Judge Sewall's Apology: The Salem Witch Trials and the Forming of the American Conscience Book

Great read. Enjoyed it more and more as it went on. Based on the rich diary of Samuel Sewell, here is a wonderful time travel back into 17th century New England, that lets the reader almost live and breath in the society of Puritan Boston.
Sewell was one of the judges in the Salem witch trials, so this book exposes the mind sets of the rural second generation colonists in their swirling wild world, beset by savage native Indians to the west and a pirate plagued ocean to the east, stuck between the two was a frontier society striving to build a shining city on a hill. The stark cold hardship of life in this fledgling Massachusetts New Jerusalem was always at the mercy of their Christian God, where harvests and the weather were subject to his good grace.
Here is a fascinating life story too, with all it's human triumphs and tragedy. Samuel Sewell was a family man, a New Englander still tied to the old. A trial judge. Anti-slavery agitator and believer of Native-American inclusion into this New World.
In 1689 Sewell became one of the very first American tourists, (without check jacket and camera) when he visited England to assist Increase and Cotton Mather with negotiations for a new charter. Hints here of politics to rise one hundred years later.