Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 edition. Excerpt: ... Notes ETTER BOOK and Abstracl of Out Services." The Diary appears to have been planned with a more limited scope than it actually assumed. Not only does it embrace, in accordance with its title, a memorandum of letters written and received by Dr. MacSparran and a record of services held by him outside the reputed limits of S. Paul's Parish, in Narragansett, as for example, at Coeset, Conanicut, Old Warwick and Westerly, but it also notes many of the daily incidents of his domestic life, the social events of the vicinage and, although to a somewhat limited extent, items of public interest. 2 "May 29th." No year is here indicated, but the entry of August 1st, following, shows it to have been 1743. 3 "Y' Restoration." The Restoration of King Charles II. to the English throne. "The Act 12, Car. II., Cap. 14, appointed May zyth to be observed with public thanksgiving for a double reason, as being the birthday of Charles II. as well as the day of his Restoration."--Blunt's Annotated Book of Common Prayer. London. 1869. p. 578. 4 "Mr. Plant of Newbury." The Rev. Matthias Plant was a missionary of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts and was settled at Newbury, in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, from 1721 to 1753, the year of his death. It is noticeable that his ministry was, thus, nearly conterminous with that of Doctor MacSparran, in Narragansett. The chief highway between New York and Connecticut, on the one hand, and Providence and Boston, on the other, was, in the Doctor's day, the Post Road, more anciently called the Pequot Path of the Indians, passing lengthwise along the ridge of what is now MacSparran Hill, above and a little to the westward of the Glebe House. For travellers approaching from either direction...
