Chapter 15: September 1692
Mary Warren’s mother’s death: Doc, 567.
Samuel Wardwell hearing: Ibid., 537–539, 628, 632.
Sarah Hawks hearing: Ibid., 535.
Mary Warren fits, Mary Parker before the grand jury: Ibid., 540.
Gloucester suspects: Ibid., 541; Calef, More Wonders, 373. Calef places this in October but seems to confuse this incident with another in November, when four were accused.
Margaret Prince and Elizabeth Dicer: Doc, 545; Roach, Salem Witch Trials, 268 (Booth), 249 (Post); D. Greene, “Bray Wilkins,” part 2, 105–106; EQC, 7: 238 (Dicer).
Mary Taylor: Doc, 546; Pope and Hooper, Hooper Genealogy, 1–7; Roach, Salem Witch Trials, 231–232.
Jane Lilly and Mary Coleson: Doc, 544.
Dorcas Hoar: Ibid., 550, 557–561, 568.
Alice Parker: Ibid., 553, 565–567, 271, 268 (Westgate), 573 (Bullock), 574 (Dutch), 575 (Shattuck), 567 (Warren), 566. Parker’s trial may have continued to September 10.
Ann Pudeator: Ibid., 568.
William Procter: Ibid., 581–583 (grand jury).
Mary Esty: Ibid., 596, 602 (Arnold).
Sarah Cloyce: Ibid., 549, 579, 576, 809.
Giles Corey: C. Mather, Wonders, 250; Brown, “Case of Giles Corey.”
William, Procter: Docs, 663, 776.
Giles Corey: C. Mather, Wonders, 250; Brown, “Case of Giles Corey,” 282–299; Salem Church, Records, 218–219.
Mary Esty: Calef, More Wonders, 369; Doc, 654.
Mary Bradbury: Docs, 597, 431, 886.
John Alden escape: Calef, More Wonders, 355; Brattle, “Letter,” 178.
Annie Putnam and ghost: Doc, 673; EQC, 6: 190–191; Chamberlain, Notorious, 86.
Giles Corey’s death: Sewall, Diary, 1: 295, September 19, 1692; Calef, 367 (Calef’s date of September 16 date is more likely when the court ordered the pressing); Docs, 899, 974.
September 22 hangings: Calef, More Wonders, 366–369; Sewall, Diary, 1: 297, September 22, 1692.
Corey’s pressing: Calef, More Wonders, 367; Nelson, “Mary Tiffany,” 145–146n20; Roach, Salem Witch Trials, 297.
Martha Corey’s excommunication: Doc, 18; Calef, More Wonders, 367; Salem Village Church record, September 11 and 14, in Boyer and Nissenbaum, Salem-Village Witchcraft, 280.
Mary Bradbury’s escape: Doc, 886.
Chapter 16: October 1692
Philip and Mary English in New York: Haefeli, “Dutch New York,” 306; Bentley, Diary, 2: 25.
Dogs and Bradstreets: Calef, More Wonders, 372–373.
Threatened lawsuit: Ibid.
Cary and Obinson accusation: Brattle, “Letter,” 179–180; Roach, Salem Witch Trials, 306.
Increase Mather: Brattle, ibid.; Cambridge Association, “Records,” 268; I. Mather, Cases; Roach, Salem Witch Trials, 308–309.
Sarah Cole hearing: Doc, 683; Hale, Modest Enquiry, 132–133.
Andover children released on bail: Docs, 690 (Lacy), 691 (Sawdy), 688 (Faulkner), 689 (Johnson and Carrier); Roach, “Biographical Notes,” 949 (Lacy), 957 (Sawdy), 940 (Faulkner), 948 (Johnson), 933 (Carrier).
Edward and Sarah Bishop escape: Calef, More Wonders, 370; Doc, 692.
Thomas Brattle: Brattle, “Letter,” 165–190.
Samuel Willard: Haefeli, “Dutch New York,” 303; Calef, More Wonders, 360.
Cotton Mather: C. Mather, Wonders, 212–213 (Stoughton); Roach, Salem Witch Trials, 317.
Capt. Nathaniel Cary: Haefeli, “Dutch New York,” 307.
October 12 Andover petition: Doc, 694.
October 18 Andover petition: Ibid., 696.
Increase Mather and Thomas Brattle visit prisoners: Docs, 690, 699, 719; I. Mather, Cases, 70. The copy of the notes for this visit is dated October 19, 1692. However, Rebecca Eames stated on December 5 that although Mary Lacey and Abigail Hobbs had accused her of witchcraft, they disowned the charge “when mr Matther and mr Brattle were here.” Mary Lacey Jr. was released on bail October 6. Although the vehemence of the accusations that Eames describes sounds more like the daughter, only Mary Lacey Sr. seems to have been in Salem jail by October 19. Increase Mather had visited earlier in the summer, when the prisoners he spoke with still held to their confessions, according to his Cases of Conscience.
Rebecca Eames: Doc, 712 (see above).
Act against fortune-telling and juggling: Ibid., 700.
Proposed fast: Ibid., 701; Sewall, Diary, 1: 299, October 26, 1692.
Samuel Parris’s sermon: Parris, Sermon Notebook, 211.
Putnam child born: Parris, “Records,” 15.
October 28, 1692 (William Stoughton): Sewall, Diary, 1: 299–300, October 28 and 29, 1692; Tully, Almanac, “October Hath 31 Dayes,” xiv.
October 29, 1692: Massachusetts Archives, “General Court Records,” 245–246; Sewall, Diary, 1: 299–300, October 29, 1692. Phips’s answer here is given as a direct statement.
Capital crimes: Doc, 721; Acts and Resolves, 55–56.
Putnam and Tarbell baptisms: “Baptisms at the Church in Salem Village,” 236.
Bishop confiscations: Calef, More Wonders, 370.
Chapter 17: November to December 1692
Afflicted go to Gloucester: Calef, More Wonders, 373; Docs, 704, 706–707.
Mary Herrick and Mary Esty’s ghost: Calef, More Wonders, 369–370 (and note 1).
Abigail Faulkner petition: Doc, 711.
Andover men’s petition: Ibid., 714.
Ipswich jail petition: Ibid., 702 (and note). This could have been submitted as early as October but no later than December 16.
Dorothy Good’s release: Ibid., 719, 907.
Witchcraft law: Ibid., 721; “Helen Duncan.”
Superior Court schedule: Doc, 693.
Order for blankets: Massachusetts Archives, 40: 626.
January trial date set: Doc, 724.
Public Fast order: Ibid., 727, 701.
Superior Court appointed: Ibid., 729.
Prisoners transferred: Ibid., 743.
John Alden in Boston: Ibid., 744, 975–976; Sewall, Diary, 1: 301, December 22, 1692; Haefeli, “Dutch New York,” 308.
Chapter 18: January to May 1693
Parris’s sermon: Parris, Sermon Notebook, 217–218; Matthew 25:40, 41 (Weigle, Octapla).
Essex County jurors: Docs 738–740, 254, 736, 449.
Superior Court in Salem, January 3, 1693: Doc, 747; Roach, Salem Witch Trials, 360.
January 4, 1693 trials: Docs, 752, 754–756.
January 5, 1693: Ibid., 760–761.
January 6, 1693: Ibid., 767, 763–764, 776.
January 10, 1693: Ibid., 779–781.
January 11, 1693: Ibid., 786.
Mercy Lewis and specters: Ibid., 792.
January 12, 1693:
Philip and Mary English’s trials: Ibid., 449, 789–792.
Mary Post’s trial: Ibid., 798.
January 13, 1693:
Sarah Cloyce’s trial: Ibid., 596 (and note), 602, 809–811; Rosenthal, Records, 40.
Mary Lacey Jr.: Docs, 822, 918.
Hangings scheduled: Ibid., 836; Calef, More Wonders, 832 (the warrant’s whereabouts is presently unknown); Roach, Salem Witch Trials, 371.
Elizabeth Procter gives birth: Perley, The History of Salem 2: 22–23. Perley is the only reference for this date and, unfortunately, cites no source.
January weather: Sewall, Diary, 1: 304–305, January 22 and 29, 1693.
Execution delay: Calef, More Wonders, 382–383; Doc, 836.
Nurse, Tarbell, and Wilkins vs. Parris and church committee: Salem Church records for February 7–16, 1693, in Boyer and Nissenbaum, Salem-Village Witchcraft, 279–283.
Fates of afflicted: Hale, Modest Enquiry, 132–135; Andover, “Vital Records,” 2: 232, 2: 555; Roach, Salem Witch Trials, 363, 658n8; Pierce, Foster Genealogy, 130–131.
Rates committee: Boyer and Nissenbaum, Salem Village Records, January 15, 1692/3 meeting (so printed, but probably should be 17, as 15 was a Sabbath); Roach, Sale
m Witch Trials, 293.
Philip English and Phips: Doc, 840.
English daughters: Ibid., 975–976.
English’s losses: Ibid., 902–903.
Edward Bishop remarries: D. Greene, “Bridget Bishop,” 137.
April Superior Court: SJC 1: 36.
Grace and Emerson: SJC, 1: 51–50.
Arnold: SJC, 1: 38; Doc, 838.
Alden and Green: SJC, 1: 52; Docs, 838, 678; Roach, Salem Witch Trials, 303.
Watkins: Docs, 83, 841.
May 9, 1693 Superior Court: Ibid., 842.
Tituba: Ibid., 844.
PART THREE: AFTERWORD
Rebecca Nurse
Parris on the dissenters: Salem Village Church records in Boyer and Nissenbaum, Salem-Village Witchcraft, 288 (October 23, 1693), 303 (November 13, 1693).
November 1694 meetings: Boyer and Nissenbaum, Salem-Village Witchcraft, 295–310.
Demand for Church Council: Ibid., 300–304.
Council of Mediators: Ibid., 306–308.
Francis Nurse’s will: Hoover, Towne Family, 8.
1695 pro-and anti-Parris petitions: Boyer and Nissenbaum, Salem-Village Witchcraft, 260–263, 308–309.
Francis Nurse dies: Parris, “Records,” 22.
Parris resigns: Boyer and Nissenbaum, Salem-Village Witchcraft, 311–312.
January 1697 public fast: Sewall, Diary, December 2, 1696, 1: 361–362 (and notes), January 14, 1697.
Suits against Parris and arbitration: Boyer and Nissenbaum, Salem-Village Witchcraft, 264–268.
Reverend Green mediates: Salem Village Church records in C. Upham, Salem Witchcraft, 668–669; Perley, History of Salem, 3:35.
Nurse farm paid off: Suffolk Deeds, 11: 50; Perley, “Endicott Lands,” 379–382.
Petitions to clear names: Docs, 875–877, 879.
Annie Putnam joins church: Salem Village Church records in C. Upham, Salem Witchcraft, 671–672.
1706 bill against spectral evidence: Doc, 879.
1709 petition for restitution: Ibid., 881.
Isaac Esty statement: Ibid., 883.
Samuel Nurse statement: Ibid., 921.
1711 Reversal of Attainder: Ibid., 931, 933.
Reparations: Ibid., 930, 964, 954.
Rebecca Nurse’s excommunication reversed: Salem Church, Record, 218–219.
Nurse Farm: Perley, “Endicott Lands,” 380–382; Tapley, Rebecca Nurse, 100–101; W. Upham, “Account.”
Danvers: Galvin, Historical Data, 37. Salem Village was called Danvers in 1752, and a township in 1757, which the Privy Council disallowed yet sent a representative to the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1758 onward, was called a town in 1772 and made a town by an act on August 23, 1775.
Rebecca Nurse Memorial: W. Upham, “Account,” 225; Tapley, Rebecca Nurse, 100–102; Eben Putnam, History, 1: 200–201.
Nurse Homestead: The homestead passed into the care of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (now Historic New England) and then to the Danvers Light Alarm Company (an eighteenth-century reenactment group, Light Alarm being the local minutemen).
Bridget Bishop
Thomas Oliver probate and Edward Bishop’s house: Perley, “Salem, No. 14,” EA 35–38, map opp. 22; Perley, “Part of Salem, No. 1,” 167, map opp 167, 172–173; Thomas Oliver docket 20009.
Christian Mason dies and husband remarries: August 11, 1693 distribution in Thomas Oliver docket 20009; D. Greene, “Bridget Bishop,” 138.
Edward Bishop, guardian to Susanna Mason: Essex Deeds, 10: 112–113.
Edward Bishop buys a house: Essex Deeds, 10: 3 verso; Perley, “Salem, No. 19,” 79, and “Salem, No. 14,” 36.
John and Susanna Becket: Perley, “Becket Genealogy,” 15; Perley, “Salem, No. 22,” 23, 25–26; Perley, “Salem, No. 19,” 79.
Susanna Babbidge: Perley, “Becket Genealogy,” 15–17; Bentley, Diary, 3: 90–91; C. Upham, Salem Witchcraft, 494.
Bridget and Sarah Bishop confusion: D. Greene, “Bridget Bishop,” 131–137.
Mary English
Confiscation losses: Cheever, “A Sketch,” 60–61; Bentley, “Notices,” 232; Docs, 902, 840.
Mansion repairs: Cheever, “A Sketch,” 160; Perley, “Salem, No. 21,” 168.
Philip English’s economic losses: LeBeau, “Philip English,” 10.
Ebenezer English: Salem, Vital Records, 1: 282.
Mary English’s death: Cheever, “A Sketch,” 166.
English vs. Hollingworth lawsuits: James Duncan Philips Library, “Court of Common Pleas,” 7: 41, 8: 57, 59.
Misc. English suits: LeBeau, “Philip English,” 35n17.
March 31, 1696 suits: James Duncan Philips Library, “Court of Common Pleas,” 8: 57, 61–62.
Philip English vs. George Corwin: Perley, “Part of Salem, No. 2,” 69; George Corwin Probate, Essex County Probate docket #6949; “Seizing Corpses for Debt”; Roach, “The Corpse in the Cellar”; “Essex Institute ms. English Family Papers”: Box 1, file 7: “Philip English (1651–1736) Papers/Legal Documents, 1675, 1682–1727, 1733.”
Philip English’s second marriage: Salem, Vital Records, 3: 337.
Susanna English: Boston News-Letter, September 30 to October 7, 1706, 6; Bentley, Diary, 2: 25.
Philip English recoups: LeBeau, “Philip English,” 10; Schutz, Legislators, 215.
1709 Petitions: Docs, 881, 902.
1717 reparations: Ibid., 970–973.
St. Michael’s Church: Miles, “O, How We Have Loved Thee.”
Philip English’s decline: James Duncan Philips Library, “Court of General Sessions of the Peace,” 4: 76–78; LeBeau, “Philip English,” 10; “Essex Institute ms. English Family Papers,” Box 1, file 8: “Philip English (1651–1736) Papers/Guardianship and Estate Papers, 1732–1744, 1751”; Essex Probate Records, 324: 182–183 (Touzel wills).
Philip English’s last words: Hawthorne, American Notebooks, 75 (emphasis added).
Philip English’s funeral: English, Essex Probate Docket 9083; Salem, Vital Records, 5: 231; Cheever, “A Sketch,” 175–176.
Philip English probate problems and Susanna (English) Touzel’s health: Doc, 978; Essex Probate Records: 324: 182–183.
Reverend William Bentley on Susanna English’s embroidery: Bentley, Diary, 1: 23.
Reverend Bentley on English’s mansion: Ibid., 2: 446–448.
Mary English’s poem: Cheever, “A Sketch,” 164.
Mansion’s fate: Ibid., 160.
Horace Connolly and the English inheritance: Avery, Genealogy, 45–46; Eleanor Putnam, Old Salem, 81–82.
Mary (Hollingworth) English’s sampler: Perley, The History of Salem, 1: 37–38; Curwen, “The Will,” 252.
Ann Putnam
Thomas Putnam: Doc, 866; Boyer and Nissenbaum, Salem-Village Witchcraft, 255–256. The committee was Joseph Porter, Joseph Hutchinson Sr., Joseph Putnam, Daniel Andrews, and Francis Nurse.
Sarah Putnam born: Parris, “Records,” 16.
Sarah Putnam dies: Ibid., 21.
Mrs. Mary Putnam’s illness and death: Boyer and Nissenbaum, Salem-Village Witchcraft, 213–222.
Pro-Parris petition: Ibid., 262–263.
Seth Putnam born and baptized: Parris, “Records,” 17; “Baptisms at the Church in Salem Village,” 237.
Thomas Putnam and others protests Mary Putnam will: Boyer and Nissenbaum, Salem-Village Witchcraft, 215–216.
Thomas Putnam petitions probate court: Ibid., 216–217.
Mary Putnam estate testimony: Ibid., 217–220.
Parris quits: Ibid., 311.
Thomas Putnam sells Topsfield land: Ibid., 222.
Thomas Putnam sells home and moves: Perley, “Hathorne,” 332–344.
Experience and Hannah Putnam baptized: “Baptisms at the Church in Salem Village,” 237.
Meeting House seating changes: Salem Village Church records in C. Upham, Salem Witchcraft, 668.
Thomas Putnam dies: Salem, Vital Records, 6: 172.
Ann Putnam dies: Ibid., 6:
169.
Thomas Putnam estate: Boyer and Nissenbaum, Salem-Village Witchcraft, 223–225.
Putnam children: C. Upham, Salem Witchcraft, 671–672.
Ann Putnam Jr. joins Salem Village Church: Salem Village Church records in C. Upham, Salem Witchcraft, 672.
Ann Putnam Jr. dies: C. Upham, Salem Witchcraft, 673; Perley, “Hathorne,” 342.
Tituba
Tituba’s Salem jail bill: Docs, 857 (and note), 858. The number of months looks like a ten but is actually a one: for tetabe Indan A whole year and 10 month.
Tituba’s Boston jail bill: Ibid., 4, 481.
Robert Calef on Tituba: Calef, More Wonders, 343 (emphasis added).
Tituba’s origins: Breslaw, Tituba, 3–62, 207n13, 14; Hoffer, Devil’s Disciples, 105–210, 267–269 notes; Hansen, “Metamorphosis”; Tucker, “Purloined Identity”; Rosenthal, Salem Story, 10–31.
Mary Warren
Mary Warren’s jail bill: Docs, 857–858.
Mary Warren’s whereabouts: Ibid., 75, 216, 772.
Elizabeth Procter’s petition: Ibid., 871.
Petitions and results: Ibid., 876–877, 879; Stevens, Ancestry, 1: 44.7, 44.12.
Procter Restitution: Docs, 935, 958–959.
Elizabeth Procter remarries: Stevens, Ancestry, 1: 44.4.
Afflicted blamed: Doc, 931, Calef, More Wonders, 384, 306.
Afflicted girls’ later history: S. Noyes, Libby, and David, Genealogical, 429–430; C. Mather, Diary, 1: 261n, 382–383; Norton, Devil’s Snare, 310–311.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Abbreviations
CSM: Colonial Society of Massachusetts
Doc: Document number from Rosenthal, Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt
EIHC: Essex Institute Historical Collections
EQC: County of Essex, Records of the Quarterly Courts
EQC-VT: Verbatim transcription of Essex County Records, typescript
Essex Deeds: bound, handwritten copies of deeds
Essex, Probate: County of Essex. The Probate Records of Essex County, in print
Essex Probate & docket #: manuscript
Essex Probate Records: microfilm (at New England Historic Genealogical Society library, etc.)
GM: Anderson, Great Migration
GMB: Anderson, Great Migration Begins
MHS: Massachusetts Historical Society
NEHGS: New England Historic Genealogical Society
OED: Oxford English Dictionary
Register: New England Historic Genealogical Register
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