All posts tagged "trials"
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11.5KNew HampshireHow French-Canadian Textile Workers Came to New England
The story of a French-Canadian textile worker named Phillippe Lemay is the story of thousands of Quebecois farmers who came to New...
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8.8K3Crime and ScandalSix Places Where A Gallows Once Stood
So many people died on the gallows in New England that you may well have walked over a spot where someone met...
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2.9K1MassachusettsMargaret 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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3.5K3Massachusetts
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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9631New 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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8722Massachusetts7 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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1.2KRhode 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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1.2K2ConnecticutHannah 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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2.9K5MassachusettsMary 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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2.8KNew 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...