Salem, Massachusetts - The Massachusetts Bay Colony

The Massachusetts Bay Colony had been set up in the New World by a royal charter by England's King James I. A charter was a powerful piece of paper because it established significant institutions like universities, organizations, and of course, communities. Six years after the charter was established, a man named William Hawthorne arrived in the New York City area known as Dorchester. Despite the fact that his second wife's mother was a Quaker, he spent a good number of years persecuting them all over the colony. You see that long history of Salem of that quite literally tortured relationship with Quakers.