SJC: Superior Court of Judicature
SV: Salem Village
SV-VR: Parris, “Records of the Rev. Samuel Parris”
TAG: The American Genealogist
Quotations from the witch trial papers used in this book are taken from the definitive Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt, Bernard Rosenthal, ed. To cross-reference the document numbers given here with documents available in other, earlier editions, readers might consult www.17thc.us/primarysources/Cross-Refs.
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Corwin, George. Essex Probate Docket 6949.
English, Philip. non compos. Essex Probate Docket 9082.
English, Philip. Essex Probate Docket 9083.
Oliver, Thomas. Essex Probate Docket 20009.
Essex County, South, Registry of Deeds, Salem, MA.
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James Duncan Philips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA.
“Court of Common Pleas, series 5, Salem Waste Book, vol. 7 (1692–1695), vol. 8 (1695–1718/19).
“Court of General Sessions of the Peace,” series 4, vol. 4 (1718/19–1727).
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“Essex Institute ms. English Family Papers”:
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Essex County, MA/Probate Records/Old Series (Record books on microfilm):
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———. The Diary of William Bentley, D. D. 4 vols. Gloucester: Peter Smith, 1962; reprint of Essex Institute edition, 1905, 1907, 1911, 1914.
———. “Notices of the Ancestry of Mrs. Susannah Ingersoll.” EIHC 11 (1871): 228–234.
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———. “The Forfeitures at Salem, 1692.” William & Mary Quarterly 3rd ser. 50 (1993): 85–111.
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———. Records of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts. Edited by George Francis Dow. 9 vols. Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1911–1975.
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———. “Salem Witches I: Bridget Bishop.” TAG 57 (1981): 129–138.
———. “Salem Witches II: George Jacobs.” TAG, 58 (1982): 65–76.
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———. “Rev. Lawson’s Sermon” [excerpt from Christ’s Fidelity the Only Shield Against Satan’s Malignity]. In Trask, “The Devil Hath Been Raised,” 64–106.
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———. “A Brand Pluck’d Out of the Burning.” In Burr, Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases 1648–1706, 253–287.
———. Decennium Luctuosum. Boston: Samuel Phillips, 1699. In Narratives of the Indian Wars, 1675–1699, edited by Charles H. Lincoln, 169–299. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1913; New York: Barnes & Noble, 1941.
———. Diary of Cotton Mather. 2 vols. Edited by Worthington Chauncey Ford. MHS Collections, 7th series, 7 (1911) and 8 (1912); renumbered as vols. 1 and 2. Reprint, New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., nd.
———. “From ‘The Wonders of the Invisible World,’ by Cotton Mather, 1693” [excerpt from The Wonders of the Invisible World]. In Burr, Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases 1648–1706, 203–251.
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———. The Sermon Notebook of Samuel Parris, 1689–1694. Edited by James F. Cooper and Kenneth P Minkema. Boston: The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1993.
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———. “Center of Salem Village in 1700.” EIHC 54 (1918): 225–245.
———. “Endicott Lands, Salem, in 1700,” EIHC 51 (1915): 361–382.
———. “Groton, Salem in 1700,” EIHC 51 (1915): 257–270.
———. “Hathorne: Part of Salem Village in 1700 [No. 1].” EIHC 53 (1917): 332–344.
———. The History of Salem, Massachusetts. 3 vols. Haverhill, MA: Record Publishing, 1928.
———. “Northfields, Salem, in 1700. No. 1.” EIHC 48 (1912): 173–184.
———. “Northfie
lds, Salem in 1700. No. 3,” EIHC 49 (1913): 186–192.
———. “The Nurse House.” EIHC 62 (1926): 1–3.
———. “Part of Salem in 1700. No. 1,” EA 2 (1898): 167–174.
———. “Part of Salem in 1700. No. 2,” EA 3 (1899): 65–72.
———. “Part of Salem in 1700. No. 5,” EA 4 (1900): 161–170.
———. “Part of Salem in 1700. No. 8,” EA 6 (1901): 97–101.
———. “Rial Side: Part of Salem in 1700.” EIHC 55 (1919): 49–74.
———. “Salem in 1700. No. 14,” EA 8 (1904): 20–37.
———. “Salem in 1700. No. 19,” EA 9 (1905): 72–86.
———. “Salem in 1700. No. 20.” EA 9 (1905): 114–123.
———. “Salem in 1700. No. 21,” EA 9 (1905): 162–171.
———. “Salem in 1700. No. 22,” EA 10 (1906): 21–31.
———. “Salem in 1700. No. 29,” EA 11 (1907): 58–168.
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