Topsfield, Massachusetts
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Topsfield is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 6,569 at the 2020 census. Topsfield is located in the North Shore region of Massachusetts. Part of the town compri
Topsfield's Town Hall
Parson Capen House, built in 1683
Topsfield Tollhouse along the Newburyport Turnpike
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
Topsfield, Massachusetts
…during the French and Indian Wars, which covered the period 1689–1697. The Topsfield town records last mention Native American residents in 1750. The Salem witch trials of 1692 touched Topsfield directly. Belief in witches was common in the seventeenth century. People were accused of witchcraft in Europe and the colonies…
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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