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The women of Chebacco build a Meeting House, March 21, 1679

By Gordon Harris on January 12, 2022 • ( 1 Comment )

When Chebacco Parish (now Essex) began building their own meeting house, Ipswich authorities obtained an order that “No man shall build a meeting house at Chebacco.” Abigail Proctor saw a glaring legal loophole.

Four-year-old Dorothy Good is jailed for witchcraft, March 24, 1692

By Gordon Harris on March 24, 2021 • ( 25 Comments )

On March 24, 1682. a child, Dorothy Good of Salem was taken custody, and interrogated by the local magistrates for two weeks. Hungry, cold and missing her mother, Dorcas broke down and told the inquisitors what they wanted to hear, that her mother was a witch, and consorted with the devil.