Harvard University - Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School / Heard family. Heard family business records, Volume FP-4, Folder GQ-2-2, and Volume JP-2.
Mss:766 1754-1898. Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School.
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interTie. took place.
The
tiret order wae to take off the clothlnt tram
the upper part
ot
the bod,y: - then, to fold the arme around one of the
iron pillarl .up;;ortlng the root, and all bei1l& thue du.ly prepared,
the ualter knelt dQWn and prB1ed that the whipping might be I.nctified!
The
puniibment .a.e then inflicted .ah • long, fle:!:lble oo.hide.
Thh .tory will hardly be believed todlq. but I •••• too often, one of
the principal acton to leave
~
roam for doubt.
The
matb"""Uoal malter wa.
Mr.
Barton,
who
bad been educated
at one of the military echool., Capt, Partridge'e, I believe.
He
YIl,
Terr ,.Ter., but, at the lame t1.Dle, 1"17 Jutlt, and wa. ther.for.
T'I7
mw::h Hked by all the boye, and boye haTe a keeu IInee of Juetlce.
He ... a ve17
band.ODIe
man, and hae beel!. llTiug Wltll recentl¥.
if
he
be not no..
The
third ma.ter ""'. a.
Ilr. __
-
rand
he
wa..
the
meane.t
.
hite
man.
1 ."
er knew.
lie
.
a. cruel, ae wdl, .. an instance of .hich
I
IZIB,Y
mention that not be1ll,g permitted by the
TIll"
or the echool to
pu.nieh by whippin&,
he
l'oulcl.
flog half the cla.. and then
sa,y
tacetiOUl_
l¥. -Do,YI, I am not whipping ,You, I am only .bowing you how I .b·ll whip
you
if
'
you do not do better.- He ... in charge of the etud.ente who
lived at
Mr••
llarton'e,
~d
one of hie plea.ant habite wae to Heten at
the keyhole of
tbe
boye and punhh them for the peccadillo..
he
learned
in thil bonorabl e !!IAnner. Hie borne ...e lomewhere in Termont. and wieh1ng
to 1'1Iit
1
t
one Tacation,
he
propoeed to t he parenti of Ii:!: bo,Ye to tv-.
them on thi. excll%'eion and
he
WQuld eee that they en.1o,Yed them.eLT•••
ltonq
'
A'
pbced 1nM. hand., from which
he
engaged to
.
upp1¥
them Y1th
.
hateYer
it ....
proper thq .hould have for Ipend.1n& mone,.. To 111u–
trate the liberal .cal. on .hich
the
.
xcur.ion lI'a. conducted, I will
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