From The Gazetteer of the State of New Hampshire (in three parts), 
compiled from the best authorities, by Eliphalet Merrill and the Late 
Phinehas Merrill, Esq.,
Printed by C. Norris & Co. , Exeter, NH, ©1817, pg 56
Part I - General View- History

1660 - Two Quakers, by the names of William Robertson and Marmaduke Stevenson, 
were executed on the 27th of October.  Several persons were fined to the amount of 10 l. 
for entertaining Quakers at their houses, and one man, of the name of Wharton, for 
piloting them from one port to another, was ordered to receive twenty stripes.  Several 
others were executed, banished or whipped.  Bishop says, "they cut off the ears of Holden, 
Capeland, and Rouse in prison, and that others were whipped and banished upon pain of 
death."
	In this inquisitorial persecution, the clergy were the most active.*  The sufferings 
of the victims excited the compassion of the people, many of whom resorted to the prisons 
by day and night, so that the keepers were forced to establish a constant guard to restrain 
them.  Wendlock Christopherson among others was sentenced to die.  This man implored 
the court to consider, whether they gained anything by the persecution.  For the last man, 
said he, that was put to death, five rose up in his stead; and although you have power to 
take my life, God can inspire the same principles into ten more of his servants and send 
them among you, that you may have torment upon torment.  This man was executed June 
13th, 1660.  Some of his persecuted companions were tried at Hampton.  May those 
unhappy days never return, when men suppose they are doing God service by sporting 
with the lives of his children.
 
*The pillory served George Fox for his pulpit.  From this he harangued the populace.  
Inflamed by his eloquence, they raised a mob and released him, and set in the same pillory 
a certain clergyman, who had been instrumental in imprisonment of Fox.


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