All posts tagged "execution"

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  Business and Labor

  How 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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  Massachusetts

  The 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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  Crime and Scandal

  Alice 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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  boston

  The 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...