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Author Mofford, Juliet Haines.

Title The devil made me do it! : crime and punishment in early New England / Juliet Haines Mofford.

Publication Info. Guilford, CT : Globe Pequot Press, [2012]
©2012

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 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  974.02 MOF    Check Shelf
Description viii, 231 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-222) and index.
Contents The Puritan way -- Governing the family -- Governing the community -- The first Colonial crime wave: crimes against religion -- Sexual deviants and female felons -- The second Colonial crime wave: witches -- Crimes against property -- The third Colonial crime wave: pirates -- Early prisons -- The case of Patience Samson Boston, the penitent prisoner.
Subject Crime -- New England -- History -- 17th century.
Trials -- New England -- History -- 17th century.
Punishment -- New England -- History -- 17th century.
New England -- History -- 17th century.
Crime. (OCoLC)fst00882984
Punishment. (OCoLC)fst01084107
Trials. (OCoLC)fst01156290
New England. (OCoLC)fst01241913
Chronological Term 1600-1699
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780762771653
0762771658
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