Hillary's Morbid Minute: William Phips, the governor of MA during the Salem Witch Trials, tried to destroy all evidence of reporting on the witch trials, mandating public burnings of books and papers mentioning what happened, including in Harvard Square. (Cont)

Things I didn't know for $500. Grrr and thanks for the book lead.

Oh wow!

Lost was the official location of the hangings because the public record was struck per Phips. 8 years after the deaths, More Wonders of the Invisible Workd was published in London by Robert Calef because he thought the cover up was obscene.