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Living and Loving in the Tension of Faith


Scott Culpepper

Most Americans have heard of the infamous Salem Witch Trials of 1692 which condemned 20 people to death, 19 by hanging and one pressed to death by rocks. Fewer know that the first person executed for witchcraft in colonial America was hanged at New Haven, Connecticut in 1647. Alise Young lived in Windsor and was in her early thirties when she was executed. The only surviving references came from Massachusetts Bay Colony Governor John Winthrop Sr., who simply identified the accused as “one of Windsor,” and a note in Windsor town clerk Matthew Grant’s diary entry for May 26,

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