While researching this book, the author discovered that the Moulton family of Salem, Massachusetts were even more "old Salem" than they thought. Eight of their ancestors were among the first small group of English immigrants to settle in Salem, or Naumkeag as it was known then, in 1626. Within three years another eight Moulton family ancestors had arrived. As he traces the lives of these early immigrants, Graham Cocks weaves a fascinating history of Salem and the Massachusetts colony, from their very beginning to the eve of the witchcraft hysteria that terrorized the community in the 1690s....