All posts tagged "court proceedings"
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4.9KCrime and ScandalGiving the Devil Her Due: The Neglected History of Tituba, Salem’s First Witch
Posterity has treated few characters in the Salem witch trial drama as poorly as Tituba, a woman enslaved in the household of...
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5.9KCrime and ScandalBathsheba Spooner, Hanged for Murder—Or For Her Loyalist Father?
In March of 1778, a traveler brought strange news to Sandwich, Mass., about an unnatural murder in Brookfield. A woman had hired...
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7.8KNew HampshireThe Battle for The Meeting House Bell – That Wouldn’t End
What’s a meeting house without a meeting house bell to summon townspeople? Customarily, early New England villages included a meeting house –...
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53.2KCrime and ScandalThe Mayflower Love Children: Elinor, Jasper, Richard and Mary More
For centuries, historians thought the four young More children who arrived on the Mayflower were homeless orphans. Not until 1959 did a...
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10.9KConnecticutArchduke Leopold, the Connecticut Factory Worker Who Might Have Been King
Archduke Leopold of Austria, Prince of Tuscany, spent most of his life in exile trying to chase down money — at least...
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13.0KMassachusettsA Multitude of Salem Witch Trials Descendants
If someone asked if you knew of any famous Salem witch trials descendants, you might come up with Nathaniel Hawthorne. The 19th-century...
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