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Hist. Coll. vol.
10 first series pp. 64-5) be was the only per- son in Salem Village ^- erty and known in the oommercial world*' who was 80 aocased. Whether in the hour of theim proeperity, pride got the better of wisdom i^ 163 the coQDsels of the English family, we know not ; bat whateyer may have been the Bins of Philip or hifl wife, there can be bat little doabt that ignorant malice and miaohief formed one ingredient in the persecution, as Dr. B. says tome prejadioes were at the bottom of th
...e mat ier. Philip E. (so runs the tradition in the fam ily,) had moreo?er made himself also obnozioas by asserting in public and fearlessly, that the charter of the Colony had been violated, and in TariouB ways, by the Colonial government that there was no religious toleration to be had under it as construed by the autboritioa.
Ue was himself an Episcopalian, and desired toleration for that creed, and feU that he could not obtain it. Ue adhered to his re- ligious creed with great pertinacity, and even M late as 1725, was imprisoned in our Salom jail (according to Felt) for refusing to pay church taxes to the East Parish Congrega- tional Church — though he was then iu bis 75th year, and though for more than 50 years he had been a well-known merchant in Salom, It was not until 1732 that the law was passed releasing Episcopalians from pairing taxes for the support of Congregational churches.


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