"The wind more large to the N. a stiff gale, with fair weather. In the
afternoon less wind, and our people began to grow well again. Our
children and others, that were sick and lay groaning in the cabins, we
fetched out, and having stretched a rope from the steerage to the
main-mast, we made them stand, some of one side and some of the other,
and sway it up and down till they were warm, and by this means they soon
grew well and merry."

The following entry for June 5, 1644, reflects an interesting side light on
the government of Harvard, our first American college:--

"Two of our ministers' sons, being students in the college, robbed two
dwelling houses in the night of some fifteen pounds. 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