Deodat lawson biography of abraham
Deodat Lawsons Report on Witchcraft in Salem - Famous Trials!
Deodat Lawson
British-American minister
Deodat Lawson was a British American minister in Salem Village from 1684 to 1688 and is famous for a 10-page pamphlet describing the witchcraft accusations during the Salem Witch Trials in the early spring of 1692.
The pamphlet was billed as "collected by Deodat Lawson" and printed within the year in Boston, Massachusetts.
Deodat lawson biography of abraham
Early life and education
Deodat Lawson was born in Norfolk, England. His mother died within a few weeks of his birth.[1] He likely received an education near his birthplace. One historian compliments Lawson's fine handwriting.[2] The work attributed to Lawson displays great erudition but there is no record of his having attended Cambridge, Oxford, or Trinity College.[3][4] It is possible Lawson attended one of the semi-clandestine dissenting academies.
By 1671, Lawson had travelled to Martha's Vineyard in the New England Colonies.[5] The diarist Samuel Sewall fir