Category: History - Other
_In ransacking old court records, newspapers, diaries and letters for the historic foundation of the books which I have written on colonial history, I have found and noted much of interest that has not been used or referred to in any of those books. An accumulation of notes on...
This law was enacted in Boston. A similar one was in force in the Connecticut colony. In 1650 a man was tried in the General Court in Hartford for "contemptuous carriages" again...
6. Part 6A most graphic description of one of these scenes of public abasement and abnegation is given by Governor John Winthrop in his _History of New England_. The offender, Captain Jo...
4. Part 4"Tho's Maule, shopkeeper of Salem, is brought before the Council to answer for his printing and publishing a pamphlet of 260 pages entitled "Truth held Forth and Maintained," ow...
3. Part 3This "essence of punishment"--the pillory or stretch-neck--can be traced back to a remote period in England and on the Continent--certainly to the twelfth century. In its histor...
2. Part 2In 1634 two women were sentenced to be either drawn from King's Creek "from one Cowpen to another at the starn of a boat or kanew," or to present themselves before the congregat...
1. Part 1_In ransacking old court records, newspapers, diaries and letters for the historic foundation of the books which I have written on colonial history, I have found and noted much...
7. Part 7There is nothing more abhorrent to the general sentiment of humanity to-day than the universal custom of all civilized nations, until the present century, of branding and maimin...