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John Richards (died April 2, 1694) [1] was a colonial military officer, businessman, politician, and magistrate, best known for his participation in the Salem witch trials in 1692.
May 15, 2003 · John F. Richards identifies four broadly shared historical processes that speeded environmental change from roughly 1500 to 1800 c.e.: intensified human land use along settlement frontiers;...
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John Richards was born in England and traveled with his parents in 1630 to North America as part of the first major wave of migration to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1644, Richards was enrolled in the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, which he would remain involved with for the rest of his life. A resident of Dorchester for most of his l...
Governor William Phipsarrived in Massachusetts Bay in 1692 as the Salem Witch Trials were at their climax. Phips was a military man and did not look at the trials favorably but seemed to be reluctant at the beginning to intervene. He created the Special Court of Oyer and Terminer and appointed various judges; one of these judges was John Richards. ...
John Richards seemed to be a pious and good man for the community throughout his life. However, his involvement in the Salem Witch Trials will forever tarnish his legacy. His allowance of spectral evidence in the courtroom and the conviction of his neighbors because of that evidence was one of the greatest tragedies in early America. Innocent and m...
May 15, 2003 · John F. Richards identifies four broadly shared historical processes that speeded environmental change from roughly 1500 to 1800 c.e.: intensified human land use along settlement frontiers; biological invasions; commercial hunting of wildlife; and problems of energy scarcity.
- John F. Richards
- May 15, 2003
May 15, 2003 · John Richards assembles material from all around the world into a crisp and coherent picture of the meaning of global markets for the biosphere in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries.
- John F. Richards
- 0520230752, 9780520230750
- illustrated, reprint
- University of California Press, 2003
Richard and Philip fell out over the issue of Richard's marriage, as Richard had decided to marry Berengaria of Navarre, breaking off his long-standing betrothal to Philip's half-sister Alys. Philip left Sicily directly for the Middle East on 30 March 1191 and arrived in Tyre in April; he joined the siege of Acre on 20 April. [ 78 ]
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This new issue of Esoterica features as its lead article John Richards’s extensive and groundbreaking analysis of Appalachian folk magic in relation to Protestant Christianity.
