... Nurse followed by forty-seven-year-old Elizabeth Proctor. Both of these women who were from very wealthy, prosperous homes, were imprisoned because people thought Rebecca Nurse's mother and Proctor's grandmother practiced black magic when they were alive. At this point, anyone who was a family member of an ... jail to be brought to trial. The most shocking was the arrest of George Burroughs, the onetime pastor of Salem Village church. Many villagers thought that he would have become the "RingLeader of them all," and so he was locked up. While accusations were occurring as routine events ...

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... with details and explanation of what occurred. In colonies like Massachusetts Bay, these newspaper articles were believed to protect the people's morale.15 In the Massachusetts Bay colony, the Puritans thought of themselves as a beacon of righteousness for the world and they must set the standard for how everyone else should be living.16 For them they believed punishments must be ... ...

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