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Updated: June 23, 2025
On the eighth of July, of that same year, nearly the whole body of the Clergy of Essex-county addressed a Memorial to the General Court, in which they say, "There is great reason to fear that innocent persons then suffered, and that God may have a controversy with the land upon that account." Nothing of the kind, however, was ever heard from the Ministers of Boston and the vicinity.
The course of Nathaniel Saltonstall, of Haverhill, and the action in the Legislature of the persons here named, entitle the Merrimac towns of Essex-county to the credit of having made the first public and effectual resistance to the fanaticism and persecutions of 1692. The passage of this Bill, in the House of Representatives, shows how the public mind had been changed, since the June Session.
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