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A map of Salem Village, 1692, and Salem Town at the lower-right. Salem Village (present-day Danvers, Massachusetts) was known for its fractious population, which not only suffered from many internal disputes, but also had a strained relationship with Salem Town (present-day Salem). Arguments about property lines, grazing rights, and church ...
Salem is widely noted for the Salem witch trials of 1692, ... The population density was 4,986.0 ... who was from Salem and wrote the American Practical ...
1692. Salem witch trials begin. 18th century ... Population: 7,921. [32] ... Sophia Hawthorne was born in Salem, an American Painter & Illustrator. Wife to Nathaniel ...
The Thirteen Colonies (shown in red) in 1775, with modern borders overlaid. This is a list of colonial and pre-Federal U.S. historical population, as estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau based upon historical records and scholarship. [1]
This is a list of people associated with the Salem Witch Trials, a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between March 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, most of whom were women.
The total Indigenous population in 1620 has been estimated to be 7,000. [5] This number was significantly larger as late as 1616; in later years, contemporaneous chroniclers interviewed Indigenous people who described a major pestilence which killed as many as two-thirds of the population.
Originally known as Salem Village, the town is most widely known for its association with the 1692 Salem witch trials. It was also the site of Danvers State Hospital, one of the state's 19th-century psychiatric hospitals. Danvers is a local center of commerce, hosting many car dealerships and the Liberty Tree Mall.
The Province of Massachusetts Bay [1] was a colony in New England which became one of the thirteen original states of the United States. It was chartered on October 7, 1691, by William III and Mary II, the joint monarchs of the kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and was based in the merging of several earlier British colonies in New England.