Diary of Ralph Josselin (Private Collection)

15.2.1652 (Sunday 15 February 1652)

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Feb. 15. This week the Lord was very good to me and all mine in our health, peace outward enjoyments, preservation, when other families are under a continuing affliction of the smallpox. the season fit, wet, cold, sometimes dry and cheerful, the Lord good to me in my spiritual state, yet with sense of goodness comfortable that I am not left under the power of it(.) the lord was good to me in many good providences, he accept of me in the work of the Sabbath whereunto he enables me,

Feb: 6 was Iretons funeral.