In Distemper She Died: The Real Victims of Boston’s 17th Cent.ury Witch Trials

When:
Tuesday, Oct 08, 2024 7:00p -
8:30p

Where:
The Loring Greenough House
12 South Street
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

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Admission:
$7

Hosted by:
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Categories:
History, Lectures & Conferences, Seasonal

Event website:
https://loring-greenough.org/house-event/in-distemper-she-died-the-real-victims-of-bostons-17th-century-witch-trials/

Massachusetts Bay began executing people for witchcraft in Boston almost fifty years before the Salem Witch Trials, including in Dorchester, Cambridge and Charlestown. These executions are much lesser-known, totaling fewer than half the number that took place in Salem in one year alone, but the stories behind them deserve to be told. Join Alyssa Conary for an introduction to the women convicted and executed for witchcraft in seventeenth-century Boston. Learn their names and their stories, and how one case may have been a precursor to the tragic events of 1692.


Alyssa G. A. Conary, MA, is a freelance historian and the Membership Director of Creative Collective in Salem, Massachusetts. She completed a master’s degree in history at Salem State University in 2020 after working in interpretation, administration, and development in Salem’s heritage industry for several years. Her specific areas of historical interest include witchcraft and magic, the early modern Atlantic World, and seventeenth-century architecture. Alyssa lives in southern New Hampshire with her husband Ryan, their children William and Isabelle, and their cats Jonah and Henry.


Tickets: $5 for members**, $7 non-members

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The Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club is a community-based educational and social organization dedicated to improving the lives of our neighbors through historical, cultural and educational activities. The Club, founded in 1896, preserves the historic Loring-Greenough House (built in 1760) and its grounds for the people of Jamaica Plain. For more information please visit www.loring-greenough.org


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