Photo: James Symonds (American, 1633-1714) valuables cabinet, 1679, made for Joseph Pope and Bathsheba Folger of Salem Village. Courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum. Collections link: http://explore-art.pem.org/object/american-decorative-arts/138011/detail

Early Quaker Meetings Raided by Salem Authorities

By Melissa Berry on May 25, 2021

Melissa Berry continues her story about the persecution of Quakers by the 17th century Puritan authorities, focusing on the Phelps and Pope families... (Read More)

Illustration: "Cassandra Southwick in court before the magistrates," from the Boston Globe, 23 October 1923.

Persecuted Quakers in Colonial America, Part II

By Melissa Berry on May 12, 2021

Melissa Berry continues her story about the ordeal of the Southwick family at the hands of 17th century Puritan authorities in the town of Salem, MA... (Read More)

Persecuted Quakers in Colonial America

By Melissa Berry on May 4, 2021

Melissa Berry writes about the punishments endured by the Southwick family at the hands of 17th century Puritan authorities in the town of Salem, MA... (Read More)

Photo: Frederick Fanning Ayer, from “Men of New York,” Volume 2, p. 41, George E. Mathews, New York, 1898. Credit: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

A Monument for Persecuted Quakers Upsets Salem, MA

By Melissa Berry on April 30, 2021

Melissa Davenport Berry writes about a controversial monument to the 17th century persecuted Quakers that the town of Salem, Massachusetts, rejected... (Read More)

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