Sundry Indians being examined to testifie as followeth...in the case against Thomas Johnson, 1670, June 29.

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Sundry Indians being examined to testifie as followeth...in the case against Thomas Johnson, 1670, June 29.

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In this manuscript, signed by Daniel Gookin and Judge Thomas Danforth, and written in Cambridge, is the testimony of several Indians against Thomas Johnson. In it, they accuse him of selling alcohol to Indians; Johnson proclaims his innocence. There is also a facsimile of the mansucript.

1 manuscript, 33 cm., 2 pages.

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Danforth, Thomas, 1622-1699

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Danforth is best known as one of the judges in the Salem, Mass. witch trials. He was a deputy governor of Massachusetts. From the description of [Document] 1660 Aug. 3 / Th. Danforth. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 213329967 Thomas Danforth was an early resident of New England, a wealthy farmer who held several offices in colonial government and at Harvard College. Born in Suffolk County, England, he emigrated to America with his family in about 1635, where he was rais...

Gookin, Daniel, 1612-1687

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Daniel Gookin, soldier, born in Kent, England, about 1612; died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 19 March, 1687. He came with his father to Virginia in 1621. During the Indian massacre of 1622, Gookin, with thirty-five men, held his plantation, at what is now Newport News, against the savages. In May, 1644, in consequence of his doctrinal sympathies with the Puritans, he removed to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he was soon afterward appointed a captain of militia and a member of the house of deput...