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A minister's bereavement and remarriage: Ebenezer Parkman of Westborough, Massachusetts

Historians have written extensively about widows but have paid less attention to widowers whose greater economic, legal, and social standing may have been assumed to smooth the way through mourning, courtship, and remarriage. The Rev. Ebenezer Parkman of Westborough, Massachusetts, lost his wife in early 1736 and remarried 19 months later. An examination of his experience as a widower shows that bereavement and remarriage were a complex process in which the practical considerations of his family's needs, his grief, and his loneliness, as well as the reservations of his prospective bride, all played a part in the duration of his widowerhood and the circumstances of his remarriage.