Provenance and Publication

    Location of Extant Portions of Parkman’s Diary

    • 1723–1728 (Jan. 1723–Sept. 1728): American Antiquarian Society (hereafter: AAS)
    • 1736 (Jan. 8–Dec. 31): AAS
    • 1737 (Feb., Mar., Apr., Oct., Nov.): Published by the Westborough Historical Society
    • 1738–1740: AAS
    • 1742 (Jan. 1–Dec. 19): AAS
    • 1742 (Dec. 21–31): Massachusetts Historical Society (hereafter: MHS)
    • 1743–1748: AAS
    • 1749: MHS
    • 1750–1754: AAS
    • 1755: MHS
    • 1756–1761 (Jan. 1756–May 1761): AAS
    • 1764–1769 (June 1764–June 1769): AAS
    • 1770: AAS
    • 1771–1772 (Aug. 1771–Nov. 21, 1772): MHS
    • 1772 (Nov. 10–21): AAS
    • 1772–1773 (Nov. 1772–June 5, 1773): MHS
    • 1773–1778 (June 15, 1773–Oct. 1778): AAS
    • 1778–1780: (Nov. 1778–Dec. 1780): Published by the Westborough Historical Society
    • 1781–1782: MHS

    Digital images of the diaries of Ebenezer Parkman and his sons Breck and Ebenezer which are in the Parkman Family Papers at the American Antiquarian Society may be found at: https://gigi.mwa.org/imagearchive/filename/271945_.

    Publication History

    The diary for 1723–1755, with the exception of 1736 and 1742, was edited by Francis G. Walett and published in the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 71–76 (1961–1966). The same years were subsequently reprinted in The Diary of Ebenezer Parkman, 1703–1782: First Part, Three Volumes in One, 1719–1755 (Worcester, MA: American Antiquarian Society, 1974). Walett also included Parkman’s birthday meditations, the “Natalitia.” The years 1736 and 1742 were acquired by AAS in 1985.

    Harriette M. Forbes, ed., The Diary of Rev. Ebenezer Parkman, of Westborough, Mass., for the Months of February, March, April, October and November, 1737, November and December of 1778, and the Years of 1779 and 1780 ([Westborough,] 1899). These portions of the diary are not known to be extant.

    Excerpts for the period January 7–December 18, 1742, were published in Joseph Tracy, The Great Awakening: A History of the Revival of Religion in the Time of Edwards and Whitefield (Boston, 1845), 204–12.

    Online Editions of the Parkman Diary

    1. “The Diary of Ebenezer Parkman, 1719–1728,” ed. Francis G. Walett. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 71, pt. 1 (Apr. 1961), 91–227. https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44525074.pdf
    2. “The Diary of Ebenezer Parkman, 1729–1738,” ed. Francis G. Walett. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 71, pt. 2 (Oct. 1961), 362–448. https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44525083.pdf
    3. “The Diary of Ebenezer Parkman, 1739–1744,” ed. Francis G. Walett. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 72, pt. 1 (Apr. 1962), 32–233. https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44525090.pdf
    4. “The Diary of Ebenezer Parkman, 1745–1746,” ed. Francis G. Walett. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 72, pt. 2 (Oct. 1962), 330–481. https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44525104.pdf
    5. “The Diary of Ebenezer Parkman, 1747,” ed. Francis G. Walett. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 73, pt. 1 (Apr. 1963), 46–120. https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44574378.pdf
    6. “The Diary of Ebenezer Parkman, 1748,” ed. Francis G. Walett. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 73 pt. 2 (Oct. 1963), 386–464. https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44604986.pdf
    7. “The Diary of Ebenezer Parkman, 1749–1750,” ed. Francis G. Walett. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 74, pt. 1 (Apr. 1964), 38–203. https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44517709.pdf
    8. “The Diary of Ebenezer Parkman, 1751–1753,” ed. Francis G. Walett. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 75, pt. 1 (Apr. 1965), 49–199. https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44517555.pdf
    9. “The Diary of Ebenezer Parkman, 1754–1755,” ed. Francis G. Walett. Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 76, pt. 1 (Apr. 1966), 73–201. https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44497910.pdf
    10. The Diary of Rev. Ebenezer Parkman, of Westborough, Mass., for the Months of February, March, April, October and November, 1737, November and December of 1778, and the Years of 1779 and 1780, ed. Harriette M. Forbes. Westborough: The Westborough Historical Society, 1899. https://archive.org/details/diaryofrevebenez00park