Speedy repentance urged a sermon preached at Boston, December 29, 1689

One Mary Martin, her Father going away from hence to England, had left her in the House of one Mr. Mitten, a Married man, who became so enamoured of her as that he attempted her Chastity▪ Such was her weakness and Folly, that she• yielded unto the vile Temptations; tho' with such Reluctancies, that begging of God for deliverance from the wicked •ollic•atio••, she pleaded, If ever she were over•••en again, she would leave her self unto his […], to be made a public Example, Howev•• […] governing her self, nor Remem•••ng ⟨p. 4⟩her promise, with the ••me Sin a third time was she overtaken. Afterwards going to Service in Boston, she found her self to have conceived; but living with a favourable Mistress, who would not allow any Suspicion or Suggestion of her Dishonesty, and thinking her self unable to bear the shame or grief of the Discovery, she wholly concealed it until the Time of her Delivery. Being then alone by her self in a dark room she used violence to destroy the Child, once and again, before she effected the unnatural Barbarity. Hereupon she wrapped up the Infant in her Chest for fifteen days until her Master & Mistress went aboard the ship which they were Transporting themselves to England. On this Occasion she was put to remove unto another House where some that before had apprehended, now perceived that she had lately been delivered of a Cld. They charging it upon her, she at first denied the Murder, & said, It was still-born, but upon search it was found in her chest, and she being made to touch the Face of it, before the Jury, the blood came fresh thereinto; whereupon she confessed the whole Tru […] her imprisonment and at her […] the carried her self so Exceeding penitently,