Nathaniel Eaton is censured by the General Court.

Meeting in Boston, the court censures the Harvard College master for beating his assistant Nathaniel Briscoe with a cudgel, for beating his students, and for providing poor food to his students and boarders – including mixing goat dung in with the hasty pudding (a corn meal mush), an act he blames on his wife. Eaton is fined by the court. John Winthrop writes in his journal, “debarred teaching children within our jurisdiction.” Rather than pay the fine and their other debts, the Eatons subsequently flee first to New Hampshire and then to Virginia.