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BURROUGHS, GEORGE (c. 1650-1692)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 863 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BUN-CAL
BURROUGHS, GEORGE (c. 1650-1692) , American congregational pastor, graduated at Harvard in 167o, and became the minister of Salem
Village
  (now Danvers) in 168o, a charge which he held till 1683. He lived at Falmouth (now
Portland
 , Maine) until the Indians destroyed it in 1690, when he removed to Wells. In May 1692 during the witchcraft delusion, on the accusation of some personal enemies in his former
congregation
  who had sued him for debt, Burroughs was arrested and charged, among other offences, with " extraordinary Lifting and such feats of strength as could not be done without Diabolicall Assistance." Though the jury found no witch-marks on his
body
  he was convicted and executed on Gallows Hill, Salem, on the 19th of August, the only minister wbo suffered this extreme fate.


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