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Born March 28, 1652 • England
Died January 1, 1730 (aged 77) • Boston • Massachusetts
Role In Salem witch trials
Thomas Creevey
English politician
James Boswell.
James Boswell
Scottish biographer
Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
American writer and aviator
Portrait of novelist Frances Burney
Frances Burney
British author
Mary Boykin Chesnut
Mary Boykin Chesnut
American writer
William Byrd of Westover
William Byrd of Westover
American colonial diarist
Gideon Welles
Gideon Welles
American politician
Evelyn Waugh, photograph by Mark Gerson, 1964.
Evelyn Waugh
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Susan Shelby Magoffin
American diarist
Anaïs Nin
Anaïs Nin
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Sir Harold Nicolson
British diplomat and author
Patricia Highsmith
Patricia Highsmith
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Dorothy Wordsworth
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John Woolman
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Rose O'Neal Greenhow.
Rose O’Neal Greenhow
American Confederate spy
Sarah Kemble Knight
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Simon Gray
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Christopher Gist
American colonial explorer
Elizabeth Mavor
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Harry Crosby
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