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Two Deaths, One Date: Patience Boston & the Purrinton Family | York & Augusta, Maine
On July 9, 1734, a Native woman named Patience Boston confessed to drowning an eight-year-old boy in a well — then walked two miles to turn herself in. Seventy-two years later, to the day, a respected Maine farmer spent an evening sharpening an axe and reading his Bible by candlelight before murdering nearly his entire family.
Two tragedies. Same calendar date. Both set in colonial Maine, centuries ago.
Two documents, centuries-old that survive only because someone who knew the people involved decided to write down what happened — a pair of Puritan ministers shaping one woman's last words…
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