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Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in this startlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study. In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were living in fear, and not solely of satanic afflictions. Horrifyingly violent Indian attacks... read more
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About noon, in heavy snow, when (in the words of a contemporary historian) "the Inhabitants were in their unguarded Houses, here and their scattered , Quiet and Secure." about 150 Indians led by Madockawando, a sachem of the Penobscot band of the Wabanakis, took York completely by surprise.
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- Mary Beth Norton (Author)
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