December 29, 1738

1738 December 29 (Friday).  Mrs. Forbush carried home by Ebenezer.  N.B. Mrs. Tainter here to discourse with me upon the Offence I had manifested at her Daughters being the Introducers of Velvet whoods among young persons of low Rank in the Congregation and she in a Christian manner Submitted and ask’d forgiveness inasmuch as She had been the Author of it.  Martha Maynard[1] watch’d.

[1]Daughter of David Maynard of Marlborough.