Salem Chapel
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County
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Condition
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Age
Cost
Flash Earth
Presbyterian Chapel
Devon
50° 39' 28" N 3° 18' 59.7" W
SY07038506
Good
-
1719
N/A
Salem Chapel
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Legends

Salem in the USA the  was founded by a Devonshire man called Roger Connant who was born in East Budleigh Devon  in 1592.  The dissenters faith had spread and in the 16th and 18th centuries following a breakaway from State interference on matters of religion many dissenters left Great Britain in order to establish a new way of life in the USA.  From June to September of 1692 in Salem 19 women and men were sentenced to death by hanging for witchcraft.