Mehetabel Adams disciplinary case records, 1820-1821

A To the Pastor and Church of Christ in the first Parish in Granville Beloved Brethren Impressed with a sense of the duty which ?I owe to God, and to the Brethren of this church, with whom I am bound by solemn covenant to work according ?to the rules of the gospel, I do hereby present to you, this my complaint against Mehetabel Adams, a member of this Church for offensive and unchristianlike conduct in the particulars following. viz-- 1 That the said Mehetabel Adams, sometime in the early part of June last, did in the highway near Mr John Crocker, treat with abusive and reviling lan guage, Jerusha Crocker, calling ?her a drunkard and and a liar, thereby wounding the ?her feelings, and those of her parents, and bringing a dishonor upon the cause of religion. 2. That the said Mehetabel Adams did direct suffer her daughter to chase injure the property of William Peters, and [torn ] Morgan by directing her daughter to chase their [______] through the streets, and by suffering her [geese?] to lie in their pastures. 3. That she has at different times discovered a conten- tious, unchristianlike and quarrelsome disposition, in quarrelling with [Lurral?] Morgan particularly in the month of June, and July or August last part, and in said quarrels, that she did use indecent language, and language highly abusive to Mr Peters, Susan Peters, [Lurral?] Morgan & Lyman & Susan Williams. 4. That she did quarrel with Susan Peters, about the first of September last, using passionate indecent and unbecoming language. 5. That the said Mehetabel Adams, at a time when your complainant visited her, in company with one of the Brethren of this church, not only treated him me with neglect and contempt, but with passionate and abusive language. All of which charges are contrary?to the plainest precepts of the word of God, and dishonorable to