Salem Possessed

Salem Possessed
Author: Paul Boyer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1976-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0674282663

Tormented girls writhing in agony, stern judges meting out harsh verdicts, nineteen bodies swinging on Gallows Hill. The stark immediacy of what happened in 1692 has obscured the complex web of human passion, individual and organized, which had been growing for more than a generation before the witch trials. Salem Possessed explores the lives of the men and women who helped spin that web and who in the end found themselves entangled in it. From rich and varied sources—many previously neglected or unknown—Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum give us a picture of the events of 1692 more intricate and more fascinating than any other in the already massive literature on Salem. “Salem Possessed,” wrote Robin Briggs in The Times Literary Supplement, “reinterprets a world-famous episode so completely and convincingly that virtually all the previous treatments can be consigned to the historical lumber-room.” Not simply a dramatic and isolated event, the Salem outbreak has wider implications for our understanding of developments central to the American experience: the breakup of Puritanism, the pressures of land and population in New England towns, the problems besetting farmer and householder, the shifting role of the church, and the powerful impact of commercial capitalism.

Shelhorn Genealogy

Shelhorn Genealogy
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 640
Release: 1972
Genre: New Jersey
ISBN:

Lewis Shelhorn (b.1756/1757) married twice and moved from Pennsylvania to Cumberland County, New Jersey, dying after 1843. Descendants lived in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, California and elsewhere.

The Essex Genealogist, Volume 18, 1998

The Essex Genealogist, Volume 18, 1998
Author: Essex Society of Genealogists
Publisher:
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2022-04-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780788418556

This series collects the quarterly journals of the Essex Society of Genealogists into convenient yearly volumes. Essex County, Massachusetts, is a region of genealogical interest to many people across the country, and the Society's journal has been an important source of information for its subscribers since it was founded in 1981. Each volume contains articles related to Essex County or to genealogical research in general. Recurring highlights of the journals include the "TEG Feature Article," "It Happened in Essex County" (local history), "Crest and Shield" (heraldry information), "Tools of the Trade" (advice on genealogical resources), "The Ahnentafel" (family generational charts), "Research in Progress," "Ask TEG," "Society News," "Genealogical Queries," and original poetry. While there is enough general information and advice included to make this book valuable for anyone interested in genealogy, those with genealogical interest specific to Essex County, Massachusetts, could not hope for a better resource. The Society has created a new, full-name index for each volume. In this volume: Feature Articles: "French-Canadian Genealogical Research," "Preparing Lineages," "Understanding Tombstones," "Genealogies and Genealogical Notes from TEG," "Migrations Out of New England." Research in Progress: "Hugh Alley of Lynn and his Descendants," "William Bassett Family of Lynn, Marblehead and New Jersey," "Isaac Hart and Samuel Hart," "The Hood Family of Lynn," "William Knight of Lynn," "Some Descendants of Jabez Hackett," "Thomas Jones of Gloucester," "Matthew Estes of Lynn and Salem," "Henry Silsbee of Salem and Lynn, and his Descendants through his son Ephraim of Lynn," "John Hale of Boxford, Mass. and Annapolis, Nova Scotia," "Philip and Nathaniel Kirtland of Lynn," "John Divan of Lynn," "The Lynn Descendants of Edward Baker," "Joseph Parker of Andover," "John Witt of Lynn," "The Descendants of Francis Norwood of Gloucester," "Thomas Norwood of Lynn, son of Francis Norwood of Gloucester," "Theophilus Eaton of Salisbury, Mass. and His Descendants who Migrated to Maine," "Joseph Browne of Lynn, son of Thomas and Mary (Newhall) Browne," "The Armitage Brothers of Lynn and Boston," "Joseph Parker of Andover -- conclusion." It Happened in Essex County: "Groveland and the Hardys," "Quaker Meetings in Essex County," "Early Residents of Nahant," "Hamlet to Hamilton," "Haverhill -- Where Past is Present," "The Haverhill Public Library," "Is This Myth or Fact," "Ipswich, The Grammar School and the Feoffees," "John Endicott and the Red Cross Ensign." Umbilical Line: Clayton R. Adams, Elizabeth Kendall (Enos) Frost, Ida (Smith) Kretschmar, "Elizabeth B. Davis." Miscellaneous: "Indian Deeds to Salem and Lynn," "Wood's New England Prospects," "Thoughts on Compiling a Family History," "Essex County Stockholders of The Land Bank in 1740," "The Land Bank and The Manufactory Company." (2001), 2022, 81/2x11, paper, index, 314 pp.

Library of Congress Catalog

Library of Congress Catalog
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
Total Pages: 636
Release: 1965
Genre: Catalogs, Subject
ISBN:

A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.

Genealogical Records of McIntosh Families in United States and Canada

Genealogical Records of McIntosh Families in United States and Canada
Author: Walter H. McIntosh
Publisher: [Topsfield, Mass.] : W.H. McIntosh
Total Pages: 130
Release: 1984
Genre: Canada
ISBN:

Chiefly a record of various McIntosh families from several areas of the United States and Canada. Includes areas of Virginia, West Virginia, Iowa, New Hampshire, Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Hampshire, Maine, Missouri, Wisconsin, etc. Also includes some marriages from Scotland from 1700 to 1800.