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Description: A scene showing a man and a woman on Gallows Hill.
The man may be the Rev. George Burroughs, who is shown standing in prayer.
The woman may be Martha Carrier, who was executed with him on August
19, 1692. Also executed on that day were George Jacobs, Sr., John Proctor,
Sr., and John Willard. The man on horseback may be the Rev. Cotton Mather
who attended the executions on this day and encouraged the hanging to
go forward, even though George Burroughs recited the Lord's Prayer perfectly
and won the crowd's sympathy.
Source: Boston Herald, May 14, 1930. © Artist F. C. Yohan
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