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Goody Morse House

Essex County · dedicated 1930 · Water Street at Market Square, Newburyport · location approximate

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Near this spot lived Goody Morse, condemned for witchcraft in 1679, but reprieved by Governor Bradstreet. She was allowed to return to her home, "provided she goe not above sixteen rods from her owne house and land at any time except to the meetinghouse."

1930 text, presented as a historical document.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission, 1930 (Commonwealth of Massachusetts)

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