All posts tagged "execution"
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5.6KBusiness and LaborHow the Irish Immigrants Came to New England
In 1718, five ships from Ulster arrived in Boston Harbor. Their passengers, Scots-Irish immigrants, came at the invitation of the Puritan leaders...
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14.0KMassachusettsA 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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10.4KCrime and ScandalAlice Bishop, Pilgrim Murderess, Kills her 4-Year-Old Daughter
The mystery of why Alice Bishop cut her four-year-old daughter’s throat in Plymouth Colony still lingers 370 years later. Alice didn’t deny...
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11.3KbostonThe Curse of Humphrey Atherton
Humphrey Atherton had far more power and influence than the Quakers he persecuted in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the 1650s. At...
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9.9K1Crime and ScandalThe Somnambulism Defense: The Sleepwalking Murderer of Pembroke, N.H.
Doubtless many people are murdered in their sleep. But it’s not often the would-be murderer is asleep, too, suffering from somnambulism. But...
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