Andover, Massachusetts
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Andover is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. It was settled in 1642 and incorporated in 1646. At the 2020 census, the population was 36,569. It is located 20 miles north of Boston
Andover's Old Town Hall, located in downtown Andover
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Benjamin Abbott farmhouse, Andover, 1934
Memorial Hall Library, which was constructed in 1873 in memory of the 53 Andover men who lost their lives during the Civil War, was financed through private donations.
Salem witch trials
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The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirt
Andover, Massachusetts
…all the way to the extreme north of what was then Andover and decided to build their own South Church central to what is now Andover. During the 1692 Salem witch trials, Andover resident Joseph Ballard asked for help for his wife from several girls in the neighboring Salem Village who were already identifying witches…
Fanciful representation of the Salem witch trials, lithograph from 1892
Two alleged witches being accused in the Salem witch trials, 1892 engraving
1688 portrait of Increase Mather by Joan van der Spriet
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