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Salem Witch Trials
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 A new book suggests that colonial America's most infamous episode was the result of a complicated web of political and social factors extending far beyond the borders of the town of Salem. Rather than the hysterical whims of a group of young girls, our guest says the episode was part of a larger political crisis involving the Indian Wars, Puritanism, and Colonialism. Laura's guest is Mary Beth Norton, a Mary Donlon Alger professor of American History at Cornell University.
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I agree more than most people, that politics played a MAJOR role in the executions of "withees". The manipulation of the accusers, to make sure charges stuck with the accused, up to & including the trials.
My 13th gr. grandmother was hung as a witch in 1650 Mass. by Richard mather.Later on her son married Thomas Cornell's wife, so I guess it runs in the family ?!
Another Lake family had married J.Winthrop, gov. at the time of Alice's execution. Anne Lake, of that family, married Increase Mather, richard's son.
I have never believed that this was coincidental! This other lake family was extreemly high-up on the Royalty list of fame.I believe there may have been cause for one Lake fam. to destroy another. Poss. the English Cival Wars. See Sir Edward Lake& The ancestry of John Lake.; My Alice was the wife of Henry Lake. dll6th@aol.com I Thank You!!
Dennis L. Lake