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About Josiah Southwick
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Lawrence and wife Cassandra and son Josiah and daughter Mary were fined, whipt, imprisoned and finally banished for being Quakers, and their son Daniel and daughter Provided were sentenced by the General Court to be sold into slavery. Lawrence and wife Cassandra went to Shelter Island, Long Island Sound, being banished under pain of death in 1659, and died there in the spring of 1660 from privation and exposure; his wife died three days after him.
Their son Josiah went to Rhode Island and established a home for himself and family. He came back to Salem in 1660 to look after his parents' property and found the property in very poor condition, and was whipped for returning to Massachusetts. It seems incredible that any followers of Christ could have so belied their professions, but it was an illustration of the saying of Robert Pollock, in regard to the hypocrite,
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Josiah Southwick's Timeline
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1632
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Town of Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, United States
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| 1656 |
January 13, 1656
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Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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1657
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Salem, Massachusetts
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January 27, 1658
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Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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September 29, 1660
Age 28
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Salem, Essex, Ma
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1660
Age 28
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USA
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April 1662
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Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
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April 1662
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Salem, Massachusetts, United States
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November 1664
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Salem, Massachusetts, United States
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