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Eliza Frances Andrews, The war-time journal of a Georgia girl, 1864-1865 | 5 | 3 | Browse | Search |
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: September 30, 1861., [Electronic resource] | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The Daily Dispatch: January 7, 1861., [Electronic resource] | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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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