u/Itchy_Magician310

The field where Giles Corey was pressed to death in in 1629, after being tried, convicted, and held in the adjacent prison, Salem, Massachusetts.. He was subsequently buried here, unmarked. It’s long been rumored that his family retrieved the body at some point. It became a cemetery in 1801.

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The field where Giles Corey was pressed to death in in 1629, after being tried, convicted, and held in the adjacent prison, Salem, Massachusetts.. He was subsequently buried here, unmarked. It’s long been rumored that his family retrieved the body at some point. It became a cemetery in 1801.

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u/Itchy_Magician310 — 8 days ago

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I visited the oldest surviving headstone in the state of Maine: Mary Green, died 1717.Eastern Cemetery, Portland, Maine.

u/Itchy_Magician310 — 3 months ago