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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.
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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...
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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.
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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pioneers. John Richards. Like many young Jamaican men of his day, John obtained contract work on USA farms. This began in 1945 when he was 19 years old, but on hearing of Empire Windrush’s one-way fare of £28.10 to England, it was an offer that could not be refused.
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.
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The young John Richards as Wolves fans first got to know him. Of those players, only two, other than Richards, had a substantial career in the game. The first was Keith Fear, who is particularly remembered as a bearded Bristol City and Plymouth striker.
