the Thoreau Log.

12 October 1817. Concord, Mass.

Henry D. Thoreau is baptized David Henry by Rev. Ezra Ripley:

  Oct. 12 Thoreau, David Henry; s. of Cynthia wife of John (First Parish in Concord records. Special Collections, Concord (Mass.) Free Public Library).

Henry D. Thoreau writes in his journal on 27 December 1855:

  Uncle David died when I was six weeks old. I was baptized in old M.H. by Dr. Ripley, when I was three months, and did not cry (Journal, 8:64).