Joseph Capen

Joseph Capen

Joseph Capen (1658-1725) was the son of John Capen of Dorchester, Massachusetts, by his second wife, Mary, the daughter of Samuel Bass of Braintree. Joseph Capen was a member of the class of 1677 at Harvard and was a minister in Topsfield, Massachusetts, from 1681 to his death in 1725. [John Langdon Sibley. "Joseph Capen," pp. 519-522 of "Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, in Cambridge Massachusetts," Vol. II, 1659-1677. Cambridge: Charles William Sever, 1881. See: http://books.google.com/books?id=Vcbt3PeI9SAC]

A member of his congregation, Mary Eastey, was hanged for witchcraft in the Salem witch trials of 1692.

His house, the Parson Capen House, has been preserved by the Topsfield Historical Society since 1913.

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