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Diary of the Rev. Samuel Checkley, 1735

Checkley, Samuel, 1696-1769, 1909. A public-domain text about Boston, accessioned whole so the archive can quote it.

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book

Author

Checkley, Samuel, 1696-1769

Publisher

Cambridge, J. Wilson and son

Published, as stated

1909

Language

en

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DIARY OF THE REV. SAMUEL CHECKLEY 1735 EDITED BY HENRY WINCHESTER CUNNINGHAM , •*i»> >i^L<M& ^3K.& **1 -jffia- w ^iKtbib, MDCCXXXV. The MeiV'Efjglaftd DiSLty: Or, ALMANACK For the Year of out Lord C H R I S T^ I 7 3 5. feeing the Third Year of 'SifextiU, and The Crettiqn of the World,— 568 Noab's Flood. ,,.:— 402 Building of London^ 'i 2842 §m1fC* Settlement of New.Eugland, -——o i a 6/ ^Building of BojioTi, o 105' Greac Fire in Bojion,' < - — o 025 ^Ycirs Applies^ the Horizon of BO STON, io N. E. where Che MnT) Pole is raifed, and the Scrub Pole U de. frcfled equal CO an Angle of 42 deg. 25. win, Nortlf, S&^ Meridian 4 b. 44 rn. Wefi of London. By a Native of IJew- England, AND for tie Heav'vs »jde Circuit, iei it /feak Tie Miken 7/igh J^hgwficevce, vhohitlt Ho fpacioiis, and his Lintfitetiht out fofat ; ThaiJiJan may know he dwells not in iisvimi An^ Ed.fice too targe for bim tofiS, - Lodged in a fmall Partition, . and the tefi Ordain' d Jot Ufa to bis Lord iefi knovm. Milton*f Pair. loft. BO SrO N^'m New-England, Prmted by T. Fleety for the Bookfellers, and fold at their Shops..! 735. ^- 'la*" DIARY OF THE REV. SAMUEL CHECKLEY 1735 EDITED BY HENRY WINCHESTER CUNNINGHAM REPRINTED FROM THE PUBLICATIONS OF ^\)t Colonial J>octft^ of !lll^n0s;acl)us;cttsf Vol. XII CAMBRIDGE JOHN WILSON AND SON Slnibcvsitg ^xtss 1909 ^ g\ G Gift Edito- 11 S '09 DIARY OF THE REV. SAMUEL CHECKLEY 1735 DIARY OF THE REV. SAMUEL CHECKLEY, 1735. A short time ago there fell into my hands a copy of The New-Eng- land Diary: Or, Almanack For the Year of our Lord Christ, 1735, that was interleaved and filled with comments by the Rev. Samuel Checkley on various happenings in Boston during that year. There is much in this Diary that has more than a passing interest for the student of old Boston, and it covers a period when the records are surprisingly meagre. Judge Sewall's voluminous Diary had ended six years before, and by a singular fatality both town and church records during the early part and middle of the eighteenth century are either missing altogether, or else so little is recorded that they are of slight value. The records of Mr. Checkley's church, now in the custody of the City Registrar, contain no records of death, a fact that adds value to the burials recorded in this Diary. The Boston selectmen in the very year of this almanac expressed concern at the neglect of the inhabitants to record births and deaths; and Samuel Gerrish, the town clerk, recorded the negligence com- plained of, from which it appears that, for the fourteen months pre- ceeding, "more than 950 births and deaths" had occurred in the town of which no record had been handed in; "which neglect of theirs," he added "may prove to be of ill consequence to their posterity." ^ It is clear, therefore, that when a record of this character, made by an educated man of the dominant class, comes to light, it ought to be printed, that others may benefit by the discovery. From the earliest days, one or more almanacs had been published * Drake's History and Antiquities of Boston, p. 599. 1909] DIARY OF THE REV. SAMUEL CHECKLEY, 1735 271 in New England nearly every year, and found their way into the homes of the people, in many of which they shared with the Bible the distinction of

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