1733) Note: first page (or cover) has 2 Cor. 13:11 |
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1726-11-06 | 260-61, 264A | Luke 5:32 | Westborough, Nov. 6 a. & p.m.
Nov. 13 p.m. 1726 Repeated Westborough, June 21 a. & p.m. 1730 _____ June 28 a.m. 12 pp. |
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1726-12-18 | 273-74A | Luke 6:46 | Westborough Dec. 18 a. & p.m. 1726
Repeated at Westborough, Aug. 31 a. & p.m. 1729 10 pp. |
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1726-12-25 | 275-76A | Luke 11:28 | Westborough Dec. 25 a. & p.m. 1726
Repeated (the Latter part) at Westborough, Feb. 13 p.m. 1731/2 8 pp. |
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1727-02-05 | 285-86, 288A | Heb. 3:12 | Westborough, Feb. 5 a. & p.m. 1726/7
____ 12 p.m. Repeated at Westborough, July 20th a. & p.m. 1729 10 pp. (with 2 pages of additions). A third side has the statement: “Forasmuch as the holy Worship of God in this Place has, I one part thereof laboured under Some observable and unhappy Disadvantages and even Disorders in time past I earnestly Desire” [and there he ends]. |
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1727-02-12 | Feb. 12, 1726/7; Apr. 2, 1727; May 14 and Oct. 1, 1727; Sept. 2, 1744
Diary for Feb. 12, 1727: “I was much afraid the Sacrament must have been put by, and Captain Fay mention’d its being So; but provision being made and a Very Considerable number of Communicants present I proceeded though truly it was a Very Severe Season. I preach’d on 2 John 8, a.m. and on Heb. 3.12, I trust in the Meritts and advocation of Christ, but I’m sure my performances, some of them can recomend Me to God.” Diary for Apr. 2, 1727: “Sacrament. I preach’d all Day upon 2 John 8.” Diary for May 14, 1727: “I preach’d on Song 2.3 and Administer’d the Sacrament; p.m. on 2 John 8.” Diary for Oct. 1, 1727: Not extant. Diary for Sept. 2, 1744: “Sacrament day…. I preach’d a.m. on 1 Cor. 11.26. P.M. repeated Sermon on 2 John 8. A.M. not without some hope that God was among us — but yet we have very great Reason to be humbled under a sense of our Leanness and Blindness, our Negligence and sinfullness.” |
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1727-11-09 | 359-A | Psal. 101:1 | Westborough, Nov. 9. 1727. Public Thanksgiving the Week after a Dreadfull Earthquake.
Repeated Sept. 11 a.m. 1737 https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:438097254$3i 9 pp. |
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1727-12-03 | 367-68, 370-71A | Psalm 103:19 | Westborough, Dec. 3, 1727 a. & p.m.
____ 10, 1727 a. & p.m. Repeated Sept. 9 a. & p.m. 1744 “the Sabbath after the Committee of the General Court came up and viewed the Town.” 12 pp. |
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1727-12-07 | Dec. 7, 1727; Feb. 3, 1733/4
Diary not extant for Dec. 7, 1727 or Feb. 3, 1733/4. |
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1727-12-07 | Dec. 7, 1727; Feb. 6, 1745/6; Mar. 19, 1752
Diary not extant for Dec. 7, 1727. Diary for Feb. 6, 1746: “I preach’d at the Private Meeting at Lieutenant Tainters on Mat. 18.18.19. My wife rode with me. We din’d there. O that the Lord Jesus Christ might meet with us in all our Meetings!” Diary for Mar. 19, 1752 (Thursday): “P.M. I preached to Young People from Mat. 18, number 19, 20.” |
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1727-12-24 | 375, 377A | 1 Pet. 4:7 | Westborough, Dec. 24 p.m. 1727
___ 31 p.m. At Mr. James Bradish’s Oct. 7, 1731 The first sermon with alterations and additions Dec. 28 p.m. 1755 “Occasioned by the Earthquake at Lisbon.” 8 pp. |
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1728-03-02 | 479-80A | Rom. 13:1 | “Two Sermons on Rom. 13.1 preceding the March Meeting for the Election of Town Officers in Westborough for the Year 1729”
Westborough, Mar. 2 a. & p.m. 1728 Mar. 9 p.m. 1745/6 10 pp. |
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1728-05-05 | 407-09A | Psalm 78:11 | Westborough, May 5 a. & p.m. 1728
____ 12 a.m. Feb. 26, 1748/9 a. & p.m. “the Throat Distemper breaking out again among us.” 12 pp. |
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1728-05-12 | 410-18A
(fragment) |
Psalm 28:5 | Westborough, May 12 p.m. 1728
____ 19 a. & p.m. ____ 26 a.m. Sacrament June 9 a.m. & p.m. Repeated from p. 25 nigh the bottom to p. 33, Oct. 11 p.m. 1747 from Jer. 3.32 & Oct. 18 p.m. pp. 13-16 only |
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1728-05-26 | May 26, 1728
Diary for May 26, 1728 not extant. |
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1728-07-04 | 421A | Isa. 26:9 | Westborough, July 4, 1728 Lecture
Repeated Nov. 2, 1740 a.m. No. LXXXVIII Nov. 16 a.m. 11 pp. |
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1728-09-15 | 439-40A | 2 Thess. 3:1 | Westborough Sept. 15 a. & p.m. 1728
Repeated Dec. 4, 1737 At Worcester Jan. 30 a.m. 1744/5 “After the Dismission of Mr. Burr.” Note: Parkman’s dating of this sermon on Jan. 30, 1744/5 seems to have been an error. His diary entry for Dec. 30, 1744: “Mr. Brown of Chauxit (as I afterward heard) preach’d at Westborough whilst I Preach’d at Worcester. A.M. on 2 Thes. 3.1. P.M. on Ps. 122 latter End. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem etc.” 8 pp. |
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1728-09-22 | 441-42A | Isa. 3:10 | Westborough, September 22d a. & p.m. 1728
Repeated Nov. 9 a.m. 1735 7 pp. plus insert |
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1728-09-29 | 443-44A | Isa. 3:11 | Westborough, September 29 a. & p.m. 1728
Repeated Nov. 9 p.m. 1735 8 pp. |
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1728-10-23
(Sutton) |
451A | Exod. 14:13 | Delivered at Sutton Oct. 23, 1728 “being Fast after very fierce Contentions among them and after the Dismission of the Reverend John McKinstry from his Pastoral Office in that Church.”
“At Concord Fast after the Dismission of Mr. Whiting.” [Note: John Whiting, Harvard 1700, was dismissed for intemperance, Oct. 17, 1737; Sibley’s Harvard Graduates, 4:534.] NB. Mr. Bows preached a.m. 12 pp. plus several additional pages and inserts. |
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1728-12-15 | 464-73A | Mat. 20:6 | Ten Sermons to Old Men on Matth. 20,6 in the Year 1728 & 1728/9
Westborough, Dec. 15 p.m. 1728 ____ 22 a. & p.m. ____ 29 a. & p.m. Jan. 12 a. & p.m. 1728/9 ____ 26 a. & p.m. Feb. 2 a.m. Repeated from Pag. 6-12 Feb. 12 p.m. 1737/8 From p. 32 to 38 Apr 5, 1747 p.m. from Rom. 12.11 Apr. 12 p.m. from p. 20 to 31 under same Text (Rom. 12.11) Repeated from p. 1 to 6 and from p. 32 to the End, July 10 a. & p.m. 1748 NB. Used from p. 12 to 16 Aug. 28, 1768 40 pp. |
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1729-07-06 | 499-502, 527-528 | Mat. 12:20 | “VI Sermons on Mat. XII, 20. In the Year 1729, & 30.”
Westborough July 6 a.m. 1729. Sacrament ____ 27 a.m. 1729 Aug. 10 a.m. 1729 ____ 24 a.m. 1729 Oct. 25 p.m. 1730 Nov. 8 a.m. 1730 “NB On July 6. 1729 when the 1st of these Serm. was preached, the Rev. Mr. Breck administered the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper in my stead because of my Bodily Infirmitys.” NB. That Numb. 502 was Repeated at Westborough Oct. 25 a.m. 1730 from Phil 1.6 No. 499, 500, To Young Men June 17, 1742 Repeated Sermon 4 & 5 & 6 from Phil:1.6. Aug. 7 p.m. 1737 (with Some Omissions) Sermon 1 July 25, 1756 p.m. The 2nd Sept. 22 (at Sacramental Lecture with Some Additions) The 3d Oct. 3 a.m. following 24 pp. plus two additions |
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1730-03-29 | 506-08, 517-20, 527-A | Heb. 12:5 | Mar. 29 a. & p.m. 1730
Apr. 12 a.m. June 14 a. & p.m. June 28 p.m. July 5 a.m. Oct. 18 p.m. Shrewsbury at Mr. Dan. Garfields being a private Fast on account of his Childrens Strange Fits &c. Dec. 12, 1734 Repeated at Westborough Feb. 1, 1735/6 being the Sabbath after my Dear Consorts Decease 29 pp. plus additions |
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1730-11-15 | Nov. 15, 1730
Note: Diary not extant for this date. |
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1731-03-18
(Marlborough) |
A-555 | Numb. 27:16-17 | “Delivered at Marlborough March 18, 1730/1. Ante Meridian. It being a Day of Solemn Fasting and Prayer, kept by that Flock under their Sorrowful Bereavement in order to their Re-settlement.” Note: Rev. Robert Breck died Jan. 6, 1731.
“At Westborough <repeated> with variation and Additions Apr. 28 a.m. 1745 After the Death and Funeral of the Rev. And worthy Mr. John Swift Pastor of the Church in Framingham.” At Southborough July 12th a.m. 1781, “being Fast there on Account of the Death of the Rev. Mr. Nathan Stone.” |
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1731-10-10 | 578-79-A | 1 John 2:15, 17 | Oct. 10 p.m. 1731
Oct. 17 p.m. 1731 At Mr. Seth Rice’s Jan. 2, 1734/5 Dec. 19 p.m. 1756 to the End of p. 32 |
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1731-10-24 | A-580-581 | Job 14:2 | Oct. 24, 1731 a. & p.m. “Occasioned by a Sudden Death among us.”
Also: “Occasioned by the Sudden Death of a Child.” Note: This may have been the death of Abigail, daughter of Samuel and Deliverance Fay, Oct. 19, 1731; she was born Aug. 26, 1731 (Westborough Vital Records, 235, 38). No diary for that year (only an entry in the Natalitia). Apr. 13, 1740, p.m.: Repeated the Application from Job. 7.8 latter part Apr. 13, 1740, p.m. “on Occasion of the Sudden Death of my Sister in Law, Mrs. Sarah Gott, Wife of Mr. Benj. Gott of Marlborough, Physician.” |
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1732-04-16 | 613-16, 618 | Eph. 2:21-22 | 613: Apr. 16 p.m. 1732
614: Apr. 23 p.m. 615: May 7 a.m. 616: May 7 p.m. 618: May 14 p.m. “The First sermons which I preached to my own people next after Framing and Raising my House.” In the absence of a diary entry, this notation raises the possibility that Parkman had been renting a house in the first years of his ministry – or that an earlier house had burned or been sold. Note: Only 8 pp., with sermon 2 starting on p. 4. |
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1732-12-31 | 656-59-A | Job. 14:5 | 656: Dec. 31 a.m. 1732
657: Dec. 31 p.m. 1732 658: Jan. 7 a.m. 1732/3 659: Jan. 7. p.m. 1732/3 Repeated Dec. 28 a. & p.m. 1740 Aug. 4, 1765 p.m. used the 2 first Sermon. & part of 3d with many alterations and additions and with somewhat on v. 6 occasioned by the Death of little Robert Breck Maynard who was drowned in a Kettle of Wort on July 30 “This Chapter is a mournful Complaint of the Brevity, Transitoriness and Miserys of human Life and it affords very Seasonable Contemplations for the Last Day of the Year, which will also be So much more Suitable for us at this particular Time, as we have had in the week past a very affecting Instance of Early and Sudden Mortality among us.” In a marginal note: “Adam Holloway a Lad nigh 10 years old Dyed on the 27th, by the Kick of a Colt, received on the 22d instant.” |
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1733-04-04 | A-678 | Isaiah 38:2-3 | “at the House of Mr. Thomas Rice junior in Westborough Apr. 4, 1733 p.m. on Occasion of his Languishment by a malignant Tumor and Sore, prevailing on his Neck and Throat.”
On the second page: No. 678. “Westborough, Apr. 4, p.m. 1733, being a time of Prayer on Account of the Deep Affliction of Thomas Rice junior, by a malignant Tumor and sore on his Neck and Cheek; and the Exercise was kept at his house.” |
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1733-10-28 | Oct. 28 and Nov. 4, 1733; Feb. 23, 1744/5
Note: Diary not extant for Oct. 28 and Nov. 4, 1733. Feb. 23, 1745 was a Saturday. |
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1734-01-20 | 728-31-A | Psal. 24:3-5 | 728, 729: Jan. 20 a. & p.m. 1733/4
730, 731: Jan. 27 a. & p.m. <two lines crossed out> “soon after the wickedness of Slashing the pulpit Cushion” Repeated at Lecture preparatory to the Sacrament Apr. 19, 1744 to p. 9 and Apr. 22 p.m. to p. 14 and July 1744 the rest. |
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1734-09-29 | 770-780
783-784-A |
Joh. 3:3-5 | 770-771: Westborough, Sept. 29 a. & P.M. 1734 “The Day of the Baptism of my Dauter Lucy”
772-773: Oct. 6 a. & p.m. 774: Oct. 13 a.m. 775-776: Oct. 20 a. & p.m. 777-778: Oct. 27 a. & p.m. 779-780: Nov. 13 a. & p.m. No. 783-784: Nov. 24 a. & p. m. Repeated with many omissions to p. 17, Sept. 18 p.m. 1743 From p. 18 to p. 28 Oct. 2 a.m. from p. 37 to p. 43 p.m. From p. 43 to the End, Oct. 9 p.m. 1743 From p. 29 to p. 35 Oct. 16 a.m. 1743, From p. 37 to 42 Dec. 15 p.m. 1771. Dec. 22 p.m. to p. 48 Jan. 5, 1772 p.m. to p. 53 Jan. 12 the rest, with some additions and repetitions, of the Origins, Author, means and Instruments etc. The Text now was Tit. 3.5. |
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1734-10-12
(Weston) |
No number | Isa. 44.3 | Also May 13, 1741 fast | |
1734-11-07 | Nov. 7, 1734, Thanksgiving Sermon
Note: Diary not extant for Nov. 7, 1734. Aug. 27, 1749 Diary for Aug. 27, 1749: “I arrive at this Day with a great deal of heavy Pressure upon my Spirits. I find it necessary to compose myself in the middst of many Temptations and Trials. There is Some reason to fear it will be the last Sabbath we shall ever have in this Meeting-House. The Morning was Cloudy and rainy. I was deceiv’d by my watch and went to Meeting late But I was also behind hand in my preparations as any one would justly conceive, having so very little Time to Study in the week. For the forenoon Exercise I deliver’d (with alterations) Sermon on Ps. 144.15th. Read Genesis 49. P.M. Luke 2. Admitted Mr. David Batherick and Wife into the Church and administer’d the Lord’s Supper. Very late, full Two o’Clock when we came out of the Meeting House (nor was it much more) I requested the Communicants to return Somewhat Sooner to Meeting again than usual after Sacrament because I perceiv’d it was very late. P.M. Deacon Newton inform’d me that their Endeavour yesterday among those who were against the taking down the Meeting House, in order to peace, was not successful. I preach’d on Rev. 3.3, former part, but I did not finish the Subject. But O that God would enable us to comply with such needful Counsel as this word exhibits.” |
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1735-01-05 | 789-90-A | Psal. 90:1 | “Two Sermons on Psal. XC,1 on the First Sabbath of the New Year 1735”
Jan. 5 a. & p.m. 1734/5 Southborough, Feb. 9 p.m. “Repeated (with Some additions) Dec. 26, 1742 a. & p.m.; in my own House, having been Sick of Rheumatism and Fever and prevented preaching for 2 Lords Days before.” “In public Jan.: 19, p.m. 1745 on Occasion of the Rebellion in Scotland.” |
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1735-02-02 | 794-95-A | Psal. 122:6-9 | 794: Feb. 2 p.m. 1734/5 Occasioned by the Divisions at Marlborough, upon which an Ecclesiastical Council is appointed to sit in the Ensuing Week there.
795: Southborough, Feb. 9 a.m. 795: Westborough, Feb. 16 p.m. West Sudbury at Mr. Lorings, Concio ad Clerum, June 10, 1735 Shrewsbury, June 22 p.m. 1735. Council last week at Marlborough, this at Hopkinton Rutland, Sept. 7 a.m. 1740 Repeated June 26, 1743 Worcester, Jan. 30 p.m. 1744/5 after the Dismission of Mr. Burr |
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1735-06-08 | 812-14-A | John 9:4 | 812: Westborough, June 8 p.m. 1735
813, 814: Westborough, June 15 a. & p.m. Grafton, Sept. 7 a. & p.m. Southborough, Mar. 4, 1735/6 Lecture Hopkinton, June 13, 1736 a. & p.m. Boston (Old North) Aug. 8 p.m. 1736 West Sudbury, June 19 a.m. 1737 Feb. 10 a. & p.m. 1739/40 Delivered to the age Widow Mrs. Dorcas Forbush, Dec. 1, 1747 15 pp. |
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1735-10-02 | 827-A | Joh. 14:21 | Oct. 2, 1735 preparatory lecture for the Sacrament
Mar. 15, 1769 Lecture Grafton – see p. 15 At the House of Mr. Joseph Grout, Feb. 4, 1736/7 |
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1735-10-19 | 829-30, 832 | Joh. 4:13-13 | Oct. 19 p.m. }
Nov. 2 p.m. } 1735 about the Time of my finishing my Well Nov. 16 a.m.} 15 pp. |
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1736-10-10
(Watertown) |
Fragment | Exodus 20:15 | “Thou shalt not steal”
Watertown, Oct. 10, 1736 Note: This is probably another minister’s sermon; the handwriting is more cramped than Parkman’s, but, more to the point, he preached in Westborough that day: “1736 October 10 (Sunday). Too much of Diverting amusements about Temporal Matters. Am exceedingly put to’t to keep my Self to my Spiritual and Ministerial Duty. O that God would pity, forgive and Assist me! I preached on Phil. 4.19 a. and p.m. I admitted Mary (wife of Beriah) Rice, and Patience Daughter of Jonathan Forbush and Administered the Sacrament. I bless God that I have been in any Measure assisted and restrained in my Thoughts, being encompassed as I am with So many Temptations and Vain Amusements. O that God would Still be Gracious to Me, and pardon the Extream brokenness and imperfectness of my Devotions before Him!” |
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1736-01-08 | 838-39-A | 1 Pet. 5:6 | Westborough, Jan. 8 a. & p.m. 1735/6 being Public Fast, on Account of the unusual, mortal Distemper at the Eastward more especially Seizing young persons – NB. Stephen Maynard of this Town very ill, and we fear that Distemper.
Marlborough Fast on the Occasion of the Sickness among [them?] Mar. 12 p.m. 1739/40. NB. Mr. Loring a.m. on Act. 17.30. Rutland Fast Apr. 27 a.m. 1742 previous to their Council on the Dismissing the Rev. Mrs. Frink. Shrewsbury (Old Parish) Oct. 10 a.m. 1745. Fast on Account of the Fever and Flux among them. Repeated at Westborough, July 2 a.m. 1752. Fast on Account of the Smallpox at Boston. At Southborough Fast – Small Pox. Dec. 24 p.m. 1760. Mr. Smith a.m. on Isa. 32.9 At Charlton Fast, Sept. 28 p.m. 1763. On Account of their Difficultys and Divisions. At Westborough, May 11 a. & p.m. 1775. Fast on the Account of our public Distresses and the sitting of the General Congress at Philadelphia, which began yesterday. 14 pp. |
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1736-02-29 | 846, 850, 853-A | Job 19:25-27 | 3-page fragment
846: Feb. 29 a.m. 1736 Sacrament 850: Mar. 21 p.m. 853: Apr. 11 a.m. 1736 At Shrewsbury, Oct. 17, 1736 a. & p.m. At Waterton, East precinct, Jan. 23, 1736/7 a. & p.m. West Sudbury, June 19 p.m. 1737 At New Haven, Sept. 18 p.m. 1738 At Mrs. Isaac Tomlin’s, Aug. 1, 1739 |
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1736-08-15 | 871-75-A | Luk. 19:42 | 871: Aug. 15 p.m. 1736
872: Aug. 22 p.m. 873: Aug. 29 p.m. Sept. 12 p.m. Sept. 19 p.m. At Marlborough, July 23 a. & p. 1738 Repeated at Westborough, Dec. 20 a. & p.m. 1741 to p. 17 Jan. 24. a.m. 1741/2 the rest At the Widow Newtons Aug. 2, 1763 to p. 12 At Shrewsbury a. & p.m. to p. 21, 1763 At Zeb. Rice’s, Sept. 6 from p. 12 to 17 At Capt. Fays Jan. 3,1764 with some Omissions to the End. 28 pp. |
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1736-12-05 | 884-90-A | Philip. 1:21 | Westborough, Dec. 5, 1736; Dec. 12 p.m.; Dec. 19 p.m.; Dec. 26 p.m.
At Brother Hicks’s, Feb. 1, 1738/9 to pag. 13 Repeated in publick from pag. 13 to pag. 19 fro 1 Cor. 3.22 those words – Death – All are your’s; Feb. 25 p.m. 1738/9 and thence to the End on March 4 p.m. being the Sabbath after the Death of the Rev. and Learned Mr. Peter Thatcher, one of the Pastors of the New North Church in Boston, who deceased on Feb. 26, 1738/9 At Shrewsbury Aug. 19 p.m. 1739 At Brother Alexander, Boston, Aug. 31, 1741 At South Hadley Sept. 21, 1741. At Evening NB. Sarah Kellogg Repeated from Col. 3.4 Dec. 22, 1745 to p. 13 Dec. 11, 1760 To aged Mrs. Hannah Rice, at the House of Mr. Seth Rice NB. Used part of p. 17 and to p. 21 in a Catechetical Exercise, May 12, 1763 At Southborough Dec. 4 a. & p.m. 1768 to p. 13 At Deacon Hawes Nov. 13, 1781 At Mr. Gales Dec. 4, 1781, to page 15 |
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1737-01-09 | 893-897-A | 2 Pet. 3:9 | Westborough Jan. 9 a. & p.m. 1736/7
Jan. 16 a. & p.m. Jan. 30 p.m. Repeated Serm. 4.5 (omitting the objections) to young men, Nov. 12, 1741 at Evening after the public Thanksgiving And the Substance of the 3 first Jan. 22 p.m. 1743/4 on occasion of the Appearance of a Comet Nov. 4 a.m. 1764 to p.12 Nov. 11 p.m. from p. 17 to p.22 Made use of the Rest with additions on Ezek. 18.23 Feb. 3 p.m. 1765. 30 pp. |
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1737-09-18 | No number | 1 Pet. 3.7 | Sept. 18, 1737 a.m. and Sept. 25, p.m. “the Subsequent Sabbaths after my Second Spouse came home”
Apr. 29, 1744, p.m. Missing pp. 9-12 |
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1737-10-23 | No number | Joh. 3:36 | At Worcester Oct. 23 a. & p.m. 1737 To Hugh Henderson, who was under Sentence of Death, for Burglary
At Westborough, Oct. 30 a. & p.m. 1737 and Nov. 13 a.m. At Southborough, Nov. 6 a. & p.m. 1737 At Marlborough, July 5, a. & p.m. 1741 At Mrs. John Brecks, Boston, Aug. 30, 1741 at Evening At Mr. Grouts Oct. 1, 1741 to p. 12 The rest Jan. 7, 1741/2 at Deac. Forbush’s Oct. 23 p.m. 1748 from p. 4 to 8, p. 10 and from the bottom of p. 18 to the End from Act.16.31 At Upton Dec. 1, 1748 Lecture |
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1738-05-07 | No number | Eph. 6:1-3 | Westborough May 7 a.m. 1738
21, a. & p.m. July 17 p.m. 1748 from Col. 3.20 24 p.m. 1748 from Col. 3.20 transposed the Arguments NB. A General recapitulation together part of the Duty of Parents – Dec. 12 p.m. 1750 |
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1738-11-12 | No number | Eccl. 9:3 last part | Westborough Nov. 12 a.m.}
_____ Nov. 19 a.m. }1738 Repeated May 31 p.m. 1741 To Young Women, May 17, 1743 |
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1738-12-31 | No number | Rev. 20:12 | Dec. 31 a.m. 1738
Jan. 7 a. & p.m. 1738/9 Jan. 15 a & p.m. Jan. 22 a. & p.m. Jan. 28 a.m. Northborough p.m. Sept. 15, 1782 |
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1739-02-04 | No number | Romans 10:9-10 | Dated Watertown, February 4th, 1738/9. Second date in margin: Nov. 6, 1760.
This is not Parkman’s sermon. On that date, Feb. 4, 1739, he wrote the following in his diary: “On 2 Pet. 3.11. Sent John Kidney to Marlborough to the Doctor.” |
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1739-02-11 | Feb. 11, 1738/9
Diary for Feb. 11, 1739: “Repeated Sermon on 1 John 3.14 a. and p.m. unto page 16, but p.m. from Deut. 32.5.” |
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1739-03-11 | No number | Prov. 4:7 | “Four Sermons on Prov. IV,7”
Mar. 11 a. & p.m. 1738/9 To young women who held a secret society and received Rules and Articles from me, on Aug. 14. 1741, To the Same Society of young women, now met at Old Mrs. Thomas Rice’s, Oct. 27, 1741 Aug. 5 p.m. 1753 to page 8 Aug. 26 p.m. the rest from Prov. 19.2 Oct. 19, 1769 to p. 8. To a Society of young Men newly Set up. |
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1739-03-11
(Watertown) |
No number | 1 Tim. 4:7 | Watertown, Mar. 11, 1738/9
Like the sermon on Exodus 20:15 (Watertown, Oct. 10, 1736), this sermon is in someone else’s handwriting. Parkman was in Westborough on Mar. 11, 1739: “Snow’d again. On Prov. 4.7. N.B. but few at Meeting p.m. N.B. My Wife has been somewhat disconsolate by her Limbs Swelling.” The minister in Watertown was Seth Storer (1702-1774), Harvard 1720. |
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1739-05-27 | No number | 2 Pet. 1:10 | Repeated May 27 p.m. 1739
At Grafton p.m. June 15, 1740 At the House of Mr. Zebulun Rice, Apr. 1, 1756 At Hopkinton, July 19 a. & p.m. 1778 Aug. 15 p.m. 1779 to the end of p. 8 omitting what was peculiar to the first occasion [Aug.] 22 p.m. the rest – with Amendments Note: Not clear when this was first preached. The manuscript cataloguer penciled the date of 1740 on the first page, overlooking Parkman’s notation that it was repeated May 27, 1739. |
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1739-09-02 | 14, 16-R | Joh. 13:17 | 14: Westborough, Sept. 2 a.m. 1739 Sacrament
16: Sept. 16 a.m. To young women, Jan. 23, 1741/2 to pag. 6 Mar. 23 the rest Oct. 13 p.m. 1745 At Mr. D. Hardys Dec. 6, 1768 |
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1740-02-17 | 38-45-R | Act 3:19 | 38-39: Feb. 17 a. & p.m. 1739/40
40-41: Feb. 24 a. & p.m. 42-43: Mar. 2 a. & p.m. 44-45: Mar. 16 a. & p.m. Repeated Sermon VII & VIII [sic] June 18, 1741 Lecture to Youth |
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1740-04-06 | R-49-[53?] | Act 2:41-42 | Apr. 6, 1740 a.m.; Apr. 13, p.m. Sacrament
At Mr. Francis Whipples, Feb. 3, 1742/43 Aug. 7, 1768, a.m. Sacrament |
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1740-08-10 | Aug. 10 and 17, 1740; Oct. 4, 11, 18 [?]; Aug. 11 and 18, 1745
Diary for Aug. 10, 1740: “On Mat. 10.17 to 20. Luke 12.21.” Diary for Aug. 17, 1740: “On Luke 12.21.” Diary for Aug. 11, 1745: “On Acts 20.21, and on Luke 18.21.” Diary for Aug. 18, 1745: “I preach’d on Isa. 25.9…. P.M. Repeated sermon on Luke 12.21.” |
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1740-08-31 | R-74-75 | Mic. 6.9 | Aug. 31, 1740, a.m. Sept. 14, p.m.
Shrewsbury, Sept. 11 p.m. FAST “on Occasion of the Throat Distemper” Nov. 24, 1745, p.m. |
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1740-10-19 | 81-83-R | 1 Cor. 3:9 first part | 81-82: Westborough, Oct. 19 a. & p.m. 1740
83: Westborough, Oct. 26 p.m. |
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1741-04-23 | R-113 | Ps. 9:16 | Westborough, Apr. 23, 1741, p.m. Public FAST. “N.B. This Sermon occasioned by Thomas Hall’s (apprentice to the Dr.) poisoning himself at Dr. Gott’s at Marlborough.”
Note: Parkman’s diary for 1741 is not extant. |
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1741-06-21 | No number | Joh. 16:8 | Repeated June 21 a. & p.m. 1741 and July 12 p.m.
Used from p. 3 to 7. On Act. 11.18, Dec. 24 p.m. 1769 Jan. 14 a.m. (70) to p. 16 Feb. 2 (72) p.m. to p. 23 |
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1742-02-21 | Act 3:19 | Incomplete; original date missing. “Of Conversion”
Repeated Feb. 21 a. & p.m. 1741/2 to p. 27 “in my own House, being Stormy and but few could come.” Page 3 & 4 Repeated in sermon Isa: 33.14 Apr. 10, 1743 From p. 4 to p. 14 Apr. 14 par Lecture from Job 13.16 From pag. 14 to p. 19 under Isa. 31.6 Aug. 14, 1757 from p. 19 to 24 Aug. 25, 1757 Lecture [illegible] At Mr. Tainters on Mat. 18,.3 from p. 28 to the end, Aug. 4, 1743. NB Mrs. Susanna Townsend languishing in a Dropsie, there. From p. 3 to p. 14 Public Fast p.m. June 15, 1749, Great Drought from Amos 4.67 And the Next Lords Day a.m. at the North side from the Same Text, the Same pages. But These Exercises were introduced by a preface accommodating them to the present Sorrowful Times by the Judgements of God. At Grafton June 6 p.m. 1753. Fast on Occasion of Decay of Religion, and a mortal Fever beginning to rage among them. NB. Mrs. Hall a.m. on Prov. 1.23. At Shrewsbury, July 21 a. & p.m. 1754 to [p. [?] _______ Sept. 15 a.m. from p. 28 to the End |
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1743-05-15 | May 15, 1743; Apr. 23, 1749; Aug. 10, 1743; May 6, 1779
Note: Diary not extant for May 15, 1743 or Aug. 10, 1743. Diary for Apr. 23, 1749: “In the Morning I rode to Grafton for Mr. Hancock. Was entertain’d at Mr. Isaac Harringtons. I preach’d a.m. on Jer. 3.15. At the Earnest Request of Mr. Joseph Axtell[1] and his Wife I preach’d to her at Evening at their House, She having lain Sometime under great Affliction and long confin’d from the Public Worship. My Text 1 Thess. 1.10 last Clause.” Diary for May 6, 1779: “General Fast throughout the United States. The forenoon exercises were (not designedly) exceeding long. A.M. on the text requested by Ensign Warren, viz. 1 Chron. 4.10, but I read and made some remarks upon v. 9. P.M. Used part of sermon on Jer. 8.5, but with many enlargements. O that God would please to accept our sacrifices, and quicken us to conform to his holy Word!” |
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1743-06-12 | 202-205-R | Isa. 61.2 | 202: June 12 p.m. 1743
203: June 26 a.m. 204-205: July 3 a. & p.m. Marlborough, July 5 [a.m.?] FAST on account of the worms Grafton FAST, Sept. 7 a.m. June 12, 1746, from p. 27 to young men from Jer. 46.10 July 26, 1759, lecture to p. 7 and p. 25, 26 Nov. 13, 1774, a.m. to p. 7, the first Sabbath after our jubilee |
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1744-06-28 | 253-R | Psal. 46:6 | Westb. June 28 a.m. 1744. Publ. Fast On Occasion of the Warr proclaimed against France on the 2d p.m. at Boston. And of the Earthquake on the 3d.
Repeated on May 6, 1770 p.m. https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:426368006$1i 14 pp. Parkman’s diary, June 28, 1744: “Publick Fast on account of the War and the Earthquake. I preach’d a.m. on Ps. 46.6, p.m. on Isa. 1.4.” |
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1744-08-02 | No number | Isa. 60: 6-8 | At Lieut. Tainters Aug. 2, 1744 “the Day after the Funeral of his Son Jonathan who dyd of a Consumption.”
Westborough July 17 p.m. 1757 At Shrewsbury July 9 a.m. 1769 July 14 p.m. 1771 |
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1744-08-12 | 263-264-R | Eccl. 9.12 | Aug. 12 a. & p.m. 1744. “On Occasion of the Sudden Death of Mr. Samuel March of Sutton whose Cart Wheel run over his Neck and killed him on the Spot. This happened as he was passing last Monday through this town; and he was buryed among us the Day following.”
Again Oct. 16, 1748, a.m. 12 pp. |
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1744-09-16 | 266-69-R | Matt. 16:26 | 266: Westborough Sept. 16 a.m. 1744
267: Oct. 21 p.m. 268-269: Nov. 11 a. & p.m. At Lieutenant Tainters Apr. 2, 1747 to p. 12 & p. 21 At Capt. Fays May 10 following the rest At Southborough June 24 p.m. 1750 to pag. 15 & July 22 a.m. the rest At Grafton 1751 June 23 a. & p.m. At Marlborough 1753 Sept. 2 a. & p.m. At Cumberland Oct. 16, 1757 a. & p.m. At Brookfield Oct. 3, 1763 a. & p.m. At Leicester a. & p.m. Sept. 16, 1770. The Day after the Funeral of my Grand-Child, Elizabeth Parkman, Daughter of my son Alexander. She was almost 18 months old: dyd of a Quinzie, on the 13th about 8 ‘oClock at Even. Mar. 14 a. & p.m. 1773 to the End of page 18, barely mentioned for the Conclusion the Heads of Improvement, Mar. 28 p.m. from page 19-25. At Mendon Aug. 30 a. & p.m. (78). |
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1744-10-28 | No number | Gen. 31:38 | Parkman’s diary for October 28, 1744: “The Lord’s name be prais’d and magnify’d for his adorable Patience and Longsuffering towards Me and towards the Dear Flock in this place, that now we see the 20th Year Completed since our Founding and Ordination. Alas! My Barrenness and unprofitableness! How little good have I done in all these years, and how many Things are amiss also among the people! O that God would Pardon us through the Greatness of his Mercy! And Grant us his almighty Grace, to enable us to Repeat, and bring forth the Fruits meet for Repentence. I preach’d a.m. on Gen. 31.38 and p.m. on 2 Cor. 13.9, Repeating part of Sermon on Heb. 13.20.21. Captain John Tainter and his wife, with Lieutenants Wife also din’d with us. O that God would make it the Day of his power with us!”
Portions of the sermon are printed in Heman Packard DeForest and Edward Craig Bates, The History of Westborough, Massachusetts (Westborough: The Town, 1891), 126-29. |
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1745-02-17 | A-791 etc. | Seven Sermons on Eph. 3:8 | Note: Incomplete: pp. 3-12, 15-20, 29-31. Serm. ii starts on p. 8. The date of Feb. 17, 1745 is for a repetition pp. 17-24 of the sermon.
On June 17, 1739, Parkman preached on Eph. 3.8. On July 15, 1739: “On Matt. 10.1-4. P.M. Repeated sermon on Eph. 3.8, page 10 to 17, from Eph. 2.7.” On Aug. 12, 1739: “On Ps. 73.24, and p.m. repeated the latter part of Sermon on Eph. 3 from Eph. 2.7.” On Feb. 17, 1745: “On Luke 12.15 and p.m. on 1 Tim. 6.2 those words — Partakers of the Benefit and therefrom repeated part of sermon on Eph. 3.8th, viz. from page 17 to page 24.” Feb. 17, 1744/5 Repeated from p. 17 to p. 24 under 1 Tim. 6.2, partakers of the Benefit. NB. Used v. 2 moving Heads at the Close, Mar. 3, p.m. 1744/5 in the Application of sermon on 1 Tim. 6.2 Partakers of the Benefit. To Young Women at a Catechetical Exercise, from Pag. 17 to 24. Oct. 21, 1746 At Worcester Mar. 19 a. & p.m. 1748/9 (31 pp.) |
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1745-03-10 | 283, 288-95-R | Joh. 17:3 | 283: Mar. 10 a.m. 1744/5
288: Apr. 14 a.m. 1745 289-90: May 12 a. & p.m. 291: May 26, a.m. Sacrament 291: June 9 a.m. 293: June 16 a.m. 294: June 23 p.m. 1745 295: June 30 a.m. from p. 12 to p. 23 under that Text in Hos. 6.6. latter part Apr. 17 p.m. 1748 and from p. 23 to 28 Apr. 24 p.m. and from p. 28 the rest – changing the order of divers parts etc. from Joh. 6.45 June 5 p.m. May 15 p.m. 1748 To p. 12 Oct. 15 p.m. 1752 40 pp. bound with 294-295 (15 pp.) |
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1745-09-22 | R-308-313 | 2 Cor. 3:15-18 | Note: Parkman’s notations at to the delivery and repetition of these sermons are scattered and overlapping, so it’s not clear when the various sermons were delivered. An examination of his diary entries will clarify the delivery for at least some of the sermons.
#308: Sept. 22, 1745 a.m. From 2 Cor. 3.15 #309: Sept. 29, 1745. Sacrament. From v. 14. #310: Oct. 6, 1745 a.m. continuation of p. 8 To the Northside Mar. 22, a. & p.m. 1746/7 a.m. v. 15, p.m. v. 14 At Shrewsbury May 3, 1747 a.m. from v. 15, p.m. v. 14, 17 At Marlborough, June 19, 1748 p.m. At Rutland, Oct. 30, 1748, a.m. (N.B. Mr. Williams of Weston p.m. on Phil. 1.9.10.11 At Grafton, Sept. 17, 1749, a.m. and on x 14, 17, 18. p.m. Mr. Hutchinson at Westborough At Southborough, Sept. 1, 1751 on v. 15 and p.m. on x 14 and 17 Nov. 19, 1752. Repeated with the Continuation of p. 8 to p. 10 in one Exercise. June 8, 1760, p.m. sermon on x 14 from p. 13 to Sept. 8, 1768, Dartmouth lecture, to p. 11, omitting the continuation and the addition to p. 8. Westborough, Jan. 31, 1779 p.m. read v. 12 to 15. Proceeded only to page 5. Feb. 7 p.m. to the 6th article, which is in Continuation of p. 8 Feb. 14 p.m. from article 6 the several particulars (with omissions) to the end of page 11. #311 Westborough, Oct. 27, 1745, a.m. June 29, 1760 a.m. Feb. 28, 1779 a.m. only v. 17 To the North side, Nov. 29, 1747 a.m. At Rochester, Sept. 11, 1768, a. & p.m. “next after Mr. Moores Ordination #312 Westborough Nov. 3, 1745 a.m. To the North side Nov. 29, 1747 a. & p.m. At Marlborough, June 19, 1748, p.m. #313 Westborough Nov. 10, 1745, a.m. Sacrament At Hopkinton Association Lecture, June 15, 1748 July 13, 1760 p.m. July 20, 1760 a.m. |
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1746-03-09 | R-331-335, 340, 352, 357, 360-61, 364-73 | Tit. 2:11-12 | Sermons in this 173 manuscript were delivered variously from Mar. 9, 1746 to Jan. 11, 1747 | |
1746-06 | R-352 | 1 Tim. 2:6 | Incomplete. Diary, June 3, 1746: “The Catechetical Exercise: but I could not begin my preparations till noon, when I sat down and wrote the minutes of what I deliver’d.”
At Catechizing, June 1746 In public, Sept. 21, 1746 a.m. from Hebr. 12.24 At Catechizing of Young Men, June 16, 1757 |
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1746-06-09 | R-353 | 1 Tim. 2.5 | Incomplete
At catechizing, June 9, 1746 In public, Sept. 21, 1746 a.m. from Hebr. 12.24 At Catechizing of Young Men, June 16, [1757?] |
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1746-07-10 | R-346 | Ezek. 5:5-9 | July 10, 1746, p.m. Fast on occasion of the Expedition to Canada
Sept. 28 a.m. to the 2d precinct while the Soldiers were at Boston, the Province under the apprehension of a French Fleet Apr. 17, 1755 Lecture At Shrewsbury, Sept. 29, 1768 a.m. FAST |
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1746-08-10 | Aug. 10, 24; Sept. 14, 1746
Diary for Aug. 10, 1746: “On Habak. 3.17.18, and p.m. Repeated from Ps. 145.17, latter part of Sermon on Gen. 18.25, from page 12 to 18. Diary for Aug. 24, 1746: “Sacrament. I preach’d a.m. on Luke 24.46. P.M. on Habac. 3.17.18.” Diary for Sept. 14, 1746: “On Habac. 3.17.18 and p.m. repeated sermon on Mat. 10.29.30.” |
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1747-11-08 | 400, 418, 425-R | Song 2:4 | 400: Nov. 8, a.m. 1747 Sacrament
418: Mar. 6 a.m. 1747/8 Sacrament 425: Apr. 17 a.m. 1748 Sacrament At Southborough Lecture, May 11, 1748 At the North End, Oct. 6, 1748 Sacrament At Mr. Zebulon Rice’s Apr. [blank] 1757 At Shrewsbury Dec. 1, 1762 |
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1748-01-17 | 410, 412-413-R | John 12:35 | Jan. 17 a.m. 1747/8 on the Death of Rev. Mr. Prentice of Lancaster
Lancaster, Jan. 17 a. & p.m. 1747/8 Westborough, Jan. 31 a. & p.m. 1747/8 At my Brother William Parkman’s at Boston Jan. 28, 1749/50 the Eve after my Sister Willards Expiring Jan. 12 a. & p.m. 1752; Feb. 2 p.m. from Jer. 13.16 At Hopkinton Fast Nov. 13 p.m. 1771 At Southborough Mar. 2 p.m. 1755 Soon after the Decease of Venerable Mr. Nathaniel Stone of Harwich Apr. 8 p.m. 1781 Apr. 15 a.m. 1781 Apr. 29 a.m. 1781 |
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1748-11-13 | Nov. 13, 1748; Mar. 5, 1748/9; June 16, 1754; Dec. 18, 1764; Mar. 3, 1778
Diary for Nov. 13, 1748: “Read the ninth of Genesis and preach’d on Mat. 22.37.38. Administer’d the Lords Supper…. P.M. read ninth of Matthew. Preach’d on Mat. 25.46, last part.” Diary for Mar. 5, 1749: “A.M. I read Genesis 24 in part. Preach’d on Mat. 22.37.38, and administered the Lords Supper.” Diary for June 16, 1754: “Read Ruth ult. Preach’d a.m. on Isa. 9.6 — shall be call’d Wonderfull. P.M. read 2 Pet. 3. Repeated on Mat. 22.37.38.” Diary for Dec. 18, 1764 (Tuesday): “I preached a Lecture to Young men, from Mat. 22.37.38.” Diary for Mar. 3, 1778 (Tuesday): “Preached at Squire Bakers on Mat. 22.37, which may God prosper.” |
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1749-06-18 | June 18, 1749 “After Several great unseasonable Frosts, which have much damnifyd the Indian Corn”
Aug. 4, 1761, “The Lords Day after the public Fast on Occasion of the Great Drought” Oct. 6, 1761 Diary for June 18, 1749: “In the Morning I rode over (according to agreement) to Mr. Martyns, and he came hither. I preach’d to his people on Heb. 3.17.18 and p.m. what I deliver’d to my own the afternoon of the Fast from Amos 4.6.7. Mr. Martyn on 2 Pet. 3.18. Extreme Hot Day. (So that Cakes of Chocolate melted on the Shelves though they lay Single. It was So both at my House and at Mr. Martyns.)” Diary for Aug. 4 and Oct. 6, 1761 not extant. |
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1749-08-27 | R-486-488 | Rev. 3:3 | Aug. 27, 1749 p.m. “the Day before the Time voted by the Parish for taking down the Old Meeting House
Sept. 3, 1749 a. & p.m. “The first in the New Meeting House” Jan. 3, 1762 a. & p.m. to p. 14 Shrewsbury, June 13, 1762 p.m. after Rev. Mr. Cushings Death At Hopkinton Dec. 20, 1772 after the Rev. Mr. Barretts [death] Westborough, Dec. 5, 1773 a.m. from p. 14. Feb. 18, 1776 Text Ps. 2.6 |
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1751-02-10 | 559-562-R | Rom. 12:18 | 559 Feb. 10 a.m. 1750/1 } just after the Court
560: Feb. 17 a.m. to pag. 11 } at which a Cause of this 561-562: Feb. 24 a. & p.m. to the End} Parish was tryd } against Rev. Mr. Price At Holliston, Apr. 13 a.m. 1753 lecture at The time of an Ecclesiastical Council sitting there. At Grafton June 23 a. & p.m. 1754 soon after they had had a Council of Ministers on the Case of Mr. Hutchinson Repeated to End of p. 8 Nov. 12 p.m. 1758 just after a Council at North Sutton, and providing the reading a Letter for a Council at Southborough Nov. 19 p.m. 1758 fro p. 9 to bot. of p. 14 May 13 p.m. 1759 from p. 14 to the End of the Text Now was Ps. 34.14 last Clause- This last Exercise was after the Session per adjournment, of the Council at North-Sutton. 22 pp. plus 4 unnumbered pages and an inserted scrap. Note: The first page of the booklet has, in pencil, 1753, the date when the sermon was preached at Holliston, but inside are the four sermon numbers (in Roman), DLIX, DLX, DLXI.II and the date when the first was preached, Feb. 10 a.m. 1750/1. When he preached at the Holliston Lecture, Apr. 13, 1753, “at The time of an Ecclesiastical Council sitting there,” he addressed the congregation as follows: “Suffer me now, Dear Brethren of this Flock, to apply myself tho very briefly, to you; for after So much as has been laid before you, since the Council was formed, we Shall Surely need to Say but little more. “You may be assured it was with much Sorrow and Grief we heard of your great unhappiness, with wounded, bleeding Hearts we came among you and beheld the Sanctuary of God here all in Flames, and like to be consumed and laid utterly Desolate, and in the Mean Time the Enemies of God triumphing in the deplorable Effects. But Blessed be God Who has as we humbly hope So far owned and Succeeded our Endeavours as that there are some hopefull Prospects of the Difference which occasioned our coming here being made up.” |
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1750-04-08 | 520-521-R | Zech. 1:5 | 520: Apr. 8 p.m. 1750 “Occasioned by the Death of the Rev. Mr. Henry Messinger of Wrentham; Deacon Bellows of Southborough, and Several other Persons.”
521: Apr. 15 p.m. 1750 At Southborough Mar. 2, 1755 a.m. “soon after the Decease of the Venerable Nathaniel Stone of Harwich.” At Shrewsbury Aug. 24 p.m. 1760 “Occasioned by the Death of Rev. Job Cushing, who dyd suddenly on the 6th instant.” |
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1751-03-03 | Mar. 3, 1750/1; Oct. 5, 1760
Diary for Mar. 3, 1751: “Read Levit. 19. Preach’d on Rev. 1.8. Administer’d the Lords Supper…. P.M. read Acts 10. Repeated sermon on 1 John 3.3.” Diary for Oct. 5, 1760: “I read Job 37 and 2 Cor. 1. Preached a.m. on Rev. 1.8. P.M. on Isa. 45.22 to p. 11. Then recapitulated to p. 17, and from thence used the most of the uses to the End.” |
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1751-12-15 | 606-609-R | Jer. 31:18-20 | 606-607: Westborough, Dec. 15 a. & p.m. 1751
608-609: Dec. 22 a. & p.m. North side Feb. 16 a. & p.m. 1752 from p. 6 to 15 under Ezek. 18.30 Apr. 4 p.m. 1754 pub. Fast and Apr. 14 a.m. after To p. 6 July 25, 1756 a.m. “At Mr. Joseph Miles in Shrewsbury, March 29 Fast on Account of Mr. Miles’s sorrowful Dejection.” |
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1751-12-29 | 610-612, 615, 618-619, 621-623-R | Job 33:27
Malachi 4:1 |
“Nine Sermons Against Sin”
610: Dec. 29 a.m. 1751 611: Jan. 5 a.m. 1752 612: Feb. 2 a.m. 615: Feb. 23 p.m. 1752 618: Mar. 8 a.m. 1752 619: Mar. 15 a.m. 1752 621-622: Mar. 29 a.m. 1752 623: Apr. 5 a.m. 1752 Aug. 29 p.m. 1762 Note: Parkman used a scrap of paper for an addition to the sermon. On the back is the following letter (since the paper has been cut to fit the sermon, the date and author of the letter are not extant): “It having pleased the Sovereign God, in a very Sore and distressing manner to frown upon me and my Children who lately dwelt with me, in taking away from us our Dwelling House by Fire, which broke out at Midnight between the 17th and 18th Day Instant, and so Suddenly prevailed, after the Discovery of it, that although we escap’d with our Lives (to God be all hearty Praise and Thanks) yet we have lost the Chief of our Goods, Cloths, Stores etc.: and were able to Save but little: By which means we are reduced to a miserable and destitute State and Condition. I do gratefully acknowledge the Kindness of the People of God among whom we live; but yet find it needfull, and think it my Duty to address several Neighbouring Towns for Relief and therefore as I have the Place of my Birth, So I humbly beg Leave to lay our distressed Circumstances before you, among whom I lived thro a great part of my Youth full Life; for whom therefore I would retain proper Respect, and especially the Church into which I was admitted.” |
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1752-06-21 | 633-R | James 1:22 | June 21 p.m. 1752
At Deacon Tainters, May 5, 1761. “NB It was at the Time of a great storm of Snow.” At Capt Woods, Apr. 2, 1765 with Additions Nov. 22 p.m. 1778 |
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1752-07-02 | 635-R | 1 King 8.37-40 | July 2 p.m. 1752. “Public Fast on Account of Small Pox and Malignant Fever.”
Apr. 12 a.m. 1764. Fast “In Short, as to us in this Province, the Hand of God has not only touched us, but has fallen heavy, very heavy upon us; not merely the Capital Town, or the Towns round about us where the Contagion has broke out, but this whole People are grievously Smitten hereby. Let us then Consider It is a Day of great Trouble and Distress with many with whom we as fellow-Christians ought tenderly to Sympathize; for we are Members one of another. But this is not all; We are all, in every town and place, more or less affected herewith and shall be unavoidably, one way or another Sufferers hereby” (pp. 3-4). |
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1753-05-13 | May 13, 1753; Mar. 23, 1756
Diary for May 13, 1753 not extant. Mar. 23, 1756 was a Tuesday. Parkman attended a barn-raising, but there is no record that he preached. |
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1753-09-05 | 700-701-R | Act 26:22 | Westborough, Sept. 5 a. & p.m. 1753 “Being this Day 50 Years old.”
“At old Mr. Bradish’s March 2, 1758. “At old Mrs. Grouts Jan. 5, 1768” July 9 [1775] p.m. “occasioned by the Death of my Brother William” Sept. 16 a. & p.m. 1781 “being now beginning my 79th Year.” |
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1754-01-13 | 719-R | Lev. 10.16 | “Occasioned by the Burning of the House of Mr. Alph. Newton; and previous to a Contribution for his Relief. The Burning was in the Night between the 24th and 25th of December 1753. The Contribution was on January 13th p.m. 1754 next following.” | |
1754-02-10 | 724-726, 733-R | Psalm 51:11 | 724-725: Westborough Feb. 10 a./ & p. m 1754
726: Westborough, Feb. 24 a.m. 733: Westborough Mar. 31 a.m. At Grafton, Apr. 7 a. & p. m. At Mr. Daniel Mathis’s in Southborough, Apr. 11 a.m. 1754 being fast time. At Upton Lecture, Nov. 7, 1754 At Deacon Tainters, Dec. 1, 1757 to p. 9. At the Widow Forb. Jan. 5, 1758 At Deac. Bonds Feb. 2. At our North End July 3 a. & p.m. 1755 Public Fast on occasion of the Expedition to Crown Point, etc. Dec. 12 p.m. 1773 to p. 9 Dec. 19 a. & p.m. to page 20 |
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1754-04-21 | 735-736,
739-740-R |
Rom. 5:12 | 735-736: Westborough Apr. 21 a. & p.m. 1754
739-740: May 12 a. & p.m. July 31, 1757 next Sabbath after Council at Leominster July 10, 1760 Catechetical Exercise to page 9. Nov. 6 to p. 16. |
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1754-05-19 | 741-742-R | Rom. 5.15.18 | May 19, 1754 a. & p.m.
The whole Feb. 24, 1765 p.m. |
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1755-01-03 | Jan. 3, 1755
Jan. 3, 1755 was a Friday. There is nothing in the diary to indicate that Parkman preached. |
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1755-01-12 | 733-734-R | Rev. 17 | 783: Westborough, Jan. 12 p.m. 1755
784: Jan. 19 p.m.; May 29 p.m. 1763 |
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1755-06-28 | June 28, 1755
June 28, 1755 was a Saturday; nothing in the diary to indicate that Parkman preached. |
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1755-06-29 | 811-R | Psalm 51:17 | June 29 p.m. 1755 preceding a public fast
NOTE: Misfiled in sermon No. MCC.I.II.III (Mar. 14, 1762) |
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1755-11-09 | 816-817-R | Rev. 3.2 | 15 pp.
Nov. 9, 1755 a. & p.m. Aug. 10, 1760 p.m. with omissions and alterations Dec. 3, 1780 to end of p. 6 Dec. 17 a.m. with many additions “Another Year of divine Patience has rolled off, with the Church. It is now 31 Years Since this Church was founded and our Relation as People and Pastor commenced. We have surely abundant Reason, as, on the one Hand, to admire and praise the Goodness and sparing Mercy of God to us; So, on the other, to reflect with Sorrow and Shame, on our own unprofitableness, and Ingratitude.” |
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1756-06-06 | June 6; Sept. 26, 1756; July 4, 1763
Diary for June 6, 1756: “Read 1 K. 18 from v. 17 and preached a.m. on Joh. 10.11. Administered the Lord’s Supper…. P.M. I read Mat. 21 to v. 23 and in preaching finished the Repetition of Sermon on Ps. 106.4.5.” Diary for Sept. 26, 1756: “Text a.m. Joh. 10.11. P.M. Prov. 3.17.” Diary for July 4, 1763 not extant. |
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1756-06-13 | 850-854, 856-R | Prov. 3:17 | 850-851: June 13 a. & p.m. 1756
852: June 20 a.m. 853-854: Sept. 19 a. & p.m. 856: Sept. 26 p.m. June 11, 1760 Lecture to pag. 13 Oct. 30 Lecture to p.23 Dec. 3 Lecture to p. 30 Sept. 22 Lecture 1762 from p. 30 to 35. Nov. 14 from p. 35 to 44 from 1 Joh. 5.3 |
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1757-03-13 | 897-899, 901-R | 897: Mar. 13 a.m. 1757 Sacrament
898: Mar. 30 a.m. 899: Apr. 3 p.m. 901: Apr. 17 a.m. At North End Lecture, Sept. 6, 1758 the first two Sermons At the North End serm. III and IV Apr. 6, 1760 a.m. serm. V p.m. At Mr. Zebulun Rice’s Feb. 2, 1762 to p. 17 At Squire Bakers Mar. 2, 1762 to p. 30 In Public Apr. 29 p.m. 1781 May 6 p.m. May 13 a. & p.m. |
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1757-05-15 | No number | Ezek. 24:30 | This was Parkman’s first published sermon.
Reformers and Intercessors sought by God; Who Grieves, When They Are Hard to be Found. As Exhibited and Applyed, in a Plain but Serious Discourse on Ezek. xxii. ver. 30. Deliver’d, in Substance, at Southboro’ on Lord’s-Day May 15. 1757. Boston: S. Kneeland, 1757. Evans 7989. Manuscript not extant. |
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1757-06-05 | 906-R | Joh. 14:6 | Westborough, June 5 a.m. 1757 Sacrament
At Grafton Sept. 3 p.m. 1758 At Mr. Bradish, June 9, 1761 At Boston North Eve Lecture, May 24, 1765 Upton, Dec. 7, 1766 a.m. At Northborough, Mar. 2, a.m. 1767 May 7 p.m. 1769 At Shrewsbury Lecture, May 25, 1769 At Southborough Lecture, Aug. 22, 1770 At Westborough again with Additions Aug. 5 p.m. to page 37, mid anno 1781. Aug. 12 a.m. the rest. |
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1757-09-11 | 909-R | Isa. 31:6 | Westborough, Sept. 11 a.m. 1757 and this was used again with great Additions, Nov. 26, 1769 | |
1757-09-15 | No number | Eccl. 1:2 | Westborough, Sept. 15, 1757 Lecture to young People.
Note: no number; was probably preached earlier |
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1757-10-02 | 922-R | Prov. 13:21 former part | Westborough, Oct. 2 p.m. 1757
To Young Men, May 19, 1763 “With Introduction and divers variations and additions, December 6 p.m. after the Communion, and at a Time when the Throat Distemper had broke out again among the Children 1767.” |
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1757-10-23 | 923-R | Prov. 31:10 | Prov. 31:10, “Who can find a Vertuous Woman? for her price is far above Rubies.” Westborough, Oct. 23 a.m. 1757 “Occasioned by the Death of Mrs. Hephzibah Maynard.” | |
1758-02-12 | 942-R | Psalm 62:5.8 | Westborough Feb. 12 p.m. 1758 “when my Dauter Hannah was baptized.”
Feb. 12 p.m. 1769 |
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1758-12-14
(Upton) |
Fragment | Mic. 6.9 | At Upton Dec. 14 a.m. 1758, a.m. “It was Fast there on account of the Throat-Distemper. Mr. Hutchinson p.m. on Mic. 7.9.”
At Southborough, Sept. 28, p.m. “Fast on Occasion on extr. Sickness and Mortality.” Note: It’s not clear that the sermon was first preached at Upton, Dec. 14, 1758. Parkman’s diary notes that he preached on that text on Sept. 11 and Sept. 14, 1740; Nov. 24, 1745 |
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1758-12-31 | 989-990-R | 2 Cor. 4:17 | 989: Westborough, Dec. 31 a.m. 1758
990: p.m. Mar. 3, 1761 at Mr. Grows Feb. 3 p.m. 1771. “the Day after the Funeral of Mr. Jabez Snow junior and Several other Familys under very distressing Circumstances.” Mar. 10 a. & p.m. 1782. “Occasioned by the sorrowful Decease of my Daughter in Law Sarah, the agreeable Consort of my son Samuel, at Boston, who dyd on the 7th of this Month, at one p.m. NB. Breck and Brigham sat out for Boston. Note: Parkman quotes from Tate and Brady o the last [unnumbered] page. |
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1759-02-18
1759-03-11 |
1004-1005-R
1009-1010-R 1011- 1012-R |
Col. 3.3 | Feb. 18, 1759 p.m.; Feb. 25 a.m.
Dec. 26, 1762 a. & p.m. at the north End to page 28 Sept. 8, 1765 a.m. NB Used from p. 19 to 24 under Ps. 83.3 Used from p. 19 to 24 under Ps. 83.3 May 1, 1771 lecture Mar. 11, 1759 a. & p.m. Sacrament Mar. 25, 1759 a. & p.m. Note: 42 pp. with a 4 pp. supplement. “NB This was for the Sake of Some Persons that think none are spiritually Dead but sinners.” |
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1759-04-05 | 1014-1015-R | Hos. 9:12 last clause | 1014: Westborough, Apr. 5 p.m. 1759 “Fast before Going to Canada”
1015: Apr. 15 a.m. Sept. 4 a. & p.m. 1764 Preached at Brookfield 2nd parish Nov. 3 a.m. 1765, “the first Lords Day after the Stamp Act took place” On p. 16: “And is not God angry with us, and departing from us Since we are brought under such a grievous Frown upon our outward State?” “The Day has actually arrived when the Act of Parliament takes place wherein an heavy, an intolerable Burthen is laid upon us, and divers important and inestimable Civil privileges, are actually taken away! Surely this is a Dark Day?! Doubtless the Lord is sorely displeased with His People! from the Days of our first Fathers Setting their Feet etc until this Day, there has been no such stroke upon our Civil state.” At Southborough, July 3 a. & p.m. 1774 “under heavy Distress, by reason of the both Naval Blockade, and by Several Regiments on Boston Common, besides what are at Castle-William.” |
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1759-04-22 | 1016-1018-R | Rom. 2.5 | 1016-1017: Apr. 22 a. & p.m. 1759
1018: Apr. 29 p.m. 1759 Feb. 19 p.m. 1769 to p. 10 Oct. 15 p.m. 1769 from p. 11 the rest |
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1759-09-30 | 1040, 1042, 1044-R | Job | “On the Book of Job”
Sept. 30 a.m.1759 Oct. 7 a.m. Oct. 14 a.m. |
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1759-11-05 | 1046-R | Job 2 | Nov. 5 p.m. 1759 | |
1759-11-18 | 1049, 1051-1052-R | Luke 2:14 | 1049: Westborough, Nov. 18 p.m. 1759
1051-1052: Westborough, Jan. 13 a. & p.m. 1760 Sept. 7 a. & p.m. Sacrament 1766 with omitting the Beginning; and Several Alterations. |
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1759-11-18 | 1058-R | Job. 3 | “(Chiefly indebted to Mr. Henrys)” | |
1760-01-06 | 1059-1060-R | Eccl. 7:1 | Jan. 6 a. & p.m. 1760
At Mr. Nathaniel Whitneys, Jan. 2, 1761 Jan. 7 p.m. 1776 12 pp. |
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1760-04-03 | 1081-R | Isa. 64.9 | Apr. 3, 1760 fast
Apr. 13, 1777 p.m. “with various alterations and additions according to the Occasion, that is, the Smallpox being among us. Mr. Andrews sick of it, and Several inoculated there – also 43 at Mr. Tainters inoculated, among which were my two Daughters, Sophy and Hannah now broke out. Other persons are also designing to go in to the same Hospital.” And July 4, 1780, “at the Widow Newtons, at the distressing Time of raising 29 men more for the War.” p. 6: “Yet are we still under His Sore and terrible Judgments. [Not only is the Calamity of War protracted, but in the Southern Governments it is exceedingly distressing, by reason of the Treachery and Cruelty of the Indians which are in very great Numbers, and very Barbarous and Perfidious. Also by Reason of this great and sore Judgment of Fire, consuming such a considerable part of the Town of Boston, which doubtless all the Province will feel the Sad Effects, and for a great while.]” p. 9: “O that We in Westboro might be able to say to the glorious God We are All thy People.” |
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1760-05-29
(Boston) |
Fragment | 2 Cor. 4:16 | 4 pp.
Delivered to a Society who keep up a Family Meeting at Boston and at this time met at my Eldest Brothers – viz. May 29, 1760. Delivered at Association Lecture Hopkinton, Aug. 20, 1760 At Mr. Samuel Trasks at N. Sutton to my aged Kinswoman, Mrs. Fullers (in her 88th Year), Apr. 1, 1764 at Evening. At Southborough, Mar. 4 a. & p.m. 1765 At Shrewsbury Nov. 6 a. & p.m. 1766 occasioned by the death of Mr. Abraham Knowlton At Rochester Nov. 15 a. & p.m. 1772 my Daughter Moore very low. N.B. Anna-Sophia Moore was baptized the same Day by her grandfather. At Westborough Nov. 22 a. & p.m. 7[1?] to p. 17 Nov. 29 p.m. the rest. Occasioned by the much lamented death of Mrs. Martha Wood, wife of Mr. John Wood, at Colrain. At Mr. Abijah Gale’s at the request of his aged parents, long confined, on Nov. 19, 1778. |
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1760-12-14 | 1118-R | Job 42 | Dec. 14 a.m. 1760
8 pp. |
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1761-05-28 | No number | 2 Cor. 14 | This was Parkman’s second published sermon.
The Love of Christ Constraining Us. A Sermon Preached before the Ministers of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, at Their Annual Convention in Boston, May 28, 1761. Boston: Fowle and Draper, 1761. Evans 8965. Manuscript not extant. |
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1761-12-27 | 1183-1185-R | Heb. 6:12 | 1183: Dec. 27 p.m. 1761
1184-1185: Jan. 10 a. & p.m. 1762 At Brookfield Oct. 17 p.m. 1762 At Boston, old South, Sept. [blank] 1763 p.m. Soon after the Death of Rev. Mr. Alex. Cumming. At Northborough Apr. 17 a. & p.m. 1768 At Hopkinton Nov. 10 a. & p.m. 1771 “being Sacrament Day, and Soon after the Funeral of Mrs. Ann Barrett, late Consort of the Rev. Mr. Samuel Barrett, and next Lord’s Day after the Funeral of Mr. James Freeland, who dyd in the 94th year of his Age.” At Westborough Sept. 21 a. & p.m. “on Consideration of the Death of Dr. Eb. [torn] Pemberton, my Valued Classmat[torn] and soon after the Death of the widow [torn] of my late Brother John: viz [torn] Abigail Parkman, who expired at Ipsw[torn] about 80 years old.” At Southborough Lecture Mar. 29, 1781 Apr. 16, 1782. “To the Association at Westborough with Omissions and Alterations.” |
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1762-02-21 | 1194-1199-R | Psalm 51 | 1194-1195: Feb. 21 a. & p.m. 1762
1196-1197: Feb. 28 a. & p.m. 1198-1199: Mar. 7 a. & p.m. 16 pp. |
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1762-03-14 | 1200-1203-R | Psalm 51:13-14, 16-17, 19 | Mar. 14 a. & p.m. 1762
Mar. 21 a. & p.m. pp. 34-48 only. Note: inserted in this sermon (Roman MCC.I.II.III) is No. DCCCXI, Westborough, June 29 p.m. 1755 preceding a public Fast |
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1762-03-21 | 1204-1205-R | Herb. 2.1 | Mar. 21, 1762 p.m.
Apr. 4, 1762 a.m. Jan. 9, Feb. 7, 1770 at Mr. D. Hardys Mar. 27, 1774 p.m. to p. 10 Mar. 3 p.m. the rest 16 pp. |
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1762-08-08 | 1224-R | Psalm 77:13-14 | Westborough, Aug. 8 a.m.1762
At Northborough May 18 p.m. 1766. NB. News of the Repeal of the Stamp Act June 1 p.m. 1766 Feb. 1, 1777 p.m. Feb. 8 a.m. 1777 Diary, 1766 May 18 (Sunday): “I rode to the District and preached there, a.m. on Ps. 90.16. N.B. had reference to the Remarkable Goodness of God in the Great Deliverance from the Oppressive Act. P.M. on Ps. 77.13.14 and had still reference to the same wonderful work of God.” Diary, 1766 June 1 (Sunday): “P.M. Delivered the sermon on Ps. 77.13.14 with alterations and additions suited to the present Times of Joy for the Repeal etc. My own people having had no Discourse concerning it till now.” Note: his brother-in-law Breck had preached on May 25. |
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1763-01-02 | 1250-1251-R | Psalm 91.16 | Jan. 2, 1763 a. & p.m.
Feb. 24, 1771 p.m. “in one Exercise” 14 pp. |
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1763-01-30 | 1256-R | Eccl. 12:7 | Jan. 30 p.m. 1763
At Deacon Wood’s Mar. 7, 1769 Oct. 13 p.m. 1776 “It was an Oversight that it was delivered again viz Sept. 14 p.m. 1777.” P. 11: “To Soldiers” |
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1763-02-20 | 1260-1263-R | Psalm 37:37 | Westborough Feb. 20 a. & p.m. 1763 “Occasioned by the Death of Mr. James Bradish aged 87 November last.”
Mar. 7 a. & p.m. “And Some parts of it again with proper Alterations next day after the Interment of aged and pious Mrs. Mary Kelly, wife of Mr. Alexander Kelly. She dyd on Jan. 15, 1781, about one in the morning; was buryd on the 6th p.m.” “And Jan. 14 p.m. (1781) to p. 22 and Jan. 21 a.m.” |
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1763-07-10 | 1285-86, 1288-89 1291-92, 1295-96 | Rom 12:3 | 1285: July 10 a.m. 1763
1286: July 17 a.m. 1288-1289: Aug. 7 a. & p.m. 1291-1292: Aug. 28 a. & p.m. 1295: Sept. 25 p.m. 1296: Oct. 9 a.m. |
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1763-11-13 | 1302-1305-R | John 1.12 | 1302: Nov. 13 p.m. 1763
1303-1304: Nov. 20 a. & p.m. 1305: Nov. 27 a.m. Jan. 9 a. & p.m. 1774 to p. 15 Jan. 23 p.n. to p. 21 Jan. 30 p.m. to p. 27 |
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1764-01-01 | 1311-1312-R | Jam. 4:14 | 1311: Jan. 1 a.m. 1764
1312: Jan. 15 a.m. New Year’s Day on Jam. IV.14 Sept. 17 p.m. 1769 Some parts with Additions |
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1764-03-25 | Mar. 25, 1764
Diary for Mar. 25, 1764 not extant. |
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1764-07-29 | 1342-R | Prov. 14:12 | Westborough July 29 a.m. 1764.
Jan. 13 p.m. 1771 to p. 8 |
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1764-07-29 | 1343-R | Prov. 14:12 | July 29 a.m. 1764
Jan. 13 p.m. 1771 to p. 8 |
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1764-09-09 | 1345-1348-R | Cant. 8:5 | 1345: Sept. 9. p.m. 1764
1346-1347: Sept. 16 a. & p.m. 1348: Sept. 23 a.m. Apr. 25 a. & p.m. 1779 May 2 p.m. Aug. 15, 1765 To Miss Ruth Thomas at Mr. Isaac Johnsons in Southborough May 24 p.m. 1770 To Mrs. Haven of Hopkinton |
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1764-11-04 | Nov. 4, 1764
Diary for Nov. 4, 1764: “Read Prov. 24 and Mat. 27 from v. 35 to the End. Preached a.m. on 2 Pet. 3.9 to page [blank] and this was that I might have the greater Liberty for what I had to deliver and might deliver all I had prepared, on that occasion. P.M. on Deut. II.7, it being the last Sabbath of the 40th Year since I was ordained.” |
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1765-01-27 | 1359-1361-R | Prov. 30.1 | 1359: Westborough, Jan. 27, 1765 a.m.
1360: Feb. 3 a.m. 1361: Feb. 10 p.m. Aug. 17 p.m. 1777 to mid. of p. 9 and Aug. 24 a. & p.m. the rest 19 pp. |
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1765-02-17 | 1362-1363-R | Job 21.23-26 | Feb. 17 a. & p.m. 1765. “Occasioned by the Death of Mr. John Pratt only Son of Mr. Hez. Pratt, Aets. 26.”
Sept. 17, 1775 a. & p.m. “occasioned by the Death of my Son JOHN, Aet. 23.” John Parkman died Sept. 10, 1775. P. 16: “When you See how happy those are who have Hope, and especially who have Joy in their Death; blessed be God we have sometimes Such Instances; (One in the last Week [insert: Mrs. Ruth Belknap]; does it not excite in you that earnest Wish, “Let me die the Death of the Righteous[.”] Nay but then be so rational, as to lead the Life of Such.” |
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1765-04-18 | 1371-R | Ps. 65: 5 & 11 | April 18 a. & p.m. 1765 Publick Fast
“July 30 p.m. 1775. With the Omission of all the Passages which were peculiar to the first Occasion (as in pag. 7.8) but with mentioning the remarkables of the present time, viz. the intestine, most distressing War, the Sickness among the Soldiers, and in some of the Country Towns, and the late terrible Drought, which God has been pleased to relieve us under by the late very refreshing Showers.” pp.7-8 contain references to the British victory over the French: “we can’t but think in Righteousness, as they are Antichristians, Enemies of the true Religion, wicked Idolaters and promoters of the Idolatry and Superstition of the Church of Rome, among the Savages; very perfidious to the English and guilty of many horrible Murders and inhuman Crueltys which they both committed them Selves and barbarously Stirred up the Indians to commit”). With respect to the Spanish: “in terrible Things, in Righteousness did the Lord answer us, upon them. For, in the Short Time the War lasted against them besides what was done to their Shipping, they lost Havannah and tho that is restored yet have we all Florida which may prove very beneficial to the british Interest. We are prone also to judge that these terrible Things are in Righteousness because of their breach of Treaty, joining with Our Enemies, and annoying and invading our Allies.” With respect to the Indians: “we don’t know what terrible Things God has done distinctly among them but this is apparent that by their loosing such a support as the French were to them they would no Question, account it very terrible.” Parkman cautions: “Yet we may not Pride our Selves nor boast.” He points to the loss of men and the increased national debt. More importantly, “we could not quietly enjoy the Blessings of Peace. Three Things have especially occurred. One, the Sad intestine Commotion at Home arising from the different sentiments about the making Peace. Another Thing is the prohibiting by Act of Parliament the Colonies supplying themselves with the Produce of the West Indies, from any other than our own Island, which has extremely embarrassed the Trade of all Northern Colonies, and caused loud Complaints. To these a Third is added. Viz. the Taxing the Colonies, in a great Number of Articles – which however, I take notice is to be improved for their own defence and Benefits: and that will make it the more tolerable, but after all, it see, to fill all sensible Persons with deep Concern.” |
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1765-08-04 | 1380-R | Song 8.1-7 | Aug. 4 a.m. 1765
pp. 1-6, 13-18 |
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1765-11-10 | 1394-R | Esther 3:15 | Westborough, Nov. 10, 1765 a.m. “On the Sad Occasion of the Stamp Act.”
“At Grafton Fast on Account of the public Distresses,” Nov. 21, 1765, p.m. At North End, Nov. 24 a.m. |
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1766-03-02 | 1413-R | Isa. 12:1 | Westborough Mar. 2 a.m. 1766
At the widow Smith, June 23, 1767. Nov. 18, 1773 Lecture |
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1766-03-09 | Mar. 9, 1766
Diary for Mar. 9, 1766: “Read Isa. 13. Was unusually long in Exposition. Preached on Tit. 3.4 and delivered all I had prepared, for I chose to go out with the Application (neither curtailing nor leaving to another Time, lest it would by so doing be far less profitable)…. Read p.m. Luk. 14 and for Sermon (besides some what of Exposition) delivered [illegible] what I had preached heretofore on Mark 8.34 from p. 37, to 46. May God grant His efficacious Blessing!” |
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1766-03-16 | Mar. 16, 1766
Diary for Mar. 16, 1766: “Deacon Tainter and Deacon Bond came and acquaint me with the Expediency, and they think Necessity of deferring the administration of the Lord’s supper until next Lords Day. Deacon Tainter says Mr. Daniel Forbes came from Boston not till about an hour or two before Day (as he conceived) and left the Wine at his House; but that the Snow was so drifted he could not ride, and therefore could not bring it: neither do they think that many Communicants can come to Meeting. I read Isa. 14. Instead of the Sermon I had designed to be before the Sacrament, I preached on Tit. 3.5 which I had designed for p.m. and acquainting the Church that we were not furnished with wine etc. the Communion must be unavoidably deferred till next sabbath, got Mr. Fessenden to preach p.m. which he did on Luk. 16 ult. N.B. Read p.m. Luk. 15.” |
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1766-03-30 | Mar. 30, 1766
Diary for Mar. 30, 1766: “Read Isa. 16. Preached on Tit. 3.3. P.M. read Luk. 17. Preached on Tit. 3.6.” |
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1766-08-31 | 1436-1439-R | 2 Thess. 3.1 | 1436: Aug. 31, 1766 a.m.
1437: p.m. 1438-1439: a. & p.m. Sept. 14 Southborough, a. & p.m. Oct. 11, 1767 Northborough, a. & p.m. Sept. 1, 1771 Leicester, Sept. 6. & p.m. 1772 Westborough, Oct. 3 a. & p.m. 1779 Westborough, Oct. 19 p.m. the rest Additions. “Ninthly, Sometimes there arises great Hindrances to the success of the Word preached from the Ministers themselves. They are Angels by office, but not by Nature. They are stars, yet their Influences are not always benign. They must be had in great Esteem as the messengers of Christ, and to be loved for their work’s Sake. But they are men of like Passions with their Brethren and Subject to many Temptations. The wily Adversary Seeks advantage against them even more diligently and maliciously than against others; and Some way or other, at Some times or other may obtain it. Upon which what sad Reflection on not only the Persons themselves but on the Ministry and the whole Cause which they would maintain!” |
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1767-04-26 | 1470-1471-R | 1 Pet. 2:9 | Apr. 26 p.m. 1767
July 26 a. & p.m. 1767, Sacrament Sept. 27 p.m. 1778 to the End of p. 6 with additional uses Oct. 4, a.m. to the end of p. 12 with Alterations and Additions and [Oct.] 11 p.m. the rest, and additional Applications Inserted: prayer bids from the Widow Rhoda Broad and from Paul Biglow and his wife (these on back of additional notes) |
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1767-09-27 | 1480-R | Act 6:1-6 and 1 Tim. 3:8-13 | Westborough Sept. 27 p.m. 1767
“A Discourse on the Original Duty & Business, & the Qualifications of DEACONS.” “For the Induction of Deacon Benj. Wood.” |
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1768-08-21 | Aug. 21, 1768; Apr. 1, 1764 [?]; Aug. 3, 1766; Aug. 23, 1767
Diary for Aug. 21, 1768: “Preached at Marlborough a. and p.m. on Heb. 4.2.” Diary for Apr. 1, 1764 not extant. Diary for Aug. 3, 1766: “Mr. Hutchinson went to Westborough this morning, though against my Disposition — but he will do after his own manner. He preached on Gen. 3.29.23 and on Ch. 28.12. He also baptized Aaron, son of Isaac Miller. I preached for him on Heb. 4.2 a. and p.m. to the End of p. 20.” Diary for Aug. 23, 1767: “Preached at Grafton a.m. on Heb. 4.2. P.M. on Joh. 17.4.” |
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1768-12-18 | 1530-1531-R | Eccl. 3:14 | Dec. 18 a. & p.m. 1768
“First Occasioned by the Death of Mr. John Curtis of Worcester, who was killed on Waltham Plain the night after the 13th under his Waggon-Wheel: And by the Death of Dr. Young at Hopkinton who was found Dead in the morning of the 14th on a Fence with the Rider on his Head. I hear also that a Third was killed the Same (13) Day, one [blank] of Mendon.” “The first part again Dec. 24. p.m. 1775. Occasioned by Several late Disasters. 3 Lads at Worcester skating were drown’d. viz. Franklin Williams, Francis & Ben Chandler.” And Dec. 31 p.m. On p. 11 Parkman gives names of “Ministers who have dyd (if I am not mistaken) this year,” including John Gardner, Roland Thatcher, Ezra Thayer, Joseph How, Amos Adams, Mat. Bridges, Jos. Emerson, Thomas Swift, Jonathan Burt. He also notes “The Deaths among ourselves this Year, about 35 or 36, of old & young.” |
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1770-06-17 | 1603-1604-R | Ezek. 20:11.25 | Westb. June 17 a. & p.m. (70)
At Squire Bakers Oct. 3. 1780. https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/view/drs:426368006$1i Pp. 13-14 only Parkman’s diary, June 17, 1770: “Read Ezek. 20. My Exercise a.m. was on that Chapter. P.M. was especially on the [illegible] verse. Had read Eph. 1.” |
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1771-03-10 | R-1642-1645 | 1 Cor. 15:1-2 | 1642-1643: Westborough, Mar. 10 a. & p.m.
1644: Mar. 17 p.m. 1645: Mar. 24 p.m. 22 pp. |
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1771-04-28 | 1648-R | Psalm 69.32 | Apr. 28 a.m. 1771
July 25 p.m. 1779 10 pp. plus 1-page insert (one side on Ps. 69.32; other on Ezek. 38) |
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1771-06-16 | 1654-R | Ezek. 47.1 | Westborough June 16 a.m. (71)
7 pp. plus insert |
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1772 | No number | Luk. 14:17 | No date or number, but is marked “1772” in pencil. | |
1772-01-12 | No number | Luke 15:17 | 16 pp.
The person who catalogued this sermon wrote 1772 in pencil, but there is no date. Parkman’s diary for 1772 January 12 (Sunday): Preach a.m. on Tit. 3.5, latter part, on Regeneration. Finished on Joh. 3.3. P.M. Preached on Luk. 15.17, “when he came to himself.” |
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1772-01-26
1772-02-02 1772-02-16 1772-02-23 1772-02-23 |
1679-1683-R | Luk. 15:20
15:20 15:21 15:22 15:23 |
Jan. 26 p.m. (72)
This is a part of a larger series, [17]-32 pp. Sermon 1679, pp. [17]-22. Sermon 1680, pp. [23]-31. Sermon 1681, pp. 31-36 Sermon 1682, pp. 36-42 Sermon 1683, pp. [43]-48 |
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1772-03-08
1772-05-10 |
1684-R
1693-R |
Luk. 15:23-24 | 1684: Mar. 8 a.m. 1772
1693: May 10 a.m. This is a continuation of sermons 1679-83, pp. [49]-62. |
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1772-06-28 | 1627-R | Hosea 3 | Westborough, June 28 a.m. 1772 | |
1772-06-28 | 1697-R | Hosea 3 | June 28 a.m.
Incomplete, pp. [1]-4 |
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1772-07-05 | 1698-1699-R | Hosea 4:1-45 | July 5 a.m.
July 12 a.m. Incomplete, pp. [1]-8 |
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1773-10-31 | Fragment (no number) | Incomplete, with pp. 17-18 concluding one or more sermons; pp. 19-32, continuing several sermons. On p. 19 Parkman notes the date, Oct. 31. p.m. 1773 and that he continued to p. 24. On p. 25 he notes the date, Nov. 7. p.m. 1773 to p. 32. On p. 32, he notes “From hence to the End, with some Additions, Nov. 21. p.m. 1773.” | ||
1774-01-16 | 1763-1765-R | Psal. 92:12 | Jan. 16 a. & p.m. 1774
Jan. 23 a.m. “At Southborough Feb. 6 a. & p.m. 1774. “Again, some parts detached here and there Jan. 16 p.m. 1780. Occasioned by the Death of Mr. Daniel Forbes, who dyd on the 12th in the 70th Year of his Age. NB Omitted many of the Enlargements on the Palm, Cedar, Olive, and the Chief of the Improvement Substituting another, according to the Occasion.” 18 pp. |
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1774-01-30 | 1766-R | Joh. 18:18 | Jan. 30 a.m. 74
10 pp. |
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1775-01-22 | No number | Rev. 2:1 | On the Death of Rev. John Gardner.
June 10, 1781 p.m. Occasioned by the Death of Rev. Nath. Stone of Southborough “I have been lately called by the sorrowful Providence of God to the important but necessary work of interring and embalming a very aged and worthy minister of Jesus Christ and it causes many serious Reflections, assistance in which can’t but be very useful and profitable to those who are truly pious….” 10 pp. |
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1775-01-22 | No number | Prev. 2.1 | Jan. 22, 1775, a.m. “on the Death of Rev. John Gardner.” (See pp. 8-9.)
June 10, 1781, p.m. “Occasioned by the Death of Rev. Nathaniel Stone of Southborough.” |
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1775-10-15 | 1829-1831-A | Psalm 130.1.2 | 1829: Oct. 15 p.m. 1775
1830: Nov. 12 p.m. 1831: Nov. 19 a.m. 25 pp. |
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1777-07-06 | 1894-1897-A | Hos. 6:4 | July 6 a. & p.m. 1777
July 13 p.m. July 20 a.m. “I delivered the Substance of this Discourse at a Fast at Hopkinton Sept. 10 p.m. 1777.” “Westborough, Oct. 14 a. & p.m. 1781” 29 pp. |
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1777-11-02 | 1911-1914-A | Eph. 2:1-2 | 1911: Nov. 2 p.m. 1777
1912: Nov. 9 a.m. 1913: Nov. 16 a.m. 1914: Nov. 23 a.m. 24 pp. |
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1778 July 5 | 1932-A | Prov. 6.26 | July 5, 1778, a.m.
“Occasioned by the Execution of Bathsheba Spooner for the murder of her Husband” |
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1778-11-08 | 1943-A | 2 Pet. 1:12-13 | Nov. 8 a.m. 1778
“Dear Brethren, “Thro the Longsuffering of God this Church has been carried thro another year; and 54 Years are now completed, Since we enterd into the Solemn Covenant with the Great Jehovah; jointly and Severally Personally and collectively as people for ourselves and our successors, and Since I was also in very Solemn manner Separated and set apart to the work of the Gospel Ministry and ordained the pastor of this Flock of our Lord Jesus Christ. At the same time that this calls for our sincerest, most gratefull Acknowledgments for so undeserved Lenity and Goodness of God to us; We may find great Cause for deep Humiliation and Repentance for our manifold, our unnumerable Deficiencies, and Offences: and have need to fly to the Blood of Jesus Christ for our cleansing; and that we may obtain pardon thro His Merits and Intercession. From an humbling Sense of our former Miscarriages, we ought to be excited and quickened to fresh Care, and to vigorous Exertion in the Discharge of our incumbent Duty as Christians….” Note: Parkman added some additional material on a scrap of paper, overwriting a prayer bid by John Kelley. John Kelley and wife desire [the prayers?] of this Church and Congregation for hur being in a [?] god woold [?] hur [?] and all [?] |
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1778-11-15 | 1944-1947-A | 1 Cor. 15:1-2 | 1944: Nov. 15 p.m. 1778
1945: Nov. 22 a.m. 1946: Dec. 13 a.m. 1947: Dec. 20 a.m. 27 pp. |
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1780-04-16 | Apr. 16, 1780
Diary for April 16, 1780: “A.M. on 1 Thes. 4.17-18. P.M. on 2 Cor. 4.3-4. Read a.m. Zech 9.” |
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1780-05-21 | 2001-2002-A | Amos 5.4-8
Amos 8-9 |
May 21 a.m. 1780. “Occasion’d by the Darkness on the 19th”
May 28 a.m. 1780 “For if we should not carry the matter so far as to conclude that there was any Thing Supernatural or Miraculous therein, that should unsuitably terrifie and discompose us, yet the Great Supreme of the Universe may see meet to improve the Instrumentality of Second Causes to effect some wise or worthy Design in the moral world by the Agency of the Meteors; and He may justly expect the intelligent part of the Creation, and especially those who profess to be His more peculiar Servants and Worshippers will endeavor to take due Notice of His remarkable Providences whilst Inadvertence and a careless Behaviour at such a time with excite His Displeasure and expose to His Resentment.” No. 2002. May 28 a.m. 1780 |
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1780-11-09 | Nov. 9, 1780.
Note: This was a Thursday on which there was a church meeting on the case of Mrs. Daniel Adams. Parkman did not preach. |
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1780-11-12 | Nov. 12, 1780.
Diary for Nov. 12, 1780: “Preached again on John 10.11. P.M. on Mal. 1.11.” |
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1780-11-19 | Nov. 19, 1780.
Diary for Nov. 19, 1780: “I preached on Mal. 1.12-13…. P.M. I preached on Prov. 18.10. |
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1780-12-31 | Dec. 31, 1780.
Diary for Dec. 31, 1780: “I preached a.m. on Mal. 1.14 the latter part, and p.m. on Eccl. 12.13. It is deeply to be regretted that those great and Serious Subjects have so slender Effect upon our Minds, Since they do so nearly, so inf’ly [infinitely?] concern us! I have great Reason to be astonished at myself, that I am so far below what I ought to be! I beseech God most graciously to awaken me to a proportionable Exertion!” |
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1780? | Oct. 1, 1718 (1780 written in pencil: most likely the true date).
Diary for Oct. 1, 1780: “Preached on Mal. 1.11. P.M. repeat Sermon on Isaiah 55.13.” |
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1781-01-15 | Jan. 15, 1781.
Note: This was a Monday; Parkman did not preach. |
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1781-03-04 | 2021-A | Isa. 60:17 last part | Mar. 4, 1781 p.m. before T. Meeting
“The Season is revolving, when according to the New Constitution of Government and the Hopes to enjoy the happy privilege of assembling for the Election of Town Officers, I conceive it reasonable for you to except [sic] some divine Instructions, Cautions and Directions as the present Circumstances and as the Dutys which you may be called to, may require.” |
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No Date | Fragment (no number) | John 9:4 | “At old Mrs. Forbush’s”
Addition No. 1, page 15 |
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No Date | No number | Eph. 6:5-8 | “Of Servants”
15 pp. |
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No Date | No number | Job 42:10-17 | Pp. 1, 10-16 | |
No Date (1736?) | Fragment | Isa. 68:13-14 | Contains draft of letter to Rev. John Hancock of Lexington, June 28, 1736 about admission of Josiah and Mercy Russell who had violated the 7th commandment. | |
No date | Psal. 10:4 | “God is not in all his Thoughts.”
Note: No entry in the extant diary for a sermon on this text. |
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No Date | No number | No text | Fragment, pp. 9-12
“I have diligently prayed for you & yours in every Prayer of mine making mention of you, and God forbid that I should Cease to pray for You. I therefore lay claim to your constant prayers for me and mine. And I call upon you to continue in prayer.” |
[1]The Axtells took up residence in the north part of Grafton about 1730. Pierce, Grafton, pp. 451-2.