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Reverend John Hale of Beverly

Reverend John Hale of Beverly

Reverend John Hale was a minister from Beverly, Massachusetts, best known for his role in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Born in Charlestown in 1636 to local blacksmith Robert… Read more »

Colonial Era   
Was General Thomas Gage Born to Lose

Was General Thomas Gage Born to Lose?

General Thomas Gage was the commander-In-chief of North America for the British army in the Revolutionary War. As the military governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, in April of… Read more »

Revolutionary Era   
Margaret Jones: First Person Executed for Witchcraft in Massachusetts

Margaret Jones: First Person Executed for Witchcraft in Massachusetts

Margaret Jones was a midwife from Charlestown, Massachusetts, and the first person to be executed for witchcraft in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The only information that exists of Jones’ case… Read more »

Colonial Era   
"Signing the Mayflower Compact," oil painting by Edward Percy Moran, circa 1900

John Billington: The Mayflower Murderer

John Billington was a Mayflower pilgrim and a signer of the Mayflower Compact who became America’s first murderer after he shot and killed a fellow colonist in 1630. Billington was… Read more »

Colonial Era   
I Am Tituba The Witch illustration by John W Ehninger published in Poetical Works of Longfellow circa 1902

Tituba: The Slave of Salem

Tituba was a slave who worked for Samuel Parris during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. The various documents and books about the Salem Witch Trials over the years often… Read more »

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