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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.
Oct 1, 2018 · Samuel Argall arrived in Virginia in July 1609, spreading word of the Virginia Company’s plan to change the way the colony was governed. This sparked dissention, and Captain John Smith, ousted as president and injured by a gunpowder explosion, left the colony. George Percy took his place.
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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...
Aug 20, 2018 · Richard was even a popular king in his own time – probably because he wasn’t in his country terribly often. He did what medieval kings were supposed to do – he was victorious in war…and he had good press in the form of his mother Eleanor of Aquitaine and one of his justicar’s William Marshal.
Aug 13, 2014 · The US severely limited Soviet influence in the Middle East, brokered a historic peace agreement between Egypt and Israel, and successfully contained Saddam Hussein's regional ambitions. But...
With wars and economic and social instability in many parts of the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) region, the number of immigrants from MENA countries in the United States has been on the rise, growing nearly three times as fast between 2010 and 2022 as the overall U.S. immigrant population.
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