Jan 13, 1789 Home Logbook Jan 15, 1789
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Fresh breezes and Fair Wr. Calms in the middle part and some small Rain with Thunder and Lightning. Wind ENE. Thermr. 79° to 82°.
Armourer employed at the Forge. Hands refitting Blocks and the Carpenters employed making places for the Plants. Five Men in the Venereal List.
This moring Moannah sailed for Tetturoah with two other cannoes. Tynah has therefore kept his engagement with me thus far.
I saw two instances to day of punishment for infedelity, one of which was a laughable Scene. A Girl who claimed my Coxwain as her Husband gave another a beating for having been intimate with him. The conversation that preceded it proved that those things if known were not done with impunity and I had a more convincing proof of this, for a man who was caught with a married Woman, by the Husband, was stabbed with a Knife in the Belly and he escaped with a wound only of little consequence as it penetrated very little within the Skin. When each had taken their satisfaction the parties became reconciled and on as good terms as before.