Boston in the sixteen hundreds was not somewhere a young woman would want to be. Known for the infamous Salem Witch Trials, Boston in the sixteen hundreds was filled with puritans, who constantly hung innocent women on accusations of them being witches. The accusations were without proof of course, and many women were either sent to the scaffolds, stocks, prison, or the gallows, although many of them were sentenced to death by hanging and/or burning. The scaffolds, gallows and stocks were very prominent in Boston during the sixteen hundreds, being the "go-to" torture methods for criminals and sinners. The stocks were mostly for public humiliation, where as the gallows and the scaffolds are mostly for injuring and killing people. Adulterers, thieves, murderers and criminals in general are examples of who would be put through these cruel and awful torture methods. At the least, people would hope for public humiliation or prison instead of death. Present day Boston has many tourist attractions based on the city's dark history of death and torture. Events such as " Galloween" and roads being closed to celebrate the streets being haunted by the souls of the victims of the many unjustified hangings. It is amazing to see how dark events in a towns history, are later shown in ways of entertainment.
Examples of the Stock torture method
Gallows Hill Salem
http://www.celebrateboston.com/ghost/boston-neck-executions.htm
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/brief-salem.html
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/asal_de.htm
http://www.boudillion.com/gallowshill/gallowshill.htm
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