- Parkyns— J. W.
- Gray— Henry
- Fuller— Timothy
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rsFuller.
Morning visits from Mr
Parkyns, heretofore a Sheriff of London, with Henry Gray; and from Mr and Mrs Fuller of
Cambridge. Mr Parkyns is a personage of some notoriety,
and of great abundance, and not a little singularity of Conversation— He shewed me a
fowling piece loaded, disguised as a walking Stick, and a piece of an old Greek
Manuscript, said to have been found in the City of Canopus— He told me also something
of his controversies with James Buchanan the
British Consul at New-York, and of monuments he has ordered to be erected to the
Regicides Goffe and Whalley at New Haven— He has no reverence for the
house of Stuart, and very little for the House of Brunswick Lunenberg. Charles took leave of the paternal mansion this
Morning and went into Boston— At 1/2 past four this afternoon, I rode with T. B. Adams junr to
Boston—stopp’d at Cary the Stone-Cutters—who not
being at his work-yard, I left with his partner Dickinson, the Monumental inscription— Left a Note from Louisa Foster, to her Sister Mary, at her
fathers house; and called to leave a parcel for Charles at his House; we
then went over Craigie’s Bridge to Mr Peter C. Brooks’s at
Medford, where my Son Charles was married by the Revd. Caleb Stetson, the Minister of the Parish, to
Abigail Brown Brooks, youngest daughter of
Peter Chardon Brooks, and of Anne, daughter of
Nathaniel Gorham of Charlestown. They were
married according to the Congregational form of worship; in presence of the father and
mother of the bride— Of their Sons Edward, Peter Chardon junr. and Sidney Brooks and their wives—of their
daughters Anne and her husband Edward Everett, and Charlotte, and her husband the Revd. N. L. Frothingham—of Mrs Stetson wife of the Minister—Edmund Quincy and Edward
Blake, bridemen, Miss Carter and
Miss Grey; bridemaids and of Miss Philips a
niece of Mr Brooks, residing with him. There were also two
boys sons of Mr Frothingham—Lieutenant T. B. Adams and myself— After the
Ceremony there was a joyous supper— Charles and his bride went into Boston, to their
own House, and the rest of the company went to their several homes; excepting
Lieutenant T. B. Adams and myself, who by invitation of Mr
and Mrs Brooks remained to pass the Night at Medford— Mrs Brooks is in declining health, and only by great exertion
was able to attend the festive solemnity— May the blessing of God rest upon this
marriage and upon the parties to it.