Sunday Morning [13 or 20] July 1760.
[from the Diary of John Adams]

Sunday Morning [13 or 20] July 1760.

The week before last Salome Pope appeared before Coll. Quincy, to confess herself with Child, by Jos. Ryford.

Her Intention was to complain against Jos. Ryford and charge him before the Justice with being the father of the Bastard Child with which she is now pregnant. Now what Occasion for taking her Examination upon Oath?—By the Province Law.1

1. Here a line is drawn across the page in the MS and a short entry follows which has been scratched out with two different pens: “Ryford is not only suspected but has been charged to have begotten a Bastard Child; therefore Q. may [now himself perhaps?] bind him to the sessions, But is not [. . .] to do it by the Province Law.”

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Source Project: Adams Papers
Title: Sunday Morning [13 or 20] July 1760.
Author: Adams, John
Date: 13 July 1760 and/or 20 July 1760

Reference

Cite as: “Sunday Morning [13 or 20] July 1760.,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/01-01-02-0005-0003-0007. [Original source: The Adams Papers, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, vol. 1, 1755–1770, ed. L. H. Butterfield. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1961, pp. 145–146.]