In 1654 when New York governor Peter Stuyvesant needed help collecting taxes, he turned to Deborah Moody for help and the story of the Salem, Mass., woman had come full circle from outcast to political power broker. A friend of John Winthrop, Moody came to Massachusetts to escape religious intolerance in England sometime before 1640. ...
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