Being found out,
they were ordered by the governors of the college to be there whipped,
which was performed by the president himself--yet they were about twenty
years of age; and after they were brought into the court and ordered to
twofold satisfaction, or to serve so long for it. We had yet no
particular punishment for burglary."
Another entry for 1644 tells of one William Franklin, condemned for causing
the death of his apprentice:--
"The case was this. He had taken to apprentice one Nathaniel Sewell, one
of those children sent over the last year for the country; the boy had
the scurvy and was withal very noisome, and otherwise ill disposed. His
master used him with continual rigour and unmerciful correction, and
exposed him many times to much cold and wet in the winter season, and
used divers acts of rigour towards him, as hanging him in the chimney,
etc., and the boy being very poor and weak, he tied him upon an horse and
so brought him (sometimes sitting and sometimes hanging down) to Boston,
being five miles off, to the magistrates, and by the way the boy calling
much for water, would give him none, though he came close by it, so as
the boy was near dead when he came to Boston, and died within a few hours
after.
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