Massachusetts Bay Colony (Salem as the focus)
- settled in 1626
- located in the north east part of modern day massachusetts
- originally set up to be a fishing community
- the mother country of salem is indeed England
- their founder is Roger Conant
- key players
- john winthrop
- a wealthy english puritan lawyer
- served as governor for 12 of the first 20 years of existance
- he was a very religious man even by puritan standards
- his son john became a founder of connecticut
- john hawthorne
- born into a well established salem family in 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 guily and that they needed to prove their innocence
- known as the hanging judge
- john winthrop
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