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Aug 1, 2024 · On May 27, 1692, after weeks of informal hearings accompanied by imprisonments, Sir William Phips (also spelled Phipps), the governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, interceded and ordered the convening of an official Court of Oyer (“to hear”) and Terminer (“to decide”) in Salem Town.
Aug 1, 2024 · After weeks of informal hearings, Sir William Phips, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, interceded to add some formality to the proceedings. Over the following year many trials were held and many people imprisoned.
- In the late 1600s the Salem Village community in the Massachusetts Bay Colony (now Danvers, Massachusetts) was fairly small and undergoing a period...
- By the end of the Salem witch trials, 19 people had been hanged and 5 others had died in custody. Additionally, a man was pressed beneath heavy sto...
- The haphazard fashion in which the Salem witch trials were conducted contributed to changes in U.S. court procedures, including rights to legal rep...
2 days ago · In October 1690, Sir William Phips led an unsuccessful attack on French-held Quebec. Between 1689 and 1692, Native Americans continued to attack many English settlements along the Maine coast, leading to the abandonment of some of the settlements and resulting in a flood of refugees into areas like Essex County .
18 hours ago · William Phips. William Phips was the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Salem Witch Trials. He played a significant role in ending the trials by dissolving the Court of Oyer and Terminer, which was responsible for the majority of the convictions.
Aug 7, 2024 · Many cases relied on “spectral evidence”—belief that the devil would assume a person’s form in order to carry out his deeds. The hysteria came to an end when Governor William Phips ordered the trials halted and the court disbanded. All remaining accused prisoners were freed by May 1693.
1 day ago · It has also been claimed (by W. R. Scott, among others) [35] that William Phips played a timely, if incidental, role: his successful expedition to retrieve booty from a sunken Spanish galleon (the Nuestra Señora de la Concepción) helped create an ideal market for the bank's foundation: flooding the market with bullion and creating ...
Jul 21, 2024 · Governor William Phips, who took over as the royal governor in 1692, got increasingly worried about how the trials were affecting the colony. To make matters personal, his wife was even accused of witchcraft.
