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Petition of Philip English for restitution

 
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Petition of Philip English for restitution
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13 September 1710
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Petition of Philip English for restitution. Hand #1 and #2 unidentified (Rosenthal 903).

Annotation text from the Salem Witch Trials: Restoring Justice exhibition:

Philip English submitted this petition, along with a detailed inventory of assets seized during his imprisonment and fugitive flight to New York, to a committee set up by the Massachusetts General Court to hear claims for compensation by people condemned in the trials. He states that his estate was “squandered away” and “used to subsist the numerous company of prisoners,” asking the committee to consider his “extraordinary sufferings.” However, English had not been condemned and, as a result, was not granted reparations. After years of pursuing his claim independently, he was partially compensated for his losses in 1718.

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