Note 160 — Chapter XVII · John Phillips whose Head was Cut off and Pickled
Reading edition
Babson, History of Gloucester, p. 287. This very likely is true as Jeremiah Bumstead of Boston recorded in his diary on May 3, 1724, that “Phillip’s & Burrill’s heads were brought to Boston in pickle.”—N. E. Hist. Gen. Reg., Vol. 15, p. 201.