Category: History - American
Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1865, By SAMUEL G. DRAKE, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts.
Q. What Covenant did you make with that Man that came to you? What did he tell you. A. He tell me he God, and I must beleive him, and serve him six Yeares, and he would give me...
15. Part 15On the 27th of March, 1692, Mr. Parris called together his Church, when he presented Testimony against the Error of sister Mary Sibley, in giving direction to John Indian in an...
5. Part 5[51] I am unable to ascertain the Name of the "worthy Gentleman." He was doubtless one of those, like Mr. Calef, not afraid "to take the Bull by the Horns."
6. Part 6THE jurors for our Sovereign Lord and Lady, the King and Queen present, That _Bridget Bishop_, alias _Oliver_, the Wife of _Edward Bishop_ in _Salem_, in the County of _Essex_,...
12. Part 12[159] Dr. I. Mather's Narrative of this Affair runs thus: "When the King was pleased to give a positive Command that the Charter of New England should be dispatched, it was not...
4. Part 4And considering that this may fall into the hands of such as never saw those Wonders, it may be needful to transcribe the whole account he has given thereof, without any variati...
9. Part 9As in his owning (in the Tryal of _G. B._) That the _Testimony of the bewitched, and confessors was not enough against the Accused_, for it is known that not only in _New-Englan...
3. Part 3THE _innocency of our Case with the Enmity of our Accusers and our Judges, and Jury, whom nothing but our Innocent Blood will serve their turns, having Condemned us already befo...
7. Part 7[82] It was no difficult matter, during a long and tedious Examination, so to bewilder and confound Persons of firmer nerves than an aged Matron, and thus make them contradict t...
11. Part 11King _Saul_ in his destroying the Witches out of _Israel_, is thought by many to have exceeded, and in his Zeal to have slain the _Gibeonites_ wrongfully under that notion: Yet...
13. Part 13From some Prejudices, as early as April 21st, 1692, she was accused of Witchcraft, examined, and committed to Prison in Salem. Her Firmness is memorable. Six Weeks she was confi...
8. Part 81. E_LIZABETH How_, pleading, not Guilty to the Indictment of Witchcrafts, then charged upon her; the Court, according to the usual proceeding of the Courts in _England_; in suc...
17. Part 17Devil, I, xi; teaches the Black Art, xii; how he creates Witches, xv; Nature of his Covenant with, xviii-xix; exists by God's Permission, xx; the Principal in Witchcraft, but ca...
2. Part 2Justice Hathorn _replied, she had strength enough to torment those persons, and she should have strength enough to stand. I speaking something against their cruel proceedings, t...
1. Part 1Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1865, By SAMUEL G. DRAKE, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts.
10. Part 10_We do heartily ask forgiveness of you all, whom we have justly offended, and do declare according to our present minds, we would none of us do such things again on such grounds...
16. Part 16There were three distinct Matters of Dispute between Parris and his People at Salem Village. The First arose previous to the Breaking out of the Witchcraft Delusion, in Conseque...
18. Part 18Putnam, Ann, iii, 7, 8, 9; Witness against Mrs. Nurse, 11; against Mr. Burroughs, 39, 62, 63; against Mrs. Bishop, 75; against Giles Cory, 170; against Mary Clark, 197; why she...