Edward Palmer is sentenced to placed in the stocks.

(Nov.) Palmer, a carpenter, had been hired to build the stocks, which are located near today’s 27 State Street. The first person placed in the stocks in Boston, he is punished for submitting a bill which is judged to be exorbitant (“1 lb. 13/7d. for the plank and woodwork”). A few months later the device is employed again when a convicted bigamist is sentenced to be “set in the stocks for one hour on Lecture Day for two weeks so that all maids and widows might see him and not become number three.”