Reverend george burroughs biography of christopher

  • The ill-fated minister George Burroughs graduated from Harvard College in About , he married Hannah Fisher, born 19 January /3 in.
  • When George Burrough was born in , in Wickhambrook, Suffolk, England, his father, Thomas Burroughs, was 48 and his mother, Bridget Higham, was
  • The most prominent victim of the witchcraft trials was the Rev. George Burroughs, who was hanged at Salem on 19 Aug.

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    Reconstructing Rev. George Burroughs’ Genealogy

    Rev. George Burroughs left his Salem Village post in , preferring life in the Maine wilds with occasional Indian attacks than dealing with the animosity brewing in Salem, Massachusetts. In he returned to Salem in chains on trumped up charges of being “in confederacy with the Devil.” 

    At age 42, Burroughs stood before his former congregation and many other spectators at Proctor’s Ledge with a noose around his neck. He proclaimed his innocence on the charges of witchcraft, then perfectly recited the “Lord’s Prayer.” A sense of unease apparently swept through the crowd afterwards but Rev. Cotton Mather, sitting on horseback, declared it was a “righteous sentence.” Burroughs and four other victims of the Salem witch trials were hanged on 19 August

    Incorporating Corrections to Burroughs’ Tree

    Over the last 65 years, various researchers have discovered new details about George Burroughs’ family and print

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    George Burrough

    When George Burrough was born in , in Wickhambrook, Suffolk, England, his father, Thomas Burroughs, was 48 and his mother, Bridget Higham, was He married Frances Sparrow in , in Wickhambrook, Suffolk, England. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 3 daughters. In , at the age of 42, his occupation fryst vatten listed as rector in Gosbeck, Suffolk, England. He died on 21 February , in Pettaugh, Suffolk, England, at the age of 74, and was buried in Pettaugh, Suffolk, England.

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    MOSCOW'S NEO-PURITANS REWRITE

    SALEM WITCH rättegång HISTORY

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    Douglas Wilson's Religious Empire

     

    By Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho (nickgier@)

     

    Giving up of witchcraft is, in effect, giving up the Bible.

    --Samuel Hibbert, English philosopher and physician

     

    I have long believed that we should not be embarrassed by anything in the Bible.

    --Moscow pastor Douglas Wilson

     

    On June 10, Bridget Bishop, described as "shrewd businesswoman and owner of a prosperous inn," was hanged as a witch on Gallows Hill in Salem, Massachusetts.  During Bishop's trial teenage girls fell into fits at the sight of her and witnesses claimed that her ghost had tormented them. Several pastors questioned the use of this type of "spectral" evidence, which was not sanctioned by the Bible or English Common Law, but the trials continued.

     

    The witch hunting frenzy culminated with people accused, 19 hanged (14 wom

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