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June 15, 1692 - Wednesday, Boston. Bridget Bishop hanged June 10. I'm not really sure what happened. It was all so fast. There were so many of them deposed and jailed at this point. Why was she the first to be hanged?

It certainly is an eye-opening depiction of the Puritans, when you hear accounts of what some of these folks were like on a *regular* basis. Lively lot, them.

Poor Mary Warren. "Just when I thought I was out…they pull me back in.”