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- Imprisoned for Witchcraft on 23 May 1692 in Salem Massachusetts. The Governor
of the Colony had appointed a Commission of Judges to hold a court trail.
Fourteen women and five men were hanged on Gallow's Hill near Salem. In 1693,
twent-one peresons were tried, and eighteen were acquitted and three condemned.
The Governor ordered one hundred fifty persons liberated and the Witchcraft
trials ended.
Mary Bassett was mentioned in the will of her fater as Mary Ruck or Rich.
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Reference:
"Lilly Families in America", Charles Lilly, 1976, p 5.
"Salem Possessed", Paul Boyer & Stephen Nissenbaum, 1974, p 182, 184.
"The Devil Discovered", Enders A. Robinson, 1991, p 280, 290.
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