Word: endecott
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...Boston, Rev. Dr. Phillips Endecott Osgood of Emanuel Church and Rev. Dr. Arthur Lee ("Little Tui") Kinsolving of Trinity Church announced a Thursday afternoon "Snow Train Service," to begin this week. Rectors of Boston's two largest Episcopal churches, they wish to bring back to church that "large and significant element in the modern community" who are kept away from Sunday worship by "the automobile and the suburban out-of-door week-end." Rectors Osgood and Kinsolving will participate jointly in the "Snow Train Service," so named after the special train on which Bostonians travel to winter weekends...
...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 In 1692 Phips, alarmed at Stoughton's wholesale convictions, rescinded his last batch of execution orders.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...