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			1634 John Endecott defaces King's colors

1647 Alice Young hung in Hartford

			1648 Massachusetts executes Margaret Jones

1656 Ann Hibbens executed.

			1661 English Quaker William Leddra hanged in Boston.

1662 Beginning of Hartford witch outbreak.
			1662 Deborah Wilson ran naked through the streets of Salem.

1671 Elizabeth Knapp "possessed of the Devil"

			1692 Salem Witch Trials
1692 Cotton Mather, "Wonders of the Invisible World"

			1697 Samuel Sewall repents of role in Salem trials

1700 Robert Calef, "More Wonders of the Invisible World"

			1702 John Hale publishes "A Modest Inquiry"

1711 Massachusetts begins compensating victims of Salem witch trials.

			1764 Thomas Hutchinson, "History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay"

1799 East India Marine Society established in Salem, Massachusetts

			1820 Witch of New England published
1820 Cotton Mather's "Magnalia Christi Americana" reprinted

			1823 Calef's "More Wonders of the Invisible World" reprinted

1829 Charles Goodrich, "A History of the United States of America"

			1831 Charles W. Upham, "Lectures on Witchcraft"
1831 John Greenleaf Whitter, "Legends of New England"

			1847 John Greenleaf Whittier, "Supernaturalism of New England"

1848 Thompkins Matteson's "Examination of a Witch" exhibited in New York

			1851 Nathaniel Hawthorne, "The House of the Seven Gables"

1889 Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association presents a historical pageant

			1904 Henry James visits the supposed House of the Seven Gables.

1908 House of Seven Gables Settlement Association founded

			1942 Touro Synagogue designated a National Historic Site

1953 Arthur Miller, "The Crucible"

			1996 The Crucible filmed

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