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of 1692 IN THREE VOLUMES Compiled and Transcribed in 1938 by the Works Progress Administration Under the Supervision of Archie N. Frost Clerk of Courts, Essex County, Massachusetts Edited and with an Introduction and Index by PAUL BOYER and STEPHEN NISSENBAUM VOLUME III DA CAPO PRESS NEW YORK 1977 Main entry under title: The Salem witchcraft papers. Bibliography: v. 1, p. Includes index. 1. Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts. 2. Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. I. Boyer, Paul. II. Nissenbaum, Stephen. III. United States. Work Projects Administration. KFM2478.8.W5S24 345'.744'0288 77-7530 ISBN 0-306-70755-5 (v. 3) Grateful acknowledgment is made to Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, for permission to reprint documents from Volume II of Thomas Hutchinson: The History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay , Lawrence Shaw Mayo, Ed. (London, 1768; reprint edition Cambridge, Mass., 1936), pp. 24-25, 26, 30-31, 31-32, 32-33, 34, 35, and 40 (Copyright 1936 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College). Grateful acknowledgment is made to Barnes and Noble Import Division, Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., for permission to reprint documents from Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 , George L. Burr, Ed. (New York, 1914; reprint edition New York, 1968), pp. 196-202, 250, 347-48, 350-52, 353-55, 359, 36264, 365-66, and 419-20 (Copyright 1914 by Charles Scribner's Sons; All Rights Assigned to Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1946; Reprinted 1968). The Salem Witchcraft Papers is the first edition ever published of all the legal documents concerning the 1692 outbreak of witchcraft in Salem, as compiled and transcribed in 1938 by the Works Progress Administration under the supervision of Archie N. Frost, Clerk of Courts, Essex County, Massachusetts. The work contains all of the WPA transcripts, rearranged in a few instances to facilitate their use, and augmented by copies of several documents that are no longer extant in the Essex County Archives in Salem. Copyright 1977 by Da Capo Press, Inc. Introduction Copyright 1977 by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum Published by Da Capo Press, Inc.
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Abigail Roe (Gloucester). See Esther Elwell -- Warrant; "Additional Documents" section: Petition of Ten Prisoners at Ipswich (pp. 880-881).
-viii[] Vincent . See "Additional Documents" section: Petition of Ten Prisoners at Ipswich, (pp. 880-881).
Ruth Wilford (Haverhill). See Francis Hutchins -- Warrant; "Additional Documents" section: William Starling's Petition and Account (p. 961).
Preparation for the Court of Oyer and Terminer (May -- August 1692) 867
List of Eleven Accused Persons and Their Accusers, May 1692 871
Death Warrants Folder and Census of Prisoners (May -- July 1692) 873
Petitions from Relatives of Prisoners and Others (October 1692 -- January 1693) 875
A Bill Against Conjurations, Witchcraft, and Dealing with Evil and Wicked Spirits (December 1692) 885
Superior Court of Judicature: Warrants for Jurors and Returns (December 1692 -- January 1693) 887
INDEX 1049
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Ann Pudeator Executed, September 22, 1692 (See also: George Jacobs, Sr. -- Mittimus.)
by your honors r mee *George Herrick Marshall of Essex (Reverse) copyed ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 109 )
(Sarah Churchill v. Ann Pudeator, Bridget Bishop, and George Jacobs, Sr.)
Sarah Churchwell confesseth that Goody pudeater brought the book to this Examin't and she signed it, but did not know her at
-702that tyme but when she saw her she knew her to be the same and that Goody Bishop Olliver appeared to this Examinant & told her she had killed John Trask's Child, (whose Child dyed about that tyme) & said Bishop Olliver afflicted her as alsoe did old George Jacobs, and before that time this Examin't being afflicted could not doe her service as formerly and her s'd Master Jacobs called her bitch witch & ill names & then afflicted her as #[before] above and that pudEater brought 3: Images like Mercy Lewis, Ann putnam, Eliza' Hubbard & they brought her thornes & she stuck them in the Images & told her the persons whose likeness they were, would be afflicted & the other day saw Goody Olliver [fitt] sate upon her kneee, Jurat in Curia by Sarah Churchill This Confession was taken before John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin Esq'rs 1'0 Jun y 1692, as attests *Tho Newton ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 110 )
A Yes said: Churchwell have you seen her since. A no: goodwife puddeater: you have: formerly: bin complaynd of: we now further enquire: here is one person: saith you brought her: the book Sarah Churchell: look on the person: ses Churchill: you did bring me the book: I was at Goodman Jacobses Puddeater s'd I never saw the Woman before now::it was told puddeater this mayd charged you with: bringing her: the book: at the last examinat'n Puddeater s'd I never saw: the Devils book nor knew that he had one Lt Jer: Neal: was asked what he could say of this woman Neal s'd she had been an ill carriaged woman: & since my wife has bin sick of the small pox: this woman has come to my house pretending kindnes: and I was glad to see it: she asked: whether she might use our morter: which was used: for my wife: and I consented
-703to it: but I afterward repented of it: for the nurs told. me my wife was the wors: for senc she was very ill of a flux: which she had not before When the officer came: for puddeater: the nurs s'd you are come to late for my wife grew wors till she dyed: s'd Pudeater had often threatned my wife: Eliz Hubard: s'd she: had seen s'd Pudeater [] s'd Mary Wolcot: but she had not hurt her she had seen her with goodwife Nurs goody puddeater what did you doe with the ointments that you had in the hous so many of them:she s'd I never had ointment nor oyl but neats foot oyl in my hous since my husband dyed: but the Constable Joseph Neal affirmd she had: she had near 20 that had oynment or greas: in them: a little in a thing: she s'd she never had any oyntment but neats foot oyl: in the hous but what was in these things the Constable speakes of. A. It was greas: to make sope of::but: why: did you put them in so many things when one would have held all: but answerd not the porpose: but the constabl. s'd oyntments were of several sorts Sarah Vibber did you ever se this woman: before now answered no An putn[u]m s'd she had never seen: her but since she come: to Salem Town last: s'd Putman fell into a fitt: & s'd Puddeater was commanded to take her by the wrist & did & s'd Putnum was well presently: many warin fell into: two fitts quickly after. one another: & both times was helped: by s'd Puddeaters: taking her by the wrist ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 111 )
We Co nd you to Warn John Wesgate John Bullock Martha Dutch Susanna Dutch Lt. Jeremiah Neale John Beckett John Best Jun'r Jno Loader Sarah parott
-704That they & Every of them appear at the Next Court of Oyer & Terminer holden at Salem on the Next Tuesday at Twelve of the Clock There to Testify the Truth to the best of thier knowledge On certain Indictments to be Exhibited against Alice Parker & Ann Pudeater hereof Make return fail not dated in Salem Sep'r 5'th 1692 in the fourth yeare of Our Reign. *Stephen Sewall Cle (Reverse) Sept 5'th 1692 I have Sumoned and have Warned all the within named persons John Best Jun'r Except s'd Best beeing Removed to Ipswich that thay and Every of them appeare to Give in their Evid: &c: att time and place within written 'r me *George Herrick Dep't Sheriff ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 111 )
divers other days and times both before and after was and is Tortured Afflicted Pined Consumed Wasted & Tormented, and also for sundry other Acts of Witchcraft by the said Ann Pudeater Comitted and done before and Since that time Ags't the peace of Our Sov'r Lord & Lady the King
-705& Queen theire Crowne and Dignity and ags't the forme of the Stattute in that Case made and Provided Witnesses Mary Warren Jurat Sarah Churchel Jurat Ann Putman Jurat (Reverse) Ann Pudeator on Mary Warren ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 108 )
day of July: att her examination: s'd Puddeater did: afflict me greatly: also she or her Apperition did offer: me the book to sign to: she told me also that she was the caus of Jno Turners falling
-706off: the cherry tree: to his great: hurt: & which: amazed him in his head & almost kild him: she told me also: she was the caus of: Jeremiah Neals wifes death: & I saw her hurt: Eliz Hubbard: Mary Walcot: & An Putnam: the last night she: afflicted: me also: last night: by her wichcrafts & I doe veryly: beleev: s'd Ann Puddeater is a: wich: she affirms puddeater: told her: she kild har husband Puddeater: & his first wife and that she was an instrument of Jno Bests: wifes death: Sept 7: 1692 Sworne in Court ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 112 )
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-708and I this deponant saw awoman: neare Captin higisonn Cornar. the which I sopposed to be ann Pudeatar. and in a moment of time she pasid by me as swifte as if a burd flue by me and I saw said woman goo in to ann Pudeat [eat] ers hous Jurat in Curia *S Sewall Cl Sam'll Pickworth: affirmeth: that the above written evidence is the truth: upon oath: to: the Jury of Inquest: Sept'r 7: 92 ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 112 )
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Jno Best: afirmed: to the truth of the above written: before the Jury of inquest. Sept'r 7: 1692 (Reverse) Jno Best Oath ags't An: Pudeator -( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 113 )
-710consideration That my life may not be taken away by such false Evidence and wittnesses as these be likewise the Evidence given in against me by Sarah Church and Mary Warren I am altogether ignorant off and know nothing in the least measure about it nor nothing else concerning the crime of witchcraft for w'ch I am condemned to die as will be known to men and angells att the great day of Judgment begging and imploring your prayers att the throne of grace in my behalfe and your poor and humble petition'r shall for ever pray as she is bound in duty for your hon'rs health and happiness in this life and eternall felicity in the world to come (Reverse) Ann Pudeaters Peti ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 113 )
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Wilmott Reed Executed, September 22, 1692 (See also: Martha Carrier -- Complaint.)
*James Smith Const' for Marblehead ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 3 )
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-713and in the Towne of Salem in the County of Essex aforesaid in Upon and against one Eliza' Hobert of Salem aforesaid in the County of Essex Essex aforesaid Single Woman by which said wicked Acts the said Eliza' Hobert the day & Yeare aforesaid and Divers other dayes and times both before and after was and is Tortured aflicted Consumed Pined Wasted and Tormented and also for sundry other Acts of Witchcraft by the said Willmot Redd Comitted and done before and since that time against the peace of o'r Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queen theire Crowne and Dignity And the forme Of the Stattute Stattute in that Case made and Provided -(Reverse) Indictm't ags't Willmott Redd for bewitching Eliza' Hobert Billa Vera-Ponet Se ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 4 )
-714Abig: Williams & John Indian being carried to the examinant in a grevious fit were made Well by her grasping their arms. This examinant being often urged what she thought these Persons ailed; would reply, I cannot tell. Then being askt if she did not think they were Bewitcht: she answered I cannot tell And being urged for her opinion in the case All she would say was my opinion is they are in a sad condition. (Reverse) Examination of Willmott Redd ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Vol. 2 Page 4 )
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Sarah Rice (See also: Martha Carrier -- Complaint; John Alden -- Mittimus.)
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May it therefore please yo'r hon'rs to take this matter in to yo'r prudent Considerations.and derect Some speedy Methods whereby this ancient decriped person may not for ever ly in such Miserie wherein her life is made more afflictive to her than death, and the petition'r Shall as in dutie bound
Ever pray Dated the 19'th october 1692 (Reverse) 1692 The humble petition of Nicholas Rist of Reading ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 63 )
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-722(Reverse) I have prosecutted the within written warant and have apprehended the person of the within mentioned Suzannah Roots and Brought her befour awthority. 23: may 1692 By me *Jonathan Biles Constible of Beverly ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 133 )
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Henry Salter
afterwards said he had told [unclear: ] Goody Lovejoy something but knew not what -- He ownes he [unclear: ] told Lyes before now and been in drink also I underwritten [unclear: ] appointed by oath to take in wryteing the above examination [unclear: ] testify upon oath taken in Court that this is a true coppy of the [unclear: ] stance of it, to the best of my knowledge -5 January 1692/3 *Wm Murray The above Hen Salter was Examined before their Majesties [unclear: ] of peace in Salem Attest *John Higginson Just'e [unclear: ] (Reverse) Hen'y Salter Exa.7.7.92 Owned before
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afflicted: Mary Walcot Mary Warren Rose foster Mary lacy Timo Swan Goody Bigsby Martha Sprage the Grand Jury attest: *Robert Payne foreman: ( Suffolk Court Records Case No. 2702 Page 24 )
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John Sawdy
-726mentioned Articles & shall pay Unto George Corwin the Sherriff aforesaid the forfieture of S'd Bond for theire Maj'es Use in Case of Default then this Obligation to be of None Effect & Void Or Otherwise to Stand in full force & Virtue, In Wittness Hereof we the Above bownd have Sett to Our hands & Seales, this Sixth of Octob'r in the yr of Our Lord One thousand Six hundrid ninety two and in the fourth Year of their Majest's Reigne -- Walter Wright his mark Wittness
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-728Phillip Nelson and Sarah his wife affirmed: upon their oath to the grand Inquest that the above written
evidence: is the truth Sept'r 15: 1692 Jurat in Curia (Reverse) Sarah Nelson Depo ag'st Mary Scott ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 45 )
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Ann Sears
(Warrant for Arrest of Ann Sears, Bethiah Carter, Sr., and Bethiah Carter, Jr.)
Whereas Complaint hath benne this day Exhibited (before us) by Thomas putnam and John putnam Jun'r both of Salem Village Yeoman on behalfe of theire Majesties Against Ann Seeres the wife of John Seeres of Woburne and Bethiah Carter of s'd Towne of Woburne widdow and Bethya Carter the daugter of s'd Carter widdow, for high Suspition of Sundry acts of Witchcraft donne by them upon the Bodys of Ann putnam Marcy Lewis Mary Walcot &c of Salem Village whereby much hurt and wrong is donne unto them therefore Craves [Justice]. These are therefore in theire Majest's Names to require you, to apprehand and forthwith bring the persons of the abovenamed before us at Salem Village at the house of Lt Nathaniell Ingersalls in order to theire Examination Relateing to the abovesaid premises and hereof you are not to faile Dated Salem May 8'th 1692 To the Constable of Woburne us *John Hathorne [unclear: ] Assis'ts *Jonathan. Corwin (Reverse) I Ephraim bouck counstabel of Woburn have sarved this warant acording to [Law] hav apurhanded the parson of anah Sauris and of the wado cartter and hauf broit tham to Lautanant ingursons hois as warant due exprest In pursuance to the within specifyed warrant I have apprehended the bodies of the within mentioned Anna Seers and Bethia Carter sen'r and brought them to the place within ordered this 9 May 1692 *Ephraim Bock Constabil of woburn
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Susanna Sheldon
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Abigail Somes
[unclear: ] Sundry acts of #[Sundry] Witchcraft, (or high suspition there [unclear: ] donne or Committed by her Lately. on the Body of Mary Warren & faile not Dated Salem, May the 13'th 1692 us *John Hathorne [unclear: ] Assis't *Jonathan. Corwin (Reverse) Abigaile Soames I heave Aprehended the person of Abigall Soams Acordinge to [unclear: ] rante exprest on the other side and heave broughte hir to the how of mr Thomas Beadles r me *Peter Osgood Constable in Selem May the 13; 1692. ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 50 )
-734and also that this was the very woman that had afflicted her all this Day, and that. she met her as she was comeing in att the gate, and bit her exceedingly att her first Examining there was found in her Apron a great Crotching Needle about the midle of it near her Belly, which was plucked out by one of the Standers by. by ord'r of the Magistrates, which the s'd Soams affirmed. She knew not how it came there; Mary Warren affirmed that she never saw the s'd woman before only in apparition, and then she told her that her Name was Abigail Soames and that she was sister to John Soams of Preston Cooper and that she lived att Gaskins, and that she had lain Bedrid a year. Being asked whether she was Sister to John Soams she answered peremptorily she would not tell for all was false that Warren said furthermore Warren affirmed that she told her that she was she s'd Soams was the Instrumental means of the Death of Southwick: Upon which s'd Soams casting her Eye on Warren [pincht] her into a dreadful fitt, and bitt her so dreadfully that the Like was never seen on any of the aflicted, which the s'd Warren Charged the s'd Soams with doeing off, saying that the s'd Soams told her this day she would be the death of her further Warren Affirms that she the s'd Soams ran two pinns into her side this day, which being plucked out the blood ran out after them. Goody Gaskin being present att this examination affirmed she had kept her Bed for most part these thirteen months. Warren further affirms she told her that when She did goe abroad att any time it was in the Night which Goody Gaskin being present Confirmed the same that that was the usual time off her goeing abroad -- further more
Warren affirmed that this Abigail Soams would have had her to have made a bargain with her, telling her if she would not tel of her being a sickly woman, she would not afflict her any more, and that then She should goe along with her, for this s'd Soams told her she was her God, Upon w'ch Warren answered she would not keep the Devils Councel. Soams told her she was not a Devil but she was her God. Q. Mary Warren is this true: A. It is nothing but the truth. Soams being asked who hurt Warren in the time of her fitt she answered it was the Enemy hurt her. I have been said she myself Distracted many atime, and my [senses] have gone from me, and I thought I have seen many a Body hurt mee, and might have accused many as well as she doth. I Really thought I had seen many persons att my Mothers Campe at Glowster, and they greatly aflicted me as I thought. Soams being Commanded while Warren was in a dreadful fit, to take Warren by the hand, the said Warren immediately recovered;
-735This Experiment was tryed three times over and the Issue the same. Warren after a Recovery being commanded to touch the s'd Soams altho she Assayed severall times to do it with great Earnestness she was not able, But fell down into a dreadful fit. Upon which the s'd Soams being Commanded take Warren by the hand, she immediately recovered her again. Warren affirming she felt something soft in her hand (her Eyes then being first shut) which revived her very heart. Warren being asked what the Reason was she could not Come to touch Soams affirmed she saw the apparition of Somes come from her Body, and would meet her, and thrust her with Vialunce back again, not suffring her to Come near her -- Sometimes Soams, would say it was Distraction in talking she would often Laugh, upon which Laughing the aflicted person would presently fal into a fitt. Soams being asked whether she thought this was Witchcraft or whether there were any Witches in the world, answered she did not know anything but said itt was the Enemy or some other Wicked person or the Enemy himself that forces persons to afflict her att this time, presently this Warren fell into a trance comeing out of which she affirmed that Soams told her in the Prime of her trance that she would thrust an Awl into her very heart and would kil her this night. Soams could never cast her Eye upon Warren, but immediately she struck her down, and one time she affirmed s'd Soams struck her such a Blow as almost killed, which made the s'd Warren break out into abundance of tears. Soams being Charged with it, instead of bewailing itt Broke forth into Laughter. Warren being also afflicted by the [wringing] of her mouth after a strange and prodigious manner, Soams being Commanded to look upon her in that fit, premptorily answered she would not. Soams being by him ordered to turn her face about to look on the afflicted, which being accordingly done she shut her Eyes Close, and would not look on her being then ordered to touch her She did and immediately Warren Recovered, which no sooner done but Soams opened her Eyes and looked on the afflicted; and struck her into another most dreadful and horible fit, and in this manner she practised her Witchcrafts several times before the Court. Mary Warren Looking on her affirmed this to be the very woman that had so often afflicted her dureing the Examination and Charged her with it to her face. sometimes dureing the Examination Soams would put her oun foot behind her other leg, and immediately Warrens Legs would be Crossed and that it was impossible for the strongest man there to [uncrosst] them, without Breaking her Leggs,
-736as was seen by many present After this Examination Warren says the apparition of Proctor, Nurse and Burroughs, that appeared before her, and Burroughs bitt her which bite was seen by many. Also Burroughs att the same time appeared to Margaret Jacobs who was then present, and told her as Jacobs affirmed, that her Grandfather would be hanged Upon which the s'd Jacobs wept. it was also observed by the Rev'd Mr Noyse,
that after the needle was taken away from Soams, that Warren was neither bit. not pinched by the s'd Soams, but [pincht] so dreadfully on her throght that she cryed out she was almost killed. ( Suffolk Court Records Case No. 2703 Page 25 )
-737The Jurors For Our Sovereign Lord & Lady the King & Queen doe present that Abigaill Soames of Salem Late of Glosster in the County of Essex Singlewoman upon the thirteenth Day of May in the yeare afores'd & Divers other Dayes & times as well before as after Certain Detestable arts Called Witchcrafts & sorceries Wickedly and felloniously hath used practised and Exiercised att & in the Towne of Salem in the County of Essex afores'd in upon & against One Mary Warren of Salem Single Woman by which Said Wicked acts the Said Mary Warren the day & yeare afores'd and Divers other Dayes & Times both before & after was & is Consumed Pined Wasted & Tormented Against the peace of Our Sovereign Lord & Lady the King & Queen Thier Crowne & Dignity & The Laws in that Case made and provided. Witnesses
Mary Warren Mary Walcott Eli. Hubbard (Reverse) Ignoramus *Robert. Payne Foreman ( Suffolk Court Records -- Case No. 2703 Page 25 )
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Martha Sparks
-740(Reverse) Thomas Barrete Recogn. Martha Sparks appear. at Middlesex Court. ( Suffolk Court Records Case No. 2696 Page 21 )
charge of her confinem't And Yo'r Petition'r as in duty bound shall ever pray &c ( Mass. Archives, Vol. 135 No. 64 )
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Mary Taylor
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Tryumph after: the hous of Hoopers was burnt & Drank the wine that was provided for Hoopers funerall: & that s'd Tayler & Jane Lilly was there at the Drinking of it & one from Billerica: Maj'r Swayne s'd the wine for the buriall of Hooper was Drank: Sam'll Wardwell told Tayler she might remember the shoke & the shoke and the Double shoke: the shoke was the killing: the man the other shoke was: the firing the hous: being asked what the Duble shoke was s'd Wardwell knew not but that it might be the Destroying the rest of Hoopers family: the Reddin Constable s'd that: s'd Tayler yesterday s'd who ever lived to see would finde Mrs. Marshals cace like Mary Warins & That there was a hott pott now: & a hotter pott preparing for her here & being asked what she ment by the hotter Pott S'd that if Mrs Marshall wronged her hell would be prepared for her: but after ward she s'd she would tell: & Desired prayers that she might tell the truth: but was much hindred: but was asked if the last sabath was seven night. was not the first time of her hurting Mary Marshall: which at last she in a manner owned: & she s'd to Mr Noise & Mr Keyzer. The Devill [that] guids Destiny brought her a birch Rhine which she signed to: she owned she had promised the Devill to serv him worship him & trust in him: & to give up soul & body to him but: the first of her being a witch was her frequenting Good wife Dastins hous & Good wife Dastin had bin twice at her hous in the night to her: but she would not own that the Devil had babtized her: nor that she joyned in killing Hooper: nor burning his hous the time of her frequenting Dastins hous was the last winter she owned she had bent her fist & wished ill to Mrs. Marshall & that good wife Dastin & her Daughter was with her. & it was at Jane Lillyes hous & she begd forgivn's did aforesd. this is the substance of what: Mary Tayler: s'd at her examination & of what was s'd there: taken out of my Charactors: *Simon Willard I und'r writen: being appointed by Authority: to take the above examination Doe testify upon oath taken in Court that this is a true Coppy of the substance of it to the best of my knowledge: 5 Janu'y 1692/3 *Simon Willard
-743(Reverse) The within Mary Tayler was examined before their Majesties Justice of the peace in salem atest *John Higginson Just peace. Owned before the Grand Jury 5 January 1692/3 *Robert Payne foreman. Maj'r Jeramiah Swaine and one William Arnold Swoarn in Court to the truth of the within Confession being present at her examination. Test
*Jona' Elatson Clerk. ( Suffolk Court Records Case No. 2710 Page 43 )
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the yeare 1692 at & in the Towne of Reding in the County of Middlesex aforesaid Wickedly Mallitiously & felloniously A Covenant with the Devill did make, and made hir mark upon A Burch Lyme to Confirme the Said Couvenant & promised the Devill to Serve him & trust him & to give up hir Soule & body to him, By which diabollicall Covenant made with the Devill in Maner & forme aforsaid the Said Mary Taylor is become a Detestable Witch Against the peace of o'r Sov'r Lord & Lady the King & Queen their Crowne & Dignity & the laws in that Case made & provided -Billa Vera Atest *Simon Stone foreman ( Suffolk Court Records Case No. 2710 Page 43 )
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Dated Salem febr' 29 1691/2 *John Hathorne [unclear: ] *Jonathan. Corwin Assis'ts To Constable Joseph Herrick Const' in Salem (Reverse) ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 11 )
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(Officer's Return)
according to this warrant I have apprehended the persons with in mentioned and have brought them accordingly and have mad diligent sarch for Images and such like but can find non Salem village this 1. march 1691/92 p me *Joseph Herrick Constable ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 11 )
Salem March 2'd Sarah Osburne againe Examined and also titiba as will appear in their Examinations given in titiba againe acknowledged the fact & also accuse the other two. Salem March 3'd Sarah Osburn and titiba Indian againe Examined the Examination now Given in titiba againe s'd the same
-747Salem March 5'th Sarah Good and titiba againe Examined. & in theire Examination titiba acknowledg the same she did formerly and accused the other two-aboves'd -titiba againe s'd the same p. us. *John Hathorne [unclear: ] Assis'ts *Jonathan. Corwin ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 7 )
(Examination of Tituba)
The Examination of Titibe (H) Titibe what evil spirit have you familiarity with (T) none (H) why do you hurt these children (T) I do not hurt them (H) who is it then (T) the devil for ought I know (H) did you never see the devil. (T) the devil came to me and bid me serve him (H) who have you seen
(T) 4 women sometimes hurt the children (H) who were they? (T) goode Osburn and Sarah good and I doe not know who the other were Sarah good and Osburne would have me hurt the children but I would not shee furder saith there was a tale man of Boston that shee did see (H) when did you see them (T) Last night at Boston (H) what did they say to you they said hurt the children (H) and did you hurt them (T) no there is 4 women and one man they hurt the children and then lay all upon me and they tell me if I will not hurt the children they will hurt me (H) but did you not hurt them (T) yes, but I will hurt them no more (H) are you not sorry you did hurt them. (T) yes.
-748(H) and why then doe you hurt them (T) they say hurt children or wee will doe worse to you (H) what have you seen a man come to me and say serve me (H) what service (T) hurt the children and last night there was an appearance that said Kill the children and if I would no go on hurting the children they would do worse to me (H) what is this appearance you see (T) sometimes it is like a hog and some times like a great dog this appearance shee saith shee did see 4 times (H) what did it say to you (T) the black dog said serve me but I said I am a fraid he said if I did not he would doe worse to me
(H) what did you say to it (T) I will serve you no longer then he said he would hurt me and then he lookes like a man and threatens to hurt me shee said that this man had a yellow bird that keept with him and he told me he had more pretty things that he would give me if I would serve him (H) what were these pretty things (T) he did not show me them (H) what else have you seen (T) two rats, a red rat and a black rat (H) what did they say to you (T) they said serve me (H) when did you see them (T) Last night and they said serve me but shee said I would not (H) what service (T) shee said hurt the children (H) did you not pinch Elizabeth Hubbard this morning (T) the man brought her to me and made me pinch her (H) why did you goe to thomas putnams Last night and hurt his child (T) they pull and hall me and make goe (H) and what would have you doe Kill her with a knif Left. fuller and others said at this time when the child saw these persons and was tormented by them that she did complain of a knif that they would have her cut her head off with a knife
-749(H) how did you go (T) we ride upon stickes and are there presently (H) doe you goe through the trees or over them (T) we see no thing but are there presently
(H) why did you not tell your master (T) I was a fraid they said they would cut off my head if I told (H) would not you have hurt others if you could (T) they said they would hurt others but they could not (H) what attendants hath Sarah good (T) a yellow bird and shee would have given me one (H) what meate did she give it (T) it did suck her between her fingers (H) Did not you hurt mr Currins child (T) goode good and goode Osburn told that they did hurt mr Currens child and would have had me hurt him two but I did not (H) what hath Sarah Osburn (T) yesterday shee had a thing with a head like a woman with 2 leggs and wings Abigail williams that lives with her uncle mr Parris said that shee did see this same creature and it turned into the shape of goode osburn (H) what else have you seen with g osburn (T) an other thing hairy it goes upright like a man it hath only 2 leggs (H) did you not see Sarah good upon elisebeth Hubbar last Saturday (T) I did see her set a wolfe upon her to afflict her the persons with this maid did say that shee did complain of a wolf (T) shee furder said that shee saw a cat with good at another time (H) what cloathes doth the man go in (T) he goes in black clouthes a tal man with white hair I thinke (H) how doth the woman go (T) in a white whood and a black whood with a tup knot (H) doe you see who it is that torments these children now (T) yes it is goode good she hurts them in her own shape (H) & who is it that hurts them now (T) I am blind noe I cannot see
Salem Village March the 1't 1691/2 written by Ezekiell Chevers Salem Village March the 1't 1691/2 ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 6 )
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-751did you say to him after that? A. I answer I will Serve you noe Longer he tould me he would doe me hurt then. Q. w't other Creatures have you seene A. a bird Q. w't bird? A. a little yellow Bird. Q. where doth itt keep? A. w'th the man whoe hath pretty things there besides. Q. what other pretty things? A. he hath nott showed them [yet] unto me, butt he s'd he would show them me tomorrow, and he tould me if I would Serve him I should have the Bird. Q. w't other Creatures did you see? A. I saw 2 Catts, one Red, another black as bigge as a little dogge. Q. w't did these Catts doe? A. I dont know; I have seen them two tymes. Q. w't did they say? A. thay say serve them. Q. when did you see them? A. I saw them last night. Q. did they doe any hurt to you or threaten you? A. they did scratch me. Q. when? A. after prayer; and scratched mee, because I would not serve them and when they went away I could nott see but thay stood before the fire. Q. what Service doe thay Expect fro you? A. they Say more hurt to the Children. Q. how did you pinch them when you hurt them? A. the other pull mee & hall me to the pinch the Childr, & I am very sorry for itt, what made you hould yo'r arme when you were Searched? w't had you there? A. I had nothing Q. doe nott those Catts suck you? A. noe never yett I would nott lett them but they had almost thrust me into the fire. Q. how doe you hurt those that you pinch? doe you gett those Catts? or other thing to doe it for you? tell us, how is it done? A. the man sends the Catts to me & bids me pinch them, & I think I went over to mr Grigg's & have pinched hir this day in the morning. the man brought mr Grigg's mayd to me & made me pinch hir. Q. did you ever goe w'th these woemen? A. they are very strong & pull me & make me goe w'th them. Q. where did you goe? A. up to mr putnams & make me hurt the Child. Q. whoe did make you goe? A. man that is very strong & these two woeman, Good & Osburne but I am Sorry. Q. how did you goe? Whatt doe you Ride upon? A. I Rid upon a stick or poale & Good & Osburne behind me we Ride takeing hold of one another don't know how we goe for I Saw noe trees nor path, but was presently there. when wee were up. Q. how long Since you began to pinch mr parriss Children? A. I did nott pinch them att the first, butt he make me afterward. Q. have you Seen Good and osburne Ride upon a poule? A. yes & have held fast by mee: I was nott att mr Grigg's but once, butt it may be Send Something like mee, with or would I have gone, butt that they tell me, they will hurt me; last night they Tell me I must kill Some body w'th the
-752knife. Q. who were they that told you Soe A. Sarah Good & Osburne & they would have had me killed Thomas putnam's Child last night. the Child alsoe affirmed that att the Same tyme thay would have had hir Cutt #[hir own throat] of hir own head for if she would nott then tould hir Tittubee would Cutt itt off & then she Complayned att the Same Time of a knife Cutting of hir when hir master hath asked hir about these things she sayth thay will nott lett hir tell, butt Tell hir if she Tells hir head shall be Cutt off. Q. whoe Tells you Soe? A. the man, Good & Osburnes Wife. Goody Goody Came to hir last night w'n hir master was att prayr & would not lett hir hear & she Could not hear a good whyle. Good hath one of these birds the yellow bird & would have given mee itt, but I would not have itt & prayer tyme she stoped my eares & would nott lett me hear. Q. w't should you have done with itt A. give itt to the Children. w'ch yellow bird hath bin severall tymes Seen by the Children I saw Sarah Good have itt on hir hand when she Came to hir when mr parris was att prayr: I saw the bird suck Good betwene the fore finger & Long finger upon the Right hand. Q. did you never practise witch-craft in your owne Country? A. Noe Never before now. Q. did you #[ever] See them doe itt now? A. yes. to day, butt that was in the morneing. Q. butt did you see them doe itt now while you are Examining. A. noe I did nott See them butt I Saw them hurt att other tymes. I saw Good have a Catt beside the yellow bird w'ch was with hir Q. what hath Osburne gott to goe w'th hir? Some thing I dont know what itt is. I can't name itt, I don't know how itt looks she hath two of them one of them hath wings & two Leggs & a head like a woeman the Children Saw the Same butt yesterday w'ch afterward turned into a woeman. Q. What is the other Thing that Goody Osburne hath? A. a thing all over hairy, all the face hayry &
a long nose & I don't know how to tell how the face looks w'th two Leggs, itt goeth upright & is about two or three foot high & goeth upright like a man & last night itt stood before the fire In mr parris's hall. Q. Whoe was that appeared like a Wolfe to Hubberd as she was goeing fro proctures? A. itt was Sarah Good & I saw hir Send the Wolfe to hir. Q. what Cloathes doth the man appeare unto you in? A. black Cloaths Some times, Some times Searge Coat of other Couler, a Tall man w'th white hayr, I think. Q. What apparrell doe the woeman ware? A. I don't know w't couller. Q. What Kind of Cloathes hath she? A. I don't know w't couller. Q. What kind of Cloathes
-753hath she? A. a black Silk hood w'th a White Silk hood under itt, w'th top knotts, w'ch woeman I know not but have Seen hir in boston when I lived there. Q. what Cloathes the little woeman? A. A Searge Coat w'th a White Cap as I think. the Children having fits att this Very time she was asked whoe hurt them, she Ans'r Goody Good & the Children affirmed the same butt Hubbard being taken in an extreame fit after she was asked whoe hurt hir & she Sayd she Could nott tell, but sayd they blinded hir, & would nott lett hir see and after that was once or twice taken dumb hirself.
-754pinch them. Q. did you goe into that Room in your own person & all the rest? A. yes, and my master did nott See us, for they would nott lett my Master See. Q. did you goe w'th the Company? A. Noe I stayd & the Man
stayd w'th mee. Q. whatt did he then to you? A. he tell me my master goe to prayer & he read in book & he ask me what I remember, but don't you remember anything. Q. did he ask you noe more but the first time to Serve him or the secon time? A. yes, he ask me againe, & that I Serve him, Six yeares & he Come the Next time & show me a book. A. and when would he come then? A. the next fryday & showed me a book in the day time betimes in the morneing. Q. and what Booke did he Bring a great or little booke? A. he did nott show it me, nor would nott, but had itt in his pockett. Q. did nott he make you write yo'r Name? A. noe nott yett for mistris Called me into the other roome. Q. whatt did he say you must doe in that book? A. he Sayd write & sett my name to itt. Q. did you write? A. yes once I made a marke in the Booke & made itt with red Bloud. Q. did he gett itt out of your Body? A. he Said he must gett itt out the Next time he Come againe, he give me a pin tyed in a stick to doe itt w'th, butt he noe Lett me bloud w'th itt as yett butt Intended another time when he Come againe. Q. did you See any other marks in his book? A. yes a great many Some marks red, Some yellow, he opened his booke a great many marks in itt. Q. did he tell you the Names of them? A. yes of two note more Good & Osburne & he Say thay make them marks in that book & he showed them mee. Q. how many marks doe you think there was? A. Nine. Q. did they write there Names? A. thay made marks Goody Good Sayd she made hir mark, butt Goody Osburne would nott tell she was Cross to mee. Q. when did Good tell you, She Sett hir hand to the Book? A. the same day I Came hither to prison. Q. did you See the man thatt morneing? A. yes a litle in the morneing & he tell me the Magistrates Come up to Exa in mee. Q. w't did he Say you must Say? A. he tell me, tell nothing, if I did he would Cutt my head off. Q. tell us [tru] how many woemen doe use to Come when you Rid abroad? A. foure of them these two Osburne & Good & those two strangers. Q. you Say that there was Nine did he tell you whoe they were? A. noe he noe lett me See but he tell me I should See them the next tyme Q. what sights did you see A. I see a man, a dogge, a hogge, & two Catts a black and Red & the strange monster was Osburne that I mentioned before this was was the hayry Imp. the man would give itt to mee, but I would nott have itt. Q. did he show you in the Book w'ch was Osburne & w'ch was Goods mark? A. yes I see
-755there marks. Q. butt did he tell the Names of the other? A. noe s'r Q & what did he say to you when you made your Mark? A. he sayd Serve mee & always Serve mee the man w'th the two women Came fro Boston. Q. how many times did you goe to Boston? A. I was goeing & then Came back againe I was never att Boston. Q. whoe Came back w'th you againe? A. the man Came back w'th mee & the woemen goe awa y, I was nott willing to goe? Q. how farr did you goe, to what Towne? A. I never went to any Towne I see noe trees, noe Towne. Q. did he tell you where the Nine Lived? A. yes, Some in Boston & Some herein this Towne, but he would nott tell mee wher thay were, X ( New York Public Library -- Manuscripts and Archives Division )
(Indictment v. Tituba)
Province of the Massachusetts [unclear: ] Bay in New England Essex ss At a Court of Asisise & Generall Goale Delivery held in Ipswich for the County of Essex aforesaid the Ninth Day of May 1692. In the fifth Yeare of their Maj'ts Reigne
The Jurors for o'r Sov'r Lord & Lady the King & Queen pr'sent -That Tittapa an Indian Woman Servant to mr Samuel Parris of Salem village in the County of Essex -aforesaid -- upon or about the latter end of the Yeare 1691 In the Towne of Salem Village afors'd Wickedly & felloniously A Covenant with the Devill did make & Signed the Devills Booke with a marke like A:C by which Wicked Covenanting with the Devill she the Said Tittapa is become A detestable Witch Against the peace of o'r Sov'r lord & lady the King & Queen their Crowne & Dignity & the lawes in that Case made & provided. (On reverse side of paper) Ignoramus *Abraham Haseltine foreman of the Grand Jury ( Suffolk Court Records, Case No. 2760 Page 102 )
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(Reverse) Ann putnam ag'st Tittuba Indian ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 11 )
-757until the said Indian began to confess & then they were immediately all quiet the rest of the said Indian womans examination. ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 11 )
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Job Tookey
(Mary Warren, Susannah Sheldon, Ann Putnam, Jr., Sarah Bibber, Mary Walcott, Elizabeth Hubbard, and Elizabeth Booth v. Job Tookey)
June the 4. 1692 Mary Waren Susanah Shelden Ann putnam: Sarah Viber Mary Walcot Eliz. Hubert and Eliz booth all accused Job Tuckey that he came in person; also in his shape to them and this day afflicted them; and also in our presence greatly afflicted them. as thay all declared and told Mary Warren and Ann putnam And Susanah Shelden that he had Learneing and could Raise the Divell W'n he pleased Susanah Shelden sayth that he told her he was not only a Wizard but a Murtherer to mary walcot ann putnam Jur in Cur. ( Mass Archives Vol. 135 No. 26 )
-760Sworne all three aboves'd Mary walcot & Ann Putnam Before Us Jur in Cur. Salem June the 4'th 1692 Susannah Shelden Mary Warren and Ann putnam all Testified that this 4th of June when Job Tuckey was Examined before the Majestrats wee did all see five people that arose from the dead two of them men two Women & one Child. w'ch all Cryed Venganc vengance Job Tuckey being asked before us w't child that was that arose and Cryed Vengance he Answerd, it was Jno Trasks child. And Ann putnam. told her that it was John Trasks child Before -- *John Hathorne Just peace ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 26 )
-761Jona' Walcot] Samuell King & Daniele Bacon also Testifieth that thay heard him say soe to John Lauder as above s'd Sworne by all the three above named Salem June the 4 1692 Ju in Cur *Jona' Elatson Cler ( Mass. Archives, Vol. 135 No. 27 )
-762the afflicted persones struck them down with his eyes & recovered them by takeing of them Severally by the hand or wrist Mary warrin in a trance said that Gamaliel Hawkins was dead in Barbados and Job Stuky #[had] did stick a great pin into him Being out of her trance she affirmed as before and added one Andrew woodverry more. and that Stuky had bewitched Betty Hews Susanna Shelden said that Stuky had killed one Andrew Woodberry And one Gamaliel (but was just then choakt) A litle efter she proceeded & said that Tuky had murdered Trasks child And that he run a great pin into a poppets heart which killed the said Hawkins. Warrin said she saw a young child under the table cryeing out for vengean[e] upon Stuky Elizabeth #[Mary] booth pointed to the same place but could not speake Sheldon said that Stukyes apparaition told her he would never reveale again what he had said before. Mary warrin then saw a man rise up also before Stuky Mary walcot saw 3 men 3 women and two childrens Apparitions who all cryed for vengeance. against Stucky (and then her mouth was stopt) within a litle while she said she knew not the persones, but they appeared in their winding sheets and looked pale upon her but Red upon Stuky Elizabeth Booth #[Mary Warrin] & Sus: Shelden saw the same 8 persones cryeing out for vengeance upon Stuky and looked as red as blood Shelden said that John Trasks child was one, As also Gamaliel Hawkins and Andrew Woodberry. Shelden said that Stuky had pinched & choaked her this day Mary warrin saw the apparitions of Hawkins and severall more but knew them not, she saw also the apparitions of [seargin] & her child; had [torn] a fitt & cryed out upon one Burse. I under subscrybing being appointed by the justices of the peace in Salem to take down in writing the Examination of Job Tooky doe testify the above written to be a true coppy of the original as to the substance of it *Wm Murray (Reverse) Examina on of Job Tookie 7. June 1692 ( Mass. Archives, Vol. 135 No. 32 )
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-764at and in the Towne of Salem in the County of Essex aforesaid in upon and against one Susana Sheldon of Salem -- aforesaid Single Woman -- by which Said Wicked acts the said [Susana] Sheldon the day & yeare aforesaid and divers other Dayes and Times both before and after was and is Tortured aflicted Consumed Pined Wasted and Tormented against the Peace of o'r Sov'r Lord and Lady the King and Queen Theire Crowne and Dignity and the Laws in that Case made and Provided. ( Suffolk Court Records Case No. 2670 Page 3 )
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Jerson Toothaker
that sheet this have ben Done this Day by tooth ekers wiff mary iyerson, wiff to bengamin iyerson at lin hoe in the same maner hav tormented almost to deth and brought the book to her (Reverse) Mary Warren ag't Jerson Toothaker ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 55 )
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her hands would be clinched, and that she would grip the dishclout or anything else and so think of the person; And by this & afflicting of others since She came down she is convinced she is a witch -- she saith now, the Devil appeared to her in the shape of a Tawny man and promised to keep her from the Indians and she should have happy dayes with her sone -- she was asked if she did not signe the Devills book; answered he brought something which she [took] to bee a piece of burch bark and she made a mark with her finger by rubbing off the whit Scurff. And he promised if she would serve him she should be safe from the Indians (she was then a litle stopt again & believed it was the Devil that did it)// Being asked if the Devil did not say she was to serve him Answered Yes, and signed the mark upon that condition and was to praise him w'h her whole heart, and twas to that appearance she prayed at all tymes for he said he was able to delyver her from the Indians And it was the feare of the Indians that put her upon it. she confesses she hurt Timothy Swan and thinks she was twice at salem Village witch meeting and that Goody Bridges was one of her company -- she said as she came along in order to examination she promised herself twenty tymes by the way (but [seald] it was to the Devil) That if she should Dye upon the Gallowse yet she would not say any thing but that she was Innocent. & rejoyced In the thought of it that She Should goe home Inocent -- she saith that Goody Green and Goody Broomage were also her companions and that Broomage afflicted Swan by squeezing his arms, And is afrayd that she the s'd Toothaker squeezed his throat -- she said further that when Goody Bridges (who had confessed before) urged her also to confess she had then no remembrance of this but with the justices Discourse and the help of god it came into her mind. she saith she thought that that appearance was God her creator & being asked if she did not know otherwise answered The Devil is so subtel that when she would confess he stops her and deludes also by scripture and being asked what scripture he made inser of to her she mentioned that in the Psalmes where it is said Let my enemies be confounded, And so she had wished them all Destroyed that raised such reports of her she confesses that her sister was with her at all the meetings & particularly at Salem Village & there went with her Goody Bridges Goody foster Goody Green & Goody Broomage Several afflicted persons said they saw the black man before her in the tyme of her examination And she now, her self confesses
-769she saw him upon the table before her. She sayes further there was a minister a litle man whose name is Burroughs that preached at the Village meeting of witches, and she heard that they used read & write at these meetings And, that they did talk of 305 witches in the country. she saith their discourse was about the pulling down the Kingdom of Christ and setting up the Kingdom of satan, and also Knew Goody How emong the rest. Being asked if there was not a woman that stirred them up to afflict Swan Answered yes there was a pretty [Elderly] woman that was most busie about him and encouraged the rest to afflict him. she thinks she set her hand to that book at Salem Village meeting. And thinks the [End] of all their setting their hand to that book was to come in, and afflict & set up the Devils Kingdome. she being asked if her husband did not speak to his daughter to Kill one Button a reputed witch answered yes, and that they used to read many historyes, especially one book that treated of the 12 signes, from which book they could tell a great Deale. -- she saith she never knew her daughter to be in this condition before this summer, But that she was at Salem Village meeting once with her, she cannot tell that her daughter did then signe the book but a great many did. Being asked how many were of her Society she said Goody Broomage, foster, green, the two Mary Laceyes older and younger, Richard Carrier, her sister Carryer and another aged woman -- she saith she heard the Beating of a drum at the village meeting And think also heard the sound of a trumpet. I underwritten being appointed to take the above & within examination in wryting Doe testify upon oath taken in Court That this is a true coppy, of the substance of it, to the best of my knowledge
6't Jan'ry in 1692/3 *Wm Murray The within named Mary Toothaker was examined by their Majesties Justices of the peace in Salem Mary Toothaker:Examined 30 July 1692 -- acused Goody Bridges 2 lacys Goody Gren Goody Brumage Rd. Carier *Atest Jno Higginson Just'es peace. owned before the Grand Jury: 6 January 1692 Atest.
-770Goody Carrier Goody Foster Mr. Burroughs Goody How Math. Emerson afflicted Timo Swan *Robert Payne Foreman ( Suffolk Court Records Case No. 2713 Page 50 )
her & promised to Serve the Devill, & to praise him with hir whole heart by which Diabolicall Covenant with the Devill made in maner & forme aforesaid the Said Mary Toothaker is become A Detestable Witch Against the peace of o'r Sov'r lord & lady the King & Queen their Crowne & Dignity & the Laws in that Case made & provided. Billa Vera Attest *Simon Stone foreman (Reverse) "Pon't Se, Non Cull" ( Suffolk Court Records Case No. 2713 Page 50 )
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Constable in Salem May 18'th 1692: (Reverse) Agst Toothaker ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 117 )
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(Mittimus for Roger Toothaker, John Willard, Thomas Farrar, and Elizabeth Hart)
To: To the Keeper of Theire Majest's Goale in Boston You are in theire Majest's names hereby required to take into your care and safe Custody the Bodys of Roger Toothaker of Bilrica: John Willard of Salem Village, husbandman Thomas farrar of Lyn husbandman, and Elizabeth Hart the wife of Isaac Hart of Lyn husbandman, who all stand charged with Sundry acts of Witchcraft, by them and Every one of them Committed, on the Bodys of Mary Walcot Abigail Williams Mary Lewis Ann putnam and others of Salem Village or farmes, whom you are well to secure in order to theire tryall for the same. and untill they shall be delivered by due order of Law and hereof you are not to faile Dated Salem May 18'th 1692 *John Hathorne [unclear: ] *Jonathan. Corwin by order of the Goven'r & Councill (Reverse) Toothaker Hart ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 117 )
his house in Beverly (upon some occasion) & we Descoursed aboute John Mastons Childe of salem that was then sick & haveing unwonted fitts: & Likewise another Childe of Phillip Whites of Beverly who was then strangly sick. I perswaded s'd Toothaker to goe & see s'd Children and s'd toothaker answered he had seen them both allready and that his opinion was they were under an Evill hand And farther s'd Toothaker s'd that his Daughter had kild a witch & I asked him how she Did it, & s'd Toothaker answered readily that his Daughter had Learned something from
-773him I asked by what means she Did it, & he s'd that there was a [a] Certaine person bewitched & s'd person Complained of beeing afflicted by another person that was suspected by the afflicted person: & farther s'd Toothaker s'd that his s'd Daughter gott some of the afflicted persons Urine & put it into an Earthen pott & stopt s'd pott very Close & putt s'd pott #[very Close] [in] to a hott oven & stopt up s'd oven & the next morning s'd [witch] was Dead other things I have forgotten & farther saith not [] ias Pickworth Aged aboute thirty foure years testifieth to all that is above written (Reverse) Sworne by Thomas Gage Salem Village May. 2[0th 1692] before us *John Hathorne [unclear: ] Assists *Jonathan. Corwin Gage [] Toothaker ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 117 )
(Coroner's Warrant)
Suffolk To the Constables of Boston, or either of them By Vertue of mine office, These are in the names of our Sovereigne Lord and Lady, King William and Queen Mary of England &c. -to will and Require to Immediately, upon the Receipt and sight hereof, to Summons, and Warne, twenty four able and Suffisient men to be and appear before me at the prison forthwith, then and there, to do and execute such things, as on Their Majesties behalfe, shall be given them in charge, whereof faile ye not, as you and every of you, will answer the contrary at your perille, Dated Und'r my hand, & seal, the 16'th Day of June, in the year of our Lord 1692 By me *Edw Wyllys, one of the Coronoers of the County of Suffolk [SEAL] ( Suffolk County Court Records, Vol. 32, Case No. 2690 )
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-776The Jurors for o'r Sov'r Lord & Lady the King & Queen Present That Hannah Tyler of Andivor in the County of Essex aforesaid Single Woman On or about the Seaventh Day of September last in the Yeare of our lord 1692 aforesaid, And divers other days & Times as Well before as after Certaine detestable Arts Called Witchcrafts & Sorceries, Wickedly Mallitiously & felloniously hath Used practised & Exercised at and In the Towne of Andevor aforesaid Upon & Against One Rose foster of Andivor aforesaid [] by which Said Wicked Arts The Said Rose foster The day & Yeare aforesaid & divers other days & times as Well before as after was & is aflicted Tortured Consumed pined Wasted & Tormented Against the Peace of o'r Sov'r lord & Lady the King & Queen Their Crowne & dignity And the laws in that Case Made & Provided. (Reverse) Indictment Vs Hannah Tyler for bewitching Rose foster -- -- Billa Vera: Robert Payne foreman: Ponet Se Not Guilty The folly of former times. (In a later hand) ( Mass. Archives, Vol. 135 No. 53 )
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Martha Tyler (See also: Dorothy Faulkner -- Confession; Johanna Tyler -Recognizance)
(Rev. Increase Mather's Report of his Conversation in Prison with Martha Tyler)
Goodwife Tyler did say, that, when she was first apprehended, she had no fears upon her, and did think that nothing could have made her confess against herself. But since, she had found, to her great grief, that she had wronged the truth, and falsely accused herself. She said that, when she was brought to Salem, her brother Bridges rode with her; and that, all along the way from Andover to Salem, her brother kept telling her that she must needs be a witch, since the afflicted accused her, and at her touch were raised out of their fits, and urging her to confess herself a witch. She as constantly told him that she was no witch, that she knew nothing of witchcraft, and begged him not to urge her to confess. However, when she came to Salem, she was carried to a room, where her brother on one side, and Mr. John Emerson on the other side, did tell her that she was certainly a witch, and that she saw the Devil before her eyes at that time (and, accordingly, the said Emerson would attempt with his hand to beat him away from her eyes); and they so urged her to confess, that she wished herself in any dungeon, rather than be so treated. Mr. Emerson told her, once and again, `Well, I see you will not confess! Well, I will now leave you; and then you are undone, body and soul, for ever.' Her brother urged her to confess, and told her that, in so doing, she could not lie: to which she answered, `Good
brother, do not say so; for I shall lie if I confess, and then who shall answer unto God for my lie?' He still asserted it, and said that God would not suffer so many good men to be in such an error about it, and that she would be hanged if she did not confess; and continued so long and so violently to urge and press her to confess, that she thought, verily, that her life would have gone from her, and became so terrified in her mind that she
-778owned, at length, almost any thing that they propounded to her; that she had wronged her conscience in so doing; she was guilty of a great sin in belying of herself, and desired to mourn for it so long as she lived. This she said, and a great deal more of the like nature; and all with such affection, sorrow, relenting, grief, and mourning, as that it exceeds any pen to describe and express the same. (Charles W. Upham, Salem Witchcraft [Boston, 1867] II, 404-405.)
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(Reverse) Recogce Hopestill Tyler & [unclear: ] Martha Tyler & Johana Tyler Jno Bridges May 10 Appeard ( Mass. Archives, Vol. 135 No. 1 )
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Mercy Wardwell
-782all this Conffession yett the afflicted 'rsons Could Nott Come Near her But upon the Maj'r asking of her if the Divel had not made her Renounce her former baptizime and she Answering Yes then they Could all take one another by the Hand without any hurt Mercy Wardwell signed & owned the [unclear: ] above s'd Examination & Conffession before me *Jno Higginson Just'e peace 15 Septemb'r 1692 -Marcy Wardwell owned all the above s'd Examination & Conffession (only s'd she did not know her farther & Mother ware witches as witness her hand
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-784angry He saith also that at that tyme when the devil appeared & told him he was prince of the aire that then he syned his book by makeing a mark like a square with a black pen and that the devil brought him the pen and Ink He saith further he Covenanted with the devil untill he should arryve to the age of sixty years and that he is now about the age of 46 years. And at that tyme the devil promeised on his part as is above exprest, he said it was about a 4tnight agoe since he began to afflict, and confesses that mary Lilly and Hannah Tayler of Ridding were of his company Further he saith that martha Sprague was the first he afflicted, that the devil put him upon it and threatned him there unto And that he did it by pincheing his coat & buttons when he was discontented, and gave the devil a co ission so to doe, He sayes he was baptised by the black man at Shaw shin river alone and was dipt all over and beleeves he renounced his former baptisme.
*John Higginson Sam'll Wardwell: owned: to the grand Inquest: that: the above written: Conffession: was; taken: from his mouth and that he had said it: but: he s'd he belyed: himselfe: he also s'd it was alone one: he: knew he should dye for it: whether: he ownd it or no Sept'r 13'th 1692 (Reverse) Samuel Wardell his Exa minat ion & Confesion ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 28 )
-785Mallitiously and felloniously hath used practised & Exercised at and in the Towne of Boxford in the County of Essex aforesaid in upon and against one Martha Sprague of Boxford in the County of Essex Aforesaid Single Woman by which said Wicked Acts the said Martha Sprague the day & Yeare Aforesaid and divers other days and times #[both] before and after was and is Tortured Aflicted Consumed Pined Wasted and Tormented, and also for sundry other Acts of Witchcraft by the said Samuel Wardell Comitted and done before and since that time against the peace of our Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queen theire Crowne and dignity And the forme in the Statute in that case made and Provided. (Reverse) Indictm't against Samuel Wardell for bewitching Martha Sprague Billa Vera Ponet Se ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 27 )
Ano R R's & Reginae Gulielmi & Mariae Angliae &c Quarto, Anoq'e Dom. 1692 -The Juriors for o'r Sov'r Lord and Lad y the King & Queen r'sent Samuel Wardell of Andivor In the Count y of Essex Carpent'r About Twent y Years agoe in the Towne of Andivor In the County of Essex aforesaid Wickedl y & felloniousl y he the Said Samuel Wardell with the Evill Speritt the Devill a Covenant did make Wherein he promised to honor Worship & beleive the devill Contra y to the Stattute of King James The first in that behalfe made & provided, And Against the peace of Soveraigne Lord & Lady the King & Queen their Crowne & dignit y. (Reverse) 1692 Billa Vera Ponet Se Indictm't ags't Sam'l Wardell for Covenanting w'th the Devill ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 27 )
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before the grand Inquest hath: afflicted her: also: she s'd #[that] that on the day & at the time of s'd wardwels examination he did afflict Martha Spreag: & she veryly beleevs: s'd Wardwell is a wizzard and that he afflicted her and martha Spreag: by witchcraft. Jurat Sep'r 14: 1692 upon her oath ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 28 )
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-788weare spoken before I had any knolidg of my wife being aflicted by wich craft after I meting with said Samuel wardel prisnor at the bar I told him that I douteed that he was gilty of hurting my wife for I had no sutch thoughts nor had spoken any sutch wordes of him or any other parson and theare fore I doe not know but you are gilty & further that Sam'll Wardwell Owned to this deponent that he had spoke it to my Brother Jurat in Curia (Reverse) Joseph Ballard Depo' ags't Sam'l Wardwell -( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 29 )
And further I heard him tell Jeams bridges his forten: that he loved a gurll at forteen years ould: which: said bridges: oned to be the truth: but could not imagin how said wordwall knew: for he never: spake of it: John bridges father of said jeams bridges sayeth: he heard Jeam say I wonder how wordwall cold teell so true Jurat in Curia, by both (Reverse) Abiga'l Martin & James Bridges Depo' Vers Sam'l Wardwell ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 29 )
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Sarah Wardwell (See also: Samuel Wardwell -- Petition from Andover Selectmen.)
-792be afflicted a little after S'd She Squezed her Child w'th an Intention that the 'rsons should be afflicted she s'd she never new her husband to be a witch till she was such an one her self & thinks her daughters have been so butt a little while not above amonth she ownes she is sorry for w't she has done & promises to renounce the Divel & all his works & serve the true Liveing god -- Noate she is accused for afflicting Sprauge Martin & Rosse fostt.'r & In the time of her Examination struck them dwone w'th her Eyes & Recovered them by her touching of their armes as also struck dwone Sarah Bridges & Hanah Post & Mary Warren Mary lacy Jun'r & Martha Sprauge Testified they saw her afflict Abigal Martin in the Court & Hannah Post s'd she saw her afflict Sarah Bridges Sarah Wardwell signed & owned the above s'd Examination & Conffession Before me
The Mark of Sarah Wardwel *John Higginson, Justice peace ( Essex Institute MSS. Collection )
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Now they were all but John Indian grievously afflicted, & Mrs Pope also, who was not afflicted before hitherto this day: & after a few moments John Indian fell into a violent fit also. Well here was one just now that was a Tormentor in her apparition & she owns that she had made a league with the Devil. Now Mary Warren fell into a fit, & some of the afflicted cryed out that she was going to confess, but Goody Korey, & Procter, & his wife came in, in their apparition, & struck her down, & said she should tell nothing.
-794Mary Warren continued a good space in a fit, that she did neither see, nor hear, nor speak. Afterwards she started up, & said I will speak & cryed out, Oh! I am sorry for it, I am sorry for it, & wringed her hands, & fell a little while into a fit again & then came to speak, but immediately her Teeth were set, & then she fell into a voilet fit, & cryed out, Oh Lord help me, Oh good Lord save me! And then afterwards cryed again, I will tell, I will tell, & then fell into a dead fit againe. And afterwards cryed, I will tell, they did, they did, they did, & then fell into a violent fit again. After a little recovery she cryed I will tell, I will tell, they brought me me to it; & then fell into a fit again: which fits continuing, she was ordered to be had out, & the next to be brought in, viz: Bridget Byshop Some time afterwards she was called in again, but immediately taken with fits, for a while. Have you signed the Devils book? No. Have you not touch it? No. Then she fell into fits againe, & was sent forth for air. After a considerable space of time she was brought in again, but could [not] give account of things, by reason of fits, & so sent forth. Mary Warren called in, afterwards in private, before magistrates & Ministers. She said, I shall not speak a word: but I will speak Satan -- She saith she will kill me: Oh! `she saith, she owes me a spite, & will claw me off -Avoid Satan, for the name of God avoid And then fell into fits again: & cryed will ye I will prevent ye in the Name of God, --
Tell us, how far have you yeilded? A fit interrupts her again. What did they say you should do, & you should be well? Then her lips were bit so that she could not speak. so she was sent away Note That not one of the sufferers was afflicted during her examination after once she began to confess, thom they were tormented before.
-795Salem Village Aprill 19'th 1692. Mr Samuell parris being desired to take in wrighting the Examination of Mary Warren hath delivered it as aforesaid And upon hearing the same and seeing what wee did then see; togather with the Charge of the afflicted persons then present. Wee Committed said Mary Warren *John Hathorne [unclear: ] Assis'ts *Jonathan. Corwin (Reverse) (3) The exa ncon of Mary Warren 19. Apr. 1692 ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 29 )
Q. How did you come to know your Master and Mistriss were Witches? A. The Sabbath Eve after I had put up my note for thanks in publick, my Mistris appeared to me, and puld mee out of the Bed, and told mee that Shee was a witch, and had put her hand to the Book, She told me this in her Bodily person, and that This Examination might have known she was a Witch, if She had but minded what Books she read in. Q. What did she say to you before you tormented the Children? A. The night after she told me she was a Witch, she in son told mee this Examinant, that my self and her Son John would quickly be brought out for witches. This Examinant saith that Giles Cory in apparition told her, the night before that the Magistrates were going up to the farms, to bring down more witches to torment her. Moreover being in a dreadful fit
-796in the prison she Charged it on Giles Cory, who was then in Close prison, affirming that he came into the Room where she was, and afflicting her, Charged her not to Come into the Other Room while he was Examining, But being sent for and he Commanded to look upon her, He no sooner turned his face to her but shee fel into a dreadful fit again, and upon her Recovery Charged him to his face with being the procurer of it. Moreover the said Cory in prison formerly threatened her that he would fitt her for itt, because he told her she had Caused her Master to ask more for a peice of Meadow than he was willing to give she likewise in her fitt in the Other Room before she had seen Giles Cory in person, Charging him with afflicting off her, described him in all his garments, both of hat Coat and Colour of them, with a Cord about his wast, and a white Cap on his head and in Chains, as severall then in Company Can affirm. ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 30 )
she was Asked what couller the spot was: Answered black she was Asked whether. her Mast'r did not thretten her to run the hot tongs downe her throat if she did not sign Answered that her M'r threttned her to burn her out of her fitt being Asked whether she had made a mark in the book Answered she made no mark but with her top of her finger
-797she was asked what she dipt her finger in when it made the mark: Answered: in nothing: but her mouth she was Asked whether her finger was wett when she touched the book w'h it Answered she knew not that it was wett: or whether it was wett w'h sweat or with sider: that she had bin drinking of she knew not: but her finger did make a mark and the mark was black she was asked whether any but her M'r and Mr's was with her: when she was threttoned with the hott tonges: answerd none but them She s'd her Mast'r put her hand to the book and her finger made a black spott which made her tremble: then she s'd she was undon body and soul and cryed out greivously. she was told that it was he[r] own Vollantary act: she would have denyed it: but she was told the devil could have done nothing: if she had not yeilded and that she for eas to her body: not for any good of her sould: had done it with this she much greived and cryed out: she s'd her Mast'r & mistris thretned to drown her: & to mak her run through the hedges She was Asked whether she had not seen her Mast'r & mistris since she came to prison answered she thought she saw her Maste' and dare say: it was he: she was Asked wh[h] at he sayd to her: answerd nothing after a fitt she cryed out I will tell: I will tell: thou wicked Creature it is you stopt my mouth: but I will confess the little that I have to confess being asked: who she would tell off whether goodwife proctor or no::answered O Betty procter it is she: it is she I lived with last she then cryed out it shall be known: thou wrech; hast thou undone me body and soul she said also she wishes she had made me mak: a through league she was again Asked what her finger was blacked with when she toucht the book Answered she knew not that her finger was black: till she se it black: the book and after she had put her finger to the book: she eat: bread and butter and her finger blacked the bred and butter also being asked what her mistris now said to her: when she complaind of her mistris she s'd her mistris bid her not tell that her mistris was a wich Coming out of another fit s'd she would tell she would tell: she s'd her Mast'r now bid her not tell: that he: had some times gone: to make away with himselfe for her Master had told her that he had bin
-798about sometimes to make away with him self becaus of his wives quarrilling with him being Asked how she knew: goodwife procter was a wich she coming out of a fit s'd she would: tell she would tell: and she s'd her mistris procter s'd she might know she was a wich if she herkend to what she used to read she sayd her Mistris had many books and her mistris carried one book with her to Reddin when she went to see her sister. being Asked whether she knew her Mistris to be a wich before she touched the book, and how she knew it: she s'd her mistris told her she had set her hand to the devils book that same night: that: I was thrown out of bed: s'd she: which was the same night after she had a note: of thanksgiving: put up at the meeting house she s'd her mistris came to her: her body: not her shape as far as she knew she afirmd: her mistris was a wich being Asked whether: she had seen any of the wiches: since she came to prison: s'd she had seen goodman Cory: & Sara Good: they brought the book to her to sign but she would not own that she knew her master to be a wich or wizzard being asked whether she did not know her finger would make a mark if she touched the book with it: she answerd no: but her master and mistris asked her to read:and she s'd the first word she read was moses: the next word she could not tell what it was but her M'r and Mistris bid her: if she could not pronownce the word she should touch the book being asked why she would not tell the wholle truth: she s'd she had formerly not told all the truth. becaus she was thretned to be torn in peices: if she did but now she would and had told the truth being Asked whether she did not suspect it was the devils book that she touched answerd she did not suspect it before: she se: her finger blacked it she was Asked why: she yeilded to do as she did: answered that her master s'd if she would not: when she was in her fit she should run: into the fire or: water if he would and destroy her selfe being Asked whether she had not bin instrumentall to afflict the afflicted parsons Answerd no but when she heard: they were aflicted in her shape: she began to fear it was the devil [that hurt in her shape] being Asked whether she had immages to stick pins or thorns into to hurt people with: answerd no:
-799she was asked whether the devil never asked her consent: to: hurt in her shape answerd no: she had heard her master and mistris tell of images and of sticking of thorns in them: to hurt people with she was asked: whether she knew of any Immages in the hous: sayd no
being asked if she knew of any oyntment they had in the hous she s'd her M'rs oynted her once:for some ayll she had: but it was with oyntment that came from Mrs Bassits of Linn the coullour of it was greenish she was asked how it smelt: sayd very ugly to her she s'd when: she toucht the book she went to put her finger to another line but still her finger went to the same place: where her finger had black't Mr Noys told her she had then touched the book twice: and asked her whether she did not suspect it to be the devils book before she toucht it the second time: she s'd she feare it was no good book: being asked what she ment by no good book: she s'd a book to deceiv (On Reverse) Mary Warens Examination ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 30 )
-800Q. Was there nott your consent to hurt the children, when you were hurt? A. Noe sir, but when I was afflicted my master Procter was in the Roome & said if ye are Afflicted I wish ye were more Afflicted & you and all: I said Master, w't make you say soe he Answered because you goe to bring out Innocent persons. I tould him that could nott bee & whether the Devill took advantage att that I know not to afflict them and one Night talking about them I said I did nott care though ye were tormented if ye charged mee: Q. Did you ever see any poppetts? An. yes once I saw one made of cloth in Mistris procters hand.
Q. whoe was itt like or w'ch of the Children was itt for? An. I cannot tell, whether for Ann putnam or Abigail Williams, for one of them itt was I am sure, itt was in my mistri's hand. Q. What did you stick into the poppitt? An. I did stick in a pin about the Neck of itt as itt was in proctors hand. Q. How many more did you see afterwards? An. I doe nott remember that ever I saw any more. yes I remember one and that Goody parker brought a poppitt unto me of Mercy. Lewis & she gave me another & I stook itt some where about the wasts; & she appeared once more to me in the prison, & she said to me what are you gott here? & she tould me that she was comeing here hirself. I had another person that appeared to me, itt was Goody. Pudeator & said she was sorry to se me there, itt was in apparition & she brought me a poppitt, itt was like to Mary Walcott & itt was a peice of stick that she brought me to stick into itt & somewhare about hir armes I stook itt in. Q. Where did she bring itt to you? An. up att procters. Goody parker tould me she had bin a Witch these. 12 years & more; & pudeator tould me that she had done damage, & tould me that she had hurt James Coyes child takeing itt out of the mothers hand. A. whoe brought the last to you? -An. my mistris & when she brought itt, she brought itt in hir owne person & hir husband w'th his owne hands brought me the Book to Sighne, & he brought me an Image w'ch looked yellow & I beleive itt was for Abigall Williams being like hir & I putt a thing like a thorne into itt, this was done by his bodily person after I had sighned the
-801night after I had sighned the book: while she was thus confessiong parker appeared & bitt her extreamly on hir armes as she affirmed unto us. Q. Whoe have you sene more? An. Nurse & Cloys and Goods Child after I had sighned. Q. What sayd [th'y] to you? An. They sayd that I should never Tell of them nor anything about them, & I have seen Goody Good hirself. Q. Was that true of Giles Cory that you saw him & that he Afflicted you the other day? An. yes I have sene him often & he hurts me very much & Goody Oliver hath appeared to me & Afflicted me & brought the Book to tempt mee, & I have seen Goody Cory. the first night I was taken, I saw as I
thought the Apparition of Goody Cory & catched att itt as I thought & caught my master in my lap tho I did nott see my master in that place att that time, upon w'ch my master said itt is noe body but I itt is my shaddow that you see, but my master was nott before mee as I could descerne, but Catching att the Apparition that looked like Goody Cory I caught hold of my master & pulled him downe into my Lap; upon w'ch he said I see ther is noe heed to any of your talkings, for you are all possest with the Devill for itt is nothing butt my shape, I have sene Goody Cory att my masters house in person, and she tould mee that I should be condemned for a Witch as well as she hirself, itt was att my masters house, & she said that the children would cry out & bring out all. Q. was this before you had signned? An. yes, before I had any fitts. Q. Now tell the truth about the Moutebank what writeing was that? An. I don't know. I asked hir what itt was about but she would not tell mee saying she had promised nott to Lett any body see itt. Q. Well, but whoe did you see more? An. I don't know any more. Q. how long hath your Mast'r & Mistris bin Witches? An. I don't know, they never tould me. Q. What likeness or appearance have you had to bew'ch you? An. they never gave me any thing. while I was reading this over upon the comeing in of mr Higginson & mr Hale as soon as I read the name parker, she imediately fell into dreadfull fitts as she affirmed
-802after hir fitt was over by the appearance of Goody parker, & mr Hathorne presently but Naming Goody pudeator she alsoe appeared & tormented hir very much. and Goody parker in the time of hir examination in one of Warrens fitts tould this examinant that she had bewitched the examinants sister & was the cause of hir dumbness as alsoe that she had lately killed a man aboard a vessell & tould me that his name was Michaell Chapleman aboard the vessell in the harbour after they ware come to Anchor & that he dyed with a paine in his side & that she had done itt by striking something into his side & that she had strook this examinants sister dumb that she should never speak more. and Goody pudeater att the same tyme appeared & tould this examinant that she had throwne John Turner off of a chery tree & almost killed him & Goody parker s'd that she had cast away Capt prices ketch Thomas Westgate master, & Venus Colefox in itt & presently tould her that Jno Lapshorne was lost in itt and that they were foundred in the sea and she saith that Goody pudeator tould hir that she went up to mr Corwins house to bewitch his mare that he should nott goe up to the farmes to examine the witches, also mr Burroughs appearing at the same tyme and Afflicting her tould hir that he went to tye mr Hathornes horses leggs when he went last to Boston & that he tryed to bewitch him `tho he could not his horse. Goody pudeator tould hir that she killed hir husband by giving him something whereby he fell sick and dyed, itt was she tould hir about 7 or 10 years since and Goody parker tould her that she was Instrumentall to drowne Orne's son in the harbour also shee s'd she did bewitch Jno Searles's boy to death as
his master was carrying him out to sea soe that he was forced to bring him back againe, alsoe Burroughs tould her that he killed his wife off of Cape Ann parker tould hir alsoe that Margarett Jacobs was a wittness against hir and did charge hir yesterday upon hir (that is Jacobs's) examination. ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 31 )
-803was In Salem Goale then and There wee Heard Mary Warrin Severall times Say that the Majestrates Might as well Examine Keysars Daughter that has Bin Distracted Many Yeares And Take Noatice of what Shee Said: as well as any of the Afflicted pe'sons for Said Mary warrin when I was Aflicted I thought I saw the Apparission of A hundred persons: for Shee said hir Head was Distempered that Shee Could not tell what Shee Said, And the Said Mary tould us that when Shee was well Againe Shee Could not Say that Shee saw any of Apparissons at the time Aforesaid -(On reverse) Sarah Bishop Mary Eastey depno as to Mary Warrin ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 32 )
-804withall Brought: a Book and bid this deponent sett her hand to it: but the night before as she Lay in her Bed Mary Warring went to her bed side and brought a little Baby to this Deponent and told her that she might sett her hand to the Book. and not know of it: but this Deponent told the said Andross she would not: then he told the said Deponent that he would Afflicted Still since this Deponent hath been afflicted severall times by the said Andross: & others that she knows not. (On reverse) Eliz Booth against Daniell Andrew ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 32 )
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Sarah Wilds Executed July 19, 1692 (See also William Hobbs -- Mittimus; George Jacobs Sr. -- Mittimus; Sarah Good -- Death Warrant)
(Warrant for Arrest of Sarah Wilds, William Hobbs, Deliverance Hobbs, Nehemiah Abbott Jr., Mary Easty, Edward Bishop, Jr., Sarah Bishop, Mary Black, and Mary English)
Salem Aprill the 21'th 1692 There Being Complaint this day made (before us) by Thomas putnam and John Buxton of Salem Village Yeomen, in behalfe of their Majest's for them selfes and also for severall of theire Neighbours, Against Wm Hobbs husbandman and Delive' his wife, Nehemiah Abot Jun'r weaver. Mary Easty the wife of Isaac Easty and Sarah. Wilds the wife of John Wilds all of the Towne of Topsfield. or Ipswitch and Edward Bushop husbandman & Sarah his wife of Salem Village, And Mary Black a negro of Leut Nath Putnams of Salem Village also And Mary English the wife of philip English Merchant in Salem for high Suspition of Sundry acts of Witchcraft done or Committed by them Lately upon the Bodys of Anna putnam & Marcy Lewis belonging to the famyly of the aboves'd Thomas putnam Complain't and Mary Walcot the daugter of Capt Jonat' Walcot of s'd Salem Village and others, whereby great hurt and dammage hath benne donne to the bodys of said persons above named therefore Craved Justice You are therefore in theire Majest's names hereby required to Apprehend and bring before us William Hobs husbandman and [] his wife Nehemiah Abot Jun'r weaver Mary Easty the wife of Isaac Easty and all the rest above named to Morrow aboute ten of the Clock in the forenoon at the house of Leiut Nath'll Ingersalls in
-806Salem Village. in order to theire Examination Relateing to the premises abovesayd and hereof you are not to faile Dated Salem Aprill 21'th 1692 *John Hathorne [unclear: ] Assists *Jonathan. Corwin To: Geo: Herrick Marshall of Essex and any or all of the Constables in Salem -- or Topsfeild or any other Towne. ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 53 )
-807[Do] you deny this thing that is [torn] All fell into fits, & con[firmed] that the accused hurt th[em] Did you never consent that [these should] be hurt? Never in my life. She was charged by some [with] hurting John Herricks mo[ther]
The accused denyed it. Capt How gave in a relation [and] confirmation of the charge before made. She was ordered to be taken away, & they all cryed out she was upon the Beam, & fell into fits. ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 54 )
-808the Peace of our Sovereigne Lord & Lady the King and Queen, and ag't the form of the Statute in that Case made and Provided. Witnesses Marcy Lewis Ann Putman Mary Wolcott (On reverse side of paper) No. (1) ( Essex Institute MSS Collection )
-809had formerlly she beleved my mother had done har wrong and I went to hare and took marke how that is now ded who dyed at the Estward: along with me and before both of us shee denied that ever she had eniey grounds to think eniey harme of my mother only from what goodiey Redington had siade and afterwards I left the hous and went no mor and ever sence she bene veriey angriey with me and now she will re ward mee *Ephraim Willdes (Reverse) Behalfe Sarah Wiles ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 55 )
cording ly I ded: and I have had serous thoughts maniey tims sence whether my sesing of them might not be some case of hare thus a cusing my mother there by in some mesuer to be re venged of me the woman did show a veriey had sperit when I sesed: on might all most se revenge in her face she Looked so molishsly on mee: as for my mother I never saw aniey harm by har upon aniey sutch a cout naither in word nor action as she is now a cused for she hath awlwais in structed me well in the cristion religon and the wais of god ever sence I was abell to take in structions: and so I leve it allto this honred cort to consider of it _ *Ephraim Willdes (Reverse) Sarah Wildes ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 55 )
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lewes and Abigail willia [ms] and severall times sence Sarah wilds or hirs Apperance has most greviously tortored and afflected me with variety of torturees as by pricking and pinching me and almost choaking me to death Ann Putnam Jun'r declared: the above written: evidence: to be truth: before the Jury of inquest: June: 30'th 1692: upon oath. (On reverse side of paper) Ann Putman ( Essex Institute MSS. Collection )
(On reverse side of paper) Mary Walcot. ( Essex Institute MSS. Collection )
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-813mother replied and said to her whie did ye threaten them and tould them thay had better aLet it aLone then she did threaten my mother and tould her that she would make her prove it and then my mother Coaled to mee and bid mee bare Witnes Elizabath what she saith, and then she did Looke bake apon mee and Emedatly I did fale into such atrembling condition that I was as if all my joynts did knoke togather so that I could hardly goe along, and the night faling after I was a bed I did see somthing stand betweene the Wale and I, I did see somthing stand theire and I did Looke apon it a consideradabell time so Long that I was afraid to Ly one that sid of the bed and asked my husban to Let mee Ly one the other sid of the bed and he did, and then I did feele it come apon my feete as if it had bin a cat and Crope up t[o] my breast and Lay apon mee and then I Could not move nether h[and] nor foot nether Could I speeake a word I did strive to cale to m[y] husban but I Could not speake and so I Lay all night, and in the morning I Could speeake and then I tould my husban thay talke of the old w [torn] but I thinke she has ride mee all this night and then I tould [torn] [hus] ban [how] it had bin with mee all the night, we had a Lec[tor] once a month in Topsfeild and the next lectter day after the first a[bove] named, as I was sitting in my seate Goodwife Wilds Coming by the end of the seeat I sat in I was Emedatly taken with such apay[n] in my bake that I was not abell to bare it and fell doune in the seea[t] and did not know wheaire I was and some pepall tooke me up and [d] Caried mee out of the meeting house but I did not know nothing of i[t] tell afterwords when I Came to my selfe I did wonder how I Come theire up to mr Hubbard house and when I did Come to my selfe an[d] a great many pepall Come about mee to aske mee what was the matter with mee Goodwife Wilds Come and stood at the End of the tabell and I Replied and said theire she is and my mother bid mee goe and ser[ve] her but I Could not sture, and so I have Contined at times Ever senc som times with paynes in one plase and som times in another plase soe as I have not bin abell to doe any thing in my fameliey at seve[rall] times I have bin at the Docters but thay cannot give mee any thing that doe mee any good this is in short of what I Can say being heire in the heart of what I Can speeake too. I am verey Willing to Come and ateste to all above wrighteen and if the Lord give mee streanke but at present I am not abell to come Jurat in Curia
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(On reverse side of paper) Elisabeth Symons ag't Sarah Wiles to be Sumoned Abraham Reddington Sen. Joseph Bixbey Jun'r ( Essex Institute MSS Collection )
-815and feched him another Load and when I Came wheare the first Load sliped the seckond did slipe doune then I got some of our frinds to helpe me Up with it and wee bound it with two Cart ropes but it did slipe Up and doune so as I did never see hay doe soe in my Life and when I Came wheare I Left the first Load the hay went all of the Cart apon the ground and did bring the Cart over and it was rising ground I did thinke that it was don by WichCraft. Jurat in Curia Zacheus Perkins made Oath to the latter part of this Evidence relating to the Hay Jurat in Curia (On reverse side of paper) Zacheus Perkins. ( Essex Institute MSS. Collection )
Jurat in Curia (On reverse side of paper) Humphey Clerk. ( Essex Institute MSS. Collection )
-816and said She how doth your geese thrive and she went to the pen whare thay were fatting, and thay were very fat and we we cept them a grat while longer feding them with Corne and thay pind away so as thay were good for litle and I lost six brave Cattle Six yere agoe which was frozen to death in the midell of Jenewary; now sum time this summer my wif went to Salem vilidg and my wife tould me that an putman the aflicted parsun tould hur that good wif wils had whoried away my Cattell and I wondred an putman should know I lost my Cattle so long agoe Jurat in Curia (On reverse side of paper) Thomas Dorman. ( Essex Institute MSS. Collection )
dear sith to us: however. we went on our way with the sith and asked the Right owner of it leave for it before we
-817used it and went to our work and cutt down as much grass that day as made about three load of hay: and Returned the sith to the owner: and after wards made up our hay: and afterwards went to carting of our hay and went into the meadow and loaded up one load very well and caried it whom: and went againe into the meadow and loaded a second load and [bound] it and went to Drive it whom: but when we came to drive our oxen wee could not make them stire the load tho we had six good oxen and the Two foremost oxen ware on the upland and the meadow very firme where we carted constantly: but we strived awhile to make our oxen goe but could not fit them along; att last one of our wheales fell in up to the stock altho the meadow was feirme: then we threw allmost all the hay ofe our cart and thought to trie to git out the cart with sum hay upon it but we could not then we said one to another it was in vain to s[t] rive for we thought gooddy willes was in the cart and then we threw of all the hay and then we tried to make our oxen draw out the emty cart which at first they could not doe: but att last the whele jumpt up at once we knew not how almost redy to thro down our oxen on their knees then againe we loaded up our load of hay very well and bound it: and away wee went with it very well tell we came near to a very dangeros hill to goe down with a load of hay: and then I the said Joseph Andrew was by the foremost oxen and[d] saw sumthing about as bigge as a dogge glance from a stump or root of a tree along by me and the oxen #[and the oxen] began to jump: but I could not stire from the place for I know not how long: and I the said John Andrew being by the hindmost oxen saw nothing but the oxen begining to jump I cast hold of one of the oxen boxes & was caried down violently that dangerouse hill I know not how: where was a brooke at the bottom of it with a bridge and a ford: and the oxen ran into the ford and over thrue the load of hay their: and when I came to To understand where I was and saw the oxen ware all well I bega[n] to bethinke my self of my Brother Joseph: and Immediatly called him but he gave no answer. and I began to be trobled for him and went backward to wards the place where the oxen were affrighted and I called severall times but he gave me no answer at last I calle[d] and said the load is overthron then Immediatly he answered me and came unto me: but how the load should keep upon the wheles runing so violently down that dangerous hill: & being over throne whare it was we can give no account unless it was don by summ diabolicall
-818art: then againe we gott up our cart and loaded up our hay very firme resolving to gitt hom our load if we could tho it was night and wh[en] we had loaded we went to bind our load: but by all the Skill [and] strength we had we could now wayes bind our load with our Cart rope but it would hang lose on our load: however we went away whom with our load and it laid very well for all it was night and [our] load unbound: also before we got whom many of our friends and neighbors meet us being consarned for us because we ware so latte & they also saw our cart Rope hang lose and tould us of it. and wee tould them what mishap we had that day: and they also tried to fasten the Rope but could not: all which made us then to think and ever sence have thought: and still doe thinke that Gooddy willes who now stands Charged with High suspition of severall acts of wicthcraft had a hand in our Mishap at that time. Jno Andrew: and Joseph Andrew. declared: the evidence written on these two sides to: be the truth on: their oathes: declared: before the Jury of inquest: June 30. 92.
Jurat in Curia by both sons. (On reverse side of paper) Jno & Joseph Andrew agg't Wilds. hay. bewitchd ( Essex Institute MSS. Collection )
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John Willard Executed August 19, 1692 (See also John Proctor -- Physical Examination; Roger Toothaker -- Mittimus.)
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-821This day Goeing to Salem village by yo'r order I found all the five persons brought their which wee was in persute of we had no sooner secured them in the watch house but Counstable John Puttnam came i n with John Willard haveing seized him att Nashaway hee beeing att worke w'th a howe, he No sooner arrived butt the afflicted persons made such an out crye that I was forced to pinion him I have an accompt from thees whoos names are under written that on the 14'th day of Instant may Daniell Willkins about tenn of the clock in the morning was taken speechless and never spoak untell the 16'th day in the intervale of time wee often Endeavoured to make him take something in A spoon but what hee took in which was but little hee spitt it out in our faces w'th that wee sent to the french Doctor but hee sent word againe that it was not a naturall Cause but absolutly witchcraft to his Judgment that same day two of the afflicted persons came up to vissett to Daniell Willkins The last night beeing the 16'th day Marcy Lewis and Mary Wallkott beeing their both did see the s'd John Willard and Goodwife Buckly upon the s'd Daniell Willkins and said that they would Kill him and in three hours after the s'd Daniell Departed this life in a Most dolful and solome Condition Therefore wee humbley begg of Yo'r Honnors to Dispach A Returne for an Examination to prevent any farther murther in the afflicted creatours who Continue in a lemetable Condition and so wee Remaine yo'r Hon'rs most humble servants *G Herrick This breeiffe accompt was taken from Benj Willkins by the consent of wee whoos names are under written and sent by me Ezekiell Cheever * Geo. Herrick Marshall * Joseph Neale Cos'tt * John Putnam Cos'tt * Jonathan putnam Constable * Nathaniel Putnam * John putnam sen * Jonathan Walcott * Thomas Flint * Edward Putnam * John Buxton * Thomas Putnam Mr. pariss is gon to Salem
( Boston Public Library -- Dept. of Rare Books and Manuscripts [1939 acquisition] )
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May the 18'th 1692 Before us * John Hathorne * Jonathan Corwin per ord'r of the Governor & Councill ( Boston Public Library -- Dept. of Rare Books and Manuscripts [ 1939 acquisition ])
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Eliz: Hubbard testifyed against him & he lookt upon her, & she fell into a fit. Mercy Lewis testimony read. If you desire mercy from God, then confesse & give glory to God. S'r as for sins I am guilty of if the Minister askt me I am ready to confess. If you have thus revolted from God you are a dreadfull sinner Mary Warren cryed out, oh! he bites me Ann Putnam cryed out much of him Open your mouth, don't bite your lips I will stand with my mouth open, or I will keep it shut, I will stand any how, if you will tell me how An: Putnams testimony read.
-824Do you hear this evidence read? Yes I do hear it Sus: Sheldons testimony read. What do you say to this murdering and bewitching your relations? One would think (said he) that no creature except they belong to [torn] their Cradle would be guilty of such things. You say you would bewitch your Grand-father because you, or your appearance saith he prays that the Kingdom of Satan may be thrown down. He offered large talk We do not send for you to preach Benja. Wilkins gave in evidence of his unnatural usage to his wife. You had much need to boast of your affections There are a great many lyes told, I would desire my wife might be called Peter Prescot testifyed that he with his own mouth told him of his beating of his wife
He urged Aaron Wey to speak Aaron Wey thereupon said if I must speak, I will, I can say you have been very cruell to poor creatures. Let some person go to him Ann Putman said she would go. He said let not that person but another come John Indian #[said] cryed out he cuts me Susan: Sheldon said there is the black man whispering in his ear, & he should not confesse What do you say to this Sr. I heard nothing nor see any thing. Susan: Sheldon tryed to come to him but fell down immediately. What is the reason she cannot come near you? They cannot come near any that are accus'd. Why do you say so, they could come near Nehemiah Abbot, the children could talk with him Mary Warren in a great fit carryed to him, & he clapping his hand upon her arm, she was well presently. They all or most of the afflicted testifyed that the dead those that he had murdered were now about him.
-825Do you think these are bewitcht. Yes, I really believe it. Well, others they have accused it is found true that they are the guilty persons, why should it be false in you? Susan: Sheldon & Mary Warren testified that now his appearance comes from his body & afflicts them. How do you think of this, how comes it to pass? It is not from me, I know nothing of it. If you can find in your heart to confess it is possible you may [torn] & therefore bethink your [torn]
Sr I cannot confess that [torn] of I do not know Well but if these things are true Heaven and Earth will rise up against you. I am as innocent as the child that is now to be borne. Can you pray the Lords prayer? Yes Let us hear you. He stumbled at the thresh hold & said Maker of heaven & earth He began again & mist It is a strange thing, I can say it at another time. I think I am bewitcht as well as they, & laught Again he mist Again he mist & cryed well this is a strange thing I cannot say it Again he tryed & mist Well it is these wicked ones that do so overcome me Joshua Rea gave in testimony that last night he said he hoped he should confesse, but had a hard heart, but he hoped he should confesse. Well say what you will confesse I am as innocent as the child unborne. Do you not see God will not suffer you to pray to him? Are you not sensible of it? Why it is a strange thing? No it is no strange thing that God will not suffer a wizard to pray to him. There is also the jury of Inquest that will bear hard against you -- therefore confesse. Have you never wisht harm to your neighbors? No never #[in my life] since I had a being.
-826Well confesse & give glory to God, take counsell whilst it is offered I desire to take good counsell, but if it was the last time I was to speak, I am innocent
(On Reverse) John Willards Examination Exam[ination] ag't Willard ( Boston Public Library -- Dept. of Rare Books and Manuscripts [ 1939 acquisition ])
-827Sr. as to sins I am guilty of, if the minister asks me I am ready to confesse If you have revolted from God you are a dreadful sinner. Mary Warren cryed out, oh he bites me Ann Putnam cryed out much of him Open your mouth, don't bite your lips. I will stand with my mouth open, or I will keep it shut: I will stand any how, if you will tell me how. Ann Putnams evidence read Do you hear this evidence read? Yes I do hear it. Susan: Sheldons testimony read What do you say to this murdering & bewitching your relations? One would think (said he) that no creature except they belong to hell from their cradle would be guilty of such things. You say, you will bewitch your Grandfather because he prays that the Kingdom of Sathan may be thrown down The examinant began a large oration We do not send for you to Preach. Ben: Wilkins testifyed for all his natural affections he abused his wife much & broke sticks about her in beating of her You had need to boast of your good affections There are a great many lyes told, I could desire my wife might be called Peter Prescot testifyed that he with his own mouth told him of beating his wife. It seems very much one of your confidence & ability to spek, should be no more #[in] courageous than to run away: by your running away you tell all that #[world] you are afraid The examinant called upon Aaron Wey & urged him #[before] to speak if he knew anything against him Aaron Wey if I must speak I will, I can say you have been very cruel to poor creatures Let some persons goe to him
Ann Putnam said she would go. He said let not that person but another come. John Indian cryed out Oh! he cuts me. Susan: Sheldon said there is the black man whispering in his ear, & he should not confess
-828What do you say to this? S'r, I heard nothing, nor see nothing. Susan: Sheldon tryed to come near him but fell down immediately, & he took hold of her hand with a great deal of do, but she continued in her fit crying out, O John Willard, John Willard & #[the ex] What was the reason you could not come near him? The black man stood between us. They cannot come near any that are accused. Why do you say they could not come near any that were accused: You know Nehemiah Abbet They could talk with him. Mary Warren in a great fit carried to him & he clasping his hand upon her arm was well presently. Why said he was it not before so with Susannah Sheldon? Because said she the standers by you did not clasp your hand before. The like said the Constable and others. They all or most testifyed that the dead those that he had murdered were now about him. Do you think these are Bewitcht? Yes, I verily believe it. Well, these they have accused it is found true on & why should it be false in you? Sus. Sheldon & Mary Warren testify that now h[torn] appearance come from his body & afflicts them. What do you think of this? How comes this to pass?
It is not from me. I know nothing of it You have taxt your self wonderfully, it may be you do not think of it. How so? You cryed up your tender affections and here round about they testify your cruelty to man & beast, & by your flight you have given great advantage to the Law, things will bear hard upon you, if you can therefore find in your heart to repent it is possible you may obtain mercy & therefore bethink yourself S'r I cannot confess that I do not know Well but if these things are true Heaven & Earth will rise up against you I am as innocent as the child that is now to be born. Can you pray the Lords prayer?
-829Yes Well let us hear you. 1. He stumbled at the threshold (that is the beginning) & said Maker of Heaven & Earth. 2. He began #[against] again & mist. It is a strange thing, I can say it at another time. I think I am bewitcht as well as they & laught 3. Again he began & said trespass against & mist us. 4. He began again, & cryed being pushed Well this is a strange thing I cannot say it. He begun again & could not say it Well it is these wicked ones that do so overcome me Jos: Rea Sen'r gave in testimony that last night he said he hoped he should confess tho he had a hard heart, but, but he hoped he should confess. Well say w't you will confess. I am as innocent as the child unborn. Do not you see God will not suffer you to pray to him, are not you sensible of it? Why it is a strange thing.
No it is no strange that God will not suffer a wizard to pray to him. There is also the jury of inquest for murder that will bear hard against you. Therefore confess. Have you never wisht harm to your Neighbours? Never since I had a being. Well confess & give glory to God. Take consell. I desire to hearken to all good counsell. If it was the last time I was to speak I am innocent. This is a true account of the Examination of John Willard without wrong to any party according to my original from Characters at the moments thereof Witness my hand *Sam: Parris On Reverse: John Willard's Examination ( Boston Public Library -- Dept. of Rare Books and Manuscripts [ 1939 acquisition ])
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Abigail Williams Mary Walcott Susanna Sheldon Ann puttnam sen'r Ann puttnam Jun'r Elizabeth Hubbard [Willim] -- omitted (Reverse) No. 1. bill a vera *John Rucke foreman in the name of the Rest (Reverse) Jno Willard ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 92 )
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Mary Walcott. Susanna Sheldon Mercy Lewis Ann puttnam sen'r Elizabeth Hubbard (Reverse) No. 2 billa Vera *John Rucke foreman in the name of the Rest (Reverse) Jno Willard ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 92 )
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Ann puttnam sen'r Ann puttnam Jun'r Mercy Lewis Elizabeth Hubbard (Reverse) No 3: Ignoramus Jno Willard ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 92 )
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Ann puttnam sen'r Elizabeth Hubbard (Reverse) No. 4. bill Avera *John Rucke foreman in the name of the the Rest (Reverse) Jno Willard Note: Indictments No. 5 and 6 are missing. ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 93 )
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Ann puttnam Jun'r Mercy Lewis. (Reverse) No 7. bill Avera *John Rucke foreman in the name of the Rest (Reverse) Jno Willard ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 93 )
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To John Rogers Allen Toothaker Ralph farnum Jun'r John farnum Son of Ralph farnu Sen'r Benjamin Abbott & his wife Andrew foster. Mark Graves & his wife and Daughter Sarah Whight Phebe Chandler daughter of Will Chandler. Greeting Wee Co and you & Every of you to appear at the pr'sent Court of Oyer & Terminer holden Att Salem w'th out delay There to Testifie the truth of the Best of yo'r knowledge on Certain Indictments Then
-836& There to be #[indicted] Exhibited Against John Willard & Martha Carrier Hereof Make return fail not: Dated in Salem June 28'th 1692 And in the 4'th year of #[the reigne] our Reign Stephen Sewall Cleri To the Constables of Andov'r & Bilrica This is a Trew Coppey Compared w'th Vera Coppia Comporata &c. This is a trew Coppy Compared with the Origeonall &c. June 29'th 1692 ( Massachusetts Historical Society )
Coron'rs Enquest Mercy Lewis Ann puttnam sen'r Sarah Churchill [unclear: ] that Willard diswaded from confession -Margaret Jacobs (On reverse side of paper) Evidences ag't John Willard ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 95 )
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-838tell Mr Hathoren of It and I tould him to hunt willard away and I would and he held up his hand and he vanished away ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 97 )
(Susanna Sheldon v. John Willard, Elizabeth Colson, George Jacobs, Jr., Rebecca Jacobs, John Proctor, and Elizabeth Proctor)
May 17'th In the yeare 92 the com plainte of Sewzanah Shellten Saith that Elizabeth Colson Remaynes in Afflicting of the said Shellten night & day. And also mrs white also John willard Remaines in
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Afflicting of hur both day and night also mr Inglish and his wife Remaines afflicting of hure both night and day George Jacobs and his wife afflicting of hur the last lords day and tempting the said Shellten to sete her hand to the booke thay both appearing yesterday againe And would. have hur sete hur hand to the booke the said Shelton said she would not then she said she would stabb hur then sudenly she Reseaved a sore wound on hur lifte side then: Ellizabeth Colson stabbing of hur one the back Right against the other woundes soe that she spente blood then goody prockter Appearing to her and Afflicting of hur and tempting hur to sete hur hand to the booke And last night goody procker Appearing againe and would have hur sete hur hand to the booke and tould hur that She hade sete hur hand to the booke a great while agoae. also s'd Shelden has severall times seen Jno procter and his wife afflict Mary Warin: -- senc they. s'd procker: & his wife were in prison (On reverse side of paper) Susannah Shelden ag't Jno Willard Eliz Coleson Geo. Jacob & wife and Eliz. procter ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 96 )
(Ann Putnam, Sr. v. John Willard, William Hobbs, and Martha Corey)
Hanah Putnam aged 30 years Saith that the shape of Sam'll Fuller & Lidia Wilkins this day told me at my Owne house by the bed side. who appeared in winding sheets that if I did not Goe & tell mr Hathorne that John Willard had Murdered them. they would tare Me to peices I knew them when they were living & it was Exactly thier resemblance & Shape & at the same time the appa icon of John Willard told me that he had killd Sam'll Fuller Lidia Wilkins Goody Shaw & Fullers second wife & Aron Ways Child & Ben: fullers Child & this deponents Child. Sarah 6 weeks old & Phillips Knights Child w'th the help of Wm Hobbs. & Jonathan Knights Child & 2 of Ezek: Cheevers Children with the help of Wm Hobbs. Anna Elliott & Isack Nicholls w'th help of Wm Hobbs:
-840& that if mr Hathorne would not beleive them (ie) Sam. Fuller & Lida Wilkins haps they would appear to the majistrates Joseph Fullers apparicon the Same day also came to me & told me that Goody Corey had Killd him the Spector afors'd told me that vengeance vengeance was Cried by s'd fuller This Relacon is true marke Ann Putnam
Sworne in Court June 2'd 1692 (On reverse side of paper) Ann Putnams Relacon Sworne ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 96 )
-841Sworn in Court by Mr. Parris & Tho:Putnam (On reverse side of paper) The depo on of Mr Parris &c agst. John Willard ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 97 )
Sarah Vibber aged 36 years or thear a bouts testifie and saith the day befor Jno Welard was exammnend at the villeg I being in Left Ingorsols Chambor I saw the aperistion of john willard com to mary walcot & marcy luis & hurt them grivosly & almost choked Them Then I tould of it & emediatly the said wiliard fel upon me & tormented me grevesly & pinched me. & threw me down sarah vibber: ownid this har testimony before us the Jurriars for Inquest: this. 3. of June: 1692 Jurat in Curia. (Reverse) Sarah Vibber ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 99 )
-842elizabeth hubburt: did one this testimony aftar the Reding of it be fore us the Jurris for Inquest this. 3. dy of June: 92 (Reverse) Elizabeth Hubbard ag't John Willard ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 99 )
Susannah Shelden also Testfieth that within this fortnight she hath seen John willard or his Apparancs most greviously torment and afflect George Booth allmost Redy to prese him to death. ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 100 )
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Willard. or both went to looke after him and met him runninge in a strange #[strange] destracted [frame] (Reverse) Lidia Nichols ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 100 )
did not know and they tould me they would cary me away before morning. Jurat in Curia (Reverse) Sam Wilkins ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 101 )
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The marke of Elizabeth Bayley Jurat in Curia (Reverse) El Bayley ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 102 )
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*Thomas putnam *Edward putnam. Jurat in Curia. (Reverse) Thomas & Edward Putnam their Evidence ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 103 )
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-847presed and choked [from the] time we saw him almost to death & the said benjamin wilkins continued with him til [torn] was about .3 howrs after & he altered not in the mannor [torn] Condisthtion only grew wors & wors till he died Jurat in Curia by Ben: Wilkins (Reverse) Ben Wilkins Tho: Flintt ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 105 )
-848skilfull came hoping to help me, & after she had used means, she askt me whither none of those evil persons had done me damage. I said, I could not say they had, but I was sore afraid they had, she answered she did fear so too, as near as I remember. I lay in this case. 3. or. 4. dayes at Boston, & afterwards with the jeopardy of my life (as I thought) I came home, & then some of my friends coming to see me (& at this time John Willard was run away) one of the afflicted persons Mercy Lewes came in with them, & they askt whither she saw any thing: she said yes, they are looking for John Willard but there he is upon his Grandfathers Belly (&
at that time I was in grevious pain in the small of my Belly) I continued so in greivous pain & my water much stopt till s'd Willard was in chains, & then as near as I can guess I had considerable ease, but on the other hand in the room of a stoppage, I was vexed with a flowing of water, so that it was hard to keep my self dry. On the. 5. July last talking with some friends about John Willard some pleading his innocency & my self & some others arguing the contrary, within about 1/4 of an hour after that I had said it was not I, nor my son Benja Wilkins, but the testimony of the afflicted persons, & the jury concerning the Murder of my Grandson Dan: Wilkins that would take away his life if any thing did, & within about 1/4 hour after this was taken in the sorest distress & misery my water being turned into real blood, or of a bloody colour & the old pain returned excessively as before which continued for about 24. hours together (Reverse) Bray Wilkins Testimony ags't John Willard ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 106 )
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-850by him dureing the time of his examination for if he did but look upon me he struck me down or almost choaked me to death and severall times sence the Apperishtion of John willard has most greviously afflected me by beating pinching and allmost choaking me to death: also dureing the time of his examination I saw the Apperishtion of John willard goe from him and afflect the bodyes of Mary Wolcott Abigail williams Elizabeth Hubburd and Ann putnam Jun'r (Reverse) Mercy Lewis ag't John Willard ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 107 )
next day after but the 2 day after shee was deleivered shee was taken with a violent feaver and flux as we supposed had in a litle time the flux abated but the feaver continued till she died which was about four dayes (Reverse) Nath. Richison tells of a Nashway man that speakes of a profound sleep that Willard was in ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 58 )
-851tould me on the 25'th of Apr. he came personally to my fathers house to talk with me and I tould him to his face it was so that he did hurt mee: But he denyed it most dreadfully: but I also tould him that if he would leave ofe and hurt me no more that I would not complain of him: and for 3 or 4 days he did hurt me but very little but then againe he did sett upon me most dreadfully and beat me and pinched and almost choaked me to death; threatening to kill me if I would not writ in his book: for he tould me he had whiped my little sister sarah to death and he would whip me to death if I would not writ in his book but I tould him I would not writ in his book tho he did kill me: affter this I saw the apperishtion of my little sister Sarah who died when she was about six weeks old crieing out for vengance against John Willard I also saw the Apperishtion of a woman in in a winding sheat which tould me she was John Wilknes first wife and that John Willard had a hand in her death: also I being caried to Wills hill on the 15th of May att evening. to see the afflected parsons there I saw there the Apperishtion of John Willard afflecting of his grandfather Wilknes and Daniel Wilknes and Rebecka Willknes: & he also tould me that he would kill daniel wilknes if he could but he had not power enufe yet to kill him: but he would goe to Mr Burroughs and git power to kill daniel wilknes: and also on the 18'th may being the day of his examination I was most greviously Afflected by him dureing the time of his examination for if he did but look upon me he would Immediately strick me down or almost choak me to Death and also att the time of his examination I saw the Apperishtion of John Willard goe from him and afflect the bodyes of Mary Walcott Mircy lewes Abigail williams and Elizabeth Hubburd Ann putnam Jun: one har oath which she had taken did after the Reding of this to har did owne it to be the truth: before use the Jurris of Inqwest this 3 day of June: 1692. Jurat in Curia ( Boston Public Library -- Dept. of Rare Books and Manuscripts [1939 acquisition] )
-852John willard who did Immediately affect me most greviously and urged me greviously to write in his book and so he hath contineued eversence greviously torturing by times and threating to kill me if I would not write in his book and he also tould me that he had bewitched his grandfather wilknes: and I being caried up to wills hill on the: 16'th of may a litle before night I saw their the Apperishtion of John #[Wilknes] Willard a choaking Daniell wilknes also on the 18'th may being the day of his examination I was most greviously tortored by him dureing the time of his examination for if he did but look personally upon me he would Immediately strick me down or allmost choak me to death: also severall times during the time of his examination I saw the Apperishtion of John #[Wilk] Willard go from him and afflect the bodyes of mircy lewes Abigail williams Elizabeth Hubburd. and ann putnam Junr Marry Wallcot: upone the Reading of this har testimony to har. did on the oath shi hath takin: owne it to be the truth before us the Juriars for Inquest: this 3'd of June. 92 Jurat in Curia (On Reverse) Mary Walcott ag't John Willard ( Boston Public Library -- Dept. of Rare Books and Manuscripts [ 1939 acquisition ])
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Abigail Williams
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(Rev. Increase Mather's Report of his Conversation in Prison with Sarah Wilson, Sr.)
Goodwife Wilson said that she was in the dark as to some things in her confession. Yet she asserted that, knowingly, she never had familiarity with the Devil; that, knowingly, she never consented to the afflicting of any person, &c. However, she said that truly she was in the dark as to the matter of her being a witch. And being asked how she was in the dark, she replied, that the afflicted persons crying out of her as afflicting them made her fearful of herself; and that was all that made her say that she was in the dark. (Charles W. Upham, Salem Witchcraft [Boston, 1867] II, 406.)
-856either of their Lands and Tennements, goods and chattles for the use of our said Sovereigne Lord & Lady the King & Queen or Survivor of them On Condition that Sarah Wilson the wife of Joseph and Sarah her daughter haveing stood committed for suspition of Witchcraft shall make their Personall appearance before the Justices of our s'd Lord & Lady the King & Queen at the next Court of Assizes & Generall Goale Delivery to be holden for the County of Essex then and there to answer to all such matters & things as shall in their Maj'ies behalfe be alledged against them and to doe & receive that which by the s'd Court shall be then & there injoyned them & thence not to depart w'th out licence Attest *Jona Elatson Cler -(Reverse) Recognizance of Jno Osgood [unclear: ] Joseph Willson Sarah Willson the wife of Joseph Willson and Sarah her daughter May the 10'th Appeared ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 145 )
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Mary Witheridge (See also: George Jacobs, Jr. -- Complaint; Rebecca Jacobs -Warrant.)
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Eliza' Hubbard Ju in Cur. (Reverse) Eliza Hobert depo agst Mary witheridge ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 21 )
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(Letter No. 1)
When I first arrived I found this Province miserably harrassed with a most Horrible witchcraft or Possession of Devills which had broke in upon severall Townes, some scores of poor people were taken with preternaturall torments some scalded with brimstone some had pins stuck in their flesh others hurried into the fire and water and some dragged out of their houses and carried over the tops of trees and hills for many Miles together; it hath been represented to mee much like that of Sweden about thirty years agoe, and there were many committed to prison upon suspicion of Witchcraft before my arrivall. The loud cries and clamours of the friends of the afflicted people with the advice of the Deputy Governor and many others prevailed with mee to give a Commission of Oyer and Terminer for discovering what witchcraft might be at the bottome or whether it were not a possession. The chief Judge in this Commission was the Deputy Governour and the rest were persons of the best prudence and figure that could then be pitched upon. When the Court came to sitt at Salem in the County of Essex they convicted more than twenty persons of being guilty of witchcraft, some of the convicted were such as confessed their Guilt, the Court as I understand began their proceedings with the accusations of the afflicted and then went upon other humane evidences to strengthen that. I was almost the whole time of the proceeding abroad in the service of Their Majesties in the Eastern part of the County and depended upon the Judgment of the Court as to a right method of proceeding in cases of Witchcraft but when
I came home I found many persons in a strange ferment of dissatisfaction which was increased by some hott Spiritts that blew up the flame, but on enquiring into the matter I found that the
-862Devill had taken upon him the name and shape of severall persons who were doubtless inocent and to my certain knowledge of good reputation for which cause I have now forbidden the committing of any more that shall be accused without unavoydable necessity, and those that have been committed I would shelter from any Proceedings against them wherein there may be the least suspition of any wrong to be done unto the Innocent. I would also wait for any particular directions or commands if their Majesties please to give mee any for the fuller ordering this perplexed affair. I have also put a stop to the printing of any discourses one way or other, that may increase the needless disputes of people upon this occasion, because I saw a likelyhood of kindling an inextinguishable flame if I should admitt any publique and open Contests and I have grieved to see that some who should have done their Majesties and this Province better service have so far taken Councill of Passion as to desire the precipitancy of these matters, these things have been improved by some to give me many interuptions in their Majesties service and in truth none of my vexations have been greater than this, than that their majesties service has been hereby unhappily clogged, and the Persons who have made soe ill improvement of these matters here are seeking to turne it all upon mee, but I hereby declare that as soon as I came from fighting against their Majesties Enemyes and understood what danger some of their innocent subjects might be exposed to, if the evidence of the afflicted persons only did prevaile either to the committing or trying any of them, I did before any application was made unto me about it put a stop to the proceedings of the Court and they are now stopt till their Majesties pleasure be known. Sir I beg pardon for giving you all this trouble, the reason is because I know my enemies are seeking to turn it all upon me and I take this liberty because I depend upon your friendship, and desire you will please to give a true understanding of the matter if any thing of this kind be urged or made use of against mee. Because the justnesse of my proceeding herein will bee a sufficient defence. Sir I am with all imaginable respect Your most humble Servt *William Phips.
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Dated at Boston the 12'th of october 1692. Mem'dm That my Lord President be pleased to acquaint his Ma'ty in Councill with the account received from New England from Sir Wm. Phips the Governor there touching Proceedings against severall persons for Witchcraft as appears by the Governor's letter concerning those matters.
(George Lincoln Burr, ed., Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 [New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914], 196-198. The letter was addressed to William Blathwayt, clerk of the Privy Council, and it is he who added the memorandum.)
(Letter No. 2)
Boston in New England Febry 21st, 1692/3. May it please yor. Lordshp. By the Capn. of the Samuell and Henry I gave an account that att my arrival here I found the Prisons full of people committed upon suspition of witchcraft and that continuall complaints were made to me that many persons were grievously tormented by witches and that they cryed out upon severall persons by name, as the cause of their torments. The number of these complaints increasing every day, by advice of the Lieut Govr. and the Councill I gave a Commission of Oyer and Terminer to try the suspected witches and at that time the generality of the people represented to me as reall witchcraft and gave very strange instances of the same. The first in Commission was the Lieut. Govr. and the rest persons of the best prudence and figure that could then be pitched upon and I depended upon the Court for a right method of proceeding in cases of witchcraft. At that time I went to command the army at the Eastern part of the Province, for the French and Indians had made an attack upon some of our Fronteer Towns. I continued there for some time but when I returned I
-864found people much disatisfied at the proceedings of the Court, for about Twenty persons were condemned and executed of which number some were thought by many persons to be innocent. The Court still proceeded in the same method of trying them, which was by the evidence of the afflicted persons who when they were brought into the Court as soon as the suspected witches looked upon them instantly fell to the ground in strange agonies and grievous torments, but when touched by them upon the arme or some other part of their flesh they immediately revived and came to themselves, upon [which] they made oath that the Prisoner at the Bar did afflict them and that they saw their shape or spectre come from their bodies which put them to such paines and torments: When I enquired into the matter I was enformed by the Judges that they begun with this, but had humane testimony against such as were condemned and undoubted proof of their being witches, but at length I found that the Devill did take upon him the shape of Innocent persons and some were accused of whose innocency I was well assured and many considerable persons of unblameable life and conversation were cried out upon as witches and wizards. The Deputy Govr. notwithstanding persisted vigorously in the same method, to the great disatisfaction and disturbance of the people, untill I put an end to the Court and stopped the proceedings, which I did because I saw many innocent persons might otherwise perish and at that time I thought it my duty to give an account thereof that their Ma'ties pleasure might be signifyed, hoping that for the better ordering thereof the Judges learned in the law in England might give such rules and directions as have been practized in England for proceedings in so difficult and so nice a point; When I put an end to the Court there ware at least fifty persons in prison in great misery by reason of the extream cold and their poverty, most of them having only spectre evidence against them, and their mittimusses being defective, I caused some of them to be lett out upon bayle and put the Judges upon considering of a way to reliefe others and prevent them from perishing in prison, upon which some of them were convinced and acknowledged that their former proceedings were too violent and not grounded upon a right foundation but that if they might sit againe, they would proceed after another method, and whereas Mr. Increase Mathew and severall other Divines did give it as their Judgment that the Devill might afflict in the shape of an
innocent person and that the look and touch of the suspected persons was not sufficient proofe against them, these things had not the same stress layd upon them as before, and upon
-865this consideration I permitted a spetiall Superior Court to be held at Salem in the County of Essex on the third day of January, the Lieut Govr. being Chief Judge. Their method of proceeding being altered, all that were brought to tryall to the number of fifety two, were cleared saving three, and I was enformed by the Kings Attorny Generall that some of the cleared and the condemned were under the same circumstances or that there was the same reason to clear the three condemned as the rest according to his Judgment. The Deputy Govr. signed a Warrant for their speedy execution and also of five others who were condemned at the former Court of Oyer and terminer, but considering how the matter had been managed I sent a reprieve whereby the execucion was stopped untill their Maj. pleasure be signified and declared. The Lieut. Gov. upon this occasion was inraged and filled with passionate anger and refused to sitt upon the bench in a Superior Court then held at Charles Towne, and indeed hath from the beginning hurried on these matters with great precipitancy and by his warrant hath caused the estates, goods and chattles of the executed to be seized and disposed of without my knowledge or consent. The stop put to the first method of proceedings hath dissipated the blak cloud that threatened this Province with destruccion; for whereas this delusion of the Devill did spread and its dismall effects touched the lives and estates of many of their Ma'ties Subjects and the reputation of some of the principall persons here, and indeed unhappily clogged and interrupted their Ma'ties affaires which hath been a great vexation to me, I have no new complaints but peoples minds before divided and distracted by differing opinions concerning this matter are now well composed. I am Yor. Lordships most faithfull humble Servant *William Phips To the Rt. Honble The Earle of Nottingham att Whitehall London R[i. e., received] May 24, 93 abt. Witches (George L. Burr, ed., Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, pp. 198-202.)
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William & Mary by the Grace of God of England Scottland France & Ireland King & Queen Defend'rs of the faith &c To our sherriffe of our County of Suffolke Greeting We Comand you that the bodyes of Sarah Good the wife of William Good of Salem farmes husb: #[Rebeca] Rebeckah Nurse the wife of francis Nurse of Salem Village husb. John Willard of the same place husb. John Procter of Salem farmes husb. Elizabeth his wife Susanna Martin of Almesbury widdow Bridgett Bishop als Olliver the wife of Edw'd Bishop of Salem Sawyer Alice parker the wife of John parker of Salem seaman & Tittuba Indian in our prison und'r yo'r Custody as it is said detained together with the day & Cause of the taking & detaining of the s'd Sarah &c you have before our Justices of our Court of Oyer & Terminer to be held at salem on thursday the second day of June next for the County of Essex to do & receive what the same our Justices then & there shall thereof consider in that behaffe & have with you then & there this writt wittness Wm. Stoughton Esq'r the 31'st day of May in the fourth year of our Reigne Addington
[Superscribed] These To Issac Addington Esq'r at Boston poast hast pr'sent ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 25 )
-869Salem, June 2'd 1692 Thomas Newton tooke the oath abovesayd in open Court before me *Wm. Stoughton. ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 1 )
-870Hereof you may not faile; Given under my Hand and Seal, At Boston the 31'th day of August. 1692. In the fourth year of their Ma'ties Reign *Wm. Stoughton (Reverse) Precepts to the Sheriffe for Impa a Jury Adj't Daputy ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 1 )
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-872Wm. proctor: Mary Walcot Susana Shelden Toothakors wife & daughter Mary Walcot Abig. Williams Capt. Flood Mary Walcot Abigail Williams & the rest (On reverse) Arthur Abot in a by place some thing neare Maj. Appletons Farms and lives be tween Ip'h Topsfeild & Wenham Complained of by Many
( Boston Public Library -- Dept. of Rare Books and Manuscripts [1939 acquisition] )
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(Census of Prisoners)
Severall sent to Boston Goale on acco' of witchcraft Salem March 1'd first Exam sent boston . Sarah Osburne . Sarah Good . Titiba Indian . Martha Cory . Rebecka Nurce [unclear: ] Aprill 12'th sent to Boston . Dorothy Good . Sarah Cloyce . Eliz. procter
May. Lydia Dastin. Wido' of Rede 2 d. Susannah Martin of Amesb'r . Dorcas Hoar of Beverly Wido' . Sarah Murrell of Bev'r May. Bethya Carter [unclear: ] of Woburn [unclear: ] all sent to Boston 8'th Ann Seires . Sarah Dasting . George Burrows Salem May 12'th mittimas w'ch went May 13'th to Boston
2 Giles Cory
3 W'm Hobs
7 Sarah Wild
9 Mary English
10 Allice. parker
11 Ann pudeater
11
-874In Salem Prison Easty Dele' Hobs Abigail. Hobs Mary. Warren Churchwell Jacobs #[Margret] Abigail Soames. Rebecca Jacobs Sarah Buckley Mary Witheridge Sarah procter _____ X Sent to Boston Wedensday the 18'th May. 1692 . Thomas Farror [unclear: ] of lyn . Eliz Hart . John Willard of Salem village
. Roger Toothaker of bilrica Sent to Salem Goale the 25'th May 1692 Sarah pease -Sarah procter -Sent to Boston Mary Easty Abigaile Soames Susannah Rootes Sarah Bassett munday the 23'd 1692 Mary Derrich [unclear: ] Benjamin procter Eliz Cary -( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 62 )
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Convenient as for the matter of our Trouble: it is the distressed Condition of our wives and Relations in prison at Salem who are a Company of poore distressed creatures as full of inward grieff and Trouble as thay are able to bear up in life withall and besides That the agrivation of outward Troubles and hardships thay undergo: wants of food Convenient: and the coldness of the winter season that is coming may soon dispatch such out of the way That have Not been used to such hardships: and besides that The exceeding great Charges and expences that we are at upon many accounts which will be two Tedious to give a pertickular account of which will fall heavy upon us especially in a time of so great charge and expence upon a general accout in the Country which is expected of us to bear a part as well as others which if put all together our familys and estates will be brought to Ruin: if it Cannot in time be prevented: having spread open our Condition: we humbly make our adress To your honours to Grant that our wives and Relations being of such That have been approved as penitent Confessors might be Returned home to us upon what bond your honors shall see good we do not petition to take them out of
-876the hands of Justic but to Remain as prisoners under bond in their own familys wher thay may be more tenderly Cared for: and may be redy to apear to Answer farther when the honored Court shall Call for them: we humbly Crave Your Honors favour and pitty for us and ours herin. having lett down our Troubled state before you. we heartyly pray for your honors petitioners: *John Osgood in behalf of his wife John frey. in behalf of his wife John Maston. in behalf of his wife: mary maston *Christopher Osgood. in behalf of his daughter mary maston *Joseph Willson: in behalf of his wife #[& children] John Bridges: in behalf of his wife and children hope Tiler: in behalf of his wife and daughter *Ebenezer Barker: for his wife *Nathaniel Dane for his wife (In left margin)
-877of so horrid a crime, but we heartily desire that this place, and the whole land, may be purged from that great wickedness: yet if any of our #[freinds] friends and neighbours have been misrepresented, as tis possible some of them have been; wee would crave leave (if it might be without offence) to speak something in their behalf, haveing no other desighn therein, then that the truth may appear. We can truly give this Testimony of the most of them belonging to this Town, that have been accused, that they never gave the least occasion (as we hear of) to their neerest relations or most intimate acquaintance, to suspect them of witchcraft. Severall of the women that are accused were members of this church in full Communion, and had obtained a good report, for their blameless conversation, and their walking as becometh woemen professing godliness. But whereas it may be alledged, that the most of our people that have been apprehended for witchcraft, have upon Examination confessed it. To which we Answer that we have nothing to plead for those that freely and upon conviction own themselves guilty; but we apprehend the case of some of them to be otherwise. for from the information we have had and the discourse some of us have had with the prisoners, we have reason to think that the extream urgency that was used with some of them by their friends and others who privately examined them, and the fear they were then under, hath been an inducement to them to own such things, as we cannott since find thay are conscious of; and the truth of what we now declare, we judge will in time more plainly appear. And some of them have exprest to their neighbours that it hath been their great trouble, that they have wronged themselves and the truth in their confessions. We are also very sensible of the disstressed condition of severall poor familyes, on whom this great trouble is fallen; some #[more] of our neighbors are like to be impoverished & ruin'd by the great charge they are at to maintain such of their familyes as are in Prison, and by the fees that are demanded of them, whose case we pray may be considered. Our troubles which hitherto have been great, we foresee are like to continue and increase, if other methods be not taken then as yet have been, for there are more of our neighb'rs of good reputation & approved integrity, who are still accused, and complaints have been made against them, And we know not who can think himself safe, if the Accusations of children and others who are under a Diabolicall influence shall be received against persons of good fame.
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We thought meet also to Signifye that not only persons of good creditt among our selves, but some Honorable & worthy men of other places, do suffer in their names by the acusations of afflicted people in this Town Thus haveing given your Honors some account of our present troubles, we crave pardon for our boldness in this Address, and humbly pray this Honored Court to take into their serious consideration our low and distressed estate: And that the only wise God may bless yo'r counsels & Endeavors for the welfare of his people, shall be the prayer of Dated at Andov'r 18'th Oct. 1692. Your Humble Petitioners *Timothy Osgood *Samuel Osgoode *Samuel Martin *William Chandler *William abbutt *Thomas Chandler *Christopher osgood *Ebenezer Barker *Stephen Barnott *Joseph Marble *Ephraim Daviss *Andrew peeters *Walter Rice *hooker osgood Francis Dane sen'r *Thomas Barnard *John Osgood *Thomas Johnson *Nathaniel Dane
*Hopestil Tiler *Ephraim Steevens *John Aslebee *James Frie *Joseph Willson *Joseph Steevens *Thomas Chandler Jun'r ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 61 )
-879we are very sensible of the extream danger the Prisoners are in of perishing, if they are not speedily released: have made bold to make our humble Petition to #[this Honored C] yo'r Honors, to consider the present distressed and suffering condition of our friends in Prison and grant them liberty to come home, upon such terms as yo'r Honors shall Judge most meet. If we might be allowed to plead their Innocency, we think we have sufficient grounds to make such a plea for them, and hope their Innocency will in time appear to the satisfaction of others, however they are at present under uncomfortable circumstances. So craveing pardon for the trouble we have now given your Honors, and humbly requesting that something may be speedily done for the releif of our friends. And yo'r Petition'rs, as in duty bound shall every pray &c Andover 6'th Decemb'r 1692 *John Osgood *Christopher osgood *John frie
*Nathaniel Dane *Joseph Willson *Hopestil Tiler *John Bridges *Ebenezer Barker (Reverse) 1692 Andover petcon ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 66 )
-880for the Terme of nine months & upwards, in Serveing of Warrants and Apprehending many prisoners attending Examinations & Courts of Oyer & Terminer, as likewise by mitimus and writts of habeas Corpus have often conveighed Prisoners unto Prison & from Prison to Prisson it hath taken up my whole time and made me Incapeable to gett any thing for the maintainance of my Porre famally, & by that means become so impoverisht that Nesessity hath forcd me to lay downe my Place and must Certainly come to Wante if not in some Measure suplyd Therefore I humbly beseech your Hon'rs to take my case & Condition so fare into Consideration that I may have some supply this hard winter that I and my Porre children may not be destitute of sustenance & so inevitabley Perish for I have been bred A Gent' & not much used To Worke and am become Despicable in thees hard times and that yo'r Excell' & Hon'rs may not immagine that I am Weary of Serving my King & Country were but my habitation Graced with plenty in the Rooms of Pennury; there shall be no servis too dangerous & difficulte but your Pore Petitioner Will Gladly Except & to the best of my Power accomplish: I shall wholely #[through] lay my selfe att your Hon'ble feet for Releife & shall allwayes Pray for yo'r Excell' and Hon'rs health & hapyness and Subscribe my self hopeing for a Gennerus Returne Dated in Salem this Eigth day of Decemb'r in the year of our Lord 1692
Yo'r Pore & Humble Pettitioner *George Herrick (Reverse) Geo: Herrick his Petition 1692 ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 67 )
-881any guilt of that nature lying upon our consciences; our earnest request is that seing the winter is soe far come on that it can not be exspected that we should be tryed during this winter season, that we may be released out of prison for the present upon Bayle to answer what we are charged with in the Spring. For we are not in this unwilling nor afrayed to abide the tryall before any Judicature apoynted in convenient season of any crime of that nature; we hope you will put on the bowells of compassion soe far as to concider of our suffering condicion in the present state we are in, being like to perish with cold in lying longer in prison in this cold season of the yeare, some of us being aged either about or nere four score some though younger yet being with Child, and one giving suck to a child not ten weekes old yet, and all of us weake and infirme at the best, and one fettered with irons this halfe yeare and all most distroyed with soe long an Imprisonment: Thus hoping you will grant us a releas at the present that we be not left to perish in this miserable condicion we shall alwayes pray &c. Widow Penny. Widow Vincent. Widow Princ[e] Goodwife Greene of Havarell, the wife of Hugh Roe of Cape Anne, Mehitabel Dowing. the wife of T[h] imothy Day, Goodwife Dicer of Piscataqua Hanah Brumidge of Havarell Rachel Hafield besides thre or foure men ( New York Public Library -- Manuscripts and Archives Division )
(Statement by the Rev. Francis Dane on the Andover Outbreak -- January 1693)
R'nd Sr; Whereas there have been divers reports raysed, how, and, by what hands I know not, of the Towne of Andover, and the Inhabitants, I thought it my bounden duty to give an account to others, so farr as I had the understanding of anything amongst us. Therefore doe declare, that I beleeve the reports have been Scandalous, and unjust, neither will bear the light, As for that, of the Sive, and Cisers I never heard of it, till
this last Summer, and the Sabboth after I spake publiqly concerning it since which I beleeve it hath not been tryed,
-882As for such things of Charmes, and ways to find their cattle, I never heard, nor doe I know any Neighbour that ever did so, neither have I any grounds to beleeve it. I have lived above Fortie fower yeares in the Towne, and have been frequent among the Inhabitants, and should certainely heard if so it had been. That there was a suspicion of Goodwife Carrier among some of us before she was apprehended, I know. As for any other persons, I had no suspicion of them, and had Charity been put on, the Divel would not have had such an advantage against us, and I beleeve many Innocent persons have been accused, & Imprisoned, the Conceit of Spectre Evidence as an infallible mark did too far prevaile with us Hence we so easily parted with our neighbours of honest, & good report, & members in full Co union, hence we so easily parted with our Children, when we knew nothing in their lives, nor any of our neighbours to suspect them and thus things were hurried on, hence such strange breaches in families, -severall that came before me, that spake with much sobrietie, professing their innocency, though through the Devils subtilty they were too much urged to Confesse, and we thought we did doe well in so doeing, yet they stood their ground professing they knew nothing, never saw the devil, never made a covenant with him, & the like; & some Children that we have cause to feare that dread has overcome them to accuse themselves in that they knew not. Stephen Johnson Mary Barker the daughters of Lieftenant Barker, and some others by what we had from them with suitable affections we have cause to beleeve they were in the truth, and so held to it, if after many indeavours they had #[been dismissed] not been overcome to say w't they never knew This hath been a trouble to me, considering how oft it hath been sayd you are a witch, you are guilty, & who afflicts this maid or the like, & more then this hath been sayd, charging persons with witchcraft, and what flatteries have past from: & threats and telling them they must goe to prison & this feare have caused many to fall. our Sinne of Ignorance wherein we thought we did well, will not excuse us when we know we did amisse but what ever might be a stumbling block to others must be removed, else we shall procure divine displeasure, & Evills will unavoidably breake in upon us. Andover Jan 2. 92 Yours Sr who am though unworthie a friend to them that are friends to Sion.
-883Concerning my Daughter Elizabeth Johnson I never had ground to suspect her: neither have I heard any other to accuse her, till [by] Spectre evidence she was brought forth, but this I must say, she was weake, and incapacious, fearfull. and in that respect I feare she hath. falsely accused her self & others. Not long before that she was sent for she spake as to her owne particular, that she was sure she was no witch, and for her Daughter Elizabeth, she is but simplish at the best, and I feare the comon speech that was frequently spread among us, of their liberty, if they would confesse, and the like expression used by some, have brought many into a snare, the Lord direct & guide those that are in place, and give us all submissive wills, & let the Lord doe with me, & mine, what seems good in his owne eys.
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A Bill Against Conjurations, Witchcraft, and Dealing with Evil and Wicked Spirits (December 1692)
(A Bill against Conjuration, Witchcraft and Dealing with Evil and Wicked Spirits)
For more particular direction in the Execution of the Law against Witchcraft. #[For Explanation of the Law against Witchcraft and more particular direction therein the Execution thereof and for the better restraining the said Offences, and more severe punishing the same,] Be it enacted by the Govern'r Council and Representatives in General Court Assembled and by the Authority of the same, That if any person or persons #[after] shall use, practice or Exercise any Invocation or Conjuration of any evil and wicked Spirit, Or shall consult, covenant with Entertain, Employ, feed or reward any evil and wicked Spirit to or for any intent or purpose; Or take up any dead man woman or Child, out of his, her, or their grave, or any other place where the dead body resteth, or the Skin, bone or any other part of any dead person to be Employed or used in any manner of Witchcraft, Sorcery, Charm or Inchantment, Or shall use, practice or Exercise any Witchcraft, Inchantment charm or Sorcery, whereby any person shall be killed, destroyed, wasted, consumed, pined or lamed in his or her body, or any part thereof, That then every such Offender or Offen-ders, their Aiders, Abetters, and Counsellors being of any the said Offences duly and lawfully convicted and attainted, shall suffer pains of death as a Felon or Felons. And further to the intent that all manner of practice, use or exercise of witchcraft Inchantment, charm or Sorcery, should be henceforth utterly avoided, abolished and taken away, Be it Enacted by the Authority afores'd That if any person or persons shall take upon him or them by Witchcraft, Inoffending,
-886and being thereof lawfully convicted, shall for the said offence suffer Imprisonment by the space of one whole year without bail or mainprise and once in every Quarter of the s'd year shall in some Shire Town stand openly upon the pillory by the space of Six houres, and there shall openly confess his or her Error and offence, which said offence shall be written in Capitall Letters & placed upon the breast of said offender And
if any person or persons being once convicted of the same Offence, and shall again commit the like Offence and being of any of the said Offences the second time lawfully & duely convicted and attainted as is aforesaid shall Suffer pains of death as a felon or felons. X'br.14.92: This Bill read orderly in This house of Representatives and voted passed in the Affirmative & Sent to his Excellency the Governor & Councill for Consent *William Bond speaker Read several times in Council, Voted, Ordered to be Engrossed and pass in to an Act, die predict And is consented unto P *William Phips ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 68 & 69 )
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Superior Court of Judicature: Warrants for Jurors and Returns (December 1692January 1693)
-888Johnson Leften't person John Witt & Benjemen Collins & I have Warned them to appear acording to this within Mencioned Warrant as atest *Samuel Ingals Constable of lyn ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 78 )
-889the County of Essex on Tusedy the Third day of January Instant & These persons here under written were Unanimously Chosen & had notice. thereof most of them personally Warned & the rest that were not personally warned. Sumonses was read at thair dwelling houses. to Require them to attend accordingly the which thair severall families had notice of: January: the 2'd 1692: The Grand Jury are as [unclear: ] followes. Mr Robert Paine Mr Richard Smith Mr Thomas Boareman The Jury for Tryalls are Ens Thos Jacob. Sargt Nathaniel Emerson sen'r Mr Jacob. Perkins ju'r Mr Mathew. Whipple sen'r John Pengery Seth: Story Thos Edwards John Lamson In Testemony whereof we hereto Subscribe our names *Joseph fuller [unclear: ] Constabls of Ipswich *Mathew perkins *William Baker *John Chote ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 80 )
-890said Court And hereof not to faile Datted In Boston the twenty third Day of December 1692 To the Constable or Constables of Salem or either of them Cu . *Jona' Elatson Cle . ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 81 )
for Juris of Trialls 6 Capt Jno Putnam [unclear: ] mr Natha'll Howard Jno Traske Junior Ens Edward flintt Edward Hillird Sergt Step Gillis: Non fallinge in my ward I heve transmitted itt to the Nexte constable. *Peter Osgood constable in Salem I have warned Gillberd tapley sen'r & Left woord at Edward hilyards hous 31 of dec 92 by me *Richard Princ Constable This 31'te of December 1692 Then warned mr Edward Flint of Salem to Attend the Court to be held att Salem on the 3'd of January
-891Incewing next upon the Jerury of Trials p'r me *Thomas Rucke Constable at nine of the Clock -the 31 of december 1692 then I warned Eleaser Giles to a tend on the Jury of tryales at the Cort to be heald at Salem on the 3 of January next insewing by me at nine of the Cloke *Samuel Stone Constabel in Salem According to the tene of this warant I have warned as Jueriours Capt John Putnam mr Joshua Rea: Mr Nathaniell Howard John Trask Jun'r Capt putnam is Lame and he saith not able to sarve me *Jonathan putnam Constable in Salem
Accorden to the tener of this warent I have warned Job Sweneton to apere by nine: a Clock in the morning on the 3 Day of Jenerey -- 1692 -by me. *Jon' putnam Constable of Salam (Written vertically across the paper on the right hand side) Returnes of the warr'ts for Choosing Jurymen ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 Nos. 81 and 82 )
-892hereof with the names of the said persons the day before the said Court and hereof not to faile Dated in Boston the twenty third day of December 1692 To the Constable or constables of Glocester or either of them Cu . *Jona' Elatson Cle . ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 83 )
-893the said Court and hereof not to faile Dated in Boston the twenty third day of December 1692 To #[the] The Constable or Constables of Marblehed or either of them Cu . *Jona' Elatson Cle . ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 84 )
-894grand Jury & two upon the Jury of tryalls at a Court of Assises and Gen'll Goal Delivery to be held at Salem for the County of Essex on Tusday The Third day of January next ensueing the date hereof which persons so Chosen you are to summons to attend the said Court by nine of the Clock in the morning of the said day & make returne hereof with the names of the said persons the day before the said Court And hereof not to faile Dated in Boston the twenty third day of December 1692 To the Constable or Constable of Topsfeild or either of them Cu *Jona' Elatson Cle . ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 86 )
-895the same Towne Each whereof to have a reall Estate of fourty shillings Annum or a sonall Estate of fifty pounds to serve as Jurors two upon the Grand Jury and Two upon the Jury of Tryalls at a Court of Assises & Gen'll Goal Delivery to be held at Salem for the County of Essex on Tusday the third day of Janua' next Ensuing the day of the date hereof w'ch sons so Chosen you are to sumons to attend the said Court by nine of the Clock in the morning of the said Day. and make returne hereof with the names of the said sons the day before the said Court and hereof not to faile. Dated in Boston the Twenty third day of Decemb'r 1692 To the Constable or Constables of Beverley or either of them Cu . *Jona' Elatson Cle . ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 88 )
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Annum or a sonall Estate -- of fifty pounds to serve as Jurors. Three upon the Grand Jury and six upon the Jury of Tryalls at a Court of Assises and Generall Goal Delivery to be held at Salem for the County of Essex on Tusday the third day of Janua' next Ensuing the day of the date hereof w'ch sons so Chosen you are to summons to Attend the said Court by nine of the Clock in the morning of the said Day and make returne hereof w'th the names of the said psons the day before the said Court and hereof faile not Dated in Boston the Twenty third day of Decemb'r 1692 Cu . *Jona' Elatson Cle . To The Constable or Constables of Newbury or either of Them ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 93 )
John Emery Juner John Ordway I alsoe Su d. the Jurors. a bove named. to make their personall, appearance, at Salem on tusday. next. the thurd of Janawary according
-899to the teneur of the within warant dated. 31. Desember 1692. by me *Samuel Hills, Constable for Newbury Newbury Decemb'r 1692 At a Meeting of the free hold'rs & Inhabitants of the Towne of Newbury. Convened by the Counstable, by Vertue of a Warant dated Decemb'r 23'd 1692 Then chosen to Serve as jurors at a Court of assises & Gen'll Goale Delivery to be held at Salem for the County of Essex on the third of January next -For the Grand Jury: Thomas Hale Richard Bartlett sen'r & Richard Browne -For the Jury of Trials -Serj'nt John Kent Serj Joseph Little. Serj John Hale John Emery Ju'r Benajah Titcomb & John Ordway -Taken out of the Towne Booke of Newbury pr *Henry Short cler ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 Nos. 94 and 97 )
-900Jno pickard [unclear: ] for the Jury of tryalls Jno platts. Dated in Rowley the 31'th of decemb'r 1692 mee *Robt Greenough Constable for the Town of Rowley (Reverse) To Mr Jona' Elatson Clark of the Court of Assices to bee held att Salem The se with Care I pray ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 95 )
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Mary Tyler Sarah Hawkes Mercy Wardwell Elizabeth Johnson, Jr. Mary Bridges, Sr. Mary Post Hannah Post Sarah Bridges Mary Osgood Mary Lacey, Jr. Mary Toothaker Mary Taylor Sarah Cole ( of Lynn ) Lydia Dustin Sarah Dustin John Alden Susannah Post Eunice Fry Mary Bridges, Jr. Mary Barker William Barker, Jr. Suffolk ss. Att Their Maj'ties Superiour Court of Judicature Court of Assizes & Generall Goal Delivery Holden at Sallem In The County of Essex in their Maj'ties Province of the Massachusets Bay in New England in Amirica. Under the Government of his Excellancy S'r William
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Phips Knt &c the 3'd January Anno RR's et Reginae Gulielmi et Mariae nunc Angliae &c. Quarto Annoq'e Domini 1692 Grand Jury Sworn Robert Paine foreman Job Swinerton Gilbert Tapley William Wood Richard Read Richard Hutton John Lovit Sen'r Robert Cue Joseph Marble Sen'r James Persons Benja Rednap Robert Potter Sen'r Richard Browne Thomas Borman Joseph Bointon James Dickeson Richard Smith Present The Hon'ble William Stoughton Esq'r Cheif JusThomas Danforth Esq'r [unclear: ] John Richards Esq'r Wait Winthrop Esq'r Samuel Sewell Esq'r The Court being opened the Grand Jury was sworn.
Severall Bills of Indictment against divers persons for felony by Witchcraft were committed to the Grand Jury and then the Court Adjourned to nine of the Clock next morning.
-905Singlewoman, by which said wicked Acts the said Elizabeth Howard the day & year aforesaid & divers other dayes and times as well before as after was and is Tortured Afflicted Consumed pined Wasted & Tormented against the peace of our Soveraigne Lord & Lady their Crowne & dignity & the forme in the Stattute in that Case made & provided. Upon which indictment the said Rebekah Jacobs was arraigned and to the indictment pleaded not Guilty
and put her selfe upon Tryall by God & the Country The first Jury of Tryalls being called whereof mr Edward flint is foreman and the prisoner making no challenge against any of them they were sworn for her Tryall and past upon her The Jury Bring in their Verdict, that is to say That they do not find Rebekah Jacobs Guilty of the felony by Witchcraft she hath been Indicted. The Court Ordered that the said Rebekah Jacobs be discharged upon her paying fees.
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by the said Margret Jacobs Comitted and don before and since that time against the peace of our Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queen their Crowne and dignity and the forme in the Stattute in that Case made and provided. And upon one other Indictment That the said Margaret Jacobs on the Eleventh day of May aforesaid in the year afores'd and divers other dayes and times as well before as after Certain detestable arts called Witchcraft and Sorcerys wicked-mallitiously hath used practised and Exercised at and in the Towne of Salem in the County of Essex Afores'd in upon & against one Elizabeth Hobert of Salem Singlewoman, by w'ch said wicked Acts the said Elizabeth Hobard the day and year aforesaid and divers other dayes and times both before & after was and is Tortured Afflicted Consumed Wasted Pined and Tormented and also for sundry other Acts of witchcraft by the said Margaret Jacobs Comitted and don before and since that time against our Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queen their Crowne and dignity and the forme in the Stattute in that Case made and Provided. Upon w'ch Indictments shee was Arraigned and to both the said Indictments pleaded not Guilty and put herselfe upon Tryall by God and the Country The first Jury was Called Edward flint foreman, and #[and] noe objection being made were Sworn to pass upon her Tryall And the Evidences in the Case were read and the Case was Committed to the Jury. The Jury Gave in their Verdict viz't They find that Margaret Jacobs the Prisoner at the Barr is not guilty of the felony by Witchcraft whereof Shee hath been Indicted. The Court Ordered that the said Margaret Jacobs be discharged paying her fees.
-907times as well before as after Certain detestable arts Called Witchcraft and Sorceries wickedly mallitiously and feloneously hath used practised and Exercised At and in the Towne of Salem in the County of Essex afores'd in upon and against one Mary Walcott of Salem in the County of Essex afores'd Singlewoman By which said wicked Acts the said Mary Walcott the day and year aforesaid and divers other dayes and times both before and after was and is Tortured Afflicted Consumed Pined Wasted and Tormented And allso for sundry other acts of witchcraft by the said Sarah Buckley Committed and don before and since that time against our Soveraigne Lord & Lady the King and Queen their Crowne and Dignity And the forme in the Stattute in that Case made & provided. And upon on other Indictment for that the said Sarah Buckley the wife of William Buckley aforesaid of Salem in the County of Essex afores'd in and upon the Eighteenth day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred Ninety & two and divers other dayes #[other dayes] and times as well before as after Certain detestable arts called Witchcraft or sorceries wickedly malitiously and feloneousely hath used practiced and Exersised at and in the Towne of Salem in the County of Essex Aforesaid in upon and against one Ann Putman of Salem aforesaid Single-woman, by w'ch said wicked Acts the said Ann Putnam the day and year afores'd and divers other dayes and times both before and after was and is Tortured Afflicted Consumed Pined Wasted and Tormen-ted, And allso for Sundry other Acts of witchcraft by the said Sarah Buckley Committed and don both before and since that time against our
Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queen their Crowne and Dignity and the forme in the Stattute In that Case made & provided. Upon w'ch Indictments the said Sarah Buckley was araigned and to both of them pleaded not Guilty & put her selfe upon Tryall by God and the County. The second Jury was Called James freind foreman and noe objection being made were sworn to pass upon her Tryall and the Evidences in the Case were read and the Wittnesses appeared The Prisoner made her Defence. The Jury Returne their verdict. The Jury Returne their verdict. The Jury say that the said Sarah Bukley is not Guilty of the felony by witchcraft of which [she] stands indicted in the two Recited Indictments. The Court Ordered that the said Sarah Buckley be discharged paying her fees.
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Petty Jury James Freind fo: Rich'd Gross John Emery John Ardway John Abby John Witt Josiah Gage James Sanders Nathan'l Emerson Thomas Edwards John Prichard John Plats The second Jury was Called James Freind foreman and no exception being made were swoarn to pass upon her tryall. The Evidences in the Cace being read and Wittness appearing The Prisoner made her defence. The Jury Returne their verdict. The Jury Say That Mary Witheridge is not Guilty of the felony by Witchcraft of whitch Shee stands Indicted in the two recitted Indictments. The Court Ordered the said Mary Witheridge be Discharged paying her fees.
John Kent Joseph Litle Benayah Tidcomb Samuel Morgan Edmund Gale William Stephens John Lampson Seth Storey Job Tookey of Beverley in the County of Essex Waterman was Indicted by the Jurors for our Soveraign Lord and Lady the King and Queen upon their Oaths For that the said Job Tookey The seventh day of June In the year of our Lord One thousand six hundred Ninety and two and divers other dayes and times as well before as after Certaine detestable Arts Called Witchcraft and Sorceries Wickedly mallitiously and feloniously hath used practised and Exercised at and in the Towne of Salem In the County of Essex aforesaid In upon and against one Mary Warren of Salem aforesaid Single woman by w'ch said wicked Acts the said Mary Warren the day and year aforesaid and divers other dayes and times both before and after was and is Tortured Afflicted Wasted Consumed pined & Tormented And all[so] for Sundry other Acts of witchcrafts by the said Job Tookey Committed and don before and since that time against the peace of our Soveraigne Lord & Lady the King & Queen
-910their Crowne & Dignity and the forme of the Statute in that Case made and provided. Upon w'ch Indictment the said Job Tookey was Arraigned and upon his Arraignement pleaded not Guilty to the Indictment and put himselfe upon Tryall by God and the Country. A Jury was called being the first Jury Edward flint foreman and were accordingly Swore to pass upon him (the prisoner makeing no Challeng) The Indictment being read as allso the Evidences and Examination the prisoner made his Defence the Jury returne their Verdict. The Jury Say that Job Tookey is not Guilty of the felony by witchcraft of which he stood Indicted. The Court Ordered Job Tookey to be discharged paying his fees.
of Andover afores'd wickedly mallitiousely and feloneously A Covenant with the Devill did make whereby she Gave both her soule and body to the Devill and signed his booke and by him was Baptized and owned the Devill to be her God and promissed to hon'r and serve him forever And unto the Devill did renounce her Christian Baptisme and God and Christ By which Diab #[ab] ollicall & wicked Covenanting with the Devill as aforesaid the said Hannah Tyler is become a detestable Witch Contrary to the peace of our Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queen their Crowne and Dignity and the Law in that Case made and provided. 2'ly For that She (the said Hannah Tyler) on or about the seventh day of September last in the year of our Lord One thousand Six hundred ninety Two aforesaid and divers other dayes and times as well before as after certaine detestable arts called Witchcraft and Sorceries wickedly mallitiousely and feloneously hath used practised & Exercised in the Towne of Andover afores'd upon and against one
-911Rose foster of Andover afores'd By which said wicked arts the said Rose foster the day and year aforesaid and divers other dayes and times as well before as after, was and is afflicted Tortured Consumed pined wasted and tormented against the peace of our Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King & [Queen] Their Crowne and dignity and the Lawes in that case made and Provided. -3'r Jury of Tryalls nathaniell Howard forem'n John Hale James freind Samuell Morgan James Sanders Richard Gross John Witt Nathan'll Emerson John Emery Benaiah Tidcomb John Platts John Lamson upon the aboves'd Indictments and each of them the said Hannah Tyler was then & there before our Justices of our Lord and Lady the King & Queen afores'd Arraigned & upon her Arraignem't the said Hannah did then and there the said day & year afores'd plead to them & each of them not Guilty & put her selfe upon Tryall by God & her Country.
A Jury being called Nathaniel Howard foreman & accordingly Sworne no Exception made by the prisoner the said Indictments being read together with Evidence & Examination and the Prisoners defence being heard the Jury went out to agree on their verdict who Returning did then and there in open Court deliver their Verdict That the said Hannah Tyler was not Guilty of the felony by Witchcraft for w'ch She stood Indicted in & by the said Indictm'ts & each of them The Court Ordered Hannah Tyler aforesaid to be discharged Paying her fees//
(Case of Candy)
January 6'th Petty Jurors Richard Gross foreman John Emery John Ardway James friend John Abby John Witt Josiah Gay James Sanders Nathaniel Emerson Thomas Edwards John Prick[ard] John Platts Candy a Negroe Servant to Mrs Mary Hawkes of Salem, in the County of Essex, being Indicted by the Jurors for our Soveraign Lord and lady the King and Queen upon Oaths by Two Severall Indictments; That is to Say, 1'st For that
-912the Said Candy Negroe Woman Servant to Mrs Mary Hawkes aforesaid of Salem in the County of Essex aforesaid, did upon the Second Day of July last in the year 1692 and diverse other times before and after, certaine detestable Arts called witchcrafts and Sorceries, Wickedly, Malitiously and felloniously, hath used,
practised, and Exercised, in the Town of Salem aforesaid, upon and against One Ann Putnam of Salem Single Woman, by which wicked Arts the said Ann Putnam the day and Year aforesaid and divers other dayes and times both before and after was and is tortured, afflicted, consumed, wasted, pined and tormented, contrary to the Peace of our Sovereign Lord and Lady the King and Queen their Crowne and dignity, and the Lawes in that case made, and Provided. Petty Jurors Richard Gross foreman John Emery John Ardway James friend John Abby John Witt Josiah Gay James Sanders Nathaniel Emerson Thomas Edwards John Prickard John Platts Upon the abovesaid Indictements and each of them the said Candy was then and there before the Justices of our Lord and Lady the King and Queen afores'd Arraigned, and upon her Arraignment the said Candy did then and there the Day and Year aforesaid plead to them and each of them Not Guilty and put her self upon triall by God and hur Countrey. A Jury being called Richard Gross foreman Acordingly Sworne, no Exception made by the Prisoner the said Indictments and Every of them being read together with Evidences and Examinations and the prisoners defence being heard, The Jury went out to agree on their verdict, who Returning, did then and there in open Court deliver their verdict, That the said Candy was not Guilty of the fellony by witchcraft for which she stood Indicted In and by the said Indictments and each of them The Court Ordered Candy the Negroe Servant abovesaid to be discharged, Paying her fees.
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made by the prisoner the said Indictments and every of them being Read together with Evidences and Examinations and the prisoners defence being heard, the Jury went out to agree on their verdict, Who Returning did then and there in open Court deliver their Verdict, That the said Mary Marston was not Guilty of the felony by witchcraft for which she stood indicted In and by the said Indictments and each of them. The Court Ordered Mary Marston aforesaid to be discharged Paying fees.
-915as after, was and is, tortured, consumed, wasted, pined, afflicted, and tormented, contrary to the Peace of our Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queen, their Crowne, and dignity, and the Lawes in that case made, and Provided. -John Blaney fore Edward flint Eleazar Giles John Kent Sen'er Joseph Litle John Abby
Edmund Gale Josiah Gay Seth Story John Ordway Thomas Edwards John Prickard Upon the aforesaid Indictments and each of them, the said Elisabeth Johnson, was then & there before the Justices of our Lord and Lady the King and Queen aforesaid, arraigned, and upon her arraignment, did then and there, the day, and Year aforesaid, plead to them and each of them, not Guilty and put her Self upon tryall, by God & her Country A Jury being called John Blaney foreman a ordingly sworne, no exception made by the Prisoner, the said Indictments, and Every of them being read, together with Evidences, and Examinations, and the Prisoners defence being heard; the Jury went out to agree on their verdict, who returning, did then, and there, in open Court, deliver their verdict; That the said Elisabeth Johnson was Not Guilty of the fellony by witchcraft, for w'ch she stood Indicted, in, and, by, the said Indictments and each of them -The Court Ordered Elisabeth Johnson aforesaid to be discharged, Paying her fees --
-916and wicked covenant, Shee the said Abigaill Barker, is become a detestable witch Contrary to the Peace of our Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queen their Crowne, and Dignity, and the Lawes, in that case made, and provided. 2'dly For that the said Abigaill Barker, wife of Ebenezar Barker of Andover, in the County of Essex aforesaid, in and upon the Eighth day of Septemb'r last, in the year of our Lord 1692, and diverse other
dayes, and times, as well before, as after; certaine detestable Arts called witchcrafts, and Sorceries, wickedly malitiously, and feloniously, hath used, practised, and exercised, at, and in the Towne of Andover afores'd in the County of Essex aforesaid, upon, and against One Ralph farnum Senior of Andover aforesaid by which said wicked arts aforesaid the said Ralph farnum the day and Yeare aforesaid, and diverse other dayes, and times, both before, and after was, & is, tortured, aflicted, consumed, wasted, pined, and tormented, contrary to the peace of our Soveraigne Lord, and Lady, the King and Queen, their Crowne and Dignity, and the Lawes in that case made, and provided. Jury of Tryall Nathan'l Howard for John Hale Samuel Morgan James Sanders Richard Gross John Witt Nathan'l Emerson John Emery Benayah Tidcomb John Platts John Lamson James freind 3'dly For that the said Abigaill Barker, wife Ebenezar Barker, of Andover, in, and upon the Eighth day of September last in the year of our Lord 1692 and divers other dayes and times as well before as after certaine detestable arts, called witchcrafts, and Sorceries, wickedly, mallitiously, and felloniously hath used, practised, and Exercised, at, and in the towne of Andover aforesaid, in the County of Essex aforesaid, upon, and against, one Rose foster, of Andover [] by which Said wicked Arts, the said Rose foster, the day, and year aforesaid, and diverse others dayes, and times both before, and after, was, and is, tortured, afflicted consumed,, pined and wasted, and tormented, against the Peace of o'r Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King, and Queen, their Crowne and dignity, and the Lawes, and Acts in that case made and Provided. -- Upon the aforesaid Indictments, and each of them, the said Abigaill Barker was then, and there, before the Justices of our Lord and Lady the King
-917and Queen aforesaid, arraigned, and upon her arraignment, did then, and there, the day, and Year aforesaid, plead to them, and each of them Not Guilty, and put her Selfe, upon triall, by God, and her Countrey --
A Jury being called [] foreman and A rdingly Sworne, no exception being made by the Prisoner the said Indictments, and each of them, being read, together with Evidences, and Examinations and the Prisoners defence being heard: the Jury went out to agree on their verdict, who returning, did then and there, in open Court, deliver their verdict; That the Said Abigaill Barker was Not Guilty, of the fellony by witchcraft, for which she stood Indicted, in, and by, the said Indictements, and each of them. The Court Ordered, Abigaill Barker aforesaid, to be discharged, paying her fees.
-918upon, and against, one Ralph farnam Senior of Andover aforesaid by which wicked Arts, the said Ralph farnam Senior, the day and Yeare, aforesaid, and divers other dayes, and times, as well before as after, was and is, tortured, afflicted, consumed, wasted, pined, and Tormented contrary to the Peace of our Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queen their Crowne and dignity, and the Lawes in that case made and Provided. -3'dly For that she the said Mary Tyler, wife of Hopestill Tyler, of Andover, in the County of Essex Blaksmith, on or about, the Seaventh Day of September last, in the Year 1692, and divers other dayes, and times, as well before, as after, certaine detestable arts, called witchcrafts, and Sorceries, wickedly, malitiously, and felloniously, hath used, practized, and exercised, in the Towne of Andover aforesaid, upon, and against One Hannah Foster, wife of Ephraim Foster, of Andover, aforesaid, by which wicked arts the said Hannah Foster, the day, and year aforesaid and divers other dayes, and times, as well before, as after, was, and is, tortured, afflicted, pined wasted, consumed, and tormented, contrary to the Peace of our Soveraign Lord and Lady the King and Queen, their Crown and Dignity, & the lawes in that case made and provided. The Jury Sworn
Nath: Howard fore. John Hall James freind Samuell Morgan James Horner Richard Gross John Witt Nathan'l Emerson John Emery Benay Tidcomb John Platts John Lampson Upon the aforesaid Indictments, and each of them the said Mary Tyler, was then, and there, before the Justices of our Lord and Lady, the King and Queen aforesaid, Arraigned and upon her arraignment did then, and there, the day and Year aforesaid plead to them, and each of them, Not Guilty, and put her selve, upon triall by God, and her Countrey. -A Jury being called Nathaniel Howard foreman and A ordingly Sworne, no Exception made by the Prisoner, the said Indictments, and each of them, being read, together with Evidences, and Examinations and the Prisoners defence being heard; the Jury went out to agree on their verdict, who returning, did then, and there, in open Court deliver their verdict, That the said Mary Tyler, was Not Guilty, of the fellony by witchcraft, for which shee stood Indicted, in & by, the said Indictments and each of them. --
-919The Court Ordered, Mary Tyler aforesaid, to be discharged, paying her fees. --
Sarah Wardwell of Andover in the County Essex, being Indicted by the Jurors for o'r Soveraigne Lord and Lady, the King and Queen, upon their Oathes by two Severall Indictments -For that shee the said Sarah Wardwell widow, about Six Yeares past, wickedly, mallitiously, and felloniously, a Covenant with, and Signed, a peece of paper to the Devill, and was baptized by the Devill and gave her Self, Soule and body to him, promised to be his Servant, by which diabolicall and wicked Covenant with the Devill, by her the said Sarah Wardwell made, #[shee the said Sarah Wardwell made,] shee the said Sarah Wardwell, is become a detestable witch, against the Peace of our Soveraigne Lord and Lady, the King and Queen, their Crowne, and Dignity, and the Lawes in that case made and Provided -2'dly For that shee the said Sarah Wardwell widow, on or about the first Day of September last in the year 1692, aforesaid, and divers other dayes, and times, as well before, as after, certain detestable arts, called witchcrafts, and Sorceries, wickedly, mallitiously, and felloniously, hath used, practised and Exercised, in, upon, and against Martha Sprague, at, and in the Towne of Salem, in the County of Essex aforesaid, by which said wicked Arts, the Said Martha Sprague, the Day, and Year aforesaid, and divers other dayes, and times, as well before, as after, was, and is tortured, afflicted, and tormented, consumed, pined, and wasted, contrary to the Peace of our Souveraigne Lord and Lady The King and Queen, their Crowne, and Dignity, and the Lawes, in that case made, and Provided -- Upon the aforesaid Indictments, and each of them, the said Sarah Wardwell, was then, and there, before the Justices of our Lord and Lady, the King and Queen, aforesaid, arraigned, and upon her arraignment, did then, and there, the day and year aforesaid, plead to them, and
-920each of them, Not Guilty, and put her Selfe upon Triall, by God, and her Countrey. -Jury Sworn Nathan'l Howard John Hale James freind Samuel Morgan John Kent Richard Gross John Witt Nathan'l Emerson John Emery Benayah Tidcom John Platts
John Lamson A Jury being called Nathan Howard foreman and a ordingly Sworne, no Exception made by the Prisoner, the said Indictements, and each of them, being read, together with Evidences, and Examinations, and the Prisoners defence being heard, the Jury went out to agree on their verdict, who returning did then, and there in open Court, deliver their verdict, that the said Sarah Wardwell was Guilty of covenanting with the Devill, for which she stood Indicted, in the first Indictment as also Guilty of the fellony by witchcraft for which she stood Indicted, in the Second Indictment. The Court Ordered the Keeper of the Goale to take care of the Prisoner, A ording to Law.
-921arts called witchcrafts, and Sorceries, wickedly malitiously and felloniously, hath used practized, and Exercised, in the Towne of Salem, in the County of Essex aforesaid, upon, and against Martha Sprague, by which wicked Arts, the said #[Said] Martha Sprague, was, and is tortured, afflicted, and tormented, consumed, pined, and wasted, against the Peace of our Soveraigne Lord and Lady, the King and Queen, their Crowne, and Dignity and the Lawes, in that case made, and Provided. -Upon the aforesaid Indictements, and each of them the said Sarah Hawkes, was then, and there, before the Justices of our Lord and Lady, the King and Queen aforesaid, arraigned, and upon her arraignment, did then and there, the day, and year abovesaid, plead to them, and each of them, Not Guilty, and putt her Selfe upon Triall by God, and her Countrey. -- A Jury being called Joseph Pike foreman and acordingly sworne, no Exception made by the Prisoner, the said Indictements, and each of them, being read, together with Evidences, and Examinations, and the Prisoners defence being heard; the Jury went out to agree on their verdict, who returning, did then, and there in Open Court, deliver their verdict That the said Sarah Hawkes
was not Guilty of the fellony by witchcraft, for which she stood Indicted, in and by the said Indictments and each of them. -Jury Sworn Joseph Pike Edward flint Eliazer Gyles Joseph Litle John Abby Edmund Gale Josiah Gage Seth Storey John Ordway John Pickard Edward Norris William Becket The Court Ordered [Mary] Hawkes aforesaid to be discharged, paying her fees --
-922to the Devill with a Red marke, and believed the Devill, and promised to serve him, and was baptized by the Devill, and unto him renounced her former Baptism, by which Diabolicall Covenant, with the Devill, by the said Marcy Wardwell, in forme aforesaid made, she is become a detestable witch contrary to the Peace of our Soveraigne Lord and Lady, the King and Queen, their Crowne and Dignity, and the Lawes in that case made and Provided. --
2'dly For that the said Marcy Wardwell, Daughter of Samuell Wardwell, of Andover in the County of Essex aforesaid, On, or about the month of Aug'st last past, in the yeare aforesaid, and divers other dayes, and times, as well before, as after, certaine detestable Arts, called witchcrafts, and Sorceries, wickedly, mallitiously, and felloniously, hath used, practized, and Exercised, upon, and against Timothy Swan, of Andover aforesaid, by which said Timothy Swan, in the moneth of August aforesaid, and divers other dayes, and times as well before, as after, was, & is tormented, afflicted, and tortured, consumed, wasted, and pined, contrary to the peace of our Soveraigne Lord and Lady, the King and Queen, their Crowne, and Dignity, and the Lawes, in that case made and Provided. Upon the aforesaid Indictements, and each of them, the Justices of our Lord and #[the] Lady, the King and Queen aforesaid arraigned, and upon her arraignment did then, and there, the day, and Yeare abovesaid, plead to them, and each of them, Not Guilty and put her Self upon Triall by God, and her Country. Jury Sworn Edward Flint Thomas Flint John Williams Eleazer Gyles Joseph Litle John Abby Edmund Gale Seth Storey John Ordway John Pickard Edward Norris William Becket A Jury being called Edward Flint foreman and acordingly sworne, no exce con being made by the Prisoner, the said Indictements, and each of them, being read, together with Evidences, and Examinations, and the Prisoners deffence being heard the Jury went out to agree on their verdict, who returning, did then, and there, in open Court deliver the same, That the said Marcy Wardwell, was Not Guilty of the fellony by witchcraft, for which shee stood Indicted, in, and, by the said Indictements, and each of them The Court Ordered Marcy Wardwell, to be discharged, paying her fees --
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Edmund Gale
-924A Jury being called, Eliazer Gyles foreman, and a ordinly sworne, no exception being made, by the Prisoner, the said Indictments, and each of them, being read, together with Evidences, and Examinations, and the Prisoners defence, being heard; the Jury went out to agree on their verdict, who returning, did then, and there, in Open Court, deliver their verdict, that the said Elizabeth Johnson Junior was Guilty of covenanting with the Devill, for which shee stood Indicted, in the first Indictment, as allso Guilty of the fellony, by witchcraft, for which shee stood Indicted, in the Second Indictment. The Court Ordered the Keeper of the Goale to take care of the prisoner a ording to law
-925aforesaid, the Day, and Year aforesaid, and Severall other dayes, and times, as well before, as after, was, and is, Tortured, afflicted, tormented, consumed, pined, and wasted, contrary to the Peace, of our Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queen their Crowne, and dignity, and the Laws in that case made, and Provided.
Upon the aforesaid Indictments, and each of them, the s'd Mary Bridges, was then, and there, before the Justices, of our Lord, and Lady the King & Queen aforesaid, arraigned, & upon her arraignment did then, & there, the day & Year aforesaid, plead to them, and each of them, Not Guilty, and put her selfe upon Trial by God, and her Country. Jury Sworn Benayah Tidcomb Eliazer Gyles John Witt Joseph Litle John Pickard Edmund Gale John Emery John Ordway John Abby Seth Story John Hall Nathaniell Emerson A Jury being called Benayah Tidcomb foreman and a ordingly sworne, no exception being made, by the Prisoner, the said Indictments, and each of them being read, together with Evidences, and Examinations, and the Prisoners defence, being heard; the Jury went out, to agree on their verdict, who returning, did then, and there, in open Court, deliver their verdict: that the said Mary Bridges, was Not Guilty of the fellony, by witchcraft, for which she stood Indicted, in, and by, the said Indictm'ts and each of them. -The Court Ordered the said Mary Bridges, to be discharged, paying her fees --
-926Peace, of our Soveraigne Lord and Lady, the King, and Queen, theire Crowne, and dignity, and the Lawes, in that case made, & Provided. 2'dly For that shee the said Mary Post of Rowley, Single woman, Some time, in the month of July last in the yeare 1692 aforesaid, and divers other dayes, and times, as well before, as after, certain detestable Arts called witchcrafts, and Sorceries, wickedly, malitiously and felloniously, hath used, practized, and Exercised, at, and in the Towne of Andover, in the County of Essex aforesaid, upon, and against, One Timothy Swan of Andover aforesaid, by which said wicked Arts, the said Timothy Swan, the day and Year aforesaid and divers other dayes, and times, as well before, as after, was, and is, tortured, afflicted, tormented, consumed, Pined and wasted, against the Peace of Our Soveraigne Lord and Lady, the King and Queen, their Crowne, and Dignity, and against the Lawes, in that case made and Provided -- Upon the aforesaid Indictements, and each of them the said Mary Post, was then, and there, before the Justices, of our Lord and Lady, the King, and Queen aforesaid, arraigned, and upon her arraignment, did then and there, the day, and Year afores'd plead to them, and each of them, Not Guilty, and put her Self, upon triall by God, and her Country -Jury Sworn Benayah Tidcomb John Witt Joseph Litle John Pickard Edmund Gale John Emerson John Ordway John Abby Seth Story John Hall Nathan'l Emerson Eleazer Gyles A Jury being called Benayah Tidcomb foreman, and a ordingly sworne, no Exeption being made, by the Prisoner, the said Indictments, and each of them, being read, together with Evidences, and Examinations, and the Prisoners defence, being heard; the Jury went out, to agree on their verdict, who returning, did then, and there, in open Cout, deliver their verdict, that the Said Mary Post was Guilty of Covenanting with the Devill, for which Shee stood Indicted, in the first Indictment, as also Guilty of the fellony by witchcraft, for which shee stood Indicted, in the Second Indictement. --
The Court Ordered, the Keeper of the Goale, to take care of the Prisoner a ording to Law.
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Exercised, at and in the towne of Boxford, in the County of Essex aforesaid, upon and against, one Martha Sprague, of Boxford, aforesaid, now wife of [] by which said wicked arts, the said Martha Sprague alias Martha Tyler, was, and is tortured, afflicted, consumed, wasted, pined, and tormented, against the Peace, of Our Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queen, their Crowne, and dignity, and the Lawes, in that case made, and Provided. Upon the aforesaid Indictments, and Each of them, the said hannah Post, was then, and there, before the Justices, of our Lord and Lady, the King and Queen aforesaid, the day, and Year aforesaid plead to them, and each of them, Not Guilty and put her Self upon triall by God and her Country. A Jury being called Benayah Tidcomb foreman and A ordingly Sworne, no Exception being made by the Prisoner, the said Indictments, and each of them being read, together with Evidences, and examinations, and the Prisoners defence being heard; the Jury went out
-928to agree on their verdict, who returning, did then, And there, the day, and year abovesaid, in open Court deliver their verdict, that the said Hannah Post was not Guilty, of the fellony by witchcraft, in, and by the said Indictments, and each of them -The Court Ordered, Hannah Post aforesaid, to be discharged, paying her fees. --
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Crowne, and dignity, and the Lawes, in that case made and Provided -- Upon the aforesaid Indictments and each of them the said Sarah Bridges, was then, and there, before the Justices of our Lord and Lady, the King and Queen aforesaid, arraigned, and upon her arraignment, shee did then, and there, the day, and Year abovesaid, plead to them, and each of them Not Guilty, and put her self upon triall by God, and her Country -Jury Sworn Benayah Tidcomb John Witt Joseph Litle John Pickard Edmund Gale John Emerson John Ordway John Abby Seth Story John Hall Nathan'l Emerson Eliazar Gyles A Jury being called Benayah Tidcomb foreman, and a ordingly Sworne, no exeption, being made by the Prisoner, the said Indictments, and each of them, being read, together with Evidences, and Examinacons, and the Prisoners defence being heard; the Jury went out, to agree on their verdict; who returning did then, and there, in open Court deliver their verdict, that the said Sarah Bridges was not Guilty, of the fellony, by witchcraft, for which shee stood Indicted, in, and by the said Indictments, and each of them. The Court Ordered Sarah Bridges aforesaid, to be discharged, paying her fees.
felloniously, a Covenant with the Devill did make, and Signed the Devills Booke and took the Devill to be her God, and consented to serve him and worship him, and was baptized by the Devill and renounced her former Christian baptisme, and promised to be the Devills, both body, and Soule, for Ever, and to serve him, by which diabolicall Covenant, by her made, with the Divell, shee the said Mary Osgood, is become a detestable witch, against the Peace, of our Soveraign Lord and Lady, the King and Queen their Crowne, and Dignity, and the Lawes, in that case made, and Provided --
-9302'dly For that shee, the said Mary Osgood, wife of Capn John Osgood, of Andover, in the County of Essex aforesaid, sometime about the month of August, or September last, in the yeare of our Lord 1692, and divers other dayes and times, as well before, as after, Certain detestable arts, called witchcrafts, and sorceries, wickedly, malitiously, and felloniously, hath used, practised, and Exercised, at, and in, the town of Boxford, in the County of Essex aforesaid, upon, and against, One Martha Sprague, alias Tyler, by which wicked arts, the said Martha Sprague, alias Tyler, the day, and year aforesaid, and diverse other dayes, and times, as well before, as after, is Tortured, afflicted, tormented, consumed, Pined and wasted, ag'st the Peace of our soveraigne Lord and Lady, the King and Queen, their Crowne, and Dignity, and the Lawes, in that case made, and Provided -Upon the aforesaid indictments, and each of them, the said Mary Osgood, was then, and there, before the Justices, of our Lord and Lady the King and Queen aforesaid, arraigned, and upon her arraignment, shee did then, and there, the day and Year abovesaid plead to them, and each of them Not Guilty, and put her selfe upon Triall, by God, and her Country -Jury Sworn Nathaniel Howard James freind Samuel Morgan John Kent Richard Gross John Plats John Lamson Edward flint William Curtis Josiah Gage J [] Neal
francis Ellis A Jury being called Nathaniel Howard foreman, and A ordingly Sworne, no Exce con being made, by the Prisoner, the said Indictments, and each of them being read #[read,] together with Evidences, and Examinations, and the Prisoners defence being heard; the Jury went out to agree on their verdict, who returning, did, then, and there, in open Court, deliver their verdict, that the said Mary Osgood, was not Guilty of the felony of witchcraft for which shee stood Indicted in, and by the said indictments, and each of them -The Court Ordered Mary Osgood aforesaid, to be discharged, paying her fees.
-931said Mary Lacey Junior of Andover, Singlewoman, Sometime in the year 1691 at, and in the towne of Andover, in the County of Essex, wickedly, malitiously, and felloniously, with the Devill did make, and renounced her former christian Baptisme, and set her hand to the Devils booke, whereby the said Mary Lacey is become a wicked, and detestable witch, contrary to the Peace, of our Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queen, their Crowne, and dignity, and the Lawes, in that case made, and Provided -2'dly For that shee, the said Mary Lacey, of Andover, in the County of Essex, Singlewoman, on, or about, the 15'th Day of July last, in the year 1692, and divers other dayes, and times, as well before, as after, certaine detestable arts, called witchcrafts, and Sorceries, wickedly, malitiously, and felloniously, hath used, practized, and Exercised, at, and in the towne of Andover, in the County of Essex aforesaid, upon, And against One Timothy Swan, of Andover in the County of Essex, by which wicked arts, the said Timothy Swan, the day, and year aforesaid, and divers other dayes, and times, as well before, as after was, and is, tortured afflicted, tormented; consumed, Pined, & wasted, against the Peace of our soveraign Lord and Lady, the King and Queen, their Crown and Dignity, and the Lawes, in that case made, and Provided -Upon the said Indictments, and each of them, the said Mary Lacey, was then, and there, before the Justices, of our Lord and Lady, the King and Queen, arraigned, and upon her arraignment, shee did then, and there, the day, and year abovesaid, plead to them, and each of them, Not Guilty and put her Self upon triall by God, and, her Countrey -Jury Sworne Mr Nath'l Howard James freind
Joseph Litle Benayah Tidcomb Sam'l Morgan John Pickard Edmund Gale John Abby Richard Gross John Ordway John Hall Nathan'l Emerson A Jury being called Nathaniell Howard foreman and a ordingly sworne, no Excep n being made, by the Prisoner, the said Indictment, and each of them, being read, together with the Evidences, and Examinations, and the Prisoners, defence being heard; the Jury went out to agree on their verdict, who returning, did then, and there, in open Court, deliver their verdict, that the said Mary Lacy was Not Guilty of the fellony by witchcraft for which she stood Indicted, in, and by the said Indictments, and each of them The Court Ordered Mary Lacey aforesaid to be discharged paying her fees --
-932Midlesex. ss. At a Superiour Court of Judicature Court of Assize & Generall Goall Delivery holden at Charles Towne in the Count [of] Middlesex in the Province of the Massachusets Bay in New England on 31'st day of January being the last Tuesday of s'd Month Anno Do . 1692/3 Annoq'e RR's & Reginae Gulielmi et Mariae Angliae &c Quinto Grand Jury Mr Symon Stone for Samuel Walker John Pearce
Edward Johnson John Spring Thomas Prentice Rich'd Martin Edward Willson Symon Davis Humphray Barret Nehamiah Hunt Rich'd Norcross John Moss Henry Spring John Sharp #[John Sharp] John Jackson Present William Stoughton Esq'r Cheif Justice Thomas Danforth Esq'r Wait Winthrop Esq'r Samuel Sewell Esq'r John Richards Esq'r Febru'y 1'st All the Justices present
Mr Samuel Hunting for James Thomson John Clark Dan'l Deane Nathan'l Bassam Stephen francis Josiah Converse Edward Jackson Jona' Carey Sam'll Hartwell Samuel Jones Sam'l Jenison For that shee the s'd Mary Toothaker of Billerica in the County of Midlesex Widow on or about [] at & in the Towne of Billerica in the County of Midlesex afores'd Wickedly feloneousely and malitiously a Covenant with the Devill did make and for Confirmation of the s'd Covenant, made a mark upon a peece of Birch Rinde w'ch the Devill brought to her and Promised to serve the Devill and to praise him with her wholl heart by w'ch diabollical Covenant with the Devill made in maner and forme afores'd The s'd Mary Toothacker is become
-933a detestable witch against the peace of our Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queen their Crowne and dignity and the Lawes in that case made and provided 2'd Jury of Tryalls Henry Green fo:m Benj'a Symons George Read Jona' fuller William Hides Sam'l Whitemore
Thomas Welch Jun'r Thomas Pearce Thomas Bateman Abraham Temple Nathan'l Coolidge Stephen Willis Uriah Clark Upon the afores'd Indictment the s'd Mary Toothaker was then and there before the Justices of o'r Lord and Lady the King & Queen afores'd Arraigned and upon her arraignment did then and there the Day and year aforesaid plead Not Guilty and put her self upon Tryall by God and the Country. Jury of Tryalls Samuel Green for:m Sam'l Whitemore Sen'r Sam'l Thatcher Jonathan fuller Sam'l Hartwell Stephen Willis James Lowden Benja' Willington William Hides Joseph Willson Thomas Welch Jun'r Uriah Clarke A Jury being called Samuel Green foreman And accordingly Sworn, no Exception being made by the prisoner, The said Indictment Examinacon and Confession being read, and the prisoners defence being heard, The Jury went out to agree on their verdict who returning did then and there the day and year aboves'd in open Court deliver their verdict that the said Mary Toothacker was Not Guilty of the felony by Covenanting with the Devill in and by the said Indictment The Court Ordered Mary Toothacker to be discharged paying her fees.
-934For that the s'd Mary Taylor of Reding Wife of Seabread Taylor of Reding aforesaid in or about the last Winter in the year 1691 at and in the Towne of Reding in the County of Midlesex afores'd wickedly mallitiousely and feloneousely a Covenant with the Devill did make and made her mark upon a peece of Birch Rinde to Confirme the said Covenant promising the Devill to serve him and to trust in him and to give up her soule and body to him by w'ch Diabollicall Covenant made with the Devill in maner & forme afores'd the s'd Mary Taylor is become a detestable witch against the peace of our Soveraigne Lord & Lady the King and Queen their Crowne and dignity and the lawes in that Case made and provided -Upon the aforesaid Indictment the said Mary Taylor was then and there before the Justices of our Lord & Lady the King and Queen afores'd Arraigned & upon her arraignement did then and there the day & year afores'd plead Not Guilty and put herselfe upon Tryall by God and the Country. Jury Swoarn Samuel Hunting Samuel Whitmore Nathaniel Bassam Stephen Willis Henry Green James Lowden Nathaniel Coolidge Thomas Welch Jun'r Daniel Dean Samuel Jenison Joseph Willson Josiah Convers
A Jury being Called Samuel Hunting foreman And accordingly Sworne no Exception being made by the prisoner the s'd Indictment Examination and Confession being read and the Prisoners defence being heard The Jury went out to agree upon their verdict who returning did then and there the day and year aboves'd in open Court deliver their verdict That the said Mary Taylor was not Guilty of the felony by Covenanting with the Devill in and by the said Indictment The Court Ordered the said Mary Taylor be discharged paying fees.
-935September in the Year of Our Lord 1692 and divers other dayes and times as well before as after Certaine detestable Arts called Witchcrafts and Sorcerys Wickedly Mallitiously and feloneously hath used practised and Exersised at and in the Towne of Reding in the County of Midlesex Upon and against one Mary Browne of Reding in the County of Midlesex afores'd by which Wicked Arts the s'd Mary Browne the day and year afores'd and divers other dayes and times as well before as after was and is Tortured, tormented afflicted Consumed pined & wasted against the peace of Our Soveraigne Lord & Lady the King and Queen their Crowne and Dignity & the Laws in that case made and provided. Upon the foresaid Indictment the said Sarah Cole was then and there before the Justices or Our Lord and Lady the King and Queen aforesaid Arrained and upon her Arraignement did then and there the day and year aforesaid plead Not Guilty and put her selfe upon tryall by God and the Country. Jury Sworne Samuel Hunting James Thomson John Clark Dan'l Dean Nathaniel Bassam Stephen Francis Josiah Convers Edward Jackson
Samuel Jenison Nathan'l Coolidge John Oldham Henry Green A Jury being Called Samuell Hunting foreman Accordingly Swoarn no Exception being made by the prisoner the said Indictment together with Evidences and Examination being read and the prisoners defence being heard the Jury went out to agree on their Verdict who returning did then and there in open Court deliver their Verdict That the said Sarah Cole was Not Guilty of the felony by Witchcraft for w'ch shee stood Indicted in and by the said Indictment. The Court Ordered the said Sarah Cole to be discharged paying her fees.
-936divers other dayes and times as well before as after Certain detestable Arts called witchcrafts and Sorceries wickedly mallitiousely and feloneously hath used practised and exercised at and in the Towne of Malden in the County of Midlesex aforesaid upon and against one Mary Marshall by which wicked arts the said Mary Marshall the day and year aforesaid & divers other dayes and times as well before as after was afflicted Tortured Tormented Consumed pined & wasted Contrary to the peace of Our Soveraign Lord and Lady the King and Queen their Crowne and dignity and the Lawes in that case made and provided. Upon the aforesaid Indictment the said Lidia Dastin was then and there before the Justices of our Lord and Lady the King and Queen aforesaid Arraigned and upon her Arraignment did then and there the day and year aforesaid Plead Not Guilty and put her selfe upon tryall by God and the Country. Jury Sworn Mr Samuel Green fo:m John francis Piam Blower
Thomas Pearce Samuell Jones Joseph Russell Benja: Symons George Read Jonathan Wyman Abraham Temple Samuell Hartwell David Demmon A Jury being called Samuel Green foreman and accordingly Sworne no exception being made by the prisoner the said Indictment being read together with the the Evidences and Examination and the prisoners defence being heard The Jury went out to agree on their verdict, who returning did then and there in open Court deliver their verdict, That the said Lidia Dastin was Not Guilty of the felony by witchcraft for which she stood Indicted in and by the s'd Indictm't The Court Ordered the said Lydia Dastin to be discharged paying her fees.
-937and Sorceries wickedly mallitiously & feloneously hath used practised and Exercised at and in the Towne of Reding in the County of Midlesex aforesaid upon and against one Elizabeth Weston of Reding daughter of John Weston of Reding by which wicked Arts the said Elizabeth Weston the day and year afores'd and divers other dayes and times as well before as after was afflicted tortured tormented pined and wasted against the peace of our Soveraigne Lord & Lady the King & Queen their Crowne and dignity and the Lawes in that case made and provided. Upon the aforesaid Indictment the said Sarah Dastin was then and there before the Justices of our Lord and Lady the King and Queen aforesaid Araigned & upon her Arraignement she did then and there the day and year aforesaid plead to the said Indictment Not Guilty and put her selfe upon Tryall by God and the Country. Jury Sworn
Mr Samuel Hunting Samuel Whitmore Nathaniel Bassam Stephen Willis Henry Green James Lowden Nathaniel Cooledge Thomas Welch Jun'r Daniel Dean Samuel Jenison Joseph Willson Josiah Convers A Jury being called Samuel Hunting foreman and accordingly sworne no exception being made by the Prisoner The Indictment being read together with the evidences And the prisoners defence being heard The Jury went out to agree upon their verdict Who returning did then and there in open Court deliver their verdict That the said Sarah Dastin was Not Guilty of the felony by witchcraft for which shee stood Indicted in and by the said Indictment. The Court Ordered the said Sarah Dastin to be discharged paying her fees. Anno RR's et Reginae Gulielmi et Mariae Quinto At a Superiour Court of Judicature Court of Assize & General Goal Delivery held at Boston for the County of Suffolk on the 25'th day of Aprill 1693 Present William Stoughton Esq'r Chief Justice Thomas Danforth Esq'r John Richards Esq'r Samuel Sewell Esq'r
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At a Superior Court of Judicature Court of Assize & Generall Goal Delivery. holden at Ipswich the second Tuesday in May 1693 for the County of Essex. Present Thomas Danforth Esq'r John Richards Esq'r Samuel Sewell Esq'r
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Samuel Phippen John Cogswell Nath'll Browne Dan'll Needham Jerem'a Gatchel William Eliot Joseph Baly James Coffin John Robinson Sam'll Marble Thomas Leaver Susanah Post of Andover in the County of Essex Singlewoeman being Indicted by the Jurors of our Soveraigne Lord & lady the King and Queen upon their oathes by Two Severall Indictments That is to Say 1'st For that she the said Susannah Post of Andover Singlewoman about Three yeares Since in the Towne of Andover in the County of Essex aforesaid Wickedly malitiously & felloniously A Covenant with the Devill did make & Signed the Devills booke & was Baptized by the Devill & promised to Serve the Devill By which diabolicall Covenanting with the Devill in manner and forme aforesaid by the said Susannah Post made she said Susannah Post is become a Detestable witch against the peace of our Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queen their Crowne [and] dignity & the Laws in that Case made & provided 2'dly For that She the said Susanah Post of Andover in the County of Essex Single woeman, on the 25'th day of Aug'st in the yeare 1692 and divers other dayes and tymes as well before as after Certaine Detestable Artes Called Witchcrafts & Sorceries wickedly Mallitiously and felloniously hath used practised at & in the towne of Salem in the County aforesaid upon and ag'st one Rose foster of Andover Single woeman By which wicked Arts the said Rose Foster the day and yeare afores'd and divers other dayes and times as well as after was and is Tortured afflicted Tormented consumed pined & wasted ag'st the peace of our Soveraigne Lord and Lady the King and Queen their Crowne and dignity and the law in Case made and provided. Upon the aforesaid indictments and each of them the said Susana Post was then and there before the Justices of our Lord and Lady the King and Queen aforesaid arraigned & upon her arraignm't She
-940did then and there the day and year abovesaid plead to them and each of them not Guilty and put her Selfe upon Tryall by God and her Contrey -- A Jury being called Thomas Burnham foreman and accordingly Sworne noe exception being made by the prisoner The Said Indictm'ts and each of them being read together with Evidences, & Examinations and the prisoners defence being heard, The jury went out to agree on their verdict who returning did then and there in open Court deliver [their verdict] That the said Susannah Post was not Guilty of the fellony by witchcraft for w'ch she stood indicted in and by the s'd Indictm'ts and each of
them. The Court Order'd Susannah Post aforesaid To be Discharged Paying her fees.
-941and wasted against the peace of our Soveraign Lord & Lady the King & Queen their Crowne and Dignity and against the Lawes in that case made and provided. Upon the aforesaid Indictm'ts and each of them the said Eunice frie was then and there before the justices of our Lord & Lady the King and Queen afores'd Arraigned and upon her Arraignm't She did then and there the day and year abovesaid plead to them and each of them not Guilty and put her Selfe upon triall by God and her Countrey. A Jury being called Tho: Burnam foreman and accordingly Sworne no exception being made by the prisoner the said Indictm'ts and each of them being read together with Evidences & Examinations and the prisoners defence being heard the jury went out to agree on their verdict who returning did then and there in open Court deliver their verdict That the said Eunice frie was not Guilty of the fellony by Witchcraft for which she stood Indicted in & by the said Indictm'ts and each of them The Court Ordered Enice frie aforesaid To be Discharged Paying her fees.
Sove'n Lord and Lady the King and Queen upon their oathes by Two Severall Indictments That is to Say 1'st For that the said Mary Bridges Jun'r of Andov'r Single woeman In or about the moneth of July last in the yeare 1692 afores'd in the Towne of Andov'r in the County of Essex afforesaid wickedly malitiously & feloniously A Covenant with the Devil did make and Signed a pap to the Devil and was Baptized by the Devill, By which wicked Diabolical Covenant with the Divell made by the Said Mary Bridges Jun'r, She is become a detestable Witch Contrary to the peace of our Lord & lady the King & Queen their Crowne and dignity and the lawes in that Case made and provided. 2'dly for that she the said Mary Bridges Jun'r of Andover in the County of Essex Single woeman on or about the 25'th day of August in the yeare 1692 aforesaid and divers other days & times as well before as after Certaine detestable Arts called witch crafts and Sorceries
-942wickedly Maliciously and felloniously used Practiced & Exercis'd at and in the towne of Salem in the County of Essex aforesaid upon and against one Rose foster of Andov'r aforesaid Single woman By which wicked arts the said Rose foster the day and year afores'd and divers other dayes and times as well before as after was and is Tortur'd afflicted Tormented Consumed Pined and wasted ag't the peace of our Sovereigne Lord and Lady the King and Queen their Crown & dignity & ag't the laws in that case made & pr'vided Upon the aforesaid Indictm'ts and each of them the said Mary Bridges Junior was then and there before the justices of our Lord and Lady the King and Queen afforesaid Arraigned & upon her Arraignment She did then and there the day and year aboves'd plead to them and each of them not Guilty and put her Selfe upon tryall by God and her Country. A Jury being Called Thomas Burnham foreman & accordingly Sworne no exception being made by the prisoner the s'd Indictm'ts & each of them being read together with Evidences & Examinations and the prisoners defence being heard the jury went out to agree on their verdict who returning did then and there in open Court deliver their verdict That the Said Mary Bridges Jun'r was not Guilty of the fellony by Witchcraft for w'ch she stood Indicted in and by the said Indictments and each of them. The Court Orderd Mary Bridges Junior to be discharged Paying her fees
-943in the year afores'd And at divers other dayes & tymes as well before as after was and is Tortured aflicted and Tormented consumed pined and wasted against the peace of our Sovereigne Lord and Lady King and Queen their Crowne & dignity and the Statute of the first of King James the first in that case made and provided. 2'dly For that she the said Mary Barker of Andover Single woman on or about the 29'th day of Aug'st last in the year aforesaid and divers other dayes and tymes as well before as after Certaine detestable arts Called Witchcraft and Sorceries wickedly Malitiously & felloniously hath used practised & Exercised at and in the Towne of Andover in the County of Essex aforesaid in and upon & against one Rose foster of Andover afores'd Single Woeman by which said Wicked acts the said Rose foster the day and yeare aforesaid & divers other dayes and tymes both before and after was and is Tortured afflicted Consumed pined Wasted and Tormented ag'st the peace of our Sove'n Lord and Lady the King & Queen their Crown and dignity and the forme of the Statute in that case made & provided. Upon the afores'd Indictm'ts and each of them The said Mary Barker was then and there before the Justices of our Lord and Lady the King and Queen aforesaid arraigned and upon her Arraignment She did then and there the day and yeare abovesaid plead to them and each of them Not Guilty and put her Selfe upon Tryall by God and her Countrey -- A Jury being called Capt Jno Putnam foreman & accordingly Sworne no Exception being made by the prisoner the Said Indictm'ts and each of them being read together with Evidences and examinations and the prisoners Defence being heard The jury went out to agree on their verdict who returning did then and there in Open Court deliver their verdict That the said Mary Barker was not Guilty of the fellony by Witchcraft for which she Stood indicted in and by the said Indictments and each of them. The Court Orderd Mary Barker aforesaid to be Discharged Paying her fees
-9441'st For that the said William Barker Jun'r of of Andover in the County of Essex Some time in the Month of August last in the yeare 1692 afores'd at or in the Township of Andover in the County of Essex afores'd wickedly Mallitiously & felloniously a Covenant with the Devill did make & Signed the Devills booke and by the Devill was Baptized & before him renounced his former Baptizme and promised to be the Devills for ever & ever, By which wicked and Diabolliacle Covenant the Said William Barker is become a detestable witch against the peace of o'r Sov'n Lord & lady the King and Queen their Crowne and dignity and the laws in that Case Made and Provided. 2'dly for that he the said William Barker Junior of Andover in the County of Essex aforesaid Sometyme in the moneth of August last in the yeare 1692 afores'd and divers other dayes and times as well before as after Certaine detestable arts called Witchcraft and Sorceries Wickedly Malliciously
and felloniously hath used Practised and Exercised at and in the Towne of Salem in the County of Essex afforesaid upon and ag'st one Martha Sprague alias Martha Tyler, By w'ch wicked arts the said Martha Sprague alias Tyler the day and year afores'd and divers other dayes and tymes as well before as after was and is Tortured Afflicted Tormented Pined & wasted ag'st the peace of o'r Sov'n Lord & Lady the King and Queen their Crown & Dignity & the laws in that Case made and Provided. Upon the affores'd Indictments and each of them The said William Barker Jun'r was then and there before the justices of our Lord and Lady the King and Queen aforesaid #[aforesaid] Arraigned and upon his Arraignm't he did then and there the day and yeare abovesaid plead to them and each of them Not Guilty and put himselfe upon his God and his Countrey. A Jury being Called Thomas Burnam foreman & accordingly Sworne no Exception being made by the prisoner the Said Indictm'ts and each of them being read together with the Evidences and Examinations and the prisoners defence being heard The jury went out to agree on their verdict who returning did then and there in open Court deliver their verdict That he the Said William Barker was Not Guilty of the fellony by witchcraft for w'ch he stood Indicted in and by the Said Indictm'ts and each of them. The Court Orderd William Barker aforesaid to be Discharg'd Paying his fees -(All cases in this section from Suffolk County Boston -- Mass. Superior Court of Judicature Records )
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Vera Copia Taken out of the Record of s'd Court. *Jona' Elatson Cler Attest. (Reverse) Order of Super'ur Court ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 82 )
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Thomas Beadle Cr by his acco of disbursm'ts Dr to what was p'd by the Sheriff Due to ballance Samuel Beadle Cr by his acco Dr to what p'd by the Sheriff Samuel Shattock Cr as p his accor Dr to whats p'd by the Sheriff John Cook Cr by his acco Mary Gedey Cr by her acco Dr by what's p'd by the Tr & Sherriffe John Stacy Cr by his acco. of disbursem'ts Mr Thomas Newton for his service John Putman Constable 30s [unclear: ] & Jonathan Putman 30s for their Extreordinary Service & Travell
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Capt. Willard William [unclear: ] Murry & Thomas Putnam for their service 5 15 0 0 each Nathaniel Ingorsoll his acco of disbursem'ts George Herrick for his Great service 06 0 0 25 0 0
130 00 11 Allowed upon the acco above the severall summes there amounting to The Summ of One hundred and thirty pounds Eleven pence Wm Stoughton Vera Copia attest *Jona' Elatson Cle . (Reverse) ord'r from the Superiour Court ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 83 )
Impr by Geo. Herrick und'r sheriff for him selfe & Priseners viz Jno Jackson sen'r Jno Jackson Jun'r Jno Howard and Guard To Entertainment for the Constables and their Prisoners from Haverill To Entertainement for the Constables & prisoners from Glossester
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allow'd (Reverse) Ab. Perkins Ipswich witch cases Acco allow'd ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2, Page 60 )
s. d. Impr To the Majestrate Dinner & Drink To the Marshalls 2 Constables & Assistance Victeills To 43d Cakes 6 qts sider To 2 Constables att 2 qts of 3d Sider on Cake To Rum To Majestrates Horses To the Marshall & Constable Herricks Horses the 3'd Instant the Marshall Expences the Marshall & his Horse 1 pott Sider Upon Examination of Goodwife Corry To the Marshall for Horses & Drink To the Majestrates Horses; Drink [unclear: ] and Entertainment Upon Examination of goodwife Nurse [unclear: ] To the Marshalls Horse Standing, Supper Lodging one night and drink for his attendance To Constable Herrick Drink & Cake ""8" ""3" ""2" """9 """6 """6 """6 """6 """6 """6 ""4" ""3"6 """6
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To the Majestrates Drink & Entertainemts [unclear: ] and Horses w'th the Majestrats Horses Aprill 19: 1692
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A further Accont in Examina on of Witchcraft at Salem Villiage before the Worshipfull John Hathorn and Jonathan Corwin Esq'rs & Assist: for the County of Essex. To the Majestrates Intertainemt & Horses The 22 Majestrates Minesters & Attendance diners The 22 for 8 Horses Hey & Oates May 2'd for Majestrates Entertainem't for Horses hey & Oates for the Marshall & Assistance Victualls,lb> and Drink ditto 3'd for Drink for the Guard upon the Committed persons one Night ditto 3'd for Victualls & Drink the Next [unclear: ] Morning for the Attendance Guard Committed woman to Boston Goal by order of Mittimus s. d. ditto 3 for oates for the Cart Horses [unclear: ] & Marshalls Horse: May 9'th for Conveyance Mr Burrows and other [unclear: ] Prisoners for Victualls for the Majestrates & tendance & Horses & whole Charge at this Examinacon is May 18 & 19 dayes for Victuall & Drink [unclear: ] for the Guard in watching John Willard Tho. Farrier & others Carried over to the other side ""1" " "16 " " "16 " "5"4" 9 s. d. Brought over from the other side To drink for the Majestrates & Victualls [unclear: ] for Attendance & Horses Pastering May 20 To Sider for Majestrates & Attendance May 21 To Vitualls & Drink to Majestrates 23'd To Majestrats Horses Meat & Attendanc "5"4"9 ""5" ""5" ""2"6 ""3" ""6" " "16 " ""4" ""4" ""2" ""4" ""3"0
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24 To Attendance Supper & drink next [unclear: ] Morning May the 21 1692
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Upon the Examination of William Procter [unclear: ] and severall others to their Victualls Drink to " " 1 "10 the Majestrates & their Attendance & Horse meat and victualls & drink to the Attendance of the Prisoners
July 15 1692 Upon an Examination to the Majestrates [unclear: ] Constables an others to attend the Prisen'rs Meat Drink & Horse meat " "15 " " 8 "10 " 9 (Reverse) Nath'l Ingersolls Acco expenses in some of the witch cases ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 60 )
sd to mending & pouting one Rachalls fetters to John houard 1 pare of fetters to John Jackson sener 1 pare of fetters to John Jackson Juner 1 pear of fetters allow'd (Reverse) Tho. Manning Acco fetters for prisoners ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 60 ) 00-01-6 00-05-0 00-05-0 00-05-0 00-16-6
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An Account from John Harris: sherifs: deputy of fondry: Charges: at the Corts of ir and terminer: helld at Sallem in the yere 1692 Itt presing a hores: & man: to assist in Carring of Sary: good: from Ipswich goalle to Salem Itt for a man & horse: that was prest to Remove Sary good & Child from ipswich to Sallem Itt for pressing of hores & man to gard me with: [unclear: ] the wife: of John willes: & the widow pudeater from Ipswich to Salem my sellf: & gard for tending the Court at the second siting Itt: for providing a Jury: to make search upon [unclear: ] Cori & his wife: & CLenton \#\[Estty\]: Easty: hore: CLoiss: & mrs bradbury Itt: Tending the Court on a Jurnment August [unclear: ] the 2'd 1692 from Tuesday till Satterday Itt: for expenc: & Time: to: git 3 paire of feeters made: for the two Jacksons & John howard
Itt for going to Sallem to Carry: a Return: of the Juriars: of ipswich & Rowly: & Attending that siting 0-4-6
Itt: for \#\[barring\] Removeing of howard & the two: [unclear: ] M Jacksons & Joseph: Emmons: 6-0 from Ipswich Goall to Sallem & thare: Pending the Courts: pLeasur thre dayes till three of Them was sent back: to ipswich Goall: by me: which time: of: thre dayes: for mysellfe: & exspence: for Thos that assisted me in that sarves
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for presing of men & horses for This designe: for bringing of mrs bradbury: from Sallem [unclear: ] To: ipswich goall: & a man to assist me: Att A Gen'll Sessions of the peace holden Ipswich March 27.94 as attest *John Harris Deputy Sheref This account is allowed provided it be not Included in the High Sheriffs acco attest *St: Sewall Cler (Reverse) Jno Harris acco Ipswich jailer witch cases.
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to give evedenc Against Rachell CLenton at the Court of Oyer & Turminer (Reverse) Joseph Fuller bill in witch cases Acc'ots Not Allow'd ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 61 )
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Apr. 5. To 2 blanketts for Sarah Goods Child order 29. To 500 footboards to mend the Goal & prison house To 4 locks for the Goal To 2C Nails To repairing the prison house May 10'th To 3 large Locks for the Goal 23. To Shackles for 10 prisoners 29. To 1 pr of Irons for Mary Cox
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To Sarah Good of Salem villedge from the [unclear: ] 7'th of March to ditto 1'st June 12 weeks 1" 10"at 2s -- 6d To Rebecca Nurse of same place from the 12'th April 7 weeks and one day at 2s -- 6d To George Jacob 6 weeks & 4 dayes from the 12'th May To John Procter & Elizabeth his Wife [unclear: ] from the 12'th April. to the 1'st of June at 5s To Susanna Martin of Amsbury from the 2'd [unclear: ] May to the 1'st of June 4 weeks & 2 days -" 17" 10 -" 16" 4 1" 15"10" 10" 8
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To Bridget Bishop a s Oliver of Salem [unclear: ] from the 12'th of May 20 days at 2s"6d week To Alice Parker of Salem from the 12'th of [unclear: ] May to the 1'st of June 20 days at 2s 6d To George Burroughs 7 weeks from 9'th of May To Sam'l Passanauton an Indian 8 weeks & 4 days from the 28'th of Aprill at 2s 6d week To Roger Toothaker of [unclear: ] Salem villidge 5 week & 5 days [unclear: ] from 18'th May To John Willard of [unclear: ] Salem villidge at 2s 6d p week [unclear: ]
To the Keeping of Sarah Osbourn from the [unclear: ] 7'th of March to the 10'th of May when she 1" 3"died being the 9 weeks & 2 days To yearly Salery To mending the Prison 20"-"-" 13"40" 16" 6 *John: Arnald ( Mass. Archives. Vol 135 No. 24 )
for Dyeting of Severall prisoners Comited by order of Authority & afterwards discharged by the same as follows
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it Dyetting of Rachell Clinton from the 11'th [unclear: ] of Aprill until the 12'th of January follow: 4: 10: 3 in the year 1692: it ditto of the two Jacksons from the 27'th of [unclear: ] August untill the 12'th of Janu'ry in the same year 410 it Ditto of John Howard from the 27'th of August [unclear: ] until the 12'th of Decem'er in the Same year 4: 10: 0 2: 0: 0
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1693 it Ditto of Tho: Dyer from the 27'th of Aprill until the 8'th of 1: 03: 0 Jully \#\[it Tho: Battis his fees allow'd 12.3: 3d Total is 18 9sd 4-10-0 4-2 4-3 4-2 4-3 16-36 2 18 (Reverse) Tho Fosseys acco allow'd witch cases ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 88 ) 0: 05:-\] 12: 03: 3
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mrs. dimand 5 dayes att sallem To give: Evedenc & har hosband to Carry: 4-0 har a man to carry & fech widdow bellsher (Reverse) Chargis for the Court of oyr & turmener Samuel Graves bill in witch cases. ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 89 ) 4-0
hur was one night and one Hafe day August the 27 1692 I Imprest Simon Adams and His Hors to Cary John Jackson sener to salem and John osborn and His Hors to Cary John Jackson juner to salem and thomas Norton and The widow Davis Hors to Cary John Howard to Salem
-957Alaxainder Lovell Impresed to Cary old Cory to salem and John Dennison Hors Sarving the 4 Cort at Salem my salf and my Hors one week 1 3 4 4 4 4 20. 1-0-0 (Reverse) Acco'ts of the County William Baker Ipswich witch cases ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 90 )
Lydia Dastin & Sarah Dastin were Comitted June 18'th 1692 & by the Sheriffe were taken out the 3'd of Janu'ry: following w'ch is 28 weeks & 3 days & amounts to Mary Colson Widow was Co itted Sept'r 5'th 1692 & was by the Sheriffe taken out said 3'd of Janu'ry is 37 weeks & one day
07 02 00 02 02 10
Elizabeth Colson Co itted Sept'r 14: 1692 was by the Sheriffe taken out 3'd of Janu'ry w'ch is 35 weeks & six days amounting to Sarah Cole Comitted Octob'r 3'd 1692 was by the Sheriffe taken out said 3'd of Janu'ry w'ch is 12 weeks and 6 days amounting to Lydia Dastin, Sarah Dastin Elizabeth Colson,
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-958Sarah Cole Mary Toothaker & Mary Taylor were by order of the Sheriffe Co itted Janu'ry 28'th 1692/3 & taken out by said Sheriffe on the 31'st of sd Janu'ry w'ch is 3 days w'ch amounts to 00 06 04 Lydia Dastin, Sarah Dastin Elizabeth Colson & Sarah Cole were by the Sheriffes warrant (after the tryall of said sons) Comitted febru'ry 11'th 1692/3 -- Elizabeth Colson went out of rison the 2'd of March following: Lydia Dastin dyed the 10'th of said March: Sarah Cole & Sarah Dastin went out of Prison the 23'd of said March -- the time of said persons Continuance in Prison from said Co ittm't to their going out is as follows vizt Sarah Cole & Sarah Dastin 5 weeks & 5 days w'ch
01 08 04 00 10 00
Elizabeth Colson two weeks & five days amounts 00 06 06 to 15 07 08 ( Middlesex County Archives, Cambridge )
To: Sarah Osburne i mo' dyet in prison [unclear: ] Except 3s Rec'd in part To: Sarah Good 6 weekes and for [unclear: ] her child Dorit' Good 1 mo' Dyet To: Giles Cory & his wifes dyet 3 weeks [unclear: ] remaines due there of To William Hobs 3 w. dyet To. Delive' Hobs 12 moneths dyet
To: Abigail Hobs 12 mo' dyet To: Eliz Scargen 6 mo' Dyet [unclear: ] and for her child 4 mo Dyet To: Alce parker 8 weekes dyet To. Mary Toothaker 37 w dyet To: Hen'y Salter 16 w:dyet
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To: Rachel Hasell 10 w dyet To: the two Jacksons 4 weeks dyet Each To. Jno Hollen 4 w. dyet To: Ewd Wooland To: 9 yeares Salery at 5 P Anum
*William agreed on & Setled. out of w'ch I Dounton only Rec'd 23s Rest due 43: 17s 00 Allowed Wm Dounton for Salery since the Revolution or S'r Edm'd Andros Gov'r w'th w't might be due before his
12: 11: 00
SS 1698 Aprill 22'd 1692/3 Jan 3'd Charlestown by the Speciall Appointment of his Maj'ties Justices for s'd Countey: The sheriffs allo'ts of Charges Expended upon prison'rs accused for Witch Craft and tryed at Charlestowne And for Diat to Severall. sd By Carrying Elizab: Colson to Salem To Carrying 6 prison'rs to Salem To Expenses on Prison'rs from Salem to Charlestowne To money for wood To the sons Tryalls To 7 days persuit by Hew and Cry To the Prison Keeper fo diat 1 00 00 4 05 00 2 00 00 0 09 00 0 15 00 1 00 00 15 00 00
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To Henry Somers for diat To the Cryers fees in the Tryalls 8s [unclear: ] To assisting in persuit of the Hew and Cryes 10s Adjusted and allowed by the Justices Sitting in Court Att's *Sam'll Phipps Cler a ( Middlesex County Archives, Cambridge )
00 19 00 00 18 00 27 02 00
hands of Goodwife Cloys estes, Bromidg and Green all at one pound a loven shillings money
1 12 0 This work was done by order from athority Requiring me thereunto attest Rob'tt Lord Smith. deduct pd by the Marshall 6s -- rest is 26s allow'd (Reverse) Robart Lords aco't for fetters & hancuffs in witch time vs Goodwife Cloys et als Note. The above is in different handwriting (Reverse) Robert Lord acco for fetters & handcufs ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 85 )
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clarck I allso went with hur to Salam being assisted by John Ayer and helverd williams which I did Comand to assist me August the 18 by warrant by the same cap'n bradstrit goodwife hucthins and Ruth wilford and caried them downe to salam att two times haveing the first time for the first Josiah [gags] for my assistans and [and] peeter pato for the next time: and I was constrain to press horeses every time and two men to wacth with one of them the sabath day and night expended of my own mony in the performanc of the serves [unclear: ] mention of one pound and eight shilings Your sarvant *William Starling (Reverse)
s. d. 3 days . . of 2 hands 12: 00 3 days of 3 hands 3 days of 2 hands 3 days of 2 hands for horses 18: 00 12: 00 12: = 12: =
-962for 12 days Time of [unclear: ] his own And his Expencis 1: 10: 00 4: 16: -(Reverse) this acco allowd. For himselfe. & others herin Named. Petition of William Starlin of Haverhill for allowance in witch case. Acco'ts Respited ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 64 )
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-964without feare of being put to death upon that sentanc you would be pleased to put me Into acapacity to make use of the law to Recover that which of Right by law I ought to have for my nessesary suply and support that as I your petetioner am one of his majestyes subjects I may have the benifett of his laws soe Humbly prayeng that god would direct your honnours in all things to doe that which may be well pleasing to him I subscrib your honours humble petetioner Elizabeth procter widow Read 10th June. 1692 [sic] in Council (On reverse side of paper) Elizebeth Procter her petetion 1696 ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 )
-965Your Petition'r therefore humbly prayes this Hon'ble Court to take the premisses into Consideration, and to grant an order for the payment of what your Petitioner and the s'd Prison Keeper have disbursed and expended as afores'd as also such satisfaction as yo'r honours shall think meet for their trouble and time imployed in the affair aforesaid -And your Pet'r as in duty bound shall ever pray &c *Timo Phillips Sheriffe March 18th. 1696/7 ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 110 )
And the Quarter Sessions of the Peace in s'd County of Middlesex are ordered and impowered to raise on s'd County the Remainder of s'd Accompt and pay the Ballance thereof upon their adjustment By Order of the Lieut Gov'r Council and Assembly *Isa Addington Secry ( Middlesex County Archives, Cambridge )
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That whereas in the year 1692 some of your Petitioners and the near Relations of others of them, viz: Rebecca Nurse, Mary Estey, Abigail Faulkner, Mary Parker, of Andover John Procter & Elizabeth his wife: Elizabeth How, Samuel Wardwell & Sarah his Wife: were accused of Witchcraft by certain possessed persons, and thereupon were apprehended and Imprisoned, and at a Court held at Salem were condemned upon the Evidence of the aforsaid possessed persons; and sentence of Death hath been executed on them (except Abigail Faulkner, Elizabeth Procter & Sarah Wardwell) of whose Innocency those that knew them are well satisfyed. And whereas the invalidity of the aforesaid Evidence and the great wrong which (through Errors & mistakes in those tryalls) was then done, hath since plainly appear'd which we doubt not but this Honored Court is sensible of: Your Petitioners
-967being dissatisfyed and grieved, that (besides what the aforesaid condemned persons have suffered in their persons and Estates) their Names are Exposed to Infamy and reproach, while their Tryall & condemnation stands upon Publick Record: We therefore humbly Pray this Honored Court, that something may be Publickly done to take off Infamy from the Names, and memory of those who have suffered as aforesaid, that none of their surviving Relations, nor their Posterity may suffer reproach upon that account. And yo'r Petition'rs shall ever pray &c. Dated March 2d 1702/3 Francis Faulkner Abigail Faulkner Sarah Wardwel John Parker Joseph Parker Nathaniel Dane Francis Dane Mary How Abigail How Issac Estey Samuel Nurse Phebe Robinson Samuel Wardwell John Tarbel
John Nurse Peter Cloys sen'r Isaac Estey Jun'r Sarah Gill Rebecca Preston Thorndick Procter Benjamin Procter In the House of Representatives March. 18th 1702. Read & sent up (Reverse) Pet'con of Fra. Faulkner &C. ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 110 )
-968by the afflicted who pretended to See me by theire Spectrall Sight (not with theire bodily Eyes) and that I afflicted them upon whose accusations (and theires only) I was Examined Imprisoned and brought to tryall these being all that gave in anny Evidence against me upon Oath yett the Jewry (upon only theire Testimony) brought me in guilty, & the Sentence of Death was passed upon me, But it pleased god to put it into the heart of his Ex'cy: Sir Will'm Phipps to grant me a repreve and att Length a pardon the Insufficiency of the proofe being in s'd pardon Exprest as the Inducement to the granting there of Soe that Through the greate goodness of God I am yett preserved The pardon haveing Soe farr had its Efect as that I am as yet Suffred [to] to live but this only as a Malefactor Convict upon record of the most henious Crimes that mankind Can be Supposed to be guilty off, which besides its utter Ruining and Defacing my Reputation, will Certainly Expose my selfe to Iminent Danger by New accusations, which will thereby be the more redily believed will Remaine as a perpetuall
brand of Infamy upon my family And I knowing my owne Inocency as to all such Crimes (as will att the last fully appeare) and being soe Defamed in my Reputation and my life Exposed besides the Odium Cast upon my Posterrity
Doe humbly pray that this high hono'ble: Court will please to take my Case into Serious Consideration and order the Defacing of the record against me Soe that I and mine may be freed from the Evill Consequents Thereof And your Petion er : as in duty bound Shall ever pray
Boston Jun 13: 1703 the Court orderd the Reading of hir tryall Reverse of Case # 113 & # 114 [Fau] Kner Pet'con [Ju]ly. 1703 Mess'rs: Sprague Seabury.. Savage ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 103 )
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We would therefore humbly propose to the consideration of this Honored Court, whether something may not, and ought not, to be publickly done to clear the good name and reputation of some who have suffered as aforesaid, against whom there was not as is supposed sufficient evidence to prove the guilt of such a crime and for whom there are good grounds of charity. Some of the condemned persons aforesaid, and others in behalf of their Relations who have suffered, have lately Petitioned this Honoured Court upon this Account. We pray that their case may be duely considered. *Thomas Barnard *Joseph Green *William Hubbard *Benjamin Rolfe *Samuel Cheever *Zech. Sy mes *Joseph Gerrish *John Rogers *Jabez fitch *Jno Wise *Joseph Capen *Thomas Symmes July 9th 1703 In Council Read and sent down.
-970July 16th: 1703. In the House of Representatives Read. (Reverse) referring to persons condemn'd for witchcraft. read. July 8th 1703. ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 110 )
That a bill be brought in to acquit mary falkner and the other present petitioners severally of the penaltys to which thay are lyable upon the said Convictions and Judgments in the said Courts and Estate them in their Just Cred't and reputation as if no such Judgment had been had In Council July 21, 1703. agreed to. die dict. agreed to. ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 109 )
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(Declaration of Mary Osgood, Martha (?) Tyler, Deliverance Dane, Abigail Barker, Sarah Wilson, and Hannah Tyler)
We whose names are under-written, inhabitants of Andover; whenas that horrible and tremendous judgment beginning at Salem village in the year 1692, by some called witchcraft, first breaking forth at Mr. Parris's house, several young persons, being seemingly afflicted, did accuse several persons for afflicting them, and many there believing it so to be, we being informed that, if a person was sick, the afflicted person could tell what or who was the cause of that sickness: Joseph Ballard, of Andover, his wife being sick at the same time, he, either from himself or by the advice of others, fetched two of the persons, called the afflicted persons, from Salem village to Andover, which was the beginning of that dreadful calamity that befel us in Andover, believing the said accusations to be true, sent for the said persons to come together to the meeting house in Andover, the afflicted persons being there. After Mr. Barnard had been at prayer, we were blindfolded, and our hands were laid upon the afflicted persons, they being in their fits and falling into their fits at our coming into their presence, as they said; and some led us and laid our hands upon them, and then they said they were well, and that we were guilty of afflicting them: Whereupon, we were all seized, as prisoners, by a warrant from the Justice of the peace and forthwith carried to Salem. And, by reason of that sudden surprizal, we knowing ourselves altogether innocent of the crime, we were all exceedingly astonished and amazed, and consternated and affrighted even out of our reason. and our nearest and dearest relations, seeing us in that dreadful condition, and knowing our great danger, apprehended there was no other way to save our lives, as the case was then circumstanced, but by our confessing ourselves to be such and such persons as the afflicted represented us to be, they, out of tenderness and pity, persuaded us to confess what we did confess. And indeed that confession, that it is said we made, was no other than what was suggested to us by some gentlemen, they telling us that we were witches, and they knew it, and we knew it, which made us think that it was so; and our understandings, our reason, our faculties, almost gone, we were not capable of judging of our condition; as also the hard measures they used with us rendered us incapable of making our defence, but said any thing and every thing which they desired, and most of what we said, was but, in effect, a consenting to what they said. Some time after, when we were better composed, they
-972telling us what we had confessed, we did profess that we were innocent and ignorant of such things; and we hearing that Samuel Wardwell had renounced his confession, and quickly after condemned and executed, some of us were told we were going after Wardwell. Mary Osgood, Mary Tiler, Deliverance Dane, Abigail Barker, Sarah Wilson, Hannah Tiler. ( Thomas Hutchinson , History of Massachusetts-Bay, II, 31-32 )
-973Benjamin Procter John Procter Thorndik Procter George Jacobs Joseph Parker John Johnson Francis Faulkner
Samuel Nurs Benjamin Nurs john preston Samuel Nurs ju (Reverse) Original pe on ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 111 )
-974Thorndick Procter
George Jacobs In the names & on Behalf of our selves and several others. (Reverse) Pe'tion May 1709. Pe'ions about the Witchcraft in 1692. ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 112 )
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An Account of what Ebenezer Barker of Andover payd for his wife Abigail Barker who was accused 1-10-0 of witchcraft and suffered Imprisonment 18 weeks at Salem in the year 1692 Viz To the Keeper of the Goal it For Court Charges The su s abovs'd he was forcid to pay before his wife could be Released. Besides his maintaining his wife wholly in prison with provision and other necessaryes sd Totall. 5-7-4 *Ebenezer Barker I desire Capt Barker to give in this account to the Hon'rable Comittee *Eben. Barker (Reverse) Abigail Barker of Andover Imprisond not Condemnd ( Mass. Archives. Vol. 135 No. 146 ) 1-7-4 2-10-0
-978it To the Sheriffe for the [unclear: ] discharge of the prisoner upon Bail 00-6-0 (and for Bail Bond) it To the Clerk of the Court [unclear: ] for Provisions Expended in prison 01-17-4 0-15-0 3-15-10 *John Barker ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 139 )
To the Keeper of Salem Goal 1-1-0 'r *John Barker ( Massachusetts Archives Vol. 135 No. 138 )
-979To Provisions Expended [unclear: ] in prison 00-15-0 it To the Sheriffe for Bail Bond 00-6-0 it To the Clerk of the Court 1-17-0 sd 'r *John Barker Totall 3:15:10 (Reverse) Jno Barkers Account of W'm Barker Jun'r [unclear: ] William Barker Imprisond Not condemnd ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 149 )
-980pounds money praying your honers I may be righted In name and Esteat I Rest your honers humbl sarvant *Edward Bishop (On reverse side of paper) Edward Bishop & Wife long Imprisoned not Condemned ( Mass. Archives Vol. 132 No. 117 )
others of Eaquall Surcomstances & which may be Consistant with & rather Incurrage then Discourage the gen' ll Desine now on foot our buisness is Shuch at home we Cant well attend your Honers at this Juncture but hope our writting may as Efectively Answer the Ende being Confident that Such is your Justice & Cander that you will not Improve
-981our Moderation in our Demands to our disadvantage we Subscribe -- your most Humble Servants & petisioners -Salisbury Sep'r -- 11-1710 Henry [unclear: ] True & Jane Executor to the will of Mrs Mary bradbury Condemned for Witchcraft Sep'r 1692 Not Executed: made her Escape (Reverse) Mary Bradbury Condemned Not Executed ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 120 )
If I may be allowed four pounds it Will be to my Satisfaction I was not notifyed of the time when the Honorable Committee met
-982at Salem, therefore could not give this account then. I humbly pray this Honourable Committee # [that I] to consider my Loss and damage. *Sarah Preston ( Massachusetts Archives Vol. 135 No. 140 )
(Account of William Buckley, Jr. -- Cases of Sarah Buckley and Mary Witheridge)
To: To The Honourable Committee The humble Representation of Will'm Buckly of the Damage sustained by our family in the year 1692 &c. 1 My Honored Mother Sarah Buckly & my sister Mary Witherige were both in prison from May until January following, dureing which time 2 we were at the whole charge of their Maintenance And when they were 3 cleared & came out of prison we were forced to pay for Each of them five pounds to the officers -We shall leave Your honours and the honourable Gen'll Court to judge and determine what our damage hath been by these sufferings -- and so Rest salem Sept 13. 1710 Your Honours humble serv't *W'm Buckly in the name of our family If we may be allowed fifteen pounds it will be to our satisfaction 15-00-00 (Reverse) Sarah Buckly & Mary Witheridge Imprisoned &c Not Condemnd ( Massachusetts Archives. Case #160 No. 136 )
-983for the Makeing Some Restitucon & these Humbly & Sorroufully Shew that our Dear & Honourd father Mr George Burrough was aprehened in apriel -- 1692 at wells & Imprisoned Severall Months in Bostone & Salem Goales and at last Condemened & Executed for whichcraft which we have all the reason in the world to bleve he was innocent of by his carefull Chatecizing his Chilldren & upholding religion in his family and by his Solom & Savory written Instructions from prison we were Left a parsell of small Chilldren of us helpless & a mother in Law with one Small Child of her owne to take care of whereby she was not so Capable to take care of us by all which our fathers small Estate was most of it Lost & Expended and we Scattered we cannot tell Certanly what the lose may be but the Least we can Judge by best information was fifty poundes besides the damage that hath acrued to us many wayes thereby is Some hundreds of pounds wee Earnestly pray that the attainder may be taken of & if you please the fifty pounds may be restored *Charles Burrough Elder Son In the Name of the reast (On reverse side of paper) Mr. George Burroughs Condemned & Executed having been lately of Wells in the Countey of York ( Massachusetts Archives Vol. 135 No. 136 )
-984My humble request is that the Attainder may be taken off; and that I may be considered as to the loss and dammage I Sustained in my Estate Totall 7-6-0
*Thomas Carrier I found my wife and children provision during their imprisonment (In margin) Martha Carrier Condemned & Executed ( Massachusetts Archives. Vol. 135 No. 163 )
paid the Goaler ...40s writting bonds .... 6s paid 18 for Court Charges
Being Imprisoned the Second time writting of bonds 0-6-0 6s Carryed to Ipswig to be Cleared & paid 20 and more 1-0-0 I found my self provision *Sarah Cole (Reverse) Sarah Cole Long Imprison'd not Condemned. ( Massachusetts Archives Vol. 135 No. 132 ) 2-0-0 6.10.00
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these are to give you a short a Count of our sorrows and suferings which was in the yere 1692 some time in march our honerd father and mother Giles Corey & Martha his wife ware acused for soposed wich Craft and imprisoned and ware Removed from on prison to another as from Salem to ipswich & from ipswitch to boston and from boston to Salem againe and soe remained in Close imprisonment about four months we were att the whole Charge of their maintenance which was very Chargable and soe much the more being soe farr a distance from us as also by Reason of soe many removes in all which wee Could doe noe less than Acompanie them. which further added both to our trouble and Charge and although that was very Great is the least of our greavence or cause of Thease lines but that which breakes our hearts and for which wee goe mourning still is that our father was put to soe Cruell and painfull a death as being prest to death our mother was put to death also though in another way. And as wee Cannot sufficiantly Express our Griffe for the loss of our father and mother in such away -- soe we cannot Compute our Exspences and Coast but Shall Comite to your wisdome to judge of but after our fathers death the sh'rife thretened to Size our fathers Estate and for feare thar of wee Complied with him and paid him Eleaven pound six shillings in monie by all which we have bee[n] greatly damnified & impovershd by being Exsposed to sell Creaturs and other things for litle more than half the worth of them, to get the monie to pay as afores'd and to maintaine our father & mother in prison but that Which is grieveous to us is that wee are not only impoverished but also Reproached and soe may bee to all generatians and that wrongfully two unless something bee done for the removeall thereof all which we humbly Committe to the honorable Court Praying God to direct to that which may bee axceptable in his sight and for the good of this land September the 13th 1710 -Wee subscrib your humble searvants in all Christiane obedience
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We Cannot Judge our nesessary Expence to be less then Ten pounds (On reverse side of paper) *John Moulton who mared Elezabeth Corey daughter of the aboves'd in the behalf of the reast of that familie. Giles Corey & Martha his wife Condemnd & Executed, both of Salem. ( Mass. Archives, Vol. 135. No. 161 )
Imprisoned eight weeks upon the same account. viz For prison fees and money and [unclear: ] provision necessarily Expended while they were in prison 3-13-0 it money to the sheriffe & the [unclear: ] Clerk and the keeper when my wife was discharged upon Bail 1-0-0 I desire mr Barnard to give in this Acc't to the Hon'rable comittee 'r *Nathaniel Dane N.D. (Reverse) Nathan'll Danes Account Deliverance Dane Imprisoned Not Condemnd ( Mass. Archives, Vol. 135 No. 147 )
-987who may be propr to bee Justified in the bill refering to the taking ofe the attainder and what loss and damedg has bene sustained by reasen of the tryalls whitch wer for witchcraft In the yere 1692 Rebecka Emes releck of Raborth Ems late of boxford dececed being aprehended for witchcraft In the yere 1692 some time the begineng of Ogust and sufered Imprisnment a bove seven months and condemned and afterwards re preved by gourner feps: I Rebecka[n] emes humbly pray and de sier that the attaintir may be tecken of and my neme may be re stored a gain with the cost and damedges Is sustained there by to [to] my husbands Esteat: paid in moniy to the prision keepr and cort chardges four pounds eaightten shillings for the repreve to the govrners clark 1-10s-0d. for provisons and other nesecriy chardgs whils inprisened and upon [upon] my tryall expended by my husband for mee whils under those dollful surcomstances I think I may sefly say amounted to ten poundes mor -- 10-00-00 Yete If the attaintur may be taken of and my neme re stored a gaine I am willing to take tene pounds witch I leve to your honers consideration I re maine
your humbell sarvant Rebeckah Emes (Reverse) Rebeccah Eames not Executed Extraordinary Confessor ( Mass. Archives, Vol. 135 No. 151 )
-988Court desiring my self & others under like circumstances to give some account of what my Estate was damnify'd by reason of such a hellish molestation do hereby declare which may also be seen by comparing papers & records that my wife was near upon 5 months imprisoned all which time I provided maintenance for her at my own cost & charge, went constantly twice aweek to provide for her what she needed 3 weeks of this 5 months she was in prison at Boston & I was constrained to be at the charge of transporting her to & fro. So that I can not but think my charge in time and mony might amount to 20 pounds besides my trouble & sorrow of heart in being deprived of her after such a manner which this world can never make me any compensation for. I order & appoint my son Jacob Esty to carry this to the Honored Committee Appointed by the Honored Generall Court & are to meet at Salem Isak Esty sen'r aged about 82 years Sept 12 1710 (Reverse) Mary Easty of Topsfield Dated this 8th of Sept. 1710 Condem'd & Executed. ( Mass. Archives, Vol. 135 No. 115 )
-989my personal Estate to the Value of many hundreds of pounds taken from me & Very Little of it Restored againe I pray to Consider my Extroardinary Sufferings I am Gent yo'r Serva. (Revse) Mr English To the Comitte ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 86 )
To 20 hogsheds of Soatt To 32-lt 2'-qts 17-lb. of Spanish Iorn bought of Capt John Brown To 43 quantells of Rasedg Cod fish
To 2 hogsheds of Melases To 12 New axes In the Weare Hows behind Docktor Roundeys To 500 butchells of Vorginiy Whet To 203 butchells of Engen Corn To 3 pipes of Whine In the Weare Hows in the Lane To 2 Bootts of Suger To 2 hogsheds of Suger To 4 hoggheds of Melases \[torn\] ght Iorn
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\[torn\] key \[torn\] 18-lt of New Cordeg \[torn\] of Nialls To I Chist of Glass In the Weare Hows Next to Cartors on the Wharlf To I hogshead of Rum To 8 bundells of Twine To 160 butchells of Whet To 500 Whate of Rope To 5 Ketch Ankours Whate 682 ls To 2 Shollops Ankours Whate 64 lb To 1 Bots Ankour Whate 20 lb One the Wharlf To 58 thousands of Bords or More To 10 thousands of Staves To 7 thousands of Slitwoork or more Carried Ower to the Other Side Brought over from the Other Side heare To 2000 of Clabbords To 28 thousands of Shingells
036: 00: 00 060: 00: 00 024: 00: 00 003: 00: 00 683: 12: 6 012: 00: 00 014: 00: 00 040: 00: 00 012: 10: 00 017: 01: 00 001: 12: 00 000: 10: 00 736: 05: 6 145: 00: 00 012: 10: 00 014: 00: 00 907: 15: 6 907: 15: 6 005: 00: 00 008: 00: 00
In My Dwelling Hous In a pine Chist 6 peses of Canton qt 31 anns To 5 duzen of Wosted Stockens To 40 yards of Broad Cloth To 3 gross of Thimbells To 27 yards of Carsey To 14 yards of Ticking To 43 yards of hiy Brinns In a Nother Chist To 2 half peses of fine Dowlis To 1 half pes of Buckrem To 8 peses Kenton qt 40 anna To 2 Duzen of fine Woosted Stockens To 1 pess of Sarge Luse In The Shop Chamber To 13\mh\ yards of Sarge To 11 yards of Broad Cloth To 1 duzen of Wimons Shews
920: 15: 6 005: 00: 00 010: 10: 00 025: 00: 00 001: 10: 00 006: 05: 00 002: 02: 00 006: 09: 00 977: 11: 6 015: 00: 00 003: 00: 00 007: 10: 00 007: 04: 00 003: 10: 00 1013: 15: 6 0002: 14: 00 0001: 02: 00 0002: 08: 00
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To 3 Ramnants of fine hollond qt 45\m?\ To 1 pess of Sant Johns qt 92 anns To 24 yards of New England Canvis To 31 yards of Bast Nialls To 35 yards of hambrow dowlis To 90 yards of Brinns is 9:.6:s0 To 29 yards of Navalls To 74 yards of fagures To 20 li of Brown Thread To 2 Small Caske of Stell To 1 thousand Whate of frantch Lines at Lest To A bought a thousand Whate of Ladd To 7 gross of Cod Hucks
0004: 18: 00 \[torn\] \[torn\] \[torn\] \[torn\] 0009: 00: 0 0004: 04: 0 0007: 03: 0 0003: 00: 0 0005: 00: 0 0075: 00: 0 0014: 00: 0 0010: 00: 0
To 1500 of Mackrell Hucks To 6 Swine Sold for To A Cow Carred Over to the other Side Brought ovr here from the other side
The foregoing is a true Account of What I had Seized tacking away Lost and Embezeld whilst I was a prisoner in the yeare 1692 & whilst on my flight for my life besides a Considerable quantity of household goods & other things which I Cannot Exactly give a pertickolar Acco off for all which I Never Reseved any other or further satisfacon for them Then Sixty Pounds 3s payd Me by the Administrators of George Corwine Late Sherife desesd and the Estate was so seisd & Tackin away Chiefly by the Sherife and his under offisers not withstanding I had given fore thousand pound Bond with Surety att Boston *philip English ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 Nos. 127-129 )
-9922 of her children for supposed witchcraft, and of the Damage she sustained thereby in the year 1692 1 I suffered imprisonment four moneths and my children were in prison about a moneth. And upon my Tryall I was condemned upon such evidence as is now generally thought to be insufficient, as may be seen in the court Records of my tryal. I humbly pray that the Attaindre may be taken off, and that my name that has been wronged may be restored. 2 I was at the whole charge of provideing for myself and my children during the time of our Imprisonment. 3 Money payed the Sheriffe, Keeper, [unclear: ] Kings Attorney [&c] for prison fees, court charges 10-0-0 & for Bonds and for my Reprieve & pardon 4 My Expences in providing for my self & children while we were in prison; time and expences in journeys and attending the Courts were considerable, which I leave to the Honourable Committe & the Gen'll Court to allow me what may be thought Reasonable, which will be to my Satissaction & If it be but [10] *Abigal Faulkner (Reverse) Abigail Faulkner of Andover Condemnd not Executed
To money which I was forced to pay the keeper before I could have the dead body of my mother to 2-10-0 bury
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Money & provisions expended while she was in Prison 'r *Abraham Foster the Son of the Deceased
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(Reverse) Anne foster of Andover Condemned dyed in prison Confessor ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 159 )
J. [F] (Reverse) John Fry's Account Eunice Fry Imprisoned Not Condemnd. ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 148 )
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for a journey of myself and 1 man with me to give bond for my 01-4-0 wife and for riting the bond and for preson charges 19 weacks and upon her triall 00-2-0 02-7-6 01-2-6
and for my journe 4 days upon her triall 00-16-0 and I would pray youer honners to consider me as to her impresenment but that I desire to leave with youer honners to determen ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 170 )
money payd to the Sheriffe and to [unclear: ] the Keeper before she could obtain a Discharge it Her Expences for her Provisions while [unclear: ] She was in Prison which I desire may be allowed
2-14-0. 2-10-0.
'r Francis Johnson on behalf of his wife. (Reverse) Sarah Hawks Imprisond Not Condemnd ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 142 )
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to 2 coues & one ox & mare to 4 shotes 10s pr 2 to bed & curtains & beding 5 to other house hold stuf 211s to 11 months diet at 12s per month which they found while she was in prison To expenses In carrying her from one prison to another and finding her wood and cloths S\mb\u Totall
marked p'r John King & Annis King daughter of the s'd Dorcas Hoar (On reverse side of paper) Dorcas Hoar of Beverly Condemned not Executed ( Mass. Archives, Vol. 135 No. 119 )
as the worst of mankind: William hobs ten month my charges And exspences Amounted to twenty pounds money besids Los of time which my damieg I think can not be less then 40 pounds: yet not withstanding upon Consideration that our names may be Repayred againe I am willing to take 20 pounds so leaveing it to your Honours consideration I remain your unworthy Servant *William Hobs. (On reverse side of paper) Abigail Hobbs Condemnd not Executed of Topsfield -- Confessor. ( Mass. Archives, Vol. 135 No. 156 )
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-998and his assistants in the yeare 1692 When my s'd father was Executed and I was forced to fly out of the Countrey to my great damige and destress of my fameley my wife and daughter Imprisoned viz my wife 11 months and my daughter Seven months in prison it Cost them twelve pounds money to the officers besides other Charges
five Cows faier Larg Cattle 3 Per Cow Eight Loads of English Hay taken out of the Barn 35s per Load aparcel of appels that made 24 barils Cider to halves Viz 12 barils Cider 8s per baril 60 bussells of Ind'n Corn 2s-6d per busel a mare 2 good feather beds and furniture -- Rugs blankets sheets boulsters and pilous 2 brass Kittles Cost money 12s a Large goold thumb Ringg 20s five Swine a qu\mb\atity of wter which I cannot Exactly know worth por haps
15-00-0 14-0-0 14-16-0 7-10-0 2-0-0 10-0-0 6-0-0 1-12-0 3-16-0 3-0-0 67-13-0
besides a bundance of small things meat in the hous fowls Chaiers and other things took Clear 12-0-0 a way 79-12-0 Sixty Seven pounds thirteen *Georg Jacob Shillings my fathers Estate The Twelve pounds paid for my wife & Children (On reverse side of paper) George Jacobs Jun'r his acco/ George Jacobs Sen'r of Salem Condemned & Executed. ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 Nos. 133, 144 )
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'r *Francis Johnson by order & one behalf of his mother Totall 7:10-0 (Reverse) Eliza. Johnson Imprisond Not Condemnd Confessor ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 133 )
sd viz money & provisions expended [unclear: ] while they were in Goal it To the sheriffe for Bail Bonds [unclear: ] for each of them it To Court charges which she was [unclear: ] forcid to pay for her Self & Daughter before they could obtain a Release Total 6-0-4 There were sundry other 'r *John: Johnson Expences that I was at but shall be Satisfyd if Son of the s'd Rebecca this account may be allowed Jno son on behalf of his mother (Reverse) Rebecca Johnson of Andover & daughter Imprisoned ( Mass. Archives, Vol. 135 No. 142 ) 3-15-0 0-8-0
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My Expences were viz. To the Keeper of the Goal For Provisions Expended in Prison and other charges During her Imprisonment Total 'r *Lawrence Lacy
I desire Capt Jno Barker to give in this account to the Gent'n. of the Comittee *Lawrence Lacy (Reverse) Mary Lacey sen'r Condemned not Executed ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 134 )
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it To the clerk of the Court 1-17-4 I desire Capt Barker to give in this account to the Hon'rable Comittee *Lawrence Lacy ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 137 )
Viz To the Prison keeper it For Court Charges Besides his maintaining his wife with provision during the time of her Imprisonment and for other Expences Total 4: 19s 4d 'r *John Marston I desire capt. Barker to give in this account to the Hon'r able Comittee (Reverse) John Marstons Account Mary Marston Imprisond not Condemned ( Mass. Archives, Vol. 135 No. 143 )
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desert [sours] our Dautor Sarey Morey Whas folsly accused & Imprisened for the Sin of Whichcraft The Month of May one Thousand Six Hundred ninty Tew and remaned In prison, Teill Januarey following our Said daftor Whas Treyed & Cleared by Law Which Imprisonment Whas Much more To our Damage Then I Cann Think of know or Cann Speek but what fowlows Now Is What I have pade out of My pocket for her Charges & our Expenes In Jurning to Is Cist her
To 35 Wieks diet in prison att 3s To Savarall Jorneys to Boston & to Salem, To the Keeper
her Mary Morey marke (Reverse) Mary Moreys Acco ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 150 )
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4 And so her Name and the name of her Posterity lyes under reproach the removeing of which reproach is the principal thing wherein we desire restitution. 5 And as we know not how to express our loss of such a mother in such a way; so we know not how to compute our charge but shall leave it to the judgm't. of others, and shall not be critical but ready to receive such a satisfaction as shall be by the Honourable Court judged sufficient -- so Praying God to Guide unto such Methods as may be for his Glory and the good of this land -- I rest Salem Septem. 13. 1710 Your Honours In all christian obedience *Sam'll Nurse In the name of my brethren Altho fourty pounds would not repair my Loss and damage in my Estate, yet I shall be satisfyd if may be allowed five and twenty pounds. Provided the Attainder be taken off. ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 141 )
viz. Money and Provisions Expended in Prison & for Prison 3-10-0 fees it. For Court charges [unclear: ] payd to the Clerk Elatson Totall There were other Expences which I do not charge. p'r *Samuel Osgood by order & on behalf of his mother (Reverse) Mary Osgood wife of Capt Osgood late Andover Dec'd Imprisond &c ( Mass. Archives. Vol. 135 No. 130 ) 1-17-4 5-7-4
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. s. d To the Keeper of the Goal. The Court charges to the sheriffe for provision I found myself in prison 4-7-6 1-17-4 2-10-0
The sums aboves'd she was forced to pay before she could obtain a 8:14:10 Release I humbly desire The Attainder may be taken off my Loss and damage by my imprisonment was not less than fourteen pound but I shall be satisfyed with 8-14-0 *Mary Post I desire Capt Barker to give in this account to the Gentlemen of the Committee *Mary Post (Reverse) Mary Post's Account Mary Post Condemnd not Executed ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. Page 130 )
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Besides her maintaining herself w'th provision all the time she was in 2-10-0 prison 'r *mercy Wright
-1006Totall 5.-4-0 I desire Capt Barker to give in this account to the Hon'rable Comittee M. W. (Reverse) Mercy Wardwels Account Imprisond not Condemned ( Mass. Archives, Vol. 135 No. 141 )
5 Cowes at 2 P 1 Heifer & a yearling 1 Horse 9 Hogs 8 Loads of Hay A set of Carpenters Tools 6 Acres of corn upon the ground.
36.15.00 Sarah Wardwell the wife of Samuell Wardwell aforesaid was condemned upon her Tryall for witchcraft, at Salem in the year 1692 -- I being well Satisfyed in the Innocency of my father and mother of the crime for which they were condemned humbly desire the attainder may be taken off 'r *Samuel Wardwell Eldest son of the Deceased (Reverse) Samuel Wardwells Account of Andover Condemnd & Executed ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 140 )
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-1009concerned about, & so take Leave to subscribe my self Your Honors Humble & sorrowful servant
the marke of Margarett Town I Judge that my Loss and damage in my estate hath not been Less than thirty pounds, But I shall be satisfyed If I may have twenty pounds allowed me. (On reverse side of paper) John Willard of Salem Condemned & Executed ( Mass. Archives, Vol. 135 No. 143 )
(Account of Joseph Wilson -- Cases of Sarah Wilson, Sr. and Sarah Wilson, Jr.)
To: To the Honourable Committee. An Account of what was payd by Joseph Wilson of Andover for his wife Sarah and Daughter Sarah who Suffered Imprisonment at Salem, upon an Accusation of Witchcraft in the year 1692. the one was Imprisoned fifteen weeks the other Six weeks
Viz money and Provisions expended while they were in Prison it For Bail Bonds, to the Clerk [unclear: ] it To the Deputy Sheriffe for Court Charges 'r *Joseph willson
I Desire Capt Jno Barker to give in this Account to the Honorable Co itte (Reverse) Joseph Wilsons account Sarah Willson Sen'r Sarah Willson Jun'r Imprisoned not Condemned ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 145 )
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sd
Elizabeth How; Mary & Abigail her daughters pray'd for, George Jacobs, Georg Jacobs his son pray'd p: Sarah Wild: Ephraim Wild her son pray'd for Mary Easty. Isaack Easty her husband pr'd p Mary parker Joseph & Jno parker her sons pr'd. p Mr Georg Burroughs, Charles Burroughs his son pr'd. p Elizabeth Core. & Martha the wife of Jno Molton he pr'd p Rebecca Nurse. Samuell Nurse her son pr'd p Jno. Willard. Margeret Towne his relict pr'd p Sarah Good. William Good her husband pr'd p Martha Carrier. Thomas Carriar her husband pr'd p
12 0 0 79 0 0 14 0 0 20 0 0 08 0 0 50 0 0 21 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 30 0 0 07 6 0
Samuell Wardell. Executed & his wife Sarah Condemned. Samuell wardell their son 36 15 0 pr'd p John procter, Jno. & Thorndick his sons pr'd p 150 0 0
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[\fig]sons Condemned & Not Executed Mrs. Mary Bradbury. Henry & Sam'l True her sons pr'd 20 0 0 p Abigail Faulkner for her & her children pr'd p Abigail Hobs. william Hobs her father pr'd p 10 lb Ann Foster Abraham Foster her son pr'd p Rebeccah Eames prayes p Dorcas King alias whore pr'd p Mary post prayes p mary Lacy Lawrence her husband pr'd p Elizabeth procter & [unclear: ] Elizabeth Johnson I find their names amongst the above condemned sons & no sum put to them 20 0 0 10 0 0 6 10 0 10 0 0 21 12 0 8 14 0 8 10 0
15 0 0 sons Imprison'd, & not Condemned petitioned for Allowances for their Imprisonm't charges &c Sarah Buckley & Mary witredg for so much they pay'd John Johnson for Rebecca his wife & daughter 604
Capt Osgoods wife Mary Sarah Cole for hers Edward Bishop petitions for Jno. Barker p Mary Barker his daughters expences he for her Rob't pease p his Nath'l. Dane p his Jno Fry p his Joseph Wilson p his Jno. Wright p his Mercy Woodell the wife of Jno. wright for hers Jno. Barker prayes for his Bro. W'm. Barkers
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Lawrenc Lasy for his daugher Mary Jno. Marston p his wife Ebenezer Barker for his wife Francis Johnson for his wife then Sarah Hawks Francis Johnson for his mother & for his sister Elizabeth Totall -besides Mr English his demaunds Left
to the Courts Consideration & determination Ips. 28-9-1711 ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 67 )
S'r. I am y'rs Honrs to serve *Neh. Jewet (Reverse) Mr Jewets Note about the sons condemned & not returned to the Genr'll. Court ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 85 )
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(Report of the Committee on the Reversal of Attainder, and Action of the General Court)
To: To the Hon'rd. Genr'll Court Sitting. We whose names are subscribed, In Obedience to yo'r Hon'rs Act at a Court held the ult of May 1710; for Inserting the Names of the severall sons who were Condemned for witchcraft in the year 1692. & of the Damages they susteined by their prosecution. Being Mett at Salem the 13th Sept 1710. for the Ends aforesaid upon Examination of the Records of the Severall sons Condemned: Humbly Offer to yo'r Hon'rs the Names as Follow to be Inserted Executed [unclear: ] for the Reversing of their Attinders: Elizabeth [unclear: ] How: Georg [unclear: ] Jacob Mary [unclear: ] Easty. Mary [unclear: ] Parker. Mr. George Burroughs: [unclear: ] Giles Core [unclear: ] & #[Martha Core] his wife. Rebeccah [unclear: ] Nurse. John [unclear: ] Willard. Sarah Good [unclear: ] . Martha [unclear: ] Carrier. Samuell Wardell [unclear: ] ..John Procter;Sarah Wild [unclear: ] Condemned & not Executed [unclear: ] Mrs. Mary Bradbury, Abigail [unclear: ] Falker Abigail Hobs.Ann Foster: Rebeccah [unclear: ] Eams. Dorcas [unclear: ] Hoar, Mary [unclear: ] Post Mary Lacey. And haveing heard the Severall Demaunds of the Damages of the afores'd sons & those in their behalf & upon Conference have soe Moderated their Respective Demaunds that we doubt not but that they will be Readily Complyd w'th by yo'r Hon'rs which Respective demannds are as follow. Elizabeth How 12. George Jacob. 79. Mary Easty 20. Mary Parker. 8. Mr. George Burroughs. 50. Giles Core. & Martha Core his wife 21. Rebeccah Nurse 25. John Willard 20. Sarah Good. 30. Martha Carrier. 7. 6'.s Samuel Wardell & Sarah his wife 36. 15.s John procter & [] procter his wife 150. Sarah Wild 14. Mrs. Mary Bradbury. 20 Abigail Falkner 20. Abigail Hobs. 10. Ann Foster. 6.10.s Rebecca Eams. 10. Dorcas Hoar. 21.17.s Mary Post 8.14.s Mary Lacey 8.10.s the whole amounting unto. 578.12.s Salem. the 15th Sept. 1710.
-1014Yo'r Honrs most Humble Serv'ts. *John Appleton -*Thomas Noyes -*John Burill *Ne Jewett
\#\[the Acco't. of yo'r servants. Charges 3 days a peic our selves & horses Entertainment at Salem. Mr pratts. Major Sewals attendance & sending Notifications to all Concerned
4. 0. 0 1. 3. 0 1-3-0
6-3. 0\] Octor:[23] 17ll. Read & Accepted in the House of Representatives, Sent up for Concurrence. *John Burrill speaker Octo 26'0. 1711. In Council Read and Concurr'd *Is: a Addington Se (Reverse) The Committies Returne of the Names of persons attained of Witchcraft and Damages Suffered accepted Octob'r. 1711. ( Mass. Archives, Vol. 135 No. 169 )
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To 3 daies \#\[entertainment of\] themselves and horses being four, \#\[at mr. Prat's at Salem\] To Entertainment at Mr. Prats at Salem To Majr. Sewal's Attendance; & sending of [unclear: ] Notifications to all concerned *John Appleton= In the House of Representatives Octo: 27th: 1711. Read &
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Resolved That the Sum of Six Pounds & three Shillings be allowed, & Paid out of the publick Treasury to John Appleton Esq; to Discharge the said acco: Sent up for Concurrence. Octo: 30th: 1711. In Council. Read and Concurr'd *John Burrell Speaker *Isa: Addington Se (Reverse) Resolve for paym't of L 6: 3: 0 to Jno Appleton Esq'r. on behalfe of the Committee ab't the Witchcraft. ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 147 )
-1016Wardell, Mary Parker ; Martha Carrier, Abigail Falkner : Anne Foster, Rebecca Eames, Mary Post and Mary Lacey all of Andover, Mary Bradbury , of Salisbury, and Dorcas Hoar of Beverley Were severally Indicted convicted and attainted of Witchcraft and some of them put to death, others lying still under the like sentance of the said Court, and liable to have the same Executed upon them. The Influence and Energy of the Evil Spirits so great at that time acting in and upon those who were the principal accusers and Witnesses proceeding so far as to cause a Prosecution to be had of persons of known and good reputation, which caused a great disatisfaction and a stop to be put thereunto until theire Majesty's pleasure should be known therein: And upon a Representation thereof accordingly made her late Majesty Queen Mary the second of blessed memory by Her Royal Letter given at her Court at Whitehall the fifteenth of April 1693. was Graciously pleased to approve the care and Circumspection therein; and to Will and require that in all proceedings ag't persons accused for Witchcraft, or being possessed by the devil, the greatest Moderation and all due Circumspection be used, so far as the same may be without Impediment to the Ordinary course of Justice. And some of the principal Accusers and Witnesses in those dark and severe prosecutions have since discovered themselves to be persons of profligate and vicious conversation. Upon the humble Petition and suit of several of the s'd persons and of the children of others of them whose Parents were Executed. Be it Declared and Enacted by his Excellency the Governor Council and Representatives in General Court assembled and by the authority of the same That the several convictions Judgments and Attainders against the said George Borroughs, John Procter, George Jacob, John Willard, Giles Core and [] Core, Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Good, Elizabeth How, Mary Easty, Sarah W[ild] Abigail Hobbs, Samuel Wardell, Mary Parker, Martha Carrier, Abigail Falkner, Anne Foster, Rebecca Eame[s,] Mary Post, Mary Lacey, Mary Bradbury, and Dorcas [Hoar], and every of them Be and hereby are reversed made and d[eclared] to be null and void to all Intents, Constructions and purposes wh[atso] ever, as if no such convictions, Judgments or Attainders had ever [been] had or given. And that no penalties or forfeitures of Goods or Chattels be by the said Judgments and attainders or either of them had or Incurrd. Any Law Usage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding. And that no Sheriffe, Constable, Goaler or other officer shall be Liable to
-1017any prosecution in the Law for anything they then Legally did in the Execution of their respective offices. Made and Pass'd by the Great and General Court or Assembly of her Majestys Province of the Massachusets: Bay: in New England held at Boston the 17th day of october. 1711. ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 63 )
s. d. To Elizabeth How George Jacobs Mary Eastey Mary Parker George Burroughs Giles cory & wife Rebeccah Nurse John Willard Sarah Good Martha Carrier Samuel Wardwell & wife John Procter and wife Sar\[a\]h Wild Mary Bradbury Abigail Faulkner Abigail Hobbs Anne Foster Rebeccah Eames Dorcas Hoar Mary Post Mary Lacey 12 0 0 79 0 0 20 0 0 08 0 0 50 0 0 21 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 30 0 0 760 36 15 0 309 1 0 150 0 0 014 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 6 10 0 10 0 0 21 17 0 8 14 0 8 10 0 269 11 0 309 1 0 578 12 0 The whole amounting unto Five hundred seventy eight poundes and Twelve Shillings. I doe by & with the advice and consent of her Maj'tys council hereby order you to pay the above sum of five hundred seventy eight poundes & Twelve shillings to Stephen Sewall Esq'r. who together
-1018with the Gentlemen of the Committe that Estimated and Reported the said Damages are desired & directed to distribute the same in proportion as above to such of the said persons as are Living. and to those that legally represent them that are dead according as the law directs & for which this shall be your Warrant. Given under my hand at BoSton the 17 Day of December 1711 *J Dudley (Reverse) Margaret Towne v-12-8 Margert Willard 3-4-6 (Reverse) Allowance to persons who were prosecuted for witchcraft [To Mr Treasurer Taylor By order of the Governor & Council Isa Addington Secrty.] ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 64 )
-1019wife Sarah Preston Samuel Osgood on behalf of his mother mary osgood Nathaniel Dane Joseph Wilson Samuel Wardwell John Wright Ebenezer Barker Francis Johnson on behalf of his mother, Brother & sister Elizabeth Joseph Emerson on behalf of his wife Martha Emerson of Haverhill Ephraim Willdes John moulton on behalf of his wife Elizabeth the daughter of Giles Coree who suferd Robert Pease on behalf of his wife Annies King on behalf of hir mother Doarcas hoare Willem town *Samuel nurs *Jacob estei *Edward Bishop John Parker [unclear: ] Joseph Parker the sons of mary Parker deceased. John Marston Thomas Carrier *John Frie
Mary Post *John Johnson in behalf of his mother Rebecca Johnson & his sister William Barker sen'r *George Jacob on behalfe of his father who suffered *Thorndik Procter on behalfe of his father John Procter who suffered *Benjamin.Procter son of the aboves'd (Reverse) psons Authorizing me to Transact the Matter about the money 11-14-0 9-8-0 2-6-0 ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 64 )
-1020Please to pay my part & proportion allowed me by the said court unto Deacon Benjamin Putnam whom I have desired to pay my part or share of the necessary charge, And his receipt shall be your full discharge. from your servant W' m Good his mark Salem Vill. Janua: 21.1711/12 Whereas the Governour and Generall Court have been pleased to grant a Considerable su
towards Restitution to those who where sufferers in the year 1692, & and have appointed a Committe to distribute the same amongst the persons concerned. ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 67 )
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Please to pay and deliver unto Joseph Parker of Andover the sum allowed unto me, and his Receipt shall fully discharge you from the same
Andover mark Mary post hur January 7. 1711-12 (Reverse) Mary post order to parker ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 79 )
-1022when others of my neighbours and fellow sufferers, put in their accounts: I have thought meet to do it at this time, which is as followeth To the keeper of the Prison two pounds eight shillings and four pence For Court charges Thirty shillings & four pence
For necessary Expences while I attended the Court one pound four shillings For Provisions while I was in Prison four pounds five shillings *Sarah Parker. of Andover. (Reverse) Sarah Parker ans of Charges in prison &c ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 80 )
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*John Appleton *Thomas Noyes *Stephen Sewall *Neh. Jewett ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 73 )
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[Torn] verse the Attainder for Witchcraft against George Burroughs & Witch papers Copy Ex 169) 1692 ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 85 )
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Andover January. 1711-12. *William wardell *John Right *Eliakim wardel *Elizabeth wardell
*Ezekiel Osgood. The children of Samuel wardel deceased. (Reverse) Wardwells order ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 76 )
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the committee aforesaid. And to that end we humbly request the worshipfull Stephen Sewall Esq to write a Petition for us to the General Court at their next session: Andover January 21. 1711-12 *Nathaniel Dane *Joseph willson *Ebenezer Barker *francis Johnson *John Johnson *John: wright *Samuel Osgood *Sara parker (Reverse) Severall Andovr peoples prayer for allowanc ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 77 )
-1027Inserted in that Act, if it may be, and that the Honourable Court would please to allow me Something in consideration of my charges by reason of my Long Imprisonment, which will be thankfully acknowledged as a great favour. by your Honours most humble servant *Elizabeth Johnson jun'r
Andover Feb. 1711-12 (Reverse) Eliz. Johnson Jun'r petition ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 77 )
mark Mary How her her Abigill How mark (Reverse) Mary & Abigal Hows order ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2, Page 72 )
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-1030*John nurs *John tarbell *Rebeka preston *willem rusel *martha boud[e]n *francis nurs (Reverse) Nurses's order ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol 2 Page 69 )
-1031Wherefore requeste of youre honours to maneft itt to the members of the Jennarall Courte that wee might heave som reasenable allowance, for owre charge therein which will ever oblidge your: Searvent To pray *Peter osgood in the name of the reaste of the familey.. ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 78 )
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2. for as much: as I was the eldest son of my father.& worked hard with my father: till I was about thirty years of age: and helped: bring up all my fathers children: by all his wives: one after another 3. for as much as: after my fathers death: I your petitioner was at great cost and trouble: In the disposition: of my s'd fathers: afairs as to the releiving:his s'd family: some of them: helples: with answering debts charges; legasies &c All which considered your petitioner; thinketh:he: deservs: a greater share of:this: that: the country hath bin please: to alow us then: the rest of our family. doe which: I leave: to consideration: of your hon'rs: and shall for ever remain yo'r hon'rs most humble serv't (Reverse) Benja. Proctor's Pet'o. to Committe *Benjamin Procter. ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 71 )
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sd tt Subsistance for her 9 months when she was in Salem prison tt a Journey to Boston and money carryed to her while in prison there tt my Journey to Boston to carry her to Ipswich & Expence while there 900 10 0 15 0
tt my wife's going two Journeys to Ipswich & Exspence & attendance upon 10 0 her tt two Journeys to Boston to procure a repreive tt a Journey to fetch her from Ipswich to Salem 100 50
12 0 0 besides considerable cloathing & other things for her necessitys. *John king.
Annis hir marke King. ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 70 )
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*Abram How for Mary & Abigail How *Ephraim Roberdes for James Martha & Sarah [unclear: ] How children of John How
4-14-0 4-14-10
6-10-0 Abraham marke foster for mother 8-10-0 Abraham marke Foster for Mary lacey by order -*Samuel wardel *Benja putnam for Sarah Good William marke of Towne for wife widow of Willard *Isac Estey *John Estey William Clews John Ames ten pounds by order of his mother on file *Ephraim Wiles *Abigail Faulkner 2-9-0 2-9-0 11-0-0 10-0-0 14-0-0 20-0-0 36-15-0 30-0-0 6-12-8
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George marke of Jacobs Anne marke of Andrews 23-0-0 [unclear: ] *John foster 08-7-0 Charge... 01-13-0 *John King for himselfe & Sister Anne Christopher marke Read Maried Eliz. Hoar. Joana marke Green for selfe *Joseph Parker for Mary post *Joseph Parker for M. Carrier *Joseph Parker Received on the foregoing side *Samuel Nurs for him selfe & John Nurse & John [unclear: ] Tarbell Rebeccah Preston William
46-0-0 79-0-0
Russel Martha Bowden & francis Nurs Elizabeth marke Richards alias Procter
Benjam marke Procter *Ebenezer Bancroft for Martha Procter *William procter *John procter *Thorndik Procter. In behalf of my selfe and Joseph procter and Abigail Procter and mary procter and my sister Elizabeth Very.
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Burrough and Rebekah Fowle Hanah Fox & Elizabeth Thomas 4-2-0 each of 20-10-0 us John Appleton Rec'd for G'o. Burrough the same of fore poundes & two shills.
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9-15-0 Feb 23 William marke Hobbs 1711 for his sister Abigail Hobbs cha. 4-2 10 10-0-0 d Leonard marke Slue for selfe & sister Rachel 10-4 Mary marke Pittman alias How Rec'd as afores'd for George Abbott & Hanah sd
his wife daughter of mary Easty 2-9-0 March 4, 1711 by their written order forty nine shillings *John farnum March 5: Rec'd for my selfe forty nine shillings 2 9 0 *Jacob esti March 6. 1711. Received for my selfe three poundes 4s & 6e for my own share.
Hanah marke Willard March 6 Rec'd for our daughter Margaret Willard being under age three pounds four shillings 6d marke William Town
Margaret marke Towne wife of s'd W'm Town. March 22 Received for my daughter Mary Burroughs four pounds 2.s in full for her share. Mary marke Hall alias Burroughs marke March 22, 1711-12 Received for Mary Hall my selfe Ten poundes alias Burroughs April 5 1712 Rec'd of Stephen Sewall as afores'd 6 9 0
John marke
Willard
-1037May 1. 1712. Rec'd on behalfe of my wife Deborah How Two pounds seven Shilling in full. *Isaac How Rec'd for Benj. Nurse fifty four shillings & 6 d May 12, 1712. *Samuel nurs Rec'd for myself the subscriber & for my Bro'r in Law Peter Thomas in right of Elizabeth his wife & my sister Hanah fox wife of mr Jabez fox & Rebecca fowles four pounds Ten shillings. *George burroughs Received for my bro'r Jeremiah Burroughs & myselfe Two pounds five shillings. *Charles Burrough Newbury May 22d, 1712. Rec'ed for & in behalfe of my wife Jane True & Mary Stanion daughters of Mary Bradbury & for John Buss & Eliza Buss Children of Elizabeth Buss, the Sum of Nine Poundes fifteen shillings p me *Henry True May 22d 1712. Recec. for my Brethren & Sisters being six of us in number Children of Judah Moodey one of the daughters of the afores'd Mary Bradbury Dec'd. thre pounds five shill's *Caleb Moodey. May 22d 1712. Rec'd for my Sister Anne Allen & my selfe Children of Wymond Bradbury Dec'ed three pounds five Shillings p me *Wymond Bradbury. Reced for my Two Brothers William Bradbury & Jacob Bradbury myself Three pounds five shillings in full p me *Thomas Bradbury. July 27, 1712. Rec'd on the acct aforesaid Eleven pounds five shillings for my part Rec'd in full Samuel marke Procter Sep'r 3d 1712. Received for my Brother Joshua & my selfe 4 18 0 which I ingage to produce his order for & send to Sewall. *Benjamin Estie Sept 3d. 1712. Rec'd for my sister Sarah Gills forty nine shillings which I promise to send her receipt for *Benjamin Estie.
Rec'd for Joseph Estie [&] and by his written order forty nine shillings Nov'r 28, 1712 *John Commings. ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 65 )
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(Summary of Receipts)
Receipts of the relations &c of the Sufferers in the year 1692 taken February 19th. 1712. Mr. Burroughs family Widow Charles Burroughs Jeremiah Burroughs Rebecca Fowle alias Burrougs Hannah Fox alias Burrougs Elizabeth Thomas Mary Burroughs Mrs. Mary Bradburys progeny has left Wymond Bradbury Decd. [unclear: ] Wymond Anne Judah Moodey Decd [unclear: ] Caleb Moodey [Hana] Moodey Joshua Moody Samuel Moodey Mary Hale
Judith Tappan William Bradbury Decd Mary Stanian Jane True William Bradbury Thomas Bradbury Jacob Bradbury Elizabeth Buss Decd [unclear: ] John Buss Elizabeth Buss Families Interested in the allowance following Children of Elizabeth How viz. [unclear: ] Daughters Mary How Deborah How wife of Isa How of Roxbury Abigail How Grandchildren [unclear: ] James How [unclear: ] Martha How & Sarah How being the children of her only son John How Decd.
Mary Burt widow Elizabeth Read wife of Christopher Read Annis King wife of John King 4-0-0 12-0-0 1-0-0
Johanna Green \#\[wife of\] widow Tobitha Slue left 2 children Leonard Rachel
George Jacobs only son Anne Andrews Margret Jacobs alias Foster [unclear: ] for her goods taken away The Charge
Mary Easteys family. x Isa Easty x John Easty x Ben. Easty x Jacob Easty x Joshua Easty x Joseph Easty p'd to Benj Rebeccah Nurse family Sarah Gill daughter Hanah Abbot of Andover John Nurse Sarah Bowden Rebeccah Preston Samuel Nurse Mary Tarbel Francis Nurse Elizabeth Russel Benj Nurse of framingham John Procters family Widow alias Richards Benj. Proctor John Procter Eliz Verey Martha Join
-1040Samul Procter Sarah Procter Eliz Procter Abigail Procter (Reverse) Receipts Feb 19th. 1711-12 ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 66 )
was Apprehended and Taken Away Our Mother in Law Laide hands upon all she Could secure (the Children were Generally unable to shift for Themselvs) and what she Could Lay hands on was her Own without Any
-1041Person but her own Daught'r to share with her, whom she Says Was to bring up but may it Please your Honour to Consider there was Seaven Children more besides That that were to bring up the Eldest of which was but Sixteen years old att That Time; but insteed of shareing in what our father Left and she had Secur'd were Turn'd to shift for Our Selves without Any Thing for So much as A Remembrance of Our father. Tho Som of us Can Remember of Considerable in the House, besides his Liberary which she Sold and Rec'd the money for; then Lett it out att Intrest and was afterward Rec'd by another Husband; and not one farthing bestowed upon any Child but her Own: This being matter of fact we Humbly Leave it with your Honours to Consider wheather of what The Honourable Generall Court allow'd &c she have not allredy Rec'd To much And the Children To Little. We Subscribe Our Selves your Honours Humble Ser'tts. *rebaker fowl.
The mark of Eliz. Thomas *Jeremi Burrough *Charles Burrough *hannah fox (Reverse) Petition of George Borroughs ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2. Page 74 )
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-1043buisness will Prove more of a favour then Tedious Delays should you Grant itt at Last. Not further att pressent but Remaine to Offer We Remaine Gentlemen your humble Ser'tts. *Peter Thomas in behalf of my wife. *Jabez Fox in behalf of my wife. (Reverse) Children of Mr. Burroughs Salem may 11th 1713 Majeager Seuell Sir be pleased to let my brother Charles Burrough have my part that was Leaft So you will oblige your humble Serveant.
*Jeremiah Burrough. (Reverse) J. Borroughs order ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 75 )
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-1045in full Satisfaction for what he may have sustained & suffered as se forth in his Petition Accompts & Papers: Which is humbly submitted Your Honors most obedient Servt Per Order of the Comm'tee Read & Accepted. Tho. Fitch ( Mass. Acts and Resolves , IX, 618-619.)
That their said Memorial and Petition setting forth the Awful and Miserable Condition of the Unhappy Children and Descendants of the Reverend Mr George Burroughs, who as therein set forth, had his Blood shed, and was one of the most deplorable Victims cut off in the fatal Catastrophe in the Year 1692 -- Was by the Honourable Court referred to the Consideration of a Committeee of both Houses in June last to report what might be proper for the Court to Act Thereupon, But so it seems it hath fell out that Honourable Mr Danforth Chairman of the said Committee hath not as yet called them together so much as once to Act thereon even to this Day as some of the Honourable Committee themselves were pleased with real Concern to Signify to your said Petitioners, --
-1046Your Memorialists therefore most humbly Supplicate (they having been put to great Expence already) that their said Memorial & Petition may be again brought forward, Read & Acted upon before the final Rising of this Court, that so a Stop may be put to the Cry of the long oppressed Sufferers -And Your Memorialists as in Duty bound shall ever Pray &c *Thomas Newman *Abia Holbrook jun'r *Elias Thomas Boston March 28, 1750. -(Reverse) In the House of Rep'ves March 28 1750 Read and Ordered that the Committee within refer'd to be directed to Sit forthwith Consider the Petition to them Committed and Reported as soon as may be Sent up for concurrence, *Tho's Hubbard Spk'r: pro Tempore The Memorial & Petition of Thomas Newman Abia Holbrook & Elias Thomas March 28, 1750 Enter'd: ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 172 )
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