What Kind Of Man Was Salem Witch Trial Governor?
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December 7, 2007
In his Pulitzer Prize winning The Colonial Mind 1620-1800, published in 1928, Vernon Parrington writes an interpretation of the life and career of Massachusetts colonial Governor Samuel Sewall (1652-1730.) In addition to being governor during the trials, Sewall was one of the three judges. 20 people were put to death as a result of the trials. Here is information about the Salem Witch Trials. In Parrington’s view, Sewall was a figure mostly resistant to change who in many ways was representative of a transition between an English and theocratic Massachusetts Bay Colony to the more open and democratic ways of the
