October 3, 1745

1745 October 3 (Thursday).  Our Company went off.  N.B. Mary Graves, now Garfield, here confessing her Fornication and desiring a Line to Mr. Cushing if I was willing she should Make her public Humilliation there, Seeing She had dwelt in Shrewsbury about 3 years: which I consented to.  P.M. Mr. Francis Whipple here.  He in Conversation inform’d me that this Precincts Committee were to meet tomorrow Evening.