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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
hout the country among Indians, English, French, and Dutch; among those who died of it were Mr. Thomas Hooker, of Hartford, and Mrs. Winthrop, wife of the governor, and over fifty others in Massachusetts......June 14, 1647 Samuel Gorton, after the second banishment from Massachusetts, 1644, proceeds to England to obtain redress; this he partially obtains, and, returning again, settles at Shawomet, which he now names Warwick, after the Earl of Warwick, who had assisted him......1648 Margaret Jones, of Charlestown, indicted for a witch, found guilty, and executed......June 15, 1648 [This was the first trial and execution for witchcraft in Massachusetts.] Gov. John Winthrop, in the tenth term of his office as governor of Massachusetts, dies, aged sixty-three, leaving a fourth wife; he also left a journal commencing with his departure from England and continued up to the time of his death......March 26, 1649 William Pynchon, of Springfield, having published a book upon Redem
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Witchcraft, Salem (search)
Witchcraft, Salem The terrible delusion of belief in witchcraft accompanied the New England settlers, and they adopted English laws against it. For a long A witch. time it was simply an undemonstrative belief, but at length it assumed an active feature in society in Massachusetts, as it was encouraged by some of the clergy, whose influence was almost omnipotent. Before 1688 four persons accused of witchcraft had suffered death in the vicinity of Boston. The first was Margaret Jones, of Charlestown, hanged in 1648. In 1656, Ann Hibbens, sister of Governor Bellingham, of Massachusetts, was accused of being a witch, tried by a jury, and found guilty. The magistrates refused to accept the verdict, and the case was carried to the General Court, where a majority of that body declared her guilty, and she was hanged. In 1688 a young girl in Danvers (a part of Salem) accused a maid-servant of theft. The servant's mother, a wild Irishwoman and a Roman Catholic, declared with veh