All posts tagged "gallows"
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8.3KArts and LeisureDiscover the Hidden History All Around You
You wouldn’t want to see one of New England’s historic buildings, landscapes or icons without knowing about its hidden past, would you?...
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11.2KCrime 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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44.9KCrime and ScandalA Sad Condition: Wilmot Redd and the Salem Witch Trials
In 1692, Wilmot Redd died on the gallows because her neighbors didn’t like her. Redd (or Reed/Read, by some accounts) was the...
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21.1K1ConnecticutNew England Witchcraft Trials: It Wasn’t Just Salem
Plenty of people in early New England were persecuted for witchcraft, and not just in Salem, Mass. Witches had troubled the European...
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11.8KbostonThe 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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12.8KCrime and ScandalNew Hampshire’s Infanticides of 1739
The discovery of New Hampshire’s infanticides began on Saturday, Aug. 11, 1739, when someone found a dead infant girl in a well...
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