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HAMPTON WITCHCRAFT TRIALS

Decades before the Salem witchcraft trials, there were the Hampton witchcraft trials of Goodwife Unise Cole. Written by Hampton author Cheryl Lassiter, THE MARK OF GOODY COLE is the definitive biography of the woman known as the "Witch of Hampton."

Aboard ship off the coast of Massachusetts, 1636. With the hills of Shawmut looming on the horizon, Unise Cole thanked God that she and William had survived the long, arduous ocean crossing. She did not know where they would live, but she burst with joy, imagining the possibilities that lay before them. Would they stay in Boston, or go with other families to settle a new plantation? God willing, they would grow prosperous with land and cattle, and William would build a fine house for her to fill with children.

But God was not willing, and her life could not have turned out more differently. For more than a quarter century she endured persecution for witchcraft in the town of Hampton, New Hampshire. The Mark of Goody Cole is a powerful telling of the amazing true story behind the legend of "The Witch of Hampton," from its beginnings in 17th-century England to an official exoneration in 1938.

Available for $14.40 (paperback) or $9.99 (e-book) at Amazon.com.

Book website http://www.goodycole.com.
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