Old South Church Sunday sermon is interrupted.

(July) In his diary, Samuel Sewall describes ow Margaret Brewster, a Quaker, as, “Covered with a Canvas Frock, having her hair disheveled and Loose, and powdered with Ashes, resembling a flaxen or white Periwigg, her face as black as Ink.” Brewster warns that the town will soon be visited by “the black pox” as punishment for its persecution of Quakers. Brewster is subsequently sentenced to be “whipt at the carts tail up and down the town with twenty lashes.”