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N i rICHOLAS Sension settled in Windsor, Connecticut, around i640, married in i645, and became a prosperous member of his community during the ensuing years. Sension's marriage was childless, but his life appears to have been otherwise unexceptional save in one regard: in i677, he appeared before the colony's General Court, charged with sodomy.1 The frank and detailed testimony presented to the court by neighbors and acquaintances left no room for doubt that Sension had made sexual advances to many men in his community over a period of three decades. These advances, deponents claimed, had often taken the form of attempted assault:
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