Word: endecott
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...William Stoughton whom he appointed chief justice of a special tribunal to rid the land of witches. In 1692 Phips, alarmed at Stoughton's wholesale convictions, rescinded his last batch of execution orders. Enraged, Stoughton "refused to sitt upon ye bench." Stern was the face of Governor John Endecott who could abide neither tobacco nor people who needed haircuts and who once mutilated the English flag in order to destroy the "Popish" cross of St. George. Captain George Curwen, who in 1651 was licensed to sell "strong water" in Salem, scowled from a cracking canvas. He once remarked...