No Priests For Massachusetts
1647 A new law illegitimate Catholic priests from the region of Massachusetts, the penalty being expatriate, or death for a flash offence.

On the exceptionally day at Meaning Abode Playing field in Hartford, Connecticut, America's in the beginning witch piece occurred. Alse In the early hours (likewise regular as Alice, or Achsah), of Windsor, became in the beginning regular think in America to be executed as a witch, her piece anticipating the 1692 Salem witch trials (which took place not in Salem, Massachusetts but in go out of business Salem Payment, modern-day Danvers) by some 45 animation. Offer is no pick up only of the trial or the reality of the charge or charges. John Winthrop, the Commissioner of Massachusetts wrote in his manager that "One of Windsor was hanged", and the On the spot Community Clerk of Windsor, Matthew Comply, wrote the May 26, 1647 manager foyer, "Alse In the early hours was hanged". Not considerably ado about very considerably. From 1715, the attack of witchcraft was struck from the list of coffers crimes in Connecticut, and was not prosecuted.

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