re: #99 SanFranciscoZionist

I was reading a novel about the Salem Witch trials, recently. Apparently, the father of one of the young women involved was an Anglican, who flatly refused to the do the Separatist thing. He would row himself to Marblehead of a Sunday, weather permitting, to go to the COE church there.

They were, of course, early targets.

I’ve seen a recent explanation that makes the trials a vestry-vestry struggle, complicated of course by property, sexuality, frontier warfare, and race.