Ebenezer Parkman project

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Ebenezer Parkman project

The Ebenezer Parkman Project is a unique collaborative effort to digitize, transcribe, and make accessible the remarkable writings of Rev. Ebenezer Parkman, Westborough’s first minister. The core of the project is a transcription of Parkman’s 4000-page diary. The website also includes other works by Parkman and research on the people who lived in Westborough during Parkman’s time. Managed by the Westborough Center for History and Culture at the Westborough Public Library, The Ebenezer Parkman Project is a unique collaborative to digitize, transcribe, and make accessible the remarkable writings of of Rev. Ebenezer Parkman, Westborough’s first minister. The work of Prof. Ross W. Beales, Jr., who has dedicated much of his academic career to studying Parkman, sits at the core of this project. His transcription of Parkman’s 4000-page diary is the heart of the project, and his transcriptions of other works by Parkman and his research on the people who lived in Westborough during Parkman’s time help to fill out the body of this website, which is rich in content about Westborough and colonial life in rural New England. Dr. Ross W. Beales, Jr. (Professor Emeritus, College of the Holy Cross), Dr. James F. Cooper (Director, New England’s Hidden Histories), and Dr. Anthony T. Vaver (Local History Librarian, Westborough Public Library) together direct The Ebenezer Parkman Project.

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Parkman, Ebenezer, 1703-1782

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Reverend Ebenezer Parkman was born in 1703 in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of William and Elizabeth (Adams) Parkman. He graduated from Harvard College in 1703 and received his M.A. in 1724. In 1722, he began to preach, and in 1724, he and Jacob Eliot, a graduate of Harvard in 1723, were chosen by the Westborough town meeting as candidates to become the town’s first minister. Parkman was called by the town and ordained on October 28, 1724. He and Mary Champney were married in 1724 and became...