Massachusetts Bay Colony (Salem)
- settled in 1626
- located in the northeast part of modern day Massachusetts
- originally set up to be a fishing community
- mother country of Salem is England
- Their founder is Roger Conant
- John Winthrop
- Wealthy English Puritan lawer
- served as governor for 12 of the first 20 ears of existence
- He was a very religious man even by Puritan standards
- his son, John, became a founder of Connecticut
- John Hathorne
- Born into a well established Salem family on august 5, 1641
- Salem magistrate and was chosen by governor sir William Phips to be a judge in the Salem witch trials
- known for treating the witches as they were guilty and that they needed to prove their innocence
- Known as the hanging judge
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