‘City on a Hill’
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Harrison states that in Winthrop’s New England “witches, of course, were burned.” I deny it. Yes, 19 were hanged in Salem; 10 at other places; two died in prison. But I know of no record of the burning of witches in New England.
SHELBY J. LIGHT
Long Beach
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