Note Book Kept by Capt. Robert Keayne, An Early Settler of Boston, Remarks Made Before the Massachusetts Historical Society March 14, 1889

GREEN, Samuel Abbott, M.D.

Published by John Wilson and Son / University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1889

First edition. Octavo. 7pp. Green printed wrappers. Good or better with rear wrap detached, toning and chipping to the edges. Inscribed on the front wrap to "C.B. Tillinghast, Esq." just above the printed note - With the Compliments of - and below that, the author's name: "Samuel A. Green." A report on a historical society meeting where the manuscript copy of a lost 1643 book kept by Captain Robert Keayne was read to the Society. One of the two cases of "ecclesiastical discipline" involved a September 1640 disagreement between Anne Hibbins and a "Brother Dauis," one of a group of carpenters she accused of gouging her for work done to her house, claiming she told "an untruth or a lye." While she won the legal case, the church excommunicated her. Hibbens, who some considered an "unsettled mind" was eventually convicted of being a witch and hung to death following the death of her husbands, becoming the third to women to suffer that fate in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Interesting insight into the trial that inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, *The Scarlet Letter*. Seller Inventory # 602141

Bibliographic Details

Title: Note Book Kept by Capt. Robert Keayne, An ...
Publisher: John Wilson and Son / University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Publication Date: 1889
Binding: Softcover
Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition