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06/14/1648 |
Margaret Jones is hanged for witchcraft. |
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07/27/1649 |
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New-England is established. |
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06/05/1650 |
Second Church in Boston (first) holds its first service. |
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12/31/1650 |
Catholic Mass is celebrated in today’s Boston. |
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1650 |
Alice Lake of Dorchester is executed for witchcraft. |
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1650 |
Pynchon, William. Meritorious Price of our Redemption, Justification, &c. |
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02/10/1651 |
Obadiah Holmes is publicly whipped for practicing the “Baptist heresy.” |
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1651 |
Followers of Roger Williams are flogged for worshipping in a private house. |
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1651 |
Sir Richard Saltonstall complains of growing religious intolerance in Massachusetts. |
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1652 |
African-American child is baptized in a Boston church. |
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