Edward & Sarah Bishop and seven others were examined by Magistrates in Salem, Massachusetts, for witchcraft.
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John Hancock became the first Governor of Massachusetts after winning 90% of the votes in the Massachusetts Constitution.
Twelve doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston performed the first successful reattachment of a human limb – it was the severed arm of a boy.
The US recorded its first tornado.
Boston Light was illuminated for the first time.
The Richard Fairbanks Tavern and Post Office in Massachusetts became the first American colonial post office.
