All posts tagged "trials"
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1.1KMassachusettsMargaret Rule and the ‘Smutty’ Cotton Mather
In September of 1693, in the aftermath of the Salem witchcraft hysteria, a Boston girl, Margaret Rule, convinced the town that she...
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2.9K2Massachusetts
Susannah Martin’s Witchcraft Trials Lasted Nearly 25 Years
In 1692, the witch trials in Salem finally put an end to Susannah Martin's life. It was the culmination of a 25-year-long...
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5841New HampshireIn 1662 Robert Pike Halts a Quaker Persecution in Massachusetts
In 1662 three English Quakers arrived in Dover, N.H. It didn't take long before the Puritan townspeople spoke up about the newcomers....
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4371Massachusetts7 Famous Men in Drag: The Hasty Pudding Theatricals
More than a few prominent statesmen and jurists performed as drag queens in Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Club theatricals over the last century...
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671Rhode IslandDr. T. Thatcher Graves and The Rhode Island Mail Order Murder
In September of 1893, Rhode Island's Dr. T. Thatcher Graves poisoned himself with morphine. He said he was driven to it by...
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6262ConnecticutHannah Cranna, the Connecticut Witch Who Didn’t Stand Trial
Like most people accused of witchcraft, Hanna Cranna had a difficult temperament. Some might call her a shrew. She demanded favors of...
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1.5K5MassachusettsMary Webster, the Witch of Hadley, Survives a Hanging
A Massachusetts jury acquitted Mary Webster of witchcraft in 1683, but her Hadley neighbors still thought her a witch – especially since...
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2.5KNew HampshireThe Somnambulism Defense: The Sleepwalking Murderer of Pembroke
Doubtless many people are murdered in their sleep. But its not often the would-be murderer is asleep, too, suffering from somnambulism. But...
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7.2K2Today's History Highlights ArchiveSix Loyalist Houses
A Loyalist House was likely to be seized and sold when the American Revolution broke out. Many colonies passed laws that let...
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6.9K3MaineThe Candlemas Massacre and the Salem Witch Trials
One week after two girls in Salem, Mass., begun having strange fits, the Candlemas Massacre wiped out the village of York in...