That Dark Time, the Witchcraft Scare in Wakefield, Reading & North Reading
by Nancy Bertrand Not all of our ”Women in Wakefield” profiles end happily. Unfortunately, at least one of them ended very sadly indeed. This is the story of Lydia Dustin. Lydia and her husband Josiah were among the first settlers here in the then brand-new town then named Reading. (But of course, the majority of those first settlements…
