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This is the blog of Jeremy A. Stern, Ph.D. I am an independent historian and history education consultant. I will be adding content here whenever I have a piece or a historical observation to share.

The Salem that wasn’t: Elizabeth Knapp, Samuel Willard and the Groton possession crisis of 1671.

Part One. Willard and the Knapps. Two decades before the Salem witchcraft panic, the new town of Groton, Massachusetts, had its own brush...

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The Salem that wasn't: part two

The Salem that wasn’t: Elizabeth Knapp, Samuel Willard and the Groton possession crisis of 1671.

The Salem that wasn’t: Elizabeth Knapp, Samuel Willard and the Groton possession crisis of 1671.

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