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To: Little Bill

I’ve got a line that was there at the time, it wasn’t at all the kangaroo court of modern popular perception.

For example, a female collateral ancestor got hauled up in front of Increase Mather for killing her son with an axe. She was not hanged. She was put away. Crazy woman. Quite a few influental people descended from her, though. Several Presidents, Aaron Burr, Jonathan Edwards, etc.


10 posted on 10/06/2012 12:38:59 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry
One of the reasons you have appeal from the District Courts in Mass on sentencing matters is because of the Witch trails. The Superior Courts were set up to prevent abuse from the Lower Courts, didn't do any good.

I worked with one of the Procter descendants, Godless Socialist, I would have hung him.

15 posted on 10/06/2012 12:55:44 PM PDT by Little Bill
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