The maximum profound statuette belongs to the era of Nathaniel Saltonstall, who was one of the judges at the Salem witchcraft trials in the 1690s.
Saltonstall was innate in Ipswich in 1639, attended Harvard, and in the end became Haverhill's town clerk. He wedded Elizabeth Ward, who was the child of John Ward, the preacher who founded Haverhill. In shortened, he was gentle of a entitle.
For instance the 1692 witch wave deficient out in Salem Commune, Saltonstall was anticipated to the Smart Oyer and Terminer, a group of seven judges who would as the crow flies the witchcraft trials.
Saltonstall merely heard one witchcraft case, that of Bridget Bishop, who was found guilty and hanged on Gibbet Increase. Time was this, he removed himself from the Smart Oyer and Terminer. Salem was far from his home in Haverhill, but top-quality deeply he didn't have an idea that the afflicted girls were really weird, and found the mysterious support admitted in court full of loopholes.
It wasn't so easy for him to escape the Salem madness undamaged, even though. For instance he returned to Haverhill he started to use closely, and was reprimanded for it by Samuel Sewall, one of the judges who remained on the court. At a halt sink, the afflicted Salem Commune girls claimed they saw Nathaniel Saltonstall's spectre with the other witches, and that he was a witch himself.
At the same time as he was well-connected Saltonstall was never brought to trial. He wrinkled the witch wave, and in the end died in 1707. I don't know if he lazy eating.
I got maximum of this information from Marion Starkey's The Evil spirit in Massachusetts, twitch numerous genealogical sources on Google books.
