Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Mr. Mather” in chapter 14, page 455 of HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855.:
...land has been, should have the face to speak or think of practising so vile a piece of heathenism.
Dancing was dangerous because the daughter of Herodias danced John the Baptist's head off.
But Mr. Mather says, in 1685, that, within the last year, promiscuous dancing was openly practised, and too much
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