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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: A Short History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Trials - Illustrated by a Verbatim Report of the Trial of Mrs. Elizabeth Howe - -Author: Martin Van Buren Perley - -Release Date: January 22, 2017 [EBook #54042] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SHORT HISTORY--SALEM WITCHCRAFT TRIALS *** - - - - -Produced by MWS, ellinora and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - - Transcriber Notes - - ● There are many inconsistencies in this text. The headings in the - table of contents do not all match the actual headings in the text, - and not all headings in the text are in the table of contents. - There are variations in spelling, hyphenation and capitalization, - missing punctuation, and possible repeated words, particularly in - the transcriptions from the 1692 court proceedings. In the older - text, the letters u/v and I/J are sometimes used differently than - is done today. Aside from a small number of punctuation typos in - the more modern part of the text, and the page and item number - fixes noted below, all inconsistencies and variations have been - left as in the original. - ● The page numbers in the Bibliography content list changed to reflect - their actual page numbers in the book. A duplicate (3) in the - Perley’s Chronological Chart section was changed to (2). - ● Italics are represented by underscores surrounding the _italic text_. - ● Small capitals have been converted to ALL CAPS. - ● Descriptions of illustrations without captions added. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -[Illustration: TYPICAL OF THE WITCHCRAFT TRIALS] - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - A SHORT HISTORY - - OF THE - - Salem Village Witchcraft Trials - - ILLUSTRATED BY A - - Verbatim Report of the Trial of - MRS. ELIZABETH HOWE - - A MEMORIAL OF HER - - [Illustration: Witch-eclipse of the Moon] - - To dance with - Lapland witches, while the lab’ring moon eclipses at their - charms. - - —Paradise Lost, ii. 662 - - MAP AND HALF TONE ILLUSTRATIONS - - - SALEM, MASS.: - M. V. B. PERLEY, PUBLISHER - 1911 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - COPYRIGHT, 1911 - BY M. V. B. PERLEY - SALEM, MASS. - - - BOSTON - The Tudor Press - 1911 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - NOTICE - - -Greater Salem, the province of Governors Conant and Endicott, is visited -by thousands of sojourners yearly. They come to study the Quakers and -the witches, to picture the manses of the latter and the stately -mansions of Salem’s commercial kings, and breathe the salubrious air of -“old gray ocean.” - -The witchcraft “delusion” is generally the first topic of inquiry, and -the earnest desire of those people with notebook in hand to aid the -memory in chronicling answers, suggested this monograph and urged its -publication. There is another cogent reason: the popular knowledge is -circumscribed and even that needs correcting. - -This short history meets that earnest desire; it gives the origin, -growth, and death of the hideous monster; it gives dates, courts, and -names of places, jurors, witnesses, and those hanged; it names and -explains certain “men and things” that are concomitant to the trials, -with which the reader may not be conversant and which are necessary to -the proper setting of the trials in one’s mind; it compasses the salient -features of witchcraft history, so that the story of the 1692 “delusion” -may be garnered and entertainingly rehearsed. - -The trials were all spread upon the records, word for word. Rev. Samuel -Parris, stenographer to the court, says they were “taken down in my -characters written at the time,” barring, of course, the evidence by -affidavits, which were written, signed, and attested, and filed in the -Clerk of Court’s office, where they may now be seen. - -Great research has hitherto been made, keen, sagacious acumen employed, -and much written; but the true criterion of judgment, a trial,—a word -for word trial,—has not before this been published. Here, then, is the -first opportunity of readers to judge for themselves. - -The trials were unique. The court was without authority; none of the -judges, it is said, was bred to the law; evidence was arbitrarily -admitted or excluded; the accused were not allowed counsel in law or the -consolation of the clergy in religion. - -The careful reader may discover, between the lines, in questions, in -answers, and in the strange exhibitions, the real state of mind -pervading all, which has been mildly characterized as a “delusion”; also -he may be able to compare the Mosaic, the 1692, and the modern spirit -manifestations, and advantageously determine for himself what is worth -while in modern spiritualism, mind-reading, clairvoyance, mesmerism, and -the rest. - -Though men of education, religion, titled dignity, and official station, -of the professions and the élite, were responsible for the horrible -catastrophy, and in one instance or more forced the yeoman jurors to -convict (who at the end signed recantations and expressed their -grief),—religion and education must not be undervalued; a religious -education will yield the highest type of manhood. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - CONTENTS - - - PAGE - Notice 3 - The Introduction 9 - The Witch, Her Antiquity, Legal Status 9 - The Modern Witch; Her Persecution 10 - Learned Men’s Views, Dissenters, Crone Lore 11 - Ingersoll; The Four Ministers 13 - The Witch School; “Who’s Who” 18 - Unwarrantable Usurpation 21 - Names of the Court and Jury 23 - Names of Those Hanged 24 - Rev. John Hale Converted 27 - Lofty Character of the Condemned 28 - Place of Execution; The Crevice 29 - Mrs. Howe’s Case: 31 - The Sunday Warrant; Her Examination 31 - Indicted, Remanded to Salem Jail 35 - - Case Called June 29th. The Witnesses: - Andrews, Thomas 57 - Chapman, Simon and Mary 41 - Cummings, Isaac, Sr. and Jr. 43-46 - Cummings, Mary, Sr. 47-49 - Foster, Jacob 53 - Hadley, Deborah 40 - Howe, James, Sr. (ninety-four years old) 46 - Howe, John (brother-in-law) 52 - Knowlton, Joseph and Mary 45 - Lane, Francis 50 - Payson, Rev. Edward 40 - Perley, Samuel[1] and Ruth 37 - Perley, Timothy[1] and Deborah 36 - Phillips, Rev. Samuel 38 - Safford, Joseph 54 - Warner, Daniel, John, Sarah 41 - - Imprisoned at Boston. Her Execution 24 - Petition for Reimbursement and Removal of 58 - Attainder - Mrs. Howe’s Home Located 60 - Judge Joseph Story’s Tribute 28 - - Who Were the Howes? - James Branch of the Ipswich Howes 65 - Coats of Arms 66 - James Howe, Sr. 67 - James Howe, Jr., and His Wife Elizabeth 68 - - Bibliography 70 - -Footnote 1: - - See Perley Family History and Genealogy, pages 15, 19. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - ILLUSTRATIONS - - - Typical of the Witchcraft Trials Frontispiece - Painting by Mattison, about 1854. - The only conception of the - witchcraft trials ever spread on - canvas.—Courtesy of _The Essex - Institute_. - - PAGE - Witch-eclipse of the Moon 1 - Salem Village (now Danvers 14 - Highlands) - The New England Witch 15 - The 1692 Meetinghouse 17 - The Present Church and Parsonage opp. 18 - Governor Simon Bradstreet 21 - The Mathers, Increase and Cotton opp. 22 - The Witch Plat, or Place of 29 - Executions - The Witch Plat, showing “The opp. 29 - Crevice” - Warrant for Mrs. Howe’s Arrest opp. 31 - Ipswich Farms 51 - Location of Mrs. Howe’s Home 60 - The Aaron Howe House 62 - Descendants of James Howe, Sr. 64 - The Howe Arms 66 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - INTRODUCTION - - -The proceedings in witchcraft in 1692 to us who are two hundred and -twenty years removed from the scene, seem, at first, impossible, then -mortifying, and persuasive of disowning our fathers and forgetting the -period of their folly. At best, the occurrence furnishes the wildest and -saddest chapter in our New England history. - - -ANTIQUITY OF THE WITCH -AND HER LEGAL STATUS - -The doctrine of familiar spirits was current in most ancient times. It -is possible that immediately after the fall in Adam the imprisoned -spirit of man began to assert its former freedom and ability. The old -Scriptures depicted the witch’s character, gave warning of her blighting -influence, and enacted heavy penalties against employing her agency. In -Exodus, xxii. 18: “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” In Leviticus, -xx. 27: “A man also or a woman that hath a familiar spirit, or that is a -wizard, shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.” -In Deuteronomy, xviii. 9-12: “When thou art come into the land which the -Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the -abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any -one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or -that useth divination, or any observer of times, or any enchanter, or a -witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, -or a necromancer; for all that do these things are an abomination unto -the Lord.” - - -THE COLONIAL LAWS AND -THEIR BIBLICAL ORIGIN - -The colonial laws to which New England witches were amenable, codified -by Rev. Samuel Ward, of Ipswich, who had had extensive legal training -and practice before entering the ministry, were published in 1641. Mr. -Ward[2] followed Moses, the great Hebrew lawgiver, in great measure, but -he distanced England in mildness and was far ahead of his time in scope. -With him, however, the witch found no favor. Death was the punishment -for witchcraft, first and last, and the Puritan, whose sure palladium of -civil and religious freedom was the Bible, obeyed the precept to the -letter, his highest knowledge and authority. - -Footnote 2: - - See M. V. B. Perley’s Ipswich History in J. W. Lewis’s History of - Essex County, Mass., Vol. I, page 626. - - -THE MODERN WITCH AND -HER TERRIBLE PERSECUTION - -The modern witch, it is said, had her birth near the beginning of the -Christian era. Her persecution began about two hundred years later. From -that time hundreds of thousands of victims were immolated to appease the -inconsiderate and insatiate demands of her persecutors. - -In the earliest years witches were generally burned, and in the first -one hundred and fifty years it is estimated thirty thousand thus -perished. Later, in France, in one century, an almost incredible number -suffered—one thousand in a single diocese. In the century, 1600 to 1700, -two hundred were hanged in England, one thousand were burned in -Scotland, and a much greater number on the Continent. - - -THE AMERICAN WITCH AND -VIEWS OF THE EDUCATED - -In America there were witch trials—in Connecticut, New York, and -Pennsylvania,[3]—some years before 1692. In Boston, 1648, Margaret -Jones, of malignant touch, was hanged, and Mrs. Ann (Wm.) Hebbins, in -1655. In Springfield, 1651, Mrs. Mary (Hugh) Parsons was hanged. In -Ipswich quarter court, 1652, a man was sentenced to pay a fine of twenty -shillings, or to be whipped for “having familiarity with the Devil.” - -The doctrine of witches was embraced not only by the common people, but -also by the learned; Tycho Brahe, the prince of astronomers, and Kepler, -his student, Martin Luther, the bold theologian, and Melancthon, the -gentle; the silver-tongued Dr. Watts and the pious Baxter, who styled a -disbeliever in witchcraft “an obdurate Sadducee,” and others whom time -fails me to mention. - -Footnote 3: - - In 1908 or 1909 a Dutch woman in Pennsylvania was charged in court - with the misdemeanor of casting a spell on a cow, so that the cow gave - no milk. The woman was fined $5 and ten days in jail. - - -OLD CRONE LORE AND -THREE NOTABLE DISSENTERS - -Witch stories were a social entertainment, to the mingled fear and -merriment of guests and the positive foreboding of children. Who even -now among the older people has forgotten the crone lore of our -grandmothers—how witches would seize a red-hot iron, glide into a heated -oven, ride through the air on enchanted broomsticks, and how stalwart -men would stalk through keyholes, supported and directed by Satanic -power! It was believed that witches made an actual, deliberate, and -formal compact with Satan. - -There were, however, two or three persons of learning and influence in -the Province who (to their great credit, be it said) dared to oppose the -doctrine of witches—the celebrated Rev. Samuel Willard, of the Old South -Church, Boston,—Maj. Nathaniel Saltonstall, who declined a seat upon the -bench rather than participate in the witch trials,—and Rev. John -Higginson (son of Rev. Francis, the first minister of Salem), who was -cautious and held himself aloof; for his conscience whispered he had -gone too far against the Quakers. - - -PEN PICTURE OF A WITCH -HOME OF THE “DELUSION” - -The New England witch was supposed to be an old woman of attenuated -form, somewhat bent; clothed in lively colors and ample skirts; having a -darting and piercing eye, a head sporting disheveled hair and crowned -with a sugar-loaf hat, a carlin’s cheek, a falcated chin bent to meet an -aquiline nose, by both of which was formed a Neapolitan bay, her mouth -in the background resembling Vesuvius in eruption; and riding an -enchanted broomstick with a black cat as guide. - -Salem Village, the location of the hideous catastrophe, was the northern -precinct of Salem; and when it was incorporated Danvers, its name became -Danvers Center. Quite recently (1910) the trolley car company changed -the name to Danvers Highlands, but in the steam car nomenclature it is -Collins Street. From Town House Square in Salem to the Highlands a -trolley ride costs a nickel; the distance is five miles, and every mile -a pleasure. - - -INGERSOLL AND HIS TAVERN -REVS. BAILEY, BURROUGHS, LAWSON - -Nathaniel Ingersoll occupied the central location in the village; a man -of industry and thrift; a licensed innkeeper, who sold liquor by the -quart on Sunday; a kind of chief of police; managed the defenses against -the Indians; a benevolent man, and was chosen deacon. His name does not -figure in the witch trials, and the witches have left no records of the -influence of his tavern in the results. The open plat of ground in front -of his tavern was called Ingersoll’s Common. Farther up the street, at -No. 5, is a plat of ground he gave for “a training field forever.” Capt. -Dea. Jonathan Walcott was a neighbor, as was also Sergt. Thomas Putnam, -parish clerk. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -[Illustration: - - DANVERS HIGHLANDS - - DANVERS CENTER - - _Old Salem Village_ - - 1. Locates the church there at present. - - 2. Locates the church of 1692. - - 3. Locates the Ingersoll Tavern and the present parsonage. - - 4. Locates the Parris house where the mischief began. - - 5. Locates the entrance to the Ingersoll Training Field. - - The narrow lane leading to No. 4 is a right of way for all. -] - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -[Illustration: THE NEW ENGLAND WITCH] - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -Rev. James Bailey, near his majority, a recent graduate of Harvard, -began to preach (not as pastor) there in 1671, and created a division. -Rev. George Burroughs succeeded him in 1680, but matters grew worse. In -1683 Rev. Deodat Lawson began and gave no better results. - -Mr. Burroughs was a short, stout man, very muscular and of very dark -complexion. He was a Harvard graduate of 1670. Most of the witches knew -him; and his complexion and extraordinary strength argued his connection -with the black art and the muscular devil. - -Rev. Deodat Lawson (Deo-dat-um), a “God-given” cataplasm for the tumor -of unrest, social discords, and animosities that had their rise in -Bailey’s ministry! With Lawson, the suppuration began; for the deviltry -had gone from _seance_ to families and the church, where the unwhipped -girls cried out from time to time, “enough of that”; “see the yellow -bird on the minister’s hat”; “now name your text”; “look how she sits”; -to all which Mr. Lawson’s simplicity testifies: these things “did -something interrupt me in my first prayer, being so unusual.” - - -REV. SAMUEL PARRIS, STUDENT -WEST INDIAN TRADER, FIRST PASTOR - -The wound was treated and cleansed during the ministry of Rev. Samuel -Parris. He was born in London, about 1653, had been a merchant in Boston -and the Spanish Main, and had studied at Harvard. He succeeded Mr. -Lawson and was ordained and installed their first pastor, Tuesday, Nov. -19, 1689. He left in 1696. The unanimity of the church since he left has -been as marked as the schism was before he left. - -[Illustration: THE PARRIS MEETING HOUSE, 1692] - -Mr. Parris’s home was at No. 4 on the map. His house probably did not -survive the year 1717. His meetinghouse stood a little to the east of -the Ingersoll Tavern, probably the flat spot now marked by rose bushes -and weeds, and maybe by a large, flat stone in the wall, which stone may -have served as a doorstep. A beautiful modern church edifice now graces -the corner opposite Ingersoll’s old corner, while the parsonage occupies -the Ingersoll site. - - -JOHN AND HIS TITUBA -REV. S. PARRIS’S SLAVES - -Mr. Parris brought with him from the Spanish Main, as his slaves, a -couple called John Indian and his wife, Tituba. The ignorance of the -Spanish population found its summit of pleasure in dancing, singing, -sleight of hand, palmistry, fortune-telling, magic, and necromancy (or -spirit communication with the dead); and John and his Tituba in all -those things were fully up to date. - - -PARRIS’S WITCH SCHOOL, APT -PUPILS, THEIR PERSONNEL - -To the pastor’s house (as he wrote, “When these calamities first began, -which was at my house”) the village maidens, by surreption, went under -the tuition of Tituba. Those of us who have some remembrance of the rise -of spiritualism, the phenomenon of table-tipping, and the slightly more -refined practice of the élite with scribbling planchet, can picture in -some degree Tituba’s pupils and how they got there. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -[Illustration: - - FIRST CHURCH EDIFICE AND PARSONAGE - DANVERS HIGHLANDS -] - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -Of those pupils (“children,” as the court called them) two were of the -pastor’s family—Ann Williams, aged eleven, and his daughter, whom he -quickly sent away; Ann Putnam, daughter of Ann and Sergeant Thomas, a -precocious miss of only twelve, who easily became a leader; Mary Warren, -domestic in John Proctor’s family, aged twenty; Susannah Sheldon and -Elizabeth Booth, neighbors and eighteen; Sarah Churchill, helper to -George Jacobs, senior; Elizabeth Hubbard, Mercy Lewis, former domestic -for Mrs. Burroughs, and Mary Walcott, daughter of Deacon Jonathan, each -of them eighteen. - -Had those “children,” the pioneers of the awfully fatal mischief, been -scourged at the whipping post, - - “Or had been beaten till they’d know - What wood the cudgel’s of by the blow,” - -if needful, and John and his Tituba been returned to their native soil, -no doubt the horrible tragedy would have been averted. The Shafflin girl -in Peabody was cured “when a timely whipping brought her to her senses.” -So was Dinah Sylvester, of Mansfield, when given her choice of a -whipping or owning and abandoning her error. - - -CASTING OUT DEVILS -“STILL THE WONDER GREW” - -But, instead, Mr. Parris, in fashion of the vaunted prowess of Cotton -Mather and other pedantic, astute, aspiring ministers, to show their -efficiency in “casting out devils,” called in the clergy, the deacons, -and the elders, and held, February 11th, a day of fasting and prayer. -“And still the wonder grew.” - - -A PORTENTOUS LEAP DAY -“THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH” - -It was high time, and some leading citizens took the initiative. A -complaint was lodged against Tituba Feb. 25, 1692. The first warrants -were issued the 29th, the leap day of the year, and Sarah Good, Sarah -Osbun, and Tituba Indian were apprehended. They were examined March 1st -and ordered to jail in Boston, to await the action of the higher court. - -The examinations were to be held in Ingersoll’s Tavern, but the crowd -was so great on Ingersoll’s Common, that the court adjourned to the -meeting house. The magistrates were John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin, -assistants. They went over from Salem, attended by the marshal, -constables, and their aids, and all of them arrayed in the garb of court -authority and the attractive insignia of official station. Their advent -into the village was marked by an ostentation of whatever grandeur and -splendor they had at command. To the gaping multitude it was “the -greatest show on earth,” while the trials proved a “Wild West.” - -Sarah Good, a broken-down outcast, deserted by her husband, begging food -from house to house, was first examined; the last examined was Tituba, -the chief offender. - -[Illustration: GOV. SIMON BRADSTREET, 1603-1697] - - -UNWARRANTABLE USURPATION -NAMES OF THE COURT AND JURY - -The Province took formal charge _in re_ April 11, 1692. Simon Bradstreet -was governor. He had been honored with thirteen annual elections by the -people to that office. He was then eighty-six years of age, the “Grand -Old Man” of his time. He struck the keynote at first in an opinion that -the witch evidence was insufficient. With honor crowned he passed into -history as “The Old Charter Governor.” - -The high action of Deputy-Governor Danforth and his Counsel, who were -the court, gave éclat to the proceedings and consternation filled the -county. In October, 1691, a new charter was signed, and Sir Wm. Phipps -was appointed governor. He arrived in Boston with the new charter, -Saturday, May 14, 1692. William Stoughton was made deputy-governor, in -place of Thomas Danforth. - -In this change from popular government Increase Mather, an early -president of Harvard College, was a “power behind the throne.” The new -charter had his approval and Sir Wm. Phipps, its first governor, was his -nominee. Phipps was “a well-meaning man, inclined to superstition,” and -Mather admired his “incompetency.” Stoughton was a man “of cold -affections, proud, self willed, and covetous of distinction, and -universally hated by the people.” He was appointed deputy-governor to -please Cotton Mather, son of Increase. Cotton in his race for glory ran -amuck. He was a man of “overweening vanity,” panting for fame, and the -strenuous mover in the trials. He harangued the populace and sermonized -on witchcraft; he wrote a book: “The Trials of Witches,” and even on -horseback, at the hanging of Rev. George Burroughs, he harangued the -people gathered there, lest they interfere and rob the gallows. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -[Illustration: - - INCREASE MATHER COTTON MATHER - FATHER SON -] - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -By the new charter courts of justice were to be established by the -General Court. The witch trials were, therefore, stranded and must -remain _in statu quo_, apparently, for several months, while awaiting -the action of the General Court. The Governor, however, by “an -unwarrantable usurpation of authority,” organized a court of final -hearing, called _Oyer and Terminer_, to act in the pending cases. - -Deputy-Governor Stoughton was appointed chief justice, and Nathaniel -Saltonstall, of Haverhill, who declined to serve, and was succeeded by -Jonathan Corwin, of Salem; Major John Richards, of Boston; Major -Bartholomew Gedney, of Salem; Mr. Wait Winthrop, Mr. Peter Sargent, and -Capt. Samuel Sewell, of Boston, Associate Justices. - -The panel of the Jury of Inquest was Thomas Fisk, foreman; William Fisk, -John Bachelor, Thomas Fisk, Jr., John Dane, Joseph Eveleth, Thomas -Perley, Sr., John Peabody, Thomas Perkins, Samuel Sayer, Andrew Eliot, -and Henry Herrick, Sr. - -The commissions of the court were dated Friday, May 27th; the court -convened Thursday, June 2d; Bridget Bishop, of Salem, was convicted -Wednesday, the 8th, and hanged Friday, the 10th. The court, by -adjournment, next sat Wednesday, the 29th of June; then by several -adjournments, it was to sit the 1st of November. - -The day on which Bridget Bishop was hanged, June 10th, the General Court -enacted a law of the old charter for capital cases, and under it -presumably the subsequent witch trials were held, while the personnel of -the court remained the same. - - -TRIALS ARRESTED, COURT SUSPENDED -LIST OF THOSE HANGED - -The General Court in October established the Superior Court of -Judicature and gave it jurisdiction in witch cases. Governor Phipps -immediately arrested the witch trials, and suspended the court. _Oyer -and Terminer_ was dissolved. These were hanged: - - FRIDAY, JUNE 10TH - - 1. Bishop, Bridget, wife of Edward, of Salem. - - TUESDAY, JULY 19TH - - 1. Good, Sarah, of the village. - - 2. Wildes, Sarah, daughter of Wm., of Topsfield. - - 3. Howe, Elizabeth, wife of James, Jr., of Ipswich Farms. - - 4. Nourse, Rebecca, wife of Francis, of the village. - - 5. Martin, Susannah, of Amesbury. - - FRIDAY, AUGUST 19TH - - 1. Burroughs, Rev. George, of Casco. See above. - - 2. Proctor, John, of Peabody. - - 3. Jacobs, George, of the Village, eighty years old. - - 4. Willard, John, apprehended at Groton. - - 5. Carryer, Martha, wife of Thomas, of Andover. - - THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22D - - 1. Cory, Martha, wife of Giles, of Peabody. - - 2. Æstey, Mary, wife of Isaac, of Topsfield. - - 3. Parker, Alice, wife of John, of Salem. - - 4. Pudeator, Ann, widow of Jacob. - - 5. Scott, Margaret, widow of Benj., of Rowley. - - 6. Read, Wilmot, wife of Samuel, of Marblehead. - - 7. Wardwell, Samuel, of Andover. - - 8. Parker, Mary, of Salem. - - MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19TH - -Giles Cory would not plead to the indictment, and was pressed to death. -In modern law one thus mute is understood to plead _not guilty_, but at -that period one must plead before he could be put on trial, and might be -tortured till he pleaded or died. Mr. Cory would not countenance any -phase or feature of witchcraft. - - TUESDAY, MAY 10TH - -Died in prison Sarah Osbun, condemned, wife of Alexander. - - SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3D - -Died in prison, Ann Foster, widow of Andrew, of Andover, who died, 1685, -aged 106. - -Elizabeth Proctor, widow of John (above), was reprieved on account of -her condition, then pardoned. - -Mrs. Thomas Bradbury, of Salisbury, daughter of John Perkins, of -Ipswich, eighty years old, condemned, then acquitted. - -Rebecca Eames, wife of Robert, of Boxford, condemned, reprieved. - -Elizabeth Morse, of Newbury, reprieved. - -Abigail Falkner and Elizabeth Johnson, both of Andover, daughters of -Rev. Francis Dane, were respectively thirteen and five months in jail. - -Mary Lacey, wife of Lawrence, daughter of Andrew and Ann Foster (above), -confessed, accused her mother of bewitching her, and escaped punishment. - -As above there were twenty-eight convictions, nineteen persons were -hanged, and one was pressed to death, “fifty-five were pardoned, one -hundred and fifty more were imprisoned, and two hundred others or more -were accused.” Several dogs were accused, and one of Danvers and another -of Andover were executed. - -Let it now be noted and remembered, that no witch or wizard was ever -burned to death in Salem town or Essex county. - - -THE BEGINNING OF THE END -REV. JOHN HALE’S CHANGE OF HEART - -Early in October, 1692, the wild and extravagant methods of the court -had penetrated every community, and by relation or friendship, almost -every family, and too, accusations rested upon families of the wealthy -and the learned, of clergymen and laymen, and even it was whispered upon -one of the judges of the court and the wife of the governor; and it was -only when the ruthless authority of the law invaded those homes that the -fury of the storm abated. When Rev. John Hale, of Beverly, who had been -conspicuously active in the convictions, found his wife in the -diabolical toils, he experienced a sudden change of heart, and prayed -for peace. The time was ripe; Mr. Hale’s sentiments echoed from every -home. The establishment of the new court (Wm. Stoughton, Chief Justice, -Thomas Danforth, Wait Winthrop, John Richards, and Samuel Sewell, -Associate Justices) and the abolition of the old court, helped the -cause. - -In the January next following fifty persons were indicted. All who were -tried were acquitted except three, who were pardoned. All who were not -tried were discharged on the payment of thirty shillings each. In the -following May, when a jail delivery had been decreed, one hundred and -fifty went forth. - - -LOFTY CHARACTER OF THE CONDEMNED -JUDGE JOSEPH STORY’S TRIBUTE - -Those who suffered were a remarkable company of men and women. They came -from the humble walks in life, but most of them were old in experience -and solidified in character and sentiments. Though they were posted as -criminals, taunted with aspersions, forbidden counsel in law and -religion, and had every word of defense twisted into a semblance of -condemnation, yet they exhibited the true nobility of life in truth and -righteousness; they counted their lives not dear to them, could they -only reach the goal of their hope in God their Saviour. - -But after all we must not judge the actors in this frenzied delusion -harshly or rashly. Hon. Joseph Story, Associate Justice of the United -States Supreme Court, writes: “Surely our ancestors had no special -reason for shame in a belief which had the universal sanction of their -own and all former ages, which counted in its train philosophers as well -as enthusiasts, which was graced by the learning of prelates as well as -by the countenance of kings, which the law supported by its mandates, -and the purest judges felt no compulsions in enforcing.” - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -[Illustration: THE WITCH PLAT AND THE CREVICE] - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - -THE PLACE OF EXECUTION -THE CREVICE FOR THE CORPSES - -[Illustration: THE WITCH PLAT] - -Or the place where “The Witches” were hanged is on Proctor Street, -Salem, marked off on this map by the dotted lines. The cross locates -“The Crevice,” where the corpses were thrown. To touch a witch corpse -was malignant; yet some bodies were taken away for burial at home. - -Giles Cory was pressed to death in the field corner of St. Peters and -Brown Streets, opposite the jail then on Church Street, corner of St. -Peters Street, Salem. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -[Illustration: PHOTOGRAPH OF THE WARRANT FOR MRS. HOWE’S ARREST] - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - MRS. HOWE’S CASE - - -Sunday, May 29, 1692, Ephraim Wildes, constable of Topsfield, with a -capias signed by John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin, Assistants, went to -the home of James Howe, Jr., in Ipswich Farms, and took into custody the -wife and mother as a witch. - -She was charged with sundry acts of witchcraft upon the bodies of Mary -Walcott and Abigail Williams, and others of Salem Village. She was -examined the next Wednesday at the house of Nathaniel Ingersoll of that -place. She pleaded _not guilty_, denied all knowledge of the matter and -testified that she had never heard of the girls, Mary and Abigail, till -their names were read in the warrant. But in court they fell down, they -cried out, they were pinched and pricked, and they accused Mrs. Howe. -She was remanded to prison to await the action of the Jury of Inquest. -Her case was called Wednesday and Thursday, June 29 and 30, 1692. - - -THE SUNDAY WARRANT -AND ITS SUNDAY SERVICE - -To the Constable of Topsfield: - -You are in theyr Magestyes Names hereby Requested to Apprehend & bring -before us Elizabeth How ye wife of James How of Topsfield Husbandman on -tuesday next being the thirty-first day of May about ten of ye Clock in -ye forenoon. at ye house of Leut Nathaniel Ingersolls of Salem Village -Whoe Stand Charged with Sundry Acts of Witchcraft done or committed on -ye bodyes of Mary Wolcott Abigail Williams & others of Salem Village, to -theyr great hurt, in order to her examination Relating to ye abovesd -premises & hereof you are nott to fayle. - -Dat’ Salem May 28th, 1692. - - p us - - JOHN HATHORNE } - JONATHAN CORWIN } Assists. - -In obedience to this warrant I have apprehended Elizabeth How the wife -of Jems how on the 29th of May 1692 and have brought har unto the house -of leftnant nathaniell englosons according too ye warrant as atested by -me Ephraim Willdes constabell for the town of Topsfield. - -Dated may 31st 1692. - - -THE PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION -SHE NEVER HEARD OF HER ACCUSERS BEFORE - -Mercy Lewis & Mary Walcott fell in a fit quickly after the examinant -came in. Mary Walcott said that this woman the examinant had pincht her -& Choakt this month. Ann Putnam said she had hurt her three times - - _Question._ What say you to this charge? Here are them that charge - you with witchcraft - - _Answer._ If it was the last moment I was to live God knows I am - innocent of anything of this nature - - _Q._ Did not you take notice that now when you lookt upon Mercy Lewis - she was struck down? - - _A._ I cannot help it. - - _Q._ You are charged here what doe you say? - - _A._ I am innocent of anything of this nature - - _Q._ Is this the first time that ever you were accused - - _A._ Yes Sr - - _Q._ Do not you know that one at Ipswich hath accused you? - - _A._ This is the first time that ever I heard of it. - - _Q._ You say that you never heard of these folks before. - -Mercy Lewis at length spake & charged this woman with hurting & pinching -her. And then Abigail Williams cryed she hath hurt me a great many -times, a great while and she hath brought me the book. Ann Putnam had a -pin stuck in her hand. - - _Q._ What do you say to this? - - _A._ I cannot help it. - - _Q._ What consent have you given? - -Abig Williams cryed out that she was pincht & great prints were seen in -her arm. Mary Warren cryed out she was prickt - - _Q._ Have you not seen some apparition? - - _A._ No never in all my life. - - _Q._ Those that have confessed they tell us they used images and pins - now tell us what have you used - - _A._ You would not have me confess that which I know not - -She looked upon Mary Warren & said Warren violently fell down. Look upon -this maid, viz.: Mary Walcott her back being towards the examinant. Mary -Warren & Ann Putnam said they saw this woman upon her. Susan Sheldon -saith this was the woman that carryd her yesterday to the Pond. Sus. -Sheldon carried to the examinant in a fit & was well upon grasping her -arm. - - _Q._ You said you never heard before of these people. - - _A._ Not before the warrant was served me last Sabbath day. - -John Indian cryed out Oh she bites & fell into a grevious fit & so -carried to her in his fit & was well upon her grasping him. - - _Q._ What do you say to these things—they cannot come to you. - - _A._ Sr I am unable to give account of it. - - _Q._ Cannot you tell what keeps them off from your body? - - _A._ I cannot tell I know not what it is. - -This a true account of the examination of Eliz: How taken from my -characters written at the time thereof. - -Witness my hand - - [Signed] SAM PARRIS. - - -THE INDICTMENT. THE CASE -HEARD JUNE 29TH AND 30TH AND JULY 1ST - -The jurors of our Sovereign Lord and Lady the King and Queen represent -That Elizabeth How wife of James of Ips. the 31st day of May the fourth -year of our Sovereigne Lord and Lady Wm. and Mary by the Grace of God of -England Scotland ffrance and Ireland King and Queen defenders of the -ffaith &c. and Divers other days and times as well before as after -Certaine Detestable Acts called Witchcraft and sorceries wickedly and -ffelloniously hath used Practiced and Exercised at and within the -Township of Salem in the county of Essex aforesaid in upon and against -one Mary Walcott of Salem Village singlewoman by which said wicked arts -the said Mary Walcott the 31th day of May in the 4th year aforesaid and -Divers other Days and times as well before as after was and is Tortured, -Afflicted Pined Consumed wasted and Tormented and also for sundry other -Acts of witchcraft by said Elizabeth How Committed and Done before and -since that time agt the Peace of our Soverigne Lord and Lady the King -and Queen and against the form of the statute in that case made and -Provided. - - -THE WITNESSES -TIMOTHY AND DEBORAH PERLEY - -the first of iune 1692 the deposition of timothi Perley and deborah -Perley his wife timoth Perley aged about 39 and his wife about 33 there -being som diference between goode how that is now seized namely -Elizabeth How wife of James How Junr and timothi Perli abovesaid about -som bords the night following our cous lay out and finding of them the -next morning we went to milk them and one of them did not give but two -or thre spoone fuls of milk and one of the other cous did not give above -halfe a Pinte and the other gave aboute a quart and these cous used to -give three or four quarts at a meale two of these cous continued to give -litle or nothing four or five meals and yet thes went to a good inglish -pasture and within four dais the cous gave ther full Proportion that -thir used to give. - -furder deborah Perley testifieth and as conserning hanah Perley Samuel -Perleys daughter that was so sore afflicted her mother and she coming to -our house hanah Perley being suddinli scared & so thers that woman she -goes into the oven and out againe and then fell into a dredful fit and -when I have asked her when she said that woman what woman she ment she -tould me ieams hows wife sometimes hanah Perley went along with me to -ieams hows an sone fell into a fitt goode how was ueri louing to her and -when the garl and I came away i asked whi she talked so of goode how -being she was so louing to her she tould me that if i were aflicted as -she was that I would talk as bad of her as she did at anothr tim i saw -goode how and hanah Perley together and thai were ueri louing together -and after goode How was gone i asked whi she was so louing to good how -when thai were together she tould me that she was afraide to doe -otherwise for then goode how would kil her. - - DEBORAH PERLEY - -Testified to June 30th before the Jury of Inquest - - -SAMUEL AND RUTH PERLEY - -the first of iune 1692 the deposition of Samuel Perley and his wife aged -about 52 and his wife 46 years of age we hauing a dafter about ten years -of age being in a sorrowful condition this being sone after a faling out -thai had bene betwen ieams how and his wife and miself our daughter told -us that it was ieams hows wife that afflicted her both night and day -sometimes complaining of being Pricked with Pins and sometimes faling -down into dredful fits and often sai i could neuer aflict a dog as goode -how aflicts me mi wife and i did often chide her for naming goode how -being loth her name shold be defamed but our daughter would tel us that -though we would not beleue her now yet you wil know it one day we went -to several docters and thai tould us that she was under an evil hand our -daughter tould us that when she came nere the fire or water this witch -Puls me in and was often soreli burnt and she would tel us what cloaths -she wore and would sai there she goes and there she goes and now she is -gone into the oven and at these sights faling down into dredful fits and -thus our daughter continuing about two or three years constantli -afirming to the last that this goode how that is now seised was the -cause of her sorrows and pined awai to Skin and bone and ended her -sorrowful life and this we can atest upon oath ruth Perley’s mark. - -Sam’l Pearly & his wife declare ye above written to be the truth upon -oath. After this the aboue said goode how had a mind to ioin ipswich -church thai being unsatisfied sent to us to bring in what we had against -her and when we had declared to them what we knew thei see cause to Put -a stop to her coming into the Church within a few dais after I had a cow -wel in the morning as far as we knew this cow was taken straingli -running about like a mad thing a litle while and then run into a great -Pon and drowned herself and as sone as she was dead mi sons and miself -towed her to the shore and she stunk so that we had much a doe to flea -her. - -As for the time daughters being taken ill it was in the yere of our Lord -1682. - -Testified to before the Jury of Inquest - - June 30 ’92 - - -REV. SAMUEL PHILLIPS - -The testimony of Samuel Phillips aged about 67 minister of the word of -God in Rowley who sayth that mr payson (minister of Gods word alsoe in -Rowley) and myself went, being desired to Sameul pearly of ipswich to se -thiere young daughter who was viseted with strang fitts and in her fitts -(as her father and mother affermed) did mention good wife How the wife -of James How Junior of Ipswich as if she was in the house and afflict -her; when we were in the house the child had one of her fitts but made -no mention of good wife how; & and when the fitt was over and she came -to herself, goodwife how went to the child and took her by the hand & -askt her whether she had ever done her any hurt And she answered noe -never and if I did complain of you in my fitts I knew not that I did -soe: I further can affirm upon oath that young Samuel Pearly, Brother to -the afflicted girle looking out of a chamber (I and the afflicted child -being with outdores together) and sayd to his sister Say goodwife How is -a witch say she is a witch & the child spake not a word that way, but I -lookt up to the window where the youth stood & rebuked him for his -boldness to stir up his sister to accuse the said goodw: How when as she -had cleared her from doing any hurt to his sister in both our hearing & -I added no wonder that the child in her fitts did mention Goodwife How -when her nearest relatives were soe frequent in expressing theire -suspicions in the childs hearing when she was out of her fitts that she -sayed Goodwife How was an Instrument of mischeif to the child - - SAMUEL PHILLIPS. - -Rowley 3 June 1692 - - -REV. EDWARD PAYSON - -I Edward Paison of ye Town abouesd Thoh present at ye place & time -aforesd yet cannot evidence in all the particulars mentioned: Thus much -is yet in my remembrance viz: being in ye abouesd Pearley’s house some -considerable time before ye sd Goodw: How came in: their afflicted -Daughter upon something that her mother spake to her with tartness -presently fell into on of her usual strange fitts, during which she made -no mention (as I observed) of ye above sd How her name or any thing -relating to her, sometime after the sd How came in when sd Girl had -recovered her capacity, her fitt being over sd How took sd Girl by ye -hand, asked her whether she had ever done her any hurt: ye child -answered no never; with several expressions to yt purpose which I am not -able particularly to recount &c. - - EDWARD PAISON - -Rowley June 3 1692. - - -DEBORAH HADLEY - -The Deposition of Debory Hadley aged about 70 years; this Deponant -testifieth & sth that I have lived near to Elizabeth How (ye wife of -James How Junior of Ipswich) 24 year & have found a neighborly woman -Consciencious in her dealings faithful to her pmises & Christianlike in -her Conversation so far as I have observed & further saith nt. - - DEBORAH HADLEY. - -June 24 1692 - - -DANIEL, JOHN, SARAH WARREN - -from Ipswich Ju ye 25 1692 this may sertify houe it may conserne we -being desired to wright some thing in ye behalfe of Ye Wife of Jeams how -Junior of Ipswich hoe is aprehended upon suspition of being gilty of ye -Sin of witchcraft & now in Salem prisson upon ye same acount for ouer -oun partes we haue bin well aquainted wt hur for aboue twenty yeers we -neuer see but yt she cared it very wel & yt both hur wordes & actions -wer always such as well become a good Cristian: we ofte spake to hur of -somethings yt wer reported of hur yt gaue some suspition of yt she is -now charged wt & she always profesing hur Inosency yr in offen desiring -our prayers to god for hur yt god would keep hur in his fear & yt god -would support hur under hur burdin we haue offen herd hur Speaking of -those persons yt raised thos reports of hur and we neuer heered hur -Speake badly of y for ye same but in ouer hering hath offen said yt she -desired god that he would santify yt afflicttion as well as others for -hur spiritual good. - - DANIEL WARNER senr - - JOHN WARNER senr - - SARAH WARNER - - -SIMON AND MARY CHAPMAN - -Ipswich June the 25th 1692 The testimony of Simon Chapman About 48 years -testifieth and sayth that he hath ben Aquainted with the wiufe of James -how iunr as a naybar for this 9 or 10 yers and he neuer saw any harm by -hur but that That hath bin good for I found hur Joust In hur delling -fayth fooll too hur promicises I haue had acation to be in the compiny -of goodwief howe by the fortnight togather at Thayer hous: and at other -tims and I found at all Tims by hur discors shee was a woman of -afliktion and mourning for sin in her selues and others and when she met -with eny Afliktion she semid to iostifi god and say that Itt was all -better than she dessufid that it was By falls aqusations from men and -she yust to bles god that she got good by afliktions for it med hur -examin hur oun hart I neuer herd hur refil any person that hath akusid -hur with witchcraft but pittied them and sayid i pray god forgiue then -for thay harm them selues more then me. Thof i am a gret sinar yit i am -cler of that sayed she and such kind of afliktions doth but set me a -exsamining my oun hart and I find god wondarfolly seportining me and -comfarting me by his word and promisis she semid to be a woman thron in -that grat work of conuiktion an conuertion which I pray god mak us all - - SIMON CHAPMAN - -My wief Mary Chapman cane Testifi to the most of this abou retan as -witness my hand - - MARY CHAPMAN. - - -ISAAC CUMMINGS, SR. - -June 27 1692 disposition of Isaac commins syner aget about sixty years -or thare abouts who testyfyeth and saith that about aight yers agou -James how iunr of ipswich came to my hous to borow a hors I not being at -home my son isaac told him as my son told me whan I cam home i hade no -hoes to ride on but my son isaac did tell the said how that he hade no -hors to ride on but he hade a mare the whiah he though his father would -not be wiling to lend this being upon a thursday the next day being -fryday I took the mare and myself and my wife did ride on this maer -abute half a mile to an naighbours hous and home again and when we came -home I turned the maer out the maer being as well to my thinking as ever -she was next morning it being Saturday about sun rising this said maer -stood neer my doore and the said maer as i did aperehend did show as if -she had bin much abused by riding and here flesh as I thovg mvch wasted -and her movth mvch semenly to my aperehantion mvch abused and hurt with -ye bridel bits I seing ye maer in svch a sad condition I toke up the -said maer and put her into my barn and she wold eate no maner of thing -as for provender or any thing we i give her then I sent for my brother -Thomas Andros which was living in boxford the said anderos came to my -hous I not being at home when I came home a litle afore night my brother -anderos told me he head giving the said mear southing for the bots but -as he could perseve it did do her no good but said he I cannot tell but -she may have the baly ach and said he I wel try one thing more my -brother anderos said he would take pipe of tobaco and lite it and put -itt into the fondement of the mare I told him that I thought it was not -lawfull he said it was lawfull for man or beast then I toke a clen pipe -and filled it with tobaco and did lite it and went with the pipe lite to -the barn then the said anderos used the pipe as he said before he wold -and the pipe of tobaco did blaze and burn blew then I said to my brother -Anderos you shall try no more it is not lawful he said I will try again -once mor which he did and thar arose a blaze from the pipe of tobaco -which seemed to me to cover the butocks of the said mear the blaze went -upward towards the roof of the barn and in roof of the barn thar was a -grate crackling as if the barn wovld haue falen or bin burnt which semed -so to us which ware within and some that ware without and we hade no -other fier in the barn bvt only a candil and a pipe of tobaco and then I -said I thought my barn or my mear must goe the next being Lord’s day I -spoke to my brother anderos at noone to come to see the said mear and -said anderos came and what h did I say not the same Lords day at night -my naighbours John Haukins came to my hovs and he and I went into my -barn to see this mear said houkins said and if I ware as you i wolvd of -a pece of this mear and burn it I said no not to-day but if she lived -til to morrow morning he might cut of a pece off of her and burn if he -wovld presentely as we hade spoken these words we stept out of the barn -and imedeiately this said mear fell down dade and never stvred as we -covld purseve after she fell down but lay dead - -Isac Comings Senr declared to ye Jury of Inquest that ye aboue written -evidence is the truth upon oath June 30 1692 - - -JOSEPH AND MARY KNOWLTON - -from Ipswich June 27 1692 Joseph Knowlton being aquainte with the wife -of James How Junr as a neighbour & somtims bording in the house, and at -my first coming to live in those parts which was about ten years ago I -hard a bad Report of her about Samull perleys garle which caused me to -take speshall noates of her life & conuersation euer sence and I haue -asked her if she could freely forgive them that Raised such Reports of -her she tould me Yes with all her heart desiering that god would give -her a heart to be more humble vnder such a prouidences and further she -sayed she was willing to doe any good she could to them as had done -vnneighbourly by her also This I haue taken notes of that she would deny -herself to doe a neighbour a good turn and also I haue known her to be -faithfull in the word and honest in her dealings as far as ever I saw. - - JOSEPH KNOWLTON aged forty tu - - MARY KNOWLTON aged thurty tu - - -JAMES HOWE, SR. (ninety-four yrs. old) - -information for Elizabeth How the wife of Jams How Junr. - -Jams How senr aged about 94 sayth he liueing by her for about thirty -years hath taken notes that she hath caried it well becoming her place -as a daughter as a wife in all Relations setting side humain infurmitys -as becometh a Christian with Respect to myself as a father very -dutyfully & a wifife to my son carefull loueing obedient and kind -considering his want of eye sight tenderly leading him about by the hand -Now desiering god may guide your honours to se a differans between -predigous and Consents I Rest yours to Sarve - - JAMES HOW Senr of Ipswich - - dated this 28 day of June 1692 - - -ISAAC CUMMINGS, JR. - -June 28th 1692 the testimony of Isaac Comings Juner aged about 27 years -Testifieth & saeth yt James Hough came to my fathers house when he was -not at home he asked me if my father had euer a hors & I told him no he -asked me if he had Euer a maer & I told him yesh he asked me if I -thought my father would lend him his maer & I told him I did not Think -would upon wch in a short Tyme after my father & Mother Ridd their maer -to Their neighbours house ye same maer wch sd Hough would haue Borowed -wch semingly was well when my fathr & mothr came home I seeing ye same -sd maer ye nex morning could Judge noe other butt yt she had bin Rid ye -other part of yt night or othr ways horibly abused vpon wch my fathr -seeing wt a condition his maer was in sent for his brothr Thomas Andros -wch when he came he give her severall Things wch he Thought to be good -for her butt did her not any good vpon wch he said he would try one -thing more wch was a pipe & some Tobaco wch he applid to her Thinking -itt might doe her good against ye Belly ake Thinking yt might be her -diseese wch when they vsed ye pipe wth Tobaco in itt abought ye sd maer -ye pipe being Litt itt blazed so much yt itt was as much as two persons -could putt itt ought wth both of Their hands upon wch my father said we -will Trye no more his brother my uncle sd he would trye once more ye wch -he did the pipe being Litt ye fyer Blazed out of ye same sd pipe more -vehemently than before vpon wch my father answered he had Rather Loose -his maer yn his barn ye uery next night following ye sd maer following -my father in his barn from one side to ye other side fell down -imediately Dead against ye sell of ye Barn before my fathr had well -cleered him selfe from her furthr saith not. - - -MARY CUMMINGS, Sr. - -June 27 1692 The disposition of mary commings ye wif of isaac commins -senr aged about sixty yers or thare abouts teseifieth and saith my -husband not being at home I was sent to by som parsons of ipsweg sent to -me for to have me to write what I cold say of James how iunr his wife -elisebeth conscarning her life or conversation and that I would say what -I cold say for or against her when the said hows wife sought to aiojn -with the church at ipsweg and I spoke to my son Isaac to write that we -hade vsed no brimston nor oyl nor no combustables to give to our maer -becavs thare was a report that the said hows wife had said that we had -given the maer brimston and oyl and the like and a short time after I -hade written my testemony consarning this hows wife my son Isaac his -maer was missing that he covld not find her in to or thrre days and in a -short time after my son isaacs maer came in sight not fare from the hovs -and my son isaac praid me to go ovt and look on his maer when I came to -her asked me what I thought on her her and I said if he wold have my -thoughts I covld not complain it nothing elce but that she wriden with a -hot bridil for she hade divirses brvses as if she had bin runing over -rocks and mvch wronged and where the bridil went was as if it had bin -burnt with a hot bridil then I bide Isaac take ye mare and have her vp -amongst the naghbors that peopl might see her for I hered that James how -iunr or his wife or both had said that we kept vp ovr maer that people -might not see her and isaac did show his maer to saviril and then the -said how as i hered did report that isac had riden to Lin spring and -caryed his gairl and so sorfited th maer the which was not so. - -Mary Comins owned this her testimony to be truth before the Juryes for -Inques this 29th of June 1692. - - -MARY CUMMINGS, SR. - -Jvn 27 1692 I mary comins ageed abovt sixty yers thar abovts the wife of -isaac comins syner I being at my neighbour Samuel parlys hovs samuel -parlys davgter hannah being in a straing condition asked me if J did see -goodee how in the hovs going rovnd vpon the wall as gvrl dricted her -finger along rovnd in won place and another of the hovs J teled her no J -looked as dilegently as i cold and i covld see nothing of her the gvrls -mother then did chek her and told her she was alwas foll of such kind of -notions and bid her hold her toong then she told her mother she wovld -believe it one day and som thing mor which shold hay bin mantioned as -the garl poynted to show me whare goode how was she asked me if I did -not se her go ovt at that crak which she poynted at. - -Mary Comins owned this har testimony one her oath to be the truth before -the Juriars of Inquest this 29 of June 92. Jurat in Curia. - - -MARY CUMMINGS - -Jvn 27 1692 The disposition of Mary commins aged abuvt sixty yers or -there abovts ho testefieth and saieth that above too yeres agou J went -to viset my neighbovr sherins wife and she told me that James how ivnr -had bin thare to give her a siset and he did sharply talk to her asking -her what hopes she hade of her salvation her answer was to him that she -did bild her hopes upon that sver rock Jesvs christ this the said serius -vife did tell me and she told me also that she had never talked of the -said how or his wife bvt she was wors for it afterwords and she said -also when she lay sick of the same sickness whereof she dyed that the -said how would come som time into the roome to see but she covld not -tell how to bare to see him nor that he shovld be in the hovs Mary -Comins ownid that this har testemony on har oath before the Juryars for -Inques this 29 of June 1692 Jurat in Curia - - -FRANCIS LANE - -Francis Lane aged 27 yeares testifyeth & saith that about seauen yeares -agoe James How the husband of Elizabeth How of Ipswich farmes hired sd -Lane to get him a parcell of posts & railes & sd Lane hired John Pearly -the son of samuel Pearly of Ipswich to help him in getting of them And -after they had got said Posts & rails the said Lane went to the said -James How that he might goe with him & take delivery of said Posts & -rails & Elizabeth How the wife of sd James how told said Lane that she -did not beleive that sd Posts & rails would doe because that said John -Pearly helped him & she said that if he had got them alone & had not got -John Pearly to help him she beleived that they would haue done but -seeing that said Pearly had helped about them she beleiued that they -would not doe so sd James How went with said Lane for to take deliuery -of sd Posts & rails & the said James How toke severed of the said rails -as they lay in heaps up by the end & they broke of so many of them broke -that said Lane was forced to get thirty or forty more & when said how -came home he told his wife thereof & she said to him that she had told -him before that they would not doe because said Pearly helped about them -which rails said Lane testifyeth that in his aprehention were sound -railes ffrancis Lane declared to ye Jury of inques to ye truth of ye -above written evidence upon oath June 30 1692 Jurat in Curia - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -[Illustration: IPSWICH FARMS] - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - -JOHN HOWE - -The testimony of John How aged about 50 yers saith that on that day that -my brother James his wife was Caried to Salem farmes upon examination -she was at my house and would a have had me to go with her to Salem -farmes I tould hur that if she had ben sent for upon allmost any a Count -but witchcraft I would a have gone with hur bvt one that a Count I would -not for ten pounds but said I If you are a witch tell me how long you -have ben a witch and what mischeue you have done and then J will go with -you for said J to hur you have ben acusied by Samuel pearlys Child and -suspacted by Daken Cumins for witchcraft; she semed to be aingry with -me, stell asked me to come on the morrow I told hur I did not know but I -might com to morrow but my ocashons caled me to go to Ipswich one the -morrow and came whome a bout suns set and standing nere my door talking -with one of my Naibours I had a sow with six small pigs in the yard the -sow was as well so fare as I knew as euer one a suding she leaped up -about three or fouer foot hie and turned about and gave one squeake and -fell downe daed I told my naibour that was with me I thought my sow was -bewitched for said I I think she is dead he lafed at me but It proved -true for she fell downe daed he bed me cut of hur eare the which I did -and my hand I had my knife in was so numb and full of paine that night -and sauerall days after that I could not doe any work and is not wholy -wall now and I sospected no other person but my sd sister Elizabeth How -Capt. John How declared ye above written evidence to be the truth before -ye Jury of inquest. - - upon his oath in Court - -June 30th 1692 - - -JACOB FOSTER - -The deposion of Jacob Foster aged about 29 yeares the deponant saith -that some years agoe good wife How the wife of James how was about to -Joyne with the church of Ipswich my father was an instrumentall means of -her being denyed admision quickly after my mare turned out to grass on -the tusday and on thursday I went to seek my mare to go to lecture I -sought my mare and could not find her I sought all friday and found her -not on Saturday I sought till noon & I found my mare standing leaning -with her butock against a tree I hit her with a small whip she gave a -heaue from a tree and fell back to the tree again then I took of her -fetters and struck her again she did the same again then I set my -shoulder to her side and thrust her of from the tree and moved her feet -then she went home and leapt into the pausture and my mare lookt as if -she had been miserably beaten and abused - -Jacob ffoster declared ye evidence to be ye truth before ye Jury of -inquest on oath June 30 92 - - -JOSEPH SAFFORD - -The deposition of Joseph Safford aged about 60 he testefyeth and saith -that my wife was much afraid of Elizabeth how the wife of James how upon -the Reports that were of her about Samuell perlleys child but upon a tim -after thes Reports James how and his wife coming to my house nether -myselfe nor my wife were at home and good wife how asked my children -wher ther mother was and they said at the next nayboaers hovs she -desired them to Coll ther mother which they did when my wife cam whom my -wife told me that she was much startled to se goode how but she took her -by the hand and said goode Safford I beleue that you are not ignorant of -the grete scandall that I Ly under upon the euill Report that is Raised -upon me about Samuell perlleys child and other things Joseph Safford -saith that after this his wife was taken beyond Rason and all parswasion -to tek the part of this woman after this the wife of this James how -propounded herselfe to com into the church of Ipswich wher upon sum -objection a Rose by sum unsatisfied bretheren wher upon ther was a -meeting apinted by our elders of the church to consider of things -brought in against her my wife was more than ordenery ernest to goe to -lectur the church meeting being on that day notwithstanding the many -arguments I used to perswed her to the Contrery yet I obtained a promis -of her that she would not goe to the church meeting but meeting with som -of the naybourhood they perswaded her to go with them to the church -meeting at elder pains and told her that shee need say nothing ther, but -good wife how then being Rether Rendred guilty than cleered my wife took -her by the hand. after meeting and told her though she wer condemned -before men she was Justefyed before god. the next Sabath after this my -son that caried my wife to Lectur was taken aftar a strange manar the -Saturday after that my wife was taken after a Rauing frenzy manar -expressing in a Raging manar that goode how must com into the church and -that shee was a precious saint and though shee wer condemned befor men -shee was justefyed befor god and continued in this fram for the space of -thre or four hours after that my wife fell into a kind of trance for the -space of two or thre minits shee then coming to herselfe opened her eye -and said ha J was mistaken, no answer was med by the standars by, and -again shee said ha J was mistaken Majar appleton’s wife standing by said -wherein art mistaken I was mistaken said she for J thought goode how had -bene a precious saint of god but now I see she is a witch fer shee hath -bewitched me and my child and we shall neuer be well till ther is -testemony for her that she may be taken into the church after after this -there was A meeting of the eldars at my hous and thay desired that goode -how might be at the meeting insign wallis went with myselfe to invite -goode how to this meeting she coming in discours at that time she said -two or thre times shee was sory to se my wife at the church meeting at -eldar pains after this shee said she was aflicted by the aparishtion of -goode how a few dayes aftar she was taken shee said the caus of her -changing her opinion consarning goode how was becaus shee apeared to her -throg a creuis of the clambouerds which she knew no good person could do -and at thre seuerall times after was aflicted by the aperishtion of -goode how and goode olleuer and furder this deponit saith that Rising -erlly in the morning and kindling a fir in the other Room in wife -shrieked out I presently Ran into the room wher my wife was and as soon -as euer I opened the dore my said ther be the euill one take them -whereupon I Replyed wher are they I will take them if I can shee said -you will not tek them and then sprang out of the bed herselffe and went -to the window and said thar they went out thar wer both biger than she -and they went out ther but she could not then J Replyed who be they she -said goode how and goode olleuer goode olleuer said J you never saw the -woman in your Life no said she I never saw her in my Life but so she is -Represented to me goode olleuer of Sallam the millar - -Joseph Safford declared to ye Jury of inquest that ye evidence above -written & on the other side of this paper is ye truth upon oath - -June 30 1692 - - Jurat in Curia - - -THOMAS ANDREWS - -July 1st 1692 - -The testimony of Thomas Andrews of Boxford aged about 50 yars this -deponant Testifieth & saith yt Jsiah Comings senior of Topsfield sent -for me to help help a mare yt was not well & when I came thare ye mare -was in such a condition yt I could not tell wt she ailed for J neuer -sawe yt like her lips ware exceedingly swelled yt ye Jnsides of Them -Turned outward & Look Black & blue & gelled, her Tung was in ye same -Condition J told ye said Comings I could not tell wt to doe for her J -perceiued she had not ye Botts wch J did att first think she had but J -said she might haue some great heat in her Body & I would applie a pipe -of Tobaco to her & yt that was concented & I lit a pipe of Tobaco & putt -itt under her fundiment & there came a Blew flame out of ye Bowle & Run -along ye stem of sd pipe & took hold of ye haer of sd Maer & Burnt itt & -we tryed itt 2 or 3 times together & itt did ye same itt semed to Burn -blew butt Run Like fyer yt is sett on the grass to Burn itt in ye spring -Tyme & we struck itt outt wth our hands & ye sd Comings sd yt he would -trye no more for sd he J had rather loose my mare yn my barn & J this -deponant doe testifi yt to ye Best of my understanding was ye same mare -yt James Hough Junior Belonging to Jpswich farmes husband to Elizabeth -Hough would have borowed of ye sd Comings - - THO. ANDREWS - - -REMOVAL OF ATTAINDER -AND REIMBURSEMENT - - “Ipswich ye 9 of September, 1710 - -“Whereas ye honored General Court has appointed a committee to consider -what damage persons have sustained in their names and estates in the -year 1692 by their sufferings in that as was called witch craft, ye -odium whereof was as if they are one of ye worst of mankind, we Mary How -and Abigail How: ye only survivers in this family also do groundedly -believe that our honored mother Elizabeth How suffered as innocent of -the crime charged with as any person in the world, and as to the damage -done to our estate we can not give a particular account but this we know -that our honored father went twice a week ye whole time of her -imprisonment to carry her maintenance which was provided with much -difficulty and one of us went with him because he could not go alone for -want of sight also one journey to Boston for a replevey and for -maintenance 5_s._ money left with her the first coming down 20_s._ the -second time and 40_s._ so that sometimes more some less yt never under -5_s._ per week which we know for charge for her and necessary charge for -ourselves and horses cannot be less than £20 money yet notwithstanding -so that ye name may be repaired we are content if your honors shall -allow £12. - -Yours to serve - - MARY HOW & ABIGAIL HOW.” - - * * * * * - -“This petition was presented to said Court by Capt. John How and Abraham -How uncles of said Mary and Abigail for relief in the premises and pray -that the petition may be allowed the same.” - - * * * * * - -The petition was referred to the committee referred to therein. - - * * * * * - -“The committee met at Salem, 13th, Sept. 1710, and the 14th reported -allowing the Misses How the £12 asked for.” - - THOS. NOYES } - JOHN BURRILL} _Committee_ - NAH. JEWETT } - -“23 Oct., 1711. Read and accepted in House of Representatives, and sent -up for concurrence. - - JOHN BURRILL, _Speaker_. - -“In Council, 28 Oct., 1711. - -“Read and concurred. - - JOHN ADDINGTON, _Sec’y_.” - -_State Archives_, _Room_ 434, _Vol._ 135: 131, 169. - - -HOME OF MRS. HOWE -LOCATED. THE CONCLUSION - -[Illustration: Map of the homestead] - -This map delineates a part of the homestead of Mrs. Eliza Howe Perley, -now in her ninety-third year (May 15) whose residence is at “6.” The -ascent of the estate is: Mrs. Perley’s father, Aaron Howe; his second -cousin, Joseph Howe; Joseph’s father, Abraham Howe; his father, Abraham -Howe, Jr.; his cousins, Abigail and Mary Howe; their father, James Howe, -Jr.; his father, James Howe, Sr.,—a continuous Howe ownership of two -hundred sixty years. - -The house pictured on the opposite page stood at “2,” and was built, -probably, in 1711, since Abraham Howe, Jr., bought the land in February -of that year, “to set a house upon.” - -James Howe, Jr., owned “a small house in the orchard,” “3,” and a third -of other “housing,” which may have included “the old house,” that stood -in 1711, “near” “5” south of “2,” “the southwest corner of the orchard.” - -While searching the records of deeds, the writer noted a course in a -description: “Thence to the gate opposite James Howe, Junior’s.” The -locality was well known to him, and that knowledge located the gate. He -had often seen a gate there, between 1840 and 1850. It swung at the -entrance of the avenue leading to the residence of James Howe, Senior, -marked “gate” on the map. That fact was tangible; Mrs. Howe’s home was -at “2” on the map or near it. - -Thus far and no farther, till one day looking over the ground back of -the present residence of Mrs. Eliza Howe Perley, “6” on the map, the -writer noticed a peculiar hollow in the otherwise level surface, and to -his question, What made it? she replied, “I don’t know; I have always -heard it called Mary’s hole.” He immediately exclaimed, “Mary Howe, -daughter of the witch.” - -His conclusion: There the surviving daughters, Mary and Abigail, lived, -secluded and alone, beneath the shadow of the cruel attainder. After the -death of Mary, their home became Mary’s cellar; and when all appearance -of a cellar was gone, it became “Mary’s hole.” To-day there is not the -slightest vestige of “Mary’s hole”; the old home, known only to the -saddest pages of New England history, is arable ground. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -[Illustration: - - THE AARON HOWE HOUSE, LINEBROOK PARISH - Built in 1711, the birthplace of Rev. Nathaniel Howe (1764-1837), of - Hopkinton, Mass., and of Rev. Benjamin Howe (1807-1883) of that - parish; taken down about 1853. -] - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -[Illustration: DESCENDANTS OF JAMES HOWE - - │JAMES - │ELIZA^{TH} - JAMES .....│MARY - │DEBORAH │MARTHA - │JOHN ......│SARAH - │ABIGAIL │JAMES - MARY - │SARAH │MARK - │MARK │MARY - │JOHN ......│SARAH HOWE ARMS - │ANN │JOHN - │SAMUEL │ZERUIAH - JOHN ......│JOSEPH │JOSEPH - │MARY - │ELIZA^{TH} - │LYDIA - │BENJ^N - │HANNAH - │ABIGAIL - │ISAAC - │JOSEPH - REBECCA - │LOVE │MARY - │ │JOSEPH - │ │SARAH - │INCREASE ..│SUSAN - │ │ELIZA^{TH} │ABRAH^M ...│ABRAH^M P. - │ │JOSEPH │ - │ │JOHN │ │W^M A. - │SAMSON │ │EDWARD E. - │ │MERCY │ │ADELINE - │ │JEMIMA │ABEL ......│MARGARET - │ │HEPHZIBAH │ABRAH^M ...│ELEANOR │LEVERETT S. - ABRAH^M ...│ABRAH^M ...│SARAH │JOHN │ABEL S. - │ │RUTH │LUCY │WILLARD P. - │ │ABRA^M ....│NATHAN^L │JOHN - │ │ELIZA^{TH} │ELIZA^{TH} │MEHIT^{ALE} - │ABIJAH │JOSEPH ....│ELIZA^{TH} - │ │MARK │MOSES - │ │DANIEL │SAMUEL │PRISCILLA - │ISRAEL ....│ │SAMUEL - │ │HANNAH │JOSHUA │CECIL P. - │ │PRISCILLA │BENJ^N ....│HOMER - │ │LUCY MARY - │ │AMOS - │ │HANNAH - │ │LOVE - │ │MOSES - │ │LUCY - │MARK ......│MARY - SARAH │AARON - │MARK │CATHERINE - │ABIJAH │JANE - │MARK ......│ELIPHALET - │ - │ │NATHAN^L │LEONARD - │NATHAN^L ..│AARON .....│ELIZA │CALVIN E - │PHILEMON │HANNAH │CELESTIA E. - │HEPHZIBAH │MARK ......│NATHAN^L ..│MARY I. - │ - │EMERSON ...│CELIA A. - │HANNAH -] - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - DESCENDANTS OF JAMES HOWE - IPSWICH HOWES—JAMES BRANCH - - ARMA VIRUMQUE CANO - - -James Howe, Jr., was son of James, Sen., of Ipswich, County Essex, -Mass., and grandson of Robert, “who lived in Hatfield, Broad-Oak, county -Essex, England, where Sir Francis Barrington lived in Woodrow-Green; -James, son of said Robert, lived in a place called Hackerill, or -Bockerill, in Bishop-Stortford—in the happy and gracious reign of King -James I.” - -The mention of Sir Francis’s name in this connection suggests some -particular attachment, of which Mr. Howe had, no doubt, informed his -children, and which he wished them to remember and cherish. Sir -Francis’s family name went into England with the Conqueror, 1066, as Du -Barentin. The old feudal burg and barony which cradled the name, near -Rouen, is now Barentin. The Conqueror gave Baron Odo Du Barentin a grant -of land in county Essex and the descendant office of ranger or keeper of -the forest of Hatfield. Early in the seventeenth century the name was -anglicized Barrington. - -The special mention of Sir Francis’s name, noted above, could hardly -indicate a family relation; it may have been a correlation, as ranger -and subranger, or assistant, a lucrative station of Sir Francis’s gift. -The charge, a wolf’s head, which has characterized the Howe arms for -centuries, suggests forests and an encounter. - - -THE COAT OF ARMS -JAMES, JR., AND ELIZABETH - -[Illustration: BY THE NAME OF HOW] - -Of the arms “_Gules_ (red) a chevron _argent_ (silver) between three -cros-cros-lets _or_ (gold) three wolves’ heads of the same,” said to -have “adorned the walls of the ‘Wayside Inn’ or Howe Tavern, in Sudbury, -for over a hundred and fifty years,” “Ye wolfs are ye fams. Arms, ye -cross, for gt accts don by ye 1st El.,” who lived around A.D. 1500, or -the time of Henry VII or VIII. - -The seat of the family bearing the above arms was in county Warwick; the -seat of Robert Howe and the place of the original Howe arms: “_Argent_ -(silver) a chevron between three wolves’ heads couped _sable_ (black)” -was in county Essex. - -[Illustration: Coat of Arms] - -If the query is now suggested, why did not our James Howe claim a coat -of arms if he were entitled to one, this answer is persuasive if not -conclusive; so early created and so long unused, it was forgotten; or -maybe, in New England practical home life its value was considered zero, -or negative. - -It may be said, further, that the Howe coat armor, the Howe family, the -Barrington family, and the King’s forest—each and all—belonged to -Hatfield, county Essex, and it may be thought strange that the ancient -Howe arms should not include our James, the immigrant, in its descent. -On the whole, there is a preponderating impression that the wolf’s head -on the Howe arms was captured in the Hatfield forest by a Howe. - -James Howe, Sr., was of Roxbury, and made freeman May 17, 1637, and -removed to Ipswich before 1648. He was granted June 11, 1650, on motion -of Mr. Norton, one of the farms of a hundred acres formerly reserved for -Mr. Norton’s friends. He bought, July 3, 1651, about twenty-one acres -adjoining to Mr. Winthrop’s and Mr. Symonds’s farms. He was a commoner, -1641; a tithing man, 1671. His wife, Elizabeth Dane, only daughter of -John Dane, of Roxbury, died Jan. 21, 1693-4. Both joined the church at -Topsfield in 1684. - -He was eminently an all round man. He was a weaver by trade, but he -could butcher a swine or write a will or deed; he could practice in -probate or dig a grave; he could make a coffin or build a house; he -could cultivate a farm or survey it; he could shoe a horse or an ox or -make his own or others’ shoes; he was a ready helper in every department -of country life. He died May 17, 1701-2,[4] at the age of one hundred -and four years, a man of three centuries. - -Footnote 4: - - Caldwell’s _Antiquarian Papers_ quote Sewell: “May 19, 1701, was - buried Mr. James How, a good man, aged 104 years. He died, I think, - Lord’s day night, just about the time the news of the King’s death was - brought from Medera.” King William died Sunday, March 8, 1701-2, O.S.; - Sunday, March 8, 1702, J.S.; or March 19, 1702, N.S.] - -James Howe, Jr., was born in Roxbury, in 1635 or 1636, since he was -“about 30” in 1666 and “about 34,” Sept. 28, 1669. He married, April 13, -1658, Elizabeth Jackson, a neighbor, daughter of William and Joanna, of -Rowley, and sister to Mary, who married Wm. Foster, of Boxford, and to -Deborah, who married Lieut. John Trumble, of Newbury, official men in -their respective towns. - -He had a share in Plum Island, 1664; was a voter, 1679; at about fifty -years of age was blind, so he had to be led. His will is dated Nov. 19, -1701. He confirms to his daughter Elizabeth Jackson’s children, what he -had given her; mentions his daughter Deborah and grandson James “when -21” and granddaughters Martha How and Sarah How “when 18 or married.” He -gave his other two daughters, Mary and Abigail, “for their pains and -care that they have taken of me for several years and their labor for my -maintenance,” my house, barn, orchard, lands, and movables, and -appointed them executrices. He signed his will “James How,” but it was -proved, March 11, 1701-2, as the will of James Howe, Jr. He died Feb. -15, 1701. Their children were: - - James, who died in July, 1664. - - Elizabeth, born June 1, 1661, married Caleb Jackson, son of Nicholas, a - neighbor. - - Mary, born Feb. 25, 1664, petitioner, p. 73. - - Deborah, who married Isaac Howe, of Roxbury, son and grandson of - Abrahams. - - John, born April 17, 1671, married Hannah Browne, and had Martha, 1691; - Sarah, 1692-3; who married Thomas Wood; James, 1695, ancestor of the - Methuen family of Howes. His widow married Ephraim Roberts, of - Methuen, and had Patience, 1703, and Mary, 1705. - - Abigail, born Dec. 3, 1673, petitioner, p. 73. - -All the family connections of the alleged witch were well-to-do people -and stable and standard in church and civic life. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - - - BIBLIOGRAPHY - - - M. V. B. 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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - -Title: A Short History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Trials - Illustrated by a Verbatim Report of the Trial of Mrs. Elizabeth Howe - -Author: Martin Van Buren Perley - -Release Date: January 22, 2017 [EBook #54042] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SHORT HISTORY--SALEM WITCHCRAFT TRIALS *** - - - - -Produced by MWS, ellinora and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class='tnote'> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div>Transcriber Notes</div> - </div> -</div> - - <ul class='ul_1'> - <li>There are many inconsistencies in this text. The headings in the table of contents do - not all match the actual headings in the text, and not all headings in the text are in - the table of contents. There are variations in spelling, hyphenation and capitalization, - missing punctuation, and possible repeated words, particularly in the transcriptions from - the 1692 court proceedings. In the older text, the letters u/v and I/J are sometimes used - differently than is done today. Aside from a small number of punctuation typos in the - more modern part of the text, and the page and item number fixes noted below, all - inconsistencies and variations have been left as in the original. - </li> - <li>The page numbers in the Bibliography content list changed to reflect their actual - page numbers in the book. A duplicate (3) in the Perley’s Chronological Chart section was - changed to (2). - </li> - </ul> - -</div> -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id001'> -<img src='images/cover.jpg' alt='cover' class='ig001' /> -</div> -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div id='fp' class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/image001.jpg' alt='Typical of the Witchcraft Trials' class='ig001' /> -<div class='ic002'> -<p><span class='sc'>Typical of the Witchcraft Trials</span></p> -</div> -</div> -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_1'>1</span> - <h1 class='c001'>A SHORT HISTORY <br /> <br /> <span class='small'>OF THE</span> <br /> <br /> Salem Village Witchcraft Trials <br /> <br /> <span class='small'>ILLUSTRATED BY A</span><br /> <br /> Verbatim Report of the Trial of <br /> <span class='sc'>Mrs. Elizabeth Howe</span></h1> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c000'> - <div>A MEMORIAL OF HER</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div id='il01' class='figcenter id003'> -<img src='images/image002.jpg' alt='Witch-eclipse of the Moon' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='lg-container-b'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in44'>To dance with</div> - <div class='line'>Lapland witches, while the lab’ring moon eclipses at their</div> - <div class='line'>charms.</div> - </div> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line in34'>—Paradise Lost, ii. 662</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c000'> - <div>MAP AND HALF TONE ILLUSTRATIONS</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c002'> - <div>SALEM, MASS.:</div> - <div>M. V. B. PERLEY, <span class='sc'>Publisher</span></div> - <div>1911</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c003'> - <div><span class='pageno' id='Page_2'>2</span><span class='sc'>Copyright</span>, 1911</div> - <div><span class='sc'>By M. V. B. PERLEY</span></div> - <div><span class='sc'>Salem, Mass.</span></div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c1'> -<div class='nf-center c002'> - <div>BOSTON</div> - <div>The Tudor Press</div> - <div>1911</div> - </div> -</div> - -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_3'>3</span> - <h2 id='notice' class='c004'>NOTICE</h2> -</div> - -<p class='c005'>Greater Salem, the province of Governors -Conant and Endicott, is visited by thousands of -sojourners yearly. They come to study the -Quakers and the witches, to picture the manses -of the latter and the stately mansions of Salem’s -commercial kings, and breathe the salubrious air -of “old gray ocean.”</p> - -<p class='c006'>The witchcraft “delusion” is generally the -first topic of inquiry, and the earnest desire of -those people with notebook in hand to aid the -memory in chronicling answers, suggested this -monograph and urged its publication. There is -another cogent reason: the popular knowledge -is circumscribed and even that needs correcting.</p> - -<p class='c006'>This short history meets that earnest desire; -it gives the origin, growth, and death of the -hideous monster; it gives dates, courts, and names -of places, jurors, witnesses, and those hanged; it -names and explains certain “men and things” -that are concomitant to the trials, with which the -reader may not be conversant and which are -necessary to the proper setting of the trials in -one’s mind; it compasses the salient features of -witchcraft history, so that the story of the 1692 -“delusion” may be garnered and entertainingly -rehearsed.</p> - -<p class='c006'>The trials were all spread upon the records, word -for word. Rev. Samuel Parris, stenographer to -the court, says they were “taken down in my -characters written at the time,” barring, of course, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_4'>4</span>the evidence by affidavits, which were written, -signed, and attested, and filed in the Clerk of -Court’s office, where they may now be seen.</p> - -<p class='c006'>Great research has hitherto been made, keen, -sagacious acumen employed, and much written; -but the true criterion of judgment, a trial,—a -word for word trial,—has not before this been -published. Here, then, is the first opportunity -of readers to judge for themselves.</p> - -<p class='c006'>The trials were unique. The court was without -authority; none of the judges, it is said, was -bred to the law; evidence was arbitrarily admitted -or excluded; the accused were not allowed -counsel in law or the consolation of the -clergy in religion.</p> - -<p class='c006'>The careful reader may discover, between the -lines, in questions, in answers, and in the strange -exhibitions, the real state of mind pervading all, -which has been mildly characterized as a “delusion”; -also he may be able to compare the -Mosaic, the 1692, and the modern spirit manifestations, -and advantageously determine for himself -what is worth while in modern spiritualism, mind-reading, -clairvoyance, mesmerism, and the rest.</p> - -<p class='c006'>Though men of education, religion, titled -dignity, and official station, of the professions and -the élite, were responsible for the horrible catastrophy, -and in one instance or more forced the -yeoman jurors to convict (who at the end signed -recantations and expressed their grief),—religion -and education must not be undervalued; a religious -education will yield the highest type of manhood.</p> -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_5'>5</span> - <h2 class='c004'>CONTENTS</h2> -</div> - -<table class='table0' summary=''> - <tr> - <th class='c007'></th> - <th class='c008'>PAGE</th> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Notice</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#notice'>3</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>The Introduction</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#intro'>9</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>The Witch, Her Antiquity, Legal Status</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#legalstatus'>9</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>The Modern Witch; Her Persecution</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#modern'>10</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Learned Men’s Views, Dissenters, Crone Lore</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#learnedviews'>11</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Ingersoll; The Four Ministers</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#ingersoll'>13</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>The Witch School; “Who’s Who”</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#school'>18</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Unwarrantable Usurpation</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#usurpation'>21</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Names of the Court and Jury</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#courtjury'>23</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Names of Those Hanged</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#hanged'>24</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Rev. John Hale Converted</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#johnhale'>27</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Lofty Character of the Condemned</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#lofty'>28</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Place of Execution; The Crevice</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#crevice'>29</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Mrs. Howe’s Case:</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#howecase'>31</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>The Sunday Warrant; Her Examination</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#sunday'>31</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Indicted, Remanded to Salem Jail</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#indict'>35</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'> </td> - <td class='c008'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Case Called June 29th. The Witnesses:</td> - <td class='c008'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'><span class="indent2">Andrews, Thomas</span></td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#andrews'>57</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'><span class="indent2">Chapman, Simon and Mary</span></td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#chapman'>41</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'><span class="indent2">Cummings, Isaac, Sr. and Jr.</span></td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#icummingssr'>43</a>-46</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'><span class="indent2">Cummings, Mary, Sr.</span></td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#mcummingssr'>47</a>-49</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'><span class="indent2">Foster, Jacob</span></td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#foster'>53</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'><span class="indent2">Hadley, Deborah</span></td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#hadley'>40</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'><span class="indent2">Howe, James, Sr. (ninety-four years old)</span></td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#jameshowe'>46</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'><span class="indent2">Howe, John (brother-in-law)</span></td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#johnhowe'>52</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'><span class="indent2">Knowlton, Joseph and Mary</span></td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#knowlton'>45</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'><span class="indent2">Lane, Francis</span></td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#lane'>50</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'><span class="indent2">Payson, Rev. Edward</span></td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#payson'>40</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'><span class='pageno' id='Page_6'>6</span><span class="indent2">Perley, Samuel<a id='r1' /><a href='#f1' class='c009'><sup>[1]</sup></a> and Ruth</span></td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#srperley'>37</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'><span class="indent2">Perley, Timothy<a href='#f1' class='c009'><sup>[1]</sup></a> and Deborah</span></td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#tdperley'>36</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'><span class="indent2">Phillips, Rev. Samuel</span></td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#phillips'>38</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'><span class="indent2">Safford, Joseph</span></td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#safford'>54</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'><span class="indent2">Warner, Daniel, John, Sarah</span></td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#warren'>41</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'> </td> - <td class='c008'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Imprisoned at Boston. Her Execution</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#execution'>24</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Petition for Reimbursement and Removal of Attainder</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#removal'>58</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Mrs. Howe’s Home Located</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#located'>60</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Judge Joseph Story’s Tribute</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#tribute'>28</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'> </td> - <td class='c008'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Who Were the Howes?</td> - <td class='c008'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'><span class="indent2">James Branch of the Ipswich Howes</span></td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#ipswich'>65</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'><span class="indent2">Coats of Arms</span></td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#coats'>66</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'><span class="indent2">James Howe, Sr.</span></td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#jameshowesr'>67</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'><span class="indent2">James Howe, Jr., and His Wife Elizabeth</span></td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#jameshowejr'>68</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'> </td> - <td class='c008'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Bibliography</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#biblio'>70</a></td> - </tr> -</table> - -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_7'>7</span> - <h2 class='c004'>ILLUSTRATIONS</h2> -</div> - -<table class='table1' summary=''> -<colgroup> -<col width='74%' /> -<col width='25%' /> -</colgroup> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Typical of the Witchcraft Trials</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#fp'>Frontispiece</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Painting by Mattison, about 1854. The only conception of the witchcraft trials ever spread on canvas.—Courtesy of <i>The Essex Institute</i>.</td> - <td class='c008'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'> </td> - <td class='c008'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <th class='c007'></th> - <th class='c008'>PAGE</th> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Witch-eclipse of the Moon</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#il01'>1</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Salem Village (now Danvers Highlands)</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#il02'>14</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>The New England Witch</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#il03'>15</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>The 1692 Meetinghouse</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#il04'>17</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>The Present Church and Parsonage</td> - <td class='c008'>opp. <a href='#il05'>18</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Governor Simon Bradstreet</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#il06'>21</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>The Mathers, Increase and Cotton</td> - <td class='c008'>opp. <a href='#il07'>22</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>The Witch Plat, or Place of Executions</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#il08'>29</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>The Witch Plat, showing “The Crevice”</td> - <td class='c008'>opp. <a href='#il09'>29</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Warrant for Mrs. Howe’s Arrest</td> - <td class='c008'>opp. <a href='#il10'>31</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Ipswich Farms</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#il11'>51</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Location of Mrs. Howe’s Home</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#il12'>60</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>The Aaron Howe House</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#il13'>62</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Descendants of James Howe, Sr.</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#il14'>64</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>The Howe Arms</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#il15'>66</a></td> - </tr> -</table> -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_9'>9</span> - <h2 id='intro' class='c004'>INTRODUCTION</h2> -</div> - -<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c010'>The proceedings in witchcraft in 1692 to us -who are two hundred and twenty years -removed from the scene, seem, at first, -impossible, then mortifying, and persuasive of -disowning our fathers and forgetting the period -of their folly. At best, the occurrence furnishes -the wildest and saddest chapter in our New England -history.</p> - -<h3 id='legalstatus' class='c011'><span class='sc'>Antiquity of the Witch <br /> and Her Legal Status</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>The doctrine of familiar spirits was current in -most ancient times. It is possible that immediately -after the fall in Adam the imprisoned spirit -of man began to assert its former freedom and -ability. The old Scriptures depicted the witch’s -character, gave warning of her blighting influence, -and enacted heavy penalties against employing -her agency. In Exodus, xxii. 18: “Thou shalt -not suffer a witch to live.” In Leviticus, xx. 27: -“A man also or a woman that hath a familiar -spirit, or that is a wizard, shall surely be put to -death; their blood shall be upon them.” In -Deuteronomy, xviii. 9-12: “When thou art come -into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, -thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations -of those nations. There shall not be found among -you any one that maketh his son or his daughter -to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, -<span class='pageno' id='Page_10'>10</span>or any observer of times, or any enchanter, or a -witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar -spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer; for all that -do these things are an abomination unto the -Lord.”</p> - -<h3 class='c011'><span class='sc'>The Colonial Laws and <br /> Their Biblical Origin</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>The colonial laws to which New England witches -were amenable, codified by Rev. Samuel Ward, of -Ipswich, who had had extensive legal training -and practice before entering the ministry, were -published in 1641. Mr. Ward<a id='r2' /><a href='#f2' class='c009'><sup>[2]</sup></a> followed Moses, -the great Hebrew lawgiver, in great measure, but -he distanced England in mildness and was far -ahead of his time in scope. With him, however, -the witch found no favor. Death was the punishment -for witchcraft, first and last, and the -Puritan, whose sure palladium of civil and religious -freedom was the Bible, obeyed the precept -to the letter, his highest knowledge and -authority.</p> - -<h3 id='modern' class='c011'><span class='sc'>The Modern Witch and <br /> Her Terrible Persecution</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>The modern witch, it is said, had her birth near -the beginning of the Christian era. Her persecution -began about two hundred years later. -<span class='pageno' id='Page_11'>11</span>From that time hundreds of thousands of victims -were immolated to appease the inconsiderate -and insatiate demands of her persecutors.</p> - -<p class='c006'>In the earliest years witches were generally -burned, and in the first one hundred and fifty -years it is estimated thirty thousand thus perished. -Later, in France, in one century, an -almost incredible number suffered—one thousand -in a single diocese. In the century, 1600 to -1700, two hundred were hanged in England, one -thousand were burned in Scotland, and a much -greater number on the Continent.</p> - -<h3 id='learnedviews' class='c011'><span class='sc'>The American Witch and <br /> Views of the Educated</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>In America there were witch trials—in Connecticut, -New York, and Pennsylvania,<a id='r3' /><a href='#f3' class='c009'><sup>[3]</sup></a>—some -years before 1692. In Boston, 1648, Margaret -Jones, of malignant touch, was hanged, and -Mrs. Ann (Wm.) Hebbins, in 1655. In Springfield, -1651, Mrs. Mary (Hugh) Parsons was -hanged. In Ipswich quarter court, 1652, a man -was sentenced to pay a fine of twenty shillings, -or to be whipped for “having familiarity with the -Devil.”</p> - -<p class='c006'>The doctrine of witches was embraced not only -by the common people, but also by the learned; -Tycho Brahe, the prince of astronomers, and -<span class='pageno' id='Page_12'>12</span>Kepler, his student, Martin Luther, the bold -theologian, and Melancthon, the gentle; the -silver-tongued Dr. Watts and the pious Baxter, -who styled a disbeliever in witchcraft “an obdurate -Sadducee,” and others whom time fails me to -mention.</p> - -<h3 class='c011'><span class='sc'>Old Crone Lore and <br /> Three Notable Dissenters</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>Witch stories were a social entertainment, to -the mingled fear and merriment of guests and -the positive foreboding of children. Who even -now among the older people has forgotten the -crone lore of our grandmothers—how witches -would seize a red-hot iron, glide into a heated -oven, ride through the air on enchanted broomsticks, -and how stalwart men would stalk through -keyholes, supported and directed by Satanic -power! It was believed that witches made an -actual, deliberate, and formal compact with Satan.</p> - -<p class='c006'>There were, however, two or three persons of -learning and influence in the Province who (to -their great credit, be it said) dared to oppose the -doctrine of witches—the celebrated Rev. Samuel -Willard, of the Old South Church, Boston,—Maj. -Nathaniel Saltonstall, who declined a seat -upon the bench rather than participate in the -witch trials,—and Rev. John Higginson (son of -Rev. Francis, the first minister of Salem), who was -cautious and held himself aloof; for his conscience -whispered he had gone too far against the -Quakers.</p> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_13'>13</span> - <h3 class='c011'><span class='sc'>Pen Picture of a Witch</span> <br /> <span class='sc'>Home of the “Delusion”</span></h3> -</div> - -<p class='c012'>The New England witch was supposed to be an -old woman of attenuated form, somewhat bent; -clothed in lively colors and ample skirts; having a -darting and piercing eye, a head sporting disheveled -hair and crowned with a sugar-loaf hat, a -carlin’s cheek, a falcated chin bent to meet an -aquiline nose, by both of which was formed a -Neapolitan bay, her mouth in the background -resembling Vesuvius in eruption; and riding an -enchanted broomstick with a black cat as -guide.</p> - -<p class='c006'>Salem Village, the location of the hideous -catastrophe, was the northern precinct of Salem; -and when it was incorporated Danvers, its name -became Danvers Center. Quite recently (1910) -the trolley car company changed the name to -Danvers Highlands, but in the steam car nomenclature -it is Collins Street. From Town House -Square in Salem to the Highlands a trolley ride -costs a nickel; the distance is five miles, and every -mile a pleasure.</p> - -<h3 id='ingersoll' class='c011'><span class='sc'>Ingersoll and His Tavern</span> <br /> <span class='sc'>Revs. Bailey, Burroughs, Lawson</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>Nathaniel Ingersoll occupied the central location -in the village; a man of industry and thrift; -a licensed innkeeper, who sold liquor by the -quart on Sunday; a kind of chief of police; managed -the defenses against the Indians; a benevolent -man, and was chosen deacon. His name does -not figure in the witch trials, and the witches have -left no records of the influence of his tavern in the -results. The open plat of ground in front of his -tavern was called Ingersoll’s Common. Farther -up the street, at No. 5, is a plat of ground he gave -for “a training field forever.” Capt. Dea. Jonathan -Walcott was a neighbor, as was also Sergt. -Thomas Putnam, parish clerk.</p> -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div id='il02' class='figleft id004'> -<span class='pageno' id='Page_14'>14</span> -<img src='images/image015.jpg' alt='DANVERS HIGHLANDS MAP' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>Danvers Highlands</span></div> - <div><span class='sc'>Danvers Center</span></div> - <div><i>Old Salem Village</i></div> - </div> -</div> - - <ul class='ul_2'> - <li>1. Locates the church there at present. - </li> - <li class='c000'>2. Locates the church of 1692. - </li> - <li class='c000'>3. Locates the Ingersoll Tavern and the present parsonage. - </li> - <li class='c000'>4. Locates the Parris house where the mischief began. - </li> - <li class='c000'>5. Locates the entrance to the Ingersoll Training Field. - </li> - <li class='c000'>The narrow lane leading to No. 4 is a right of way for all. - </li> - </ul> - -<div class='clear'> - -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -</div> -<div id='il03' class='figcenter id002'> -<span class='pageno' id='Page_15'>15</span> -<img src='images/image016.jpg' alt='The New England Witch' class='ig001' /> -<div class='ic002'> -<p><span class='sc'>The New England Witch</span></p> -</div> -</div> -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<p class='c006'><span class='pageno' id='Page_16'>16</span>Rev. James Bailey, near his majority, a recent -graduate of Harvard, began to preach (not as -pastor) there in 1671, and created a division. -Rev. George Burroughs succeeded him in 1680, -but matters grew worse. In 1683 Rev. Deodat -Lawson began and gave no better results.</p> - -<p class='c006'>Mr. Burroughs was a short, stout man, very -muscular and of very dark complexion. He was -a Harvard graduate of 1670. Most of the witches -knew him; and his complexion and extraordinary -strength argued his connection with the black -art and the muscular devil.</p> - -<p class='c006'>Rev. Deodat Lawson (Deo-dat-um), a “God-given” -cataplasm for the tumor of unrest, social -discords, and animosities that had their rise in -Bailey’s ministry! With Lawson, the suppuration -began; for the deviltry had gone from <i>seance</i> -to families and the church, where the unwhipped -girls cried out from time to time, “enough of -that”; “see the yellow bird on the minister’s hat”; -“now name your text”; “look how she sits”; -to all which Mr. Lawson’s simplicity testifies: -<span class='pageno' id='Page_17'>17</span>these things “did something interrupt me in my -first prayer, being so unusual.”</p> - -<h3 class='c011'><span class='sc'>Rev. Samuel Parris, Student <br /> West Indian Trader, First Pastor</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>The wound was treated and cleansed during the -ministry of Rev. Samuel Parris. He was born -in London, about 1653, had been a merchant in -Boston and the Spanish Main, and had studied -at Harvard. He succeeded Mr. Lawson and was -ordained and installed their first pastor, Tuesday, -Nov. 19, 1689. He left in 1696. The unanimity -of the church since he left has been as marked as -the schism was before he left.</p> - -<div id='il04' class='figcenter id005'> -<img src='images/image018.jpg' alt='The Parris Meeting House, 1692' class='ig001' /> -<div class='ic002'> -<p><span class='sc'>The Parris Meeting House, 1692</span></p> -</div> -</div> - -<p class='c006'>Mr. Parris’s home was at No. 4 on the map. -His house probably did not survive the year -<span class='pageno' id='Page_18'>18</span>1717. His meetinghouse stood a little to the -east of the Ingersoll Tavern, probably the flat -spot now marked by rose bushes and weeds, and -maybe by a large, flat stone in the wall, which -stone may have served as a doorstep. A beautiful -modern church edifice now graces the corner -opposite Ingersoll’s old corner, while the parsonage -occupies the Ingersoll site.</p> - -<h3 class='c011'><span class='sc'>John and His Tituba</span> <br /> <span class='sc'>Rev. S. Parris’s Slaves</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>Mr. Parris brought with him from the Spanish -Main, as his slaves, a couple called John Indian -and his wife, Tituba. The ignorance of the -Spanish population found its summit of pleasure -in dancing, singing, sleight of hand, palmistry, -fortune-telling, magic, and necromancy (or spirit -communication with the dead); and John and his -Tituba in all those things were fully up to date.</p> - -<h3 id='school' class='c011'><span class='sc'>Parris’s Witch School, Apt <br /> Pupils, Their Personnel</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>To the pastor’s house (as he wrote, “When these -calamities first began, which was at my house”) -the village maidens, by surreption, went under the -tuition of Tituba. Those of us who have some -remembrance of the rise of spiritualism, the -phenomenon of table-tipping, and the slightly -more refined practice of the élite with scribbling -planchet, can picture in some degree Tituba’s -pupils and how they got there.</p> -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div id='il05' class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/image020.jpg' alt='First Church Edifice and Parsonage' class='ig001' /> -<div class='ic002'> -<p><span class='sc'>First Church Edifice and Parsonage</span><br /><span class='sc'>Danvers Highlands</span></p> -</div> -</div> -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<p class='c006'><span class='pageno' id='Page_19'>19</span>Of those pupils (“children,” as the court called -them) two were of the pastor’s family—Ann -Williams, aged eleven, and his daughter, whom -he quickly sent away; Ann Putnam, daughter of -Ann and Sergeant Thomas, a precocious miss of -only twelve, who easily became a leader; Mary -Warren, domestic in John Proctor’s family, aged -twenty; Susannah Sheldon and Elizabeth Booth, -neighbors and eighteen; Sarah Churchill, helper -to George Jacobs, senior; Elizabeth Hubbard, -Mercy Lewis, former domestic for Mrs. Burroughs, -and Mary Walcott, daughter of Deacon -Jonathan, each of them eighteen.</p> - -<p class='c006'>Had those “children,” the pioneers of the awfully -fatal mischief, been scourged at the whipping -post,</p> -<div class='lg-container-b c000'> - <div class='linegroup'> - <div class='group'> - <div class='line'>“Or had been beaten till they’d know</div> - <div class='line in2'>What wood the cudgel’s of by the blow,”</div> - </div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c013'>if needful, and John and his Tituba been returned -to their native soil, no doubt the horrible -tragedy would have been averted. The Shafflin -girl in Peabody was cured “when a timely whipping -brought her to her senses.” So was Dinah Sylvester, -of Mansfield, when given her choice of a -whipping or owning and abandoning her error.</p> - -<h3 class='c011'><span class='sc'>Casting out Devils <br /> “Still the Wonder Grew”</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>But, instead, Mr. Parris, in fashion of the -vaunted prowess of Cotton Mather and other -pedantic, astute, aspiring ministers, to show their -<span class='pageno' id='Page_20'>20</span>efficiency in “casting out devils,” called in the -clergy, the deacons, and the elders, and held, -February 11th, a day of fasting and prayer. -“And still the wonder grew.”</p> - -<h3 class='c011'><span class='sc'>A Portentous Leap Day <br /> “The Greatest Show on Earth”</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>It was high time, and some leading citizens -took the initiative. A complaint was lodged -against Tituba Feb. 25, 1692. The first warrants -were issued the 29th, the leap day of the year, and -Sarah Good, Sarah Osbun, and Tituba Indian -were apprehended. They were examined March 1st -and ordered to jail in Boston, to await the action -of the higher court.</p> - -<p class='c006'>The examinations were to be held in Ingersoll’s -Tavern, but the crowd was so great on Ingersoll’s -Common, that the court adjourned to the meeting -house. The magistrates were John Hathorne -and Jonathan Corwin, assistants. They went -over from Salem, attended by the marshal, constables, -and their aids, and all of them arrayed -in the garb of court authority and the attractive -insignia of official station. Their advent into -the village was marked by an ostentation of whatever -grandeur and splendor they had at command. -To the gaping multitude it was “the greatest -show on earth,” while the trials proved a “Wild -West.”</p> - -<p class='c006'>Sarah Good, a broken-down outcast, deserted -by her husband, begging food from house to -<span class='pageno' id='Page_21'>21</span>house, was first examined; the last examined was -Tituba, the chief offender.</p> - -<div id='il06' class='figcenter id005'> -<img src='images/image024.jpg' alt='Gov. Simon Bradstreet, 1603-1697' class='ig001' /> -<div class='ic002'> -<p><span class='sc'>Gov. Simon Bradstreet</span>, 1603-1697</p> -</div> -</div> - -<h3 id='usurpation' class='c011'><span class='sc'>Unwarrantable Usurpation <br /> Names of the Court and Jury</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>The Province took formal charge <i>in re</i> April 11, -1692. Simon Bradstreet was governor. He had -been honored with thirteen annual elections by -<span class='pageno' id='Page_22'>22</span>the people to that office. He was then eighty-six -years of age, the “Grand Old Man” of his -time. He struck the keynote at first in an opinion -that the witch evidence was insufficient. With -honor crowned he passed into history as “The -Old Charter Governor.”</p> - -<p class='c006'>The high action of Deputy-Governor Danforth -and his Counsel, who were the court, gave éclat -to the proceedings and consternation filled the -county. In October, 1691, a new charter was -signed, and Sir Wm. Phipps was appointed -governor. He arrived in Boston with the new -charter, Saturday, May 14, 1692. William Stoughton -was made deputy-governor, in place of -Thomas Danforth.</p> - -<p class='c006'>In this change from popular government Increase -Mather, an early president of Harvard -College, was a “power behind the throne.” The -new charter had his approval and Sir Wm. -Phipps, its first governor, was his nominee. -Phipps was “a well-meaning man, inclined to -superstition,” and Mather admired his “incompetency.” -Stoughton was a man “of cold affections, -proud, self willed, and covetous of distinction, -and universally hated by the people.” -He was appointed deputy-governor to please -Cotton Mather, son of Increase. Cotton in his -race for glory ran amuck. He was a man of -“overweening vanity,” panting for fame, and the -strenuous mover in the trials. He harangued -the populace and sermonized on witchcraft; he -wrote a book: “The Trials of Witches,” and even -on horseback, at the hanging of Rev. George -Burroughs, he harangued the people gathered -there, lest they interfere and rob the gallows.</p> -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div id='il07' class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/image026.jpg' alt='Increase Mather, Father, Cotton Mather, Son' class='ig001' /> -</div> -<table class='table2' summary=''> -<colgroup> -<col width='50%' /> -<col width='50%' /> -</colgroup> - <tr> - <td class='c014'><span class='sc'>Increase Mather</span><br /><span class='sc'>Father</span></td> - <td class='c015'><span class='sc'>Cotton Mather</span> <br /><span class='sc'>Son</span></td> - </tr> -</table> - -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<p class='c006'><span class='pageno' id='Page_23'>23</span>By the new charter courts of justice were to be -established by the General Court. The witch -trials were, therefore, stranded and must remain -<i>in statu quo</i>, apparently, for several months, while -awaiting the action of the General Court. The -Governor, however, by “an unwarrantable -usurpation of authority,” organized a court of -final hearing, called <i>Oyer and Terminer</i>, to act -in the pending cases.</p> - -<p class='c006'><a id='courtjury'></a>Deputy-Governor Stoughton was appointed -chief justice, and Nathaniel Saltonstall, of Haverhill, -who declined to serve, and was succeeded by -Jonathan Corwin, of Salem; Major John Richards, -of Boston; Major Bartholomew Gedney, of -Salem; Mr. Wait Winthrop, Mr. Peter Sargent, -and Capt. Samuel Sewell, of Boston, Associate -Justices.</p> - -<p class='c006'>The panel of the Jury of Inquest was Thomas -Fisk, foreman; William Fisk, John Bachelor, -Thomas Fisk, Jr., John Dane, Joseph Eveleth, -Thomas Perley, Sr., John Peabody, Thomas Perkins, -Samuel Sayer, Andrew Eliot, and Henry -Herrick, Sr.</p> - -<p class='c006'>The commissions of the court were dated -Friday, May 27th; the court convened Thursday, -June 2d; Bridget Bishop, of Salem, was convicted -Wednesday, the 8th, and hanged Friday, -the 10th. The court, by adjournment, next sat -Wednesday, the 29th of June; then by several -<span class='pageno' id='Page_24'>24</span>adjournments, it was to sit the 1st of November.</p> - -<p class='c006'>The day on which Bridget Bishop was hanged, -June 10th, the General Court enacted a law of the -old charter for capital cases, and under it presumably -the subsequent witch trials were held, -while the personnel of the court remained the -same.</p> - -<h3 id='hanged' class='c011'><span class='sc'>Trials Arrested, Court Suspended <br /> List of Those Hanged</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>The General Court in October established the -Superior Court of Judicature and gave it jurisdiction -in witch cases. Governor Phipps immediately -arrested the witch trials, and suspended -the court. <i>Oyer and Terminer</i> was dissolved. -These were hanged:</p> - -<h4 class='c016'><span class='sc'>Friday, June 10th</span></h4> - - <ul class='ul_2 c000'> - <li>1. Bishop, Bridget, wife of Edward, of Salem. - </li> - </ul> - -<h4 id='execution' class='c016'><span class='sc'>Tuesday, July 19th</span></h4> - - <ul class='ul_2 c000'> - <li>1. Good, Sarah, of the village. - </li> - <li class='c000'>2. Wildes, Sarah, daughter of Wm., of Topsfield. - </li> - <li class='c000'>3. Howe, Elizabeth, wife of James, Jr., of Ipswich Farms. - </li> - <li class='c000'>4. Nourse, Rebecca, wife of Francis, of the village. - </li> - <li class='c000'>5. Martin, Susannah, of Amesbury. - </li> - </ul> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_25'>25</span> - <h4 class='c016'><span class='sc'>Friday, August 19th</span></h4> -</div> - - <ul class='ul_2 c000'> - <li>1. Burroughs, Rev. George, of Casco. See above. - </li> - <li class='c000'>2. Proctor, John, of Peabody. - </li> - <li class='c000'>3. Jacobs, George, of the Village, eighty years old. - </li> - <li class='c000'>4. Willard, John, apprehended at Groton. - </li> - <li class='c000'>5. Carryer, Martha, wife of Thomas, of Andover. - </li> - </ul> - -<h4 class='c016'><span class='sc'>Thursday, September 22d</span></h4> - - <ul class='ul_2 c000'> - <li>1. Cory, Martha, wife of Giles, of Peabody. - </li> - <li class='c000'>2. Æstey, Mary, wife of Isaac, of Topsfield. - </li> - <li class='c000'>3. Parker, Alice, wife of John, of Salem. - </li> - <li class='c000'>4. Pudeator, Ann, widow of Jacob. - </li> - <li class='c000'>5. Scott, Margaret, widow of Benj., of Rowley. - </li> - <li class='c000'>6. Read, Wilmot, wife of Samuel, of Marblehead. - </li> - <li class='c000'>7. Wardwell, Samuel, of Andover. - </li> - <li class='c000'>8. Parker, Mary, of Salem. - </li> - </ul> - -<h4 class='c016'><span class='sc'>Monday, September 19th</span></h4> - -<p class='c012'>Giles Cory would not plead to the indictment, -and was pressed to death. In modern law one -thus mute is understood to plead <i>not guilty</i>, but -at that period one must plead before he could be -put on trial, and might be tortured till he pleaded -<span class='pageno' id='Page_26'>26</span>or died. Mr. Cory would not countenance any -phase or feature of witchcraft.</p> - -<h4 class='c016'><span class='sc'>Tuesday, May 10th</span></h4> - -<p class='c012'>Died in prison Sarah Osbun, condemned, wife -of Alexander.</p> - -<h4 class='c016'><span class='sc'>Saturday, December 3d</span></h4> - -<p class='c012'>Died in prison, Ann Foster, widow of Andrew, -of Andover, who died, 1685, aged 106.</p> - -<p class='c006'>Elizabeth Proctor, widow of John (above), was -reprieved on account of her condition, then -pardoned.</p> - -<p class='c006'>Mrs. Thomas Bradbury, of Salisbury, daughter -of John Perkins, of Ipswich, eighty years old, -condemned, then acquitted.</p> - -<p class='c006'>Rebecca Eames, wife of Robert, of Boxford, -condemned, reprieved.</p> - -<p class='c006'>Elizabeth Morse, of Newbury, reprieved.</p> - -<p class='c006'>Abigail Falkner and Elizabeth Johnson, both -of Andover, daughters of Rev. Francis Dane, -were respectively thirteen and five months in jail.</p> - -<p class='c006'>Mary Lacey, wife of Lawrence, daughter of -Andrew and Ann Foster (above), confessed, -accused her mother of bewitching her, and escaped -punishment.</p> - -<p class='c006'>As above there were twenty-eight convictions, -nineteen persons were hanged, and one was -pressed to death, “fifty-five were pardoned, one -hundred and fifty more were imprisoned, and two -<span class='pageno' id='Page_27'>27</span>hundred others or more were accused.” Several -dogs were accused, and one of Danvers and -another of Andover were executed.</p> - -<p class='c006'>Let it now be noted and remembered, that no -witch or wizard was ever burned to death in -Salem town or Essex county.</p> - -<h3 id='johnhale' class='c011'><span class='sc'>The Beginning of the End <br /> Rev. John Hale’s Change of Heart</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>Early in October, 1692, the wild and extravagant -methods of the court had penetrated every -community, and by relation or friendship, almost -every family, and too, accusations rested upon -families of the wealthy and the learned, of clergymen -and laymen, and even it was whispered upon -one of the judges of the court and the wife of the -governor; and it was only when the ruthless -authority of the law invaded those homes that -the fury of the storm abated. When Rev. John -Hale, of Beverly, who had been conspicuously -active in the convictions, found his wife in the -diabolical toils, he experienced a sudden change of -heart, and prayed for peace. The time was ripe; -Mr. Hale’s sentiments echoed from every home. -The establishment of the new court (Wm. Stoughton, -Chief Justice, Thomas Danforth, Wait Winthrop, -John Richards, and Samuel Sewell, Associate -Justices) and the abolition of the old court, -helped the cause.</p> - -<p class='c006'>In the January next following fifty persons -were indicted. All who were tried were acquitted -<span class='pageno' id='Page_28'>28</span>except three, who were pardoned. All who were -not tried were discharged on the payment of -thirty shillings each. In the following May, when -a jail delivery had been decreed, one hundred -and fifty went forth.</p> - -<h3 id='lofty' class='c011'><span class='sc'>Lofty Character of the Condemned <br /> Judge Joseph Story’s Tribute</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>Those who suffered were a remarkable company -of men and women. They came from the humble -walks in life, but most of them were old in experience -and solidified in character and sentiments. -Though they were posted as criminals, taunted -with aspersions, forbidden counsel in law and -religion, and had every word of defense twisted -into a semblance of condemnation, yet they exhibited -the true nobility of life in truth and -righteousness; they counted their lives not dear -to them, could they only reach the goal of their -hope in God their Saviour.</p> - -<p class='c006'><a id='tribute'></a>But after all we must not judge the actors in this -frenzied delusion harshly or rashly. Hon. Joseph -Story, Associate Justice of the United States -Supreme Court, writes: “Surely our ancestors -had no special reason for shame in a belief which -had the universal sanction of their own and all -former ages, which counted in its train philosophers -as well as enthusiasts, which was graced by -the learning of prelates as well as by the countenance -of kings, which the law supported by its -mandates, and the purest judges felt no compulsions -in enforcing.”</p> -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div id='il09' class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/image035.jpg' alt='The Witch Plat and the Crevice' class='ig001' /> -<div class='ic002'> -<p><span class='sc'>The Witch Plat and the Crevice</span></p> -</div> -</div> -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_29'>29</span> - <h3 id='crevice' class='c011'><span class='sc'>The Place of Execution <br /> The Crevice for the Corpses</span></h3> -</div> - -<div id='il08' class='figleft id006'> -<img src='images/image036.jpg' alt='The Witch Plat' class='ig001' /> -<div class='ic002'> -<p><span class='sc'>The Witch Plat</span></p> -</div> -</div> - -<p class='c012'>Or the place where “The -Witches” were hanged is on -Proctor Street, Salem, marked -off on this map by the dotted -lines. The cross locates “The -Crevice,” where the corpses were -thrown. To touch a witch -corpse was malignant; yet some -bodies were taken away for -burial at home.</p> - -<p class='c006'>Giles Cory was pressed to death in the field -corner of St. Peters and Brown Streets, opposite -the jail then on Church Street, corner of St. -Peters Street, Salem.</p> -<div class='clear'> - -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -</div> - -<div id='il10' class='figcenter id002'> -<span class='pageno' id='Page_30'>30</span> -<img src='images/image039.jpg' alt='Photograph of the Warrant for Mrs. Howe’s Arrest' class='ig001' /> -<div class='ic002'> -<p><span class='sc'>Photograph of the Warrant for Mrs. Howe’s Arrest</span></p> -</div> -</div> -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_31'>31</span> - <h2 id='howecase' class='c004'>MRS. HOWE’S CASE</h2> -</div> - -<p class='drop-capa0_0_0_4 c010'>Sunday, May 29, 1692, Ephraim Wildes, -constable of Topsfield, with a capias signed -by John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin, -Assistants, went to the home of James Howe, Jr., -in Ipswich Farms, and took into custody the -wife and mother as a witch.</p> - -<p class='c006'>She was charged with sundry acts of witchcraft -upon the bodies of Mary Walcott and -Abigail Williams, and others of Salem Village. -She was examined the next Wednesday at the -house of Nathaniel Ingersoll of that place. She -pleaded <i>not guilty</i>, denied all knowledge of the -matter and testified that she had never heard -of the girls, Mary and Abigail, till their names -were read in the warrant. But in court they fell -down, they cried out, they were pinched and -pricked, and they accused Mrs. Howe. She was -remanded to prison to await the action of the -Jury of Inquest. Her case was called Wednesday -and Thursday, June 29 and 30, 1692.</p> - -<h3 id='sunday' class='c011'><span class='sc'>The Sunday Warrant <br /> And its Sunday Service</span></h3> - -<p class='c017'>To the Constable of Topsfield:</p> - -<p class='c006'>You are in theyr Magestyes Names hereby -Requested to Apprehend & bring before us Elizabeth -How ye wife of James How of Topsfield Husbandman -on tuesday next being the thirty-first -day of May about ten of ye Clock in ye forenoon. -<span class='pageno' id='Page_32'>32</span>at ye house of Leut Nathaniel Ingersolls of Salem -Village Whoe Stand Charged with Sundry Acts of -Witchcraft done or committed on ye bodyes of -Mary Wolcott Abigail Williams & others of -Salem Village, to theyr great hurt, in order to her -examination Relating to ye abovesd premises & -hereof you are nott to fayle.</p> - -<p class='c006'>Dat’ Salem May 28th, 1692.</p> - -<p class='c018'>p us</p> -<table class='table3' summary=''> - <tr> - <td class='c019'><span class='sc'>John Hathorne</span> }</td> - <td class='c020'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c019'><span class='sc'>Jonathan Corwin</span> }</td> - <td class='c020'>Assists.</td> - </tr> -</table> - -<p class='c006'>In obedience to this warrant I have apprehended -Elizabeth How the wife of Jems how -on the 29th of May 1692 and have brought har -unto the house of leftnant nathaniell englosons -according too ye warrant as atested by me -Ephraim Willdes constabell for the town of -Topsfield.</p> - -<p class='c006'>Dated may 31st 1692.</p> - -<h3 class='c011'><span class='sc'>The Preliminary Examination <br /> She Never Heard of Her Accusers Before</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>Mercy Lewis & Mary Walcott fell in a fit -quickly after the examinant came in. Mary -Walcott said that this woman the examinant had -pincht her & Choakt this month. Ann Putnam -said she had hurt her three times</p> - - <dl class='dl_1'> - <dt><i>Question.</i></dt> - <dd>What say you to this charge? Here are them that charge you with witchcraft - </dd> - <dt><i>Answer.</i></dt> - <dd>If it was the last moment I was to live God knows I am innocent of anything of this nature - </dd> - </dl> - <dl class='dl_2'> - <dt><i>Q.</i><span class='pageno' id='Page_33'>33</span></dt> - <dd>Did not you take notice that now when you lookt upon Mercy Lewis she was struck down? - </dd> - <dt><i>A.</i></dt> - <dd>I cannot help it. - </dd> - <dt><i>Q.</i></dt> - <dd>You are charged here what doe you say? - </dd> - <dt><i>A.</i></dt> - <dd>I am innocent of anything of this nature - </dd> - <dt><i>Q.</i></dt> - <dd>Is this the first time that ever you were accused - </dd> - <dt><i>A.</i></dt> - <dd>Yes Sr - </dd> - <dt><i>Q.</i></dt> - <dd>Do not you know that one at Ipswich hath accused you? - </dd> - <dt><i>A.</i></dt> - <dd>This is the first time that ever I heard of it. - </dd> - <dt><i>Q.</i></dt> - <dd>You say that you never heard of these folks before. - </dd> - </dl> - -<p class='c006'>Mercy Lewis at length spake & charged this -woman with hurting & pinching her. And then -Abigail Williams cryed she hath hurt me a great -many times, a great while and she hath brought -me the book. Ann Putnam had a pin stuck in her -hand.</p> - - <dl class='dl_2'> - <dt><i>Q.</i></dt> - <dd>What do you say to this? - </dd> - <dt><i>A.</i></dt> - <dd>I cannot help it. - </dd> - <dt><i>Q.</i></dt> - <dd>What consent have you given? - </dd> - </dl> - -<p class='c006'>Abig Williams cryed out that she was pincht & -great prints were seen in her arm. Mary Warren -cryed out she was prickt</p> - - <dl class='dl_2'> - <dt><i>Q.</i></dt> - <dd>Have you not seen some apparition? - </dd> - <dt><i>A.</i></dt> - <dd>No never in all my life. -<div><span class='pageno' id='Page_34'>34</span></div> - </dd> - <dt><i>Q.</i></dt> - <dd>Those that have confessed they tell us they used images and pins now tell us what have - you used - </dd> - <dt><i>A.</i></dt> - <dd>You would not have me confess that which I know not - </dd> - </dl> - -<p class='c006'>She looked upon Mary Warren & said Warren -violently fell down. Look upon this maid, -viz.: Mary Walcott her back being towards -the examinant. Mary Warren & Ann Putnam -said they saw this woman upon her. Susan -Sheldon saith this was the woman that carryd -her yesterday to the Pond. Sus. Sheldon carried -to the examinant in a fit & was well upon -grasping her arm.</p> - - <dl class='dl_2'> - <dt><i>Q.</i></dt> - <dd>You said you never heard before of these people. - </dd> - <dt><i>A.</i></dt> - <dd>Not before the warrant was served me last Sabbath day. - </dd> - </dl> - -<p class='c006'>John Indian cryed out Oh she bites & fell -into a grevious fit & so carried to her in his fit -& was well upon her grasping him.</p> - - <dl class='dl_2'> - <dt><i>Q.</i></dt> - <dd>What do you say to these things—they cannot come to you. - </dd> - <dt><i>A.</i></dt> - <dd>Sr I am unable to give account of it. - </dd> - <dt><i>Q.</i></dt> - <dd>Cannot you tell what keeps them off from your body? - </dd> - <dt><i>A.</i></dt> - <dd>I cannot tell I know not what it is. - </dd> - </dl> - -<p class='c006'><span class='pageno' id='Page_35'>35</span>This a true account of the examination of Eliz: -How taken from my characters written at the -time thereof.</p> - -<p class='c006'>Witness my hand</p> - -<div class='c021'>[Signed] <span class='sc'>Sam Parris</span>.</div> - -<h3 id='indict' class='c011'><span class='sc'>The Indictment. The Case <br /> Heard June 29th and 30th and July 1st</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>The jurors of our Sovereign Lord and Lady the -King and Queen represent That Elizabeth How -wife of James of Ips. the 31st day of May the -fourth year of our Sovereigne Lord and Lady -Wm. and Mary by the Grace of God of England -Scotland ffrance and Ireland King and Queen -defenders of the ffaith &c. and Divers other days -and times as well before as after Certaine Detestable -Acts called Witchcraft and sorceries -wickedly and ffelloniously hath used Practiced -and Exercised at and within the Township of -Salem in the county of Essex aforesaid in upon -and against one Mary Walcott of Salem Village -singlewoman by which said wicked arts the said -Mary Walcott the 31th day of May in the 4th -year aforesaid and Divers other Days and times -as well before as after was and is Tortured, -Afflicted Pined Consumed wasted and Tormented -and also for sundry other Acts of witchcraft by -said Elizabeth How Committed and Done before -and since that time agt the Peace of our Soverigne -Lord and Lady the King and Queen and against -the form of the statute in that case made and -Provided.</p> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_36'>36</span> - <h3 id='tdperley' class='c011'><span class='sc'>The Witnesses <br /> Timothy and Deborah Perley</span></h3> -</div> - -<p class='c012'>the first of iune 1692 the deposition of timothi -Perley and deborah Perley his wife timoth Perley -aged about 39 and his wife about 33 there being -som diference between goode how that is now -seized namely Elizabeth How wife of James How -Junr and timothi Perli abovesaid about som -bords the night following our cous lay out and -finding of them the next morning we went to -milk them and one of them did not give but two -or thre spoone fuls of milk and one of the other -cous did not give above halfe a Pinte and the -other gave aboute a quart and these cous used to -give three or four quarts at a meale two of these -cous continued to give litle or nothing four or five -meals and yet thes went to a good inglish pasture -and within four dais the cous gave ther full Proportion -that thir used to give.</p> - -<p class='c006'>furder deborah Perley testifieth and as conserning -hanah Perley Samuel Perleys daughter that -was so sore afflicted her mother and she coming to -our house hanah Perley being suddinli scared & -so thers that woman she goes into the oven and out -againe and then fell into a dredful fit and when I -have asked her when she said that woman what -woman she ment she tould me ieams hows wife -sometimes hanah Perley went along with me to -ieams hows an sone fell into a fitt goode how was -ueri louing to her and when the garl and I came -away i asked whi she talked so of goode how being -<span class='pageno' id='Page_37'>37</span>she was so louing to her she tould me that if i -were aflicted as she was that I would talk as bad -of her as she did at anothr tim i saw goode how -and hanah Perley together and thai were ueri -louing together and after goode How was gone i -asked whi she was so louing to good how when thai -were together she tould me that she was afraide -to doe otherwise for then goode how would kil her.</p> - -<div class='c021'><span class='sc'>Deborah Perley</span></div> - -<p class='c006'>Testified to June 30th before the Jury of Inquest</p> - -<h3 id='srperley' class='c011'><span class='sc'>Samuel and Ruth Perley</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>the first of iune 1692 the deposition of Samuel -Perley and his wife aged about 52 and his wife -46 years of age we hauing a dafter about ten -years of age being in a sorrowful condition this -being sone after a faling out thai had bene betwen -ieams how and his wife and miself our daughter -told us that it was ieams hows wife that afflicted -her both night and day sometimes complaining -of being Pricked with Pins and sometimes faling -down into dredful fits and often sai i could neuer -aflict a dog as goode how aflicts me mi wife and i -did often chide her for naming goode how being -loth her name shold be defamed but our daughter -would tel us that though we would not beleue her -now yet you wil know it one day we went to -several docters and thai tould us that she was -under an evil hand our daughter tould us that -when she came nere the fire or water this witch -Puls me in and was often soreli burnt and she -<span class='pageno' id='Page_38'>38</span>would tel us what cloaths she wore and would -sai there she goes and there she goes and now she -is gone into the oven and at these sights faling -down into dredful fits and thus our daughter -continuing about two or three years constantli -afirming to the last that this goode how that is -now seised was the cause of her sorrows and pined -awai to Skin and bone and ended her sorrowful life -and this we can atest upon oath ruth Perley’s mark.</p> - -<p class='c006'>Sam’l Pearly & his wife declare ye above written -to be the truth upon oath. After this the aboue -said goode how had a mind to ioin ipswich church -thai being unsatisfied sent to us to bring in what -we had against her and when we had declared to -them what we knew thei see cause to Put a stop -to her coming into the Church within a few dais -after I had a cow wel in the morning as far as we -knew this cow was taken straingli running -about like a mad thing a litle while and then run -into a great Pon and drowned herself and as sone -as she was dead mi sons and miself towed her to -the shore and she stunk so that we had much a doe -to flea her.</p> - -<p class='c006'>As for the time daughters being taken ill it -was in the yere of our Lord 1682.</p> - -<p class='c006'>Testified to before the Jury of Inquest</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div>June 30 ’92</div> - </div> -</div> - -<h3 id='phillips' class='c011'><span class='sc'>Rev. Samuel Phillips</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>The testimony of Samuel Phillips aged about -67 minister of the word of God in Rowley who -sayth that mr payson (minister of Gods word alsoe -<span class='pageno' id='Page_39'>39</span>in Rowley) and myself went, being desired to Sameul -pearly of ipswich to se thiere young daughter -who was viseted with strang fitts and in her fitts -(as her father and mother affermed) did mention -good wife How the wife of James How Junior -of Ipswich as if she was in the house and afflict -her; when we were in the house the child had one -of her fitts but made no mention of good wife how; -& and when the fitt was over and she came to -herself, goodwife how went to the child and took -her by the hand & askt her whether she had ever -done her any hurt And she answered noe never -and if I did complain of you in my fitts I knew -not that I did soe: I further can affirm upon oath -that young Samuel Pearly, Brother to the afflicted -girle looking out of a chamber (I and the afflicted -child being with outdores together) and sayd to his -sister Say goodwife How is a witch say she is a -witch & the child spake not a word that way, but -I lookt up to the window where the youth stood -& rebuked him for his boldness to stir up his sister -to accuse the said goodw: How when as she had -cleared her from doing any hurt to his sister in -both our hearing & I added no wonder that the -child in her fitts did mention Goodwife How when -her nearest relatives were soe frequent in expressing -theire suspicions in the childs hearing when -she was out of her fitts that she sayed Goodwife -How was an Instrument of mischeif to the child</p> - -<div class='c021'><span class='sc'>Samuel Phillips.</span></div> - -<p class='c006'>Rowley 3 June 1692</p> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_40'>40</span> - <h3 id='payson' class='c011'><span class='sc'>Rev. Edward Payson</span></h3> -</div> - -<p class='c012'>I Edward Paison of ye Town abouesd Thoh -present at ye place & time aforesd yet cannot -evidence in all the particulars mentioned: Thus -much is yet in my remembrance viz: being in ye -abouesd Pearley’s house some considerable time -before ye sd Goodw: How came in: their afflicted -Daughter upon something that her mother spake -to her with tartness presently fell into on of her -usual strange fitts, during which she made no -mention (as I observed) of ye above sd How her -name or any thing relating to her, sometime -after the sd How came in when sd Girl had recovered -her capacity, her fitt being over sd How -took sd Girl by ye hand, asked her whether she -had ever done her any hurt: ye child answered no -never; with several expressions to yt purpose -which I am not able particularly to recount &c.</p> - -<div class='c021'><span class='sc'>Edward Paison</span></div> - -<p class='c006'>Rowley June 3 1692.</p> - -<h3 id='hadley' class='c011'><span class='sc'>Deborah Hadley</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>The Deposition of Debory Hadley aged about -70 years; this Deponant testifieth & sth that I have -lived near to Elizabeth How (ye wife of James -How Junior of Ipswich) 24 year & have found a -neighborly woman Consciencious in her dealings -faithful to her pmises & Christianlike in her Conversation -so far as I have observed & further -saith nt.</p> - -<div class='c021'><span class='sc'>Deborah Hadley.</span></div> - -<p class='c006'>June 24 1692</p> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_41'>41</span> - <h3 id='warren' class='c011'><span class='sc'>Daniel, John, Sarah Warren</span></h3> -</div> - -<p class='c012'>from Ipswich Ju ye 25 1692 this may sertify -houe it may conserne we being desired to wright -some thing in ye behalfe of Ye Wife of Jeams how -Junior of Ipswich hoe is aprehended upon suspition -of being gilty of ye Sin of witchcraft & -now in Salem prisson upon ye same acount for -ouer oun partes we haue bin well aquainted wt -hur for aboue twenty yeers we neuer see but yt -she cared it very wel & yt both hur wordes & -actions wer always such as well become a good -Cristian: we ofte spake to hur of somethings yt -wer reported of hur yt gaue some suspition of yt -she is now charged wt & she always profesing hur -Inosency yr in offen desiring our prayers to god -for hur yt god would keep hur in his fear & yt -god would support hur under hur burdin we haue -offen herd hur Speaking of those persons yt raised -thos reports of hur and we neuer heered hur -Speake badly of y for ye same but in ouer hering -hath offen said yt she desired god that he -would santify yt afflicttion as well as others for -hur spiritual good.</p> - -<div class='c021'><span class='sc'>Daniel Warner</span> senr</div> -<div class='c021'><span class='sc'>John Warner</span> senr</div> -<div class='c021'><span class='sc'>Sarah Warner</span></div> - -<h3 id='chapman' class='c011'><span class='sc'>Simon and Mary Chapman</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>Ipswich June the 25th 1692 The testimony -of Simon Chapman About 48 years testifieth and -<span class='pageno' id='Page_42'>42</span>sayth that he hath ben Aquainted with the wiufe -of James how iunr as a naybar for this 9 or 10 -yers and he neuer saw any harm by hur but that -That hath bin good for I found hur Joust In hur -delling fayth fooll too hur promicises I haue -had acation to be in the compiny of goodwief -howe by the fortnight togather at Thayer hous: -and at other tims and I found at all Tims by hur -discors shee was a woman of afliktion and mourning -for sin in her selues and others and when she -met with eny Afliktion she semid to iostifi god -and say that Itt was all better than she dessufid -that it was By falls aqusations from men and she -yust to bles god that she got good by afliktions -for it med hur examin hur oun hart I neuer herd -hur refil any person that hath akusid hur with -witchcraft but pittied them and sayid i pray god -forgiue then for thay harm them selues more -then me. Thof i am a gret sinar yit i am cler -of that sayed she and such kind of afliktions -doth but set me a exsamining my oun hart and I -find god wondarfolly seportining me and comfarting -me by his word and promisis she semid to -be a woman thron in that grat work of conuiktion -an conuertion which I pray god mak us all</p> - -<div class='c021'><span class='sc'>Simon Chapman</span></div> - -<p class='c006'>My wief Mary Chapman cane Testifi to the most -of this abou retan as witness my hand</p> - -<div class='c021'><span class='sc'>Mary Chapman</span>.</div> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_43'>43</span> - <h3 id='icummingssr' class='c011'><span class='sc'>Isaac Cummings, Sr.</span></h3> -</div> - -<p class='c012'>June 27 1692 disposition of Isaac commins -syner aget about sixty years or thare abouts -who testyfyeth and saith that about aight yers -agou James how iunr of ipswich came to my hous -to borow a hors I not being at home my son -isaac told him as my son told me whan I cam -home i hade no hoes to ride on but my son isaac -did tell the said how that he hade no hors to ride -on but he hade a mare the whiah he though his -father would not be wiling to lend this being upon -a thursday the next day being fryday I took the -mare and myself and my wife did ride on this maer -abute half a mile to an naighbours hous and home -again and when we came home I turned the maer -out the maer being as well to my thinking as -ever she was next morning it being Saturday about -sun rising this said maer stood neer my doore and -the said maer as i did aperehend did show as if she -had bin much abused by riding and here flesh as I -thovg mvch wasted and her movth mvch semenly -to my aperehantion mvch abused and hurt with -ye bridel bits I seing ye maer in svch a sad condition -I toke up the said maer and put her into -my barn and she wold eate no maner of thing as -for provender or any thing we i give her then I -sent for my brother Thomas Andros which was -living in boxford the said anderos came to my hous -I not being at home when I came home a litle -afore night my brother anderos told me he head -giving the said mear southing for the bots but as -<span class='pageno' id='Page_44'>44</span>he could perseve it did do her no good but said he -I cannot tell but she may have the baly ach and -said he I wel try one thing more my brother -anderos said he would take pipe of tobaco and -lite it and put itt into the fondement of the mare -I told him that I thought it was not lawfull he said -it was lawfull for man or beast then I toke a clen -pipe and filled it with tobaco and did lite it and -went with the pipe lite to the barn then the said -anderos used the pipe as he said before he wold -and the pipe of tobaco did blaze and burn blew -then I said to my brother Anderos you shall try -no more it is not lawful he said I will try again -once mor which he did and thar arose a blaze -from the pipe of tobaco which seemed to me to -cover the butocks of the said mear the blaze went -upward towards the roof of the barn and in roof of -the barn thar was a grate crackling as if the barn -wovld haue falen or bin burnt which semed so to -us which ware within and some that ware without -and we hade no other fier in the barn bvt -only a candil and a pipe of tobaco and then I -said I thought my barn or my mear must goe the -next being Lord’s day I spoke to my brother -anderos at noone to come to see the said mear -and said anderos came and what h did I say -not the same Lords day at night my naighbours -John Haukins came to my hovs and he and I went -into my barn to see this mear said houkins said -and if I ware as you i wolvd of a pece of this -mear and burn it I said no not to-day but if she -lived til to morrow morning he might cut of a -<span class='pageno' id='Page_45'>45</span>pece off of her and burn if he wovld presentely as -we hade spoken these words we stept out of the -barn and imedeiately this said mear fell down dade -and never stvred as we covld purseve after she -fell down but lay dead</p> - -<p class='c006'>Isac Comings Senr declared to ye Jury of -Inquest that ye aboue written evidence is the -truth upon oath June 30 1692</p> - -<h3 id='knowlton' class='c011'><span class='sc'>Joseph and Mary Knowlton</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>from Ipswich June 27 1692 Joseph Knowlton -being aquainte with the wife of James How Junr -as a neighbour & somtims bording in the house, -and at my first coming to live in those parts which -was about ten years ago I hard a bad Report of -her about Samull perleys garle which caused me -to take speshall noates of her life & conuersation -euer sence and I haue asked her if she could -freely forgive them that Raised such Reports of -her she tould me Yes with all her heart desiering -that god would give her a heart to be more -humble vnder such a prouidences and further she -sayed she was willing to doe any good she could -to them as had done vnneighbourly by her also -This I haue taken notes of that she would deny -herself to doe a neighbour a good turn and also -I haue known her to be faithfull in the word and -honest in her dealings as far as ever I saw.</p> - -<div class='c021'><span class='sc'>Joseph Knowlton</span> aged forty tu</div> -<div class='c021'><span class='sc'>Mary knowlton</span> aged thurty tu</div> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_46'>46</span> - <h3 id='jameshowe' class='c011'><span class='sc'>James Howe, Sr.</span> (ninety-four yrs. old)</h3> -</div> - -<p class='c012'>information for Elizabeth How the wife of Jams -How Junr.</p> - -<p class='c006'>Jams How senr aged about 94 sayth he liueing -by her for about thirty years hath taken notes -that she hath caried it well becoming her place as a -daughter as a wife in all Relations setting side -humain infurmitys as becometh a Christian with -Respect to myself as a father very dutyfully -& a wifife to my son carefull loueing obedient and -kind considering his want of eye sight tenderly -leading him about by the hand Now desiering -god may guide your honours to se a differans -between predigous and Consents I Rest yours to -Sarve</p> - -<div class='c021'><span class='sc'>James How</span> Senr of Ipswich</div> -<div class='c021'>dated this 28 day of June 1692</div> - -<h3 class='c011'><span class='sc'>Isaac Cummings, Jr.</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>June 28th 1692 the testimony of Isaac Comings -Juner aged about 27 years Testifieth & saeth yt -James Hough came to my fathers house when he -was not at home he asked me if my father had -euer a hors & I told him no he asked me if he had -Euer a maer & I told him yesh he asked me if I -thought my father would lend him his maer & I -told him I did not Think would upon wch in a -short Tyme after my father & Mother Ridd their -maer to Their neighbours house ye same maer wch -sd Hough would haue Borowed wch semingly was -well when my fathr & mothr came home I seeing -<span class='pageno' id='Page_47'>47</span>ye same sd maer ye nex morning could Judge -noe other butt yt she had bin Rid ye other part -of yt night or othr ways horibly abused vpon -wch my fathr seeing wt a condition his maer was -in sent for his brothr Thomas Andros wch when -he came he give her severall Things wch he -Thought to be good for her butt did her not any -good vpon wch he said he would try one thing -more wch was a pipe & some Tobaco wch he applid -to her Thinking itt might doe her good -against ye Belly ake Thinking yt might be her -diseese wch when they vsed ye pipe wth Tobaco -in itt abought ye sd maer ye pipe being Litt itt -blazed so much yt itt was as much as two persons -could putt itt ought wth both of Their hands upon -wch my father said we will Trye no more his -brother my uncle sd he would trye once more ye -wch he did the pipe being Litt ye fyer Blazed out of -ye same sd pipe more vehemently than before -vpon wch my father answered he had Rather -Loose his maer yn his barn ye uery next night -following ye sd maer following my father in his -barn from one side to ye other side fell down -imediately Dead against ye sell of ye Barn before -my fathr had well cleered him selfe from her furthr -saith not.</p> - -<h3 id='mcummingssr' class='c011'><span class='sc'>Mary Cummings</span>, Sr.</h3> - -<p class='c012'>June 27 1692 The disposition of mary commings -ye wif of isaac commins senr aged about sixty yers -or thare abouts teseifieth and saith my husband -<span class='pageno' id='Page_48'>48</span>not being at home I was sent to by som parsons -of ipsweg sent to me for to have me to write what -I cold say of James how iunr his wife elisebeth -conscarning her life or conversation and that I -would say what I cold say for or against her -when the said hows wife sought to aiojn with -the church at ipsweg and I spoke to my son Isaac -to write that we hade vsed no brimston nor oyl -nor no combustables to give to our maer becavs -thare was a report that the said hows wife had -said that we had given the maer brimston and -oyl and the like and a short time after I hade -written my testemony consarning this hows wife -my son Isaac his maer was missing that he covld -not find her in to or thrre days and in a short -time after my son isaacs maer came in sight not -fare from the hovs and my son isaac praid me -to go ovt and look on his maer when I came to -her asked me what I thought on her her and I -said if he wold have my thoughts I covld not -complain it nothing elce but that she wriden with -a hot bridil for she hade divirses brvses as if she -had bin runing over rocks and mvch wronged -and where the bridil went was as if it had bin -burnt with a hot bridil then I bide Isaac take ye -mare and have her vp amongst the naghbors -that peopl might see her for I hered that James -how iunr or his wife or both had said that we -kept vp ovr maer that people might not see her -and isaac did show his maer to saviril and then -the said how as i hered did report that isac -had riden to Lin spring and caryed his gairl -<span class='pageno' id='Page_49'>49</span>and so sorfited th maer the which was not so.</p> - -<p class='c006'>Mary Comins owned this her testimony to be -truth before the Juryes for Inques this 29th of -June 1692.</p> - -<h3 class='c011'><span class='sc'>Mary Cummings, Sr.</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>Jvn 27 1692 I mary comins ageed abovt sixty -yers thar abovts the wife of isaac comins syner -I being at my neighbour Samuel parlys hovs -samuel parlys davgter hannah being in a straing -condition asked me if J did see goodee how in the -hovs going rovnd vpon the wall as gvrl dricted -her finger along rovnd in won place and another -of the hovs J teled her no J looked as dilegently -as i cold and i covld see nothing of her the gvrls -mother then did chek her and told her she was -alwas foll of such kind of notions and bid her hold -her toong then she told her mother she wovld -believe it one day and som thing mor which shold -hay bin mantioned as the garl poynted to show -me whare goode how was she asked me if I did -not se her go ovt at that crak which she poynted -at.</p> - -<p class='c006'>Mary Comins owned this har testimony one -her oath to be the truth before the Juriars of Inquest -this 29 of June 92. Jurat in Curia.</p> - -<h3 class='c011'><span class='sc'>Mary Cummings</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>Jvn 27 1692 The disposition of Mary commins -aged abuvt sixty yers or there abovts ho testefieth -and saieth that above too yeres agou J went to -<span class='pageno' id='Page_50'>50</span>viset my neighbovr sherins wife and she told -me that James how ivnr had bin thare to give her -a siset and he did sharply talk to her asking her -what hopes she hade of her salvation her answer -was to him that she did bild her hopes upon that -sver rock Jesvs christ this the said serius vife -did tell me and she told me also that she had never -talked of the said how or his wife bvt she was -wors for it afterwords and she said also when she -lay sick of the same sickness whereof she dyed that -the said how would come som time into the roome -to see but she covld not tell how to bare to see him -nor that he shovld be in the hovs Mary Comins -ownid that this har testemony on har oath before -the Juryars for Inques this 29 of June 1692 Jurat -in Curia</p> - -<h3 id='lane' class='c011'><span class='sc'>Francis Lane</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>Francis Lane aged 27 yeares testifyeth & saith -that about seauen yeares agoe James How the -husband of Elizabeth How of Ipswich farmes -hired sd Lane to get him a parcell of posts & railes -& sd Lane hired John Pearly the son of samuel -Pearly of Ipswich to help him in getting of them -And after they had got said Posts & rails the said -Lane went to the said James How that he might -goe with him & take delivery of said Posts & rails -& Elizabeth How the wife of sd James how told -said Lane that she did not beleive that sd Posts & -rails would doe because that said John Pearly -helped him & she said that if he had got them -alone & had not got John Pearly to help him she -beleived that they would haue done but seeing -that said Pearly had helped about them she beleiued -that they would not doe so sd James How -went with said Lane for to take deliuery of sd -Posts & rails & the said James How toke severed -of the said rails as they lay in heaps up by the -end & they broke of so many of them broke that -said Lane was forced to get thirty or forty more -& when said how came home he told his wife -thereof & she said to him that she had told him -before that they would not doe because said -Pearly helped about them which rails said Lane -testifyeth that in his aprehention were sound -railes ffrancis Lane declared to ye Jury of inques -to ye truth of ye above written evidence -upon oath June 30 1692 Jurat in Curia</p> -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div id='il11' class='figcenter id002'> -<span class='pageno' id='Page_51'>51</span> -<img src='images/image060.jpg' alt='Ipswich Farms' class='ig001' /> -<div class='ic002'> -<p><span class='sc'>Ipswich Farms</span></p> -</div> -</div> -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_52'>52</span> - <h3 id='johnhowe' class='c011'><span class='sc'>John Howe</span></h3> -</div> - -<p class='c012'>The testimony of John How aged about 50 -yers saith that on that day that my brother -James his wife was Caried to Salem farmes upon -examination she was at my house and would a -have had me to go with her to Salem farmes I -tould hur that if she had ben sent for upon allmost -any a Count but witchcraft I would a have -gone with hur bvt one that a Count I would not -for ten pounds but said I If you are a witch tell -me how long you have ben a witch and what mischeue -you have done and then J will go with you -for said J to hur you have ben acusied by Samuel -<span class='pageno' id='Page_53'>53</span>pearlys Child and suspacted by Daken Cumins for -witchcraft; she semed to be aingry with me, stell -asked me to come on the morrow I told hur I -did not know but I might com to morrow but my -ocashons caled me to go to Ipswich one the morrow -and came whome a bout suns set and standing -nere my door talking with one of my Naibours -I had a sow with six small pigs in the yard the sow -was as well so fare as I knew as euer one a suding -she leaped up about three or fouer foot hie and -turned about and gave one squeake and fell downe -daed I told my naibour that was with me I -thought my sow was bewitched for said I I think -she is dead he lafed at me but It proved true -for she fell downe daed he bed me cut of hur eare -the which I did and my hand I had my knife in -was so numb and full of paine that night and -sauerall days after that I could not doe any work -and is not wholy wall now and I sospected no -other person but my sd sister Elizabeth How -Capt. John How declared ye above written -evidence to be the truth before ye Jury of inquest.</p> - -<div class='c021'>upon his oath in Court</div> - -<p class='c006'>June 30th 1692</p> - -<h3 id='foster' class='c011'><span class='sc'>Jacob Foster</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>The deposion of Jacob Foster aged about 29 -yeares the deponant saith that some years agoe -good wife How the wife of James how was about -to Joyne with the church of Ipswich my father -was an instrumentall means of her being denyed -admision quickly after my mare turned out to -<span class='pageno' id='Page_54'>54</span>grass on the tusday and on thursday I went to -seek my mare to go to lecture I sought my mare -and could not find her I sought all friday and -found her not on Saturday I sought till noon & I -found my mare standing leaning with her butock -against a tree I hit her with a small whip she -gave a heaue from a tree and fell back to the tree -again then I took of her fetters and struck her -again she did the same again then I set my -shoulder to her side and thrust her of from the -tree and moved her feet then she went home -and leapt into the pausture and my mare lookt -as if she had been miserably beaten and abused</p> - -<p class='c006'>Jacob ffoster declared ye evidence to be ye truth -before ye Jury of inquest on oath June 30 92</p> - -<h3 id='safford' class='c011'><span class='sc'>Joseph Safford</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>The deposition of Joseph Safford aged about 60 -he testefyeth and saith that my wife was much -afraid of Elizabeth how the wife of James how -upon the Reports that were of her about Samuell -perlleys child but upon a tim after thes Reports -James how and his wife coming to my house -nether myselfe nor my wife were at home and -good wife how asked my children wher ther -mother was and they said at the next nayboaers -hovs she desired them to Coll ther mother which -they did when my wife cam whom my wife -told me that she was much startled to se goode -how but she took her by the hand and said goode -Safford I beleue that you are not ignorant of -<span class='pageno' id='Page_55'>55</span>the grete scandall that I Ly under upon the euill -Report that is Raised upon me about Samuell -perlleys child and other things Joseph Safford -saith that after this his wife was taken beyond -Rason and all parswasion to tek the part of this -woman after this the wife of this James how propounded -herselfe to com into the church of Ipswich -wher upon sum objection a Rose by sum -unsatisfied bretheren wher upon ther was a meeting -apinted by our elders of the church to consider -of things brought in against her my wife -was more than ordenery ernest to goe to lectur -the church meeting being on that day notwithstanding -the many arguments I used to perswed -her to the Contrery yet I obtained a promis of her -that she would not goe to the church meeting but -meeting with som of the naybourhood they perswaded -her to go with them to the church meeting -at elder pains and told her that shee need say -nothing ther, but good wife how then being -Rether Rendred guilty than cleered my wife took -her by the hand. after meeting and told her -though she wer condemned before men she was -Justefyed before god. the next Sabath after this -my son that caried my wife to Lectur was taken -aftar a strange manar the Saturday after that my -wife was taken after a Rauing frenzy manar expressing -in a Raging manar that goode how must -com into the church and that shee was a precious -saint and though shee wer condemned befor men -shee was justefyed befor god and continued in this -fram for the space of thre or four hours after that -<span class='pageno' id='Page_56'>56</span>my wife fell into a kind of trance for the space of -two or thre minits shee then coming to herselfe -opened her eye and said ha J was mistaken, no -answer was med by the standars by, and again -shee said ha J was mistaken Majar appleton’s -wife standing by said wherein art mistaken I was -mistaken said she for J thought goode how had -bene a precious saint of god but now I see she is a -witch fer shee hath bewitched me and my child -and we shall neuer be well till ther is testemony -for her that she may be taken into the church -after after this there was A meeting of the eldars -at my hous and thay desired that goode how might -be at the meeting insign wallis went with myselfe -to invite goode how to this meeting she -coming in discours at that time she said two or -thre times shee was sory to se my wife at the church -meeting at eldar pains after this shee said she -was aflicted by the aparishtion of goode how a -few dayes aftar she was taken shee said the caus -of her changing her opinion consarning goode how -was becaus shee apeared to her throg a creuis of -the clambouerds which she knew no good person -could do and at thre seuerall times after was -aflicted by the aperishtion of goode how and -goode olleuer and furder this deponit saith that -Rising erlly in the morning and kindling a fir -in the other Room in wife shrieked out I presently -Ran into the room wher my wife was and as soon -as euer I opened the dore my said ther be the -euill one take them whereupon I Replyed wher -are they I will take them if I can shee said you -<span class='pageno' id='Page_57'>57</span>will not tek them and then sprang out of the bed -herselffe and went to the window and said thar -they went out thar wer both biger than she and -they went out ther but she could not then J -Replyed who be they she said goode how and -goode olleuer goode olleuer said J you never -saw the woman in your Life no said she I never -saw her in my Life but so she is Represented to -me goode olleuer of Sallam the millar</p> - -<p class='c006'>Joseph Safford declared to ye Jury of inquest -that ye evidence above written & on the other -side of this paper is ye truth upon oath</p> - -<p class='c006'>June 30 1692</p> - -<div class='c021'>Jurat in Curia</div> - -<h3 id='andrews' class='c011'><span class='sc'>Thomas Andrews</span></h3> - -<p class='c012'>July 1st 1692</p> - -<p class='c006'>The testimony of Thomas Andrews of Boxford -aged about 50 yars this deponant Testifieth & -saith yt Jsiah Comings senior of Topsfield sent -for me to help help a mare yt was not well & -when I came thare ye mare was in such a condition -yt I could not tell wt she ailed for J neuer -sawe yt like her lips ware exceedingly swelled -yt ye Jnsides of Them Turned outward & Look -Black & blue & gelled, her Tung was in ye same -Condition J told ye said Comings I could not tell -wt to doe for her J perceiued she had not ye -Botts wch J did att first think she had but J -said she might haue some great heat in her Body -& I would applie a pipe of Tobaco to her & yt -that was concented & I lit a pipe of Tobaco & putt -<span class='pageno' id='Page_58'>58</span>itt under her fundiment & there came a Blew -flame out of ye Bowle & Run along ye stem of sd -pipe & took hold of ye haer of sd Maer & Burnt -itt & we tryed itt 2 or 3 times together & itt did -ye same itt semed to Burn blew butt Run Like -fyer yt is sett on the grass to Burn itt in ye spring -Tyme & we struck itt outt wth our hands & ye sd -Comings sd yt he would trye no more for sd he J -had rather loose my mare yn my barn & J this -deponant doe testifi yt to ye Best of my understanding -was ye same mare yt James Hough -Junior Belonging to Jpswich farmes husband to -Elizabeth Hough would have borowed of ye sd -Comings</p> - -<div class='c021'><span class='sc'>Tho. Andrews</span></div> - -<h3 id='removal' class='c011'><span class='sc'>Removal of Attainder <br /> and Reimbursement</span></h3> - -<div class='c022'>“Ipswich ye 9 of September, 1710</div> - -<p class='c006'>“Whereas ye honored General Court has appointed -a committee to consider what damage -persons have sustained in their names and estates -in the year 1692 by their sufferings in that as was -called witch craft, ye odium whereof was as if -they are one of ye worst of mankind, we Mary How -and Abigail How: ye only survivers in this family -also do groundedly believe that our honored -mother Elizabeth How suffered as innocent of -the crime charged with as any person in the world, -and as to the damage done to our estate we can -not give a particular account but this we know that -<span class='pageno' id='Page_59'>59</span>our honored father went twice a week ye whole -time of her imprisonment to carry her maintenance -which was provided with much difficulty -and one of us went with him because he could not -go alone for want of sight also one journey to -Boston for a replevey and for maintenance 5<i>s.</i> -money left with her the first coming down 20<i>s.</i> -the second time and 40<i>s.</i> so that sometimes more -some less yt never under 5<i>s.</i> per week which we -know for charge for her and necessary charge for -ourselves and horses cannot be less than £20 -money yet notwithstanding so that ye name may -be repaired we are content if your honors shall -allow £12.</p> - -<p class='c006'>Yours to serve</p> - -<div class='c021'><span class='sc'>Mary How & Abigail How</span>.”</div> - -<hr class='c023' /> - -<p class='c006'>“This petition was presented to said Court -by Capt. John How and Abraham How uncles -of said Mary and Abigail for relief in the premises -and pray that the petition may be allowed the -same.”</p> - -<hr class='c023' /> - -<p class='c006'>The petition was referred to the committee -referred to therein.</p> - -<hr class='c023' /> - -<p class='c006'>“The committee met at Salem, 13th, Sept. 1710, -and the 14th reported allowing the Misses How -the £12 asked for.”</p> - -<table class='table3' summary=''> - <tr> - <td class='c019'><span class='sc'>Thos. Noyes</span> }</td> - <td class='c020'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c019'><span class='sc'>John Burrill</span>}</td> - <td class='c020'><i>Committee</i></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c019'><span class='sc'>Nah. Jewett</span> }</td> - <td class='c020'> </td> - </tr> -</table> - -<p class='c006'><span class='pageno' id='Page_60'>60</span>“23 Oct., 1711. Read and accepted in House -of Representatives, and sent up for concurrence.</p> - -<div class='c021'><span class='sc'>John Burrill</span>, <i>Speaker</i>.</div> - -<p class='c006'>“In Council, 28 Oct., 1711.</p> - -<p class='c006'>“Read and concurred.</p> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> - <div class='nf-center'> - <div><span class='sc'>John Addington</span>, <i>Sec’y</i>.”</div> - </div> -</div> - -<p class='c006'><i>State Archives</i>, <i>Room</i> 434, <i>Vol.</i> 135: 131, 169.</p> - -<h3 id='located' class='c011'><span class='sc'>Home of Mrs. Howe <br /> Located. The Conclusion</span></h3> - -<div id='il12' class='figleft id007'> -<img src='images/image069.jpg' alt='Map of the homestead' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<p class='c012'>This map -delineates a -part of the -homestead -of Mrs. Eliza -Howe Perley, -now in her -ninety-third -year (May -15) whose residence -is at -“6.” The ascent -of the -estate is: Mrs. Perley’s father, Aaron Howe; -his second cousin, Joseph Howe; Joseph’s father, -Abraham Howe; his father, Abraham Howe, Jr.; -his cousins, Abigail and Mary Howe; their -father, James Howe, Jr.; his father, James Howe, -Sr.,—a continuous Howe ownership of two hundred -sixty years.</p> - -<p class='c006'><span class='pageno' id='Page_61'>61</span>The house pictured on the opposite page stood -at “2,” and was built, probably, in 1711, since -Abraham Howe, Jr., bought the land in February -of that year, “to set a house upon.”</p> - -<p class='c006'>James Howe, Jr., owned “a small house in the -orchard,” “3,” and a third of other “housing,” -which may have included “the old house,” that -stood in 1711, “near” “5” south of “2,” “the -southwest corner of the orchard.”</p> - -<p class='c006'>While searching the records of deeds, the writer -noted a course in a description: “Thence to the -gate opposite James Howe, Junior’s.” The -locality was well known to him, and that knowledge -located the gate. He had often seen a gate -there, between 1840 and 1850. It swung at the -entrance of the avenue leading to the residence -of James Howe, Senior, marked “gate” on the -map. That fact was tangible; Mrs. Howe’s -home was at “2” on the map or near it.</p> - -<p class='c006'>Thus far and no farther, till one day looking -over the ground back of the present residence -of Mrs. Eliza Howe Perley, “6” on the map, the -writer noticed a peculiar hollow in the otherwise -level surface, and to his question, What made it? -she replied, “I don’t know; I have always heard -it called Mary’s hole.” He immediately exclaimed, -“Mary Howe, daughter of the witch.”</p> - -<p class='c006'>His conclusion: There the surviving daughters, -Mary and Abigail, lived, secluded and alone, -beneath the shadow of the cruel attainder. -After the death of Mary, their home became -Mary’s cellar; and when all appearance of a -cellar was gone, it became “Mary’s hole.” -To-day there is not the slightest vestige of -“Mary’s hole”; the old home, known only to the -saddest pages of New England history, is arable -ground.</p> -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div id='il13' class='figcenter id002'> -<span class='pageno' id='Page_62'>62</span> -<img src='images/image071.jpg' alt='The Aaron Howe House, Linebrook Parish' class='ig001' /> -<div class='ic002'> -<p><span class='sc'>The Aaron Howe House, Linebrook Parish</span><br />Built in 1711, the birthplace of Rev. Nathaniel Howe (1764-1837), of Hopkinton, Mass., and of Rev. Benjamin Howe (1807-1883) of that parish; taken down about 1853.</p> -</div> -</div> -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div id='il14' class='figcenter id002'> -<span class='pageno' id='Page_64'>64</span> -<img src='images/image073.jpg' alt='DESCENDANTS OF JAMES HOWE' class='ig001' /> -<div class='ic002'> -<p>DESCENDANTS OF JAMES HOWE</p> -</div> -</div> - -<table class='table4' summary=''> -<colgroup> -<col width='16%' /> -<col width='16%' /> -<col width='16%' /> -<col width='16%' /> -<col width='16%' /> -<col width='16%' /> -</colgroup> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>JAMES</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>ELIZA<sup>TH</sup></td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'>JAMES .....</td> - <td class='blt c024'>MARY</td> - 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</tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>ELIZA<sup>TH</sup></td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>ABRAH<sup>M</sup> ...</td> - <td class='blt c024'>ABRAH<sup>M</sup> P.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>JOSEPH</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>JOHN</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>W<sup>M</sup> A.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>SAMSON</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>EDWARD E.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>MERCY</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>ADELINE</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>JEMIMA</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>ABEL ......</td> - <td class='blt c024'>MARGARET</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>HEPHZIBAH</td> - <td class='blt c024'>ABRAH<sup>M</sup> ...</td> - <td class='blt c024'>ELEANOR</td> - <td class='blt c024'>LEVERETT S.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'>ABRAH<sup>M</sup> ..</td> - <td class='blt c024'>ABRAH<sup>M</sup> ...</td> - <td class='blt c024'>SARAH</td> - <td class='blt c024'>JOHN</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>ABEL S.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>RUTH</td> - <td class='blt c024'>LUCY</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>WILLARD P.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>ABRA<sup>M</sup> ....</td> - <td class='blt c024'>NATHAN<sup>L</sup></td> - <td class='blt c024'>JOHN</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>ELIZA<sup>TH</sup></td> - <td class='blt c024'>ELIZA<sup>TH</sup></td> - <td class='blt c024'>MEHIT<sup>ALE</sup></td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>ABIJAH</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>JOSEPH ....</td> - <td class='blt c024'>ELIZA<sup>TH</sup></td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>MARK</td> - <td class='blt c024'>MOSES</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>DANIEL</td> - <td class='blt c024'>SAMUEL</td> - <td class='blt c024'>PRISCILLA</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>ISRAEL ....</td> - <td class='blt c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>SAMUEL</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>HANNAH</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>JOSHUA</td> - <td class='blt c024'>CECIL P.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>PRISCILLA</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>BENJ<sup>N</sup> ....</td> - <td class='blt c024'>HOMER</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>LUCY MARY</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>AMOS</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>HANNAH</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>LOVE</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>MOSES</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>LUCY</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>MARK ......</td> - <td class='blt c024'>MARY</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>AARON</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'>SARAH</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>MARK</td> - <td class='blt c024'>CATHERINE</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>ABIJAH</td> - <td class='blt c024'>JANE</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>MARK .....</td> - <td class='blt c024'>ELIPHALET</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>NATHAN<sup>L</sup></td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>LEONARD</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>NATHAN<sup>L</sup> ..</td> - <td class='blt c024'>AARON ....</td> - <td class='blt c024'>ELIZA</td> - <td class='blt c024'>CALVIN E</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>PHILEMON</td> - <td class='blt c024'>HANNAH</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>CELESTIA E.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>HEPHZIBAH</td> - <td class='blt c024'>MARK .....</td> - <td class='blt c024'>NATHAN<sup>L</sup> ..</td> - <td class='blt c024'>MARY I.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>EMERSON ...</td> - <td class='blt c024'>CELIA A.</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - <td class='blt c024'>HANNAH</td> - <td class='c024'> </td> - </tr> -</table> - -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_65'>65</span> - <h2 id='ipswich' class='c004'>DESCENDANTS OF JAMES HOWE <br /> IPSWICH HOWES—JAMES BRANCH <br /> <br /> <span class='small'>ARMA VIRUMQUE CANO</span></h2> -</div> - -<p class='c005'>James Howe, Jr., was son of James, Sen., of -Ipswich, County Essex, Mass., and grandson of -Robert, “who lived in Hatfield, Broad-Oak, -county Essex, England, where Sir Francis Barrington -lived in Woodrow-Green; James, son of -said Robert, lived in a place called Hackerill, or -Bockerill, in Bishop-Stortford—in the happy -and gracious reign of King James I.”</p> - -<p class='c006'>The mention of Sir Francis’s name in this -connection suggests some particular attachment, -of which Mr. Howe had, no doubt, informed his -children, and which he wished them to remember -and cherish. Sir Francis’s family name went -into England with the Conqueror, 1066, as Du -Barentin. The old feudal burg and barony which -cradled the name, near Rouen, is now Barentin. -The Conqueror gave Baron Odo Du Barentin a -grant of land in county Essex and the descendant -office of ranger or keeper of the forest of Hatfield. -Early in the seventeenth century the name was -anglicized Barrington.</p> - -<p class='c006'>The special mention of Sir Francis’s name, -noted above, could hardly indicate a family relation; -it may have been a correlation, as ranger -and subranger, or assistant, a lucrative station -of Sir Francis’s gift. The charge, a wolf’s -<span class='pageno' id='Page_66'>66</span>head, which has characterized the Howe arms -for centuries, suggests forests and an encounter.</p> - -<h3 id='coats' class='c011'><span class='sc'>The Coat of Arms <br /> James, Jr., and Elizabeth</span></h3> - -<div id='il15' class='figleft id008'> -<img src='images/image075a.jpg' alt='BY THE NAME OF HOW' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<p class='c012'>Of the arms -“<i>Gules</i> (red) -a chevron <i>argent</i> -(silver) -between three -cros-cros-lets -<i>or</i> (gold) three -wolves’ heads -of the same,” -said to have -“adorned the -walls of the -‘Wayside -Inn’ or Howe -Tavern, in Sudbury, for over a hundred and fifty -years,” “Ye wolfs are ye fams. Arms, ye cross, -for gt accts don by ye 1st El.,” who lived around -<span class='fss'>A.D.</span> 1500, or the time of Henry VII or VIII.</p> - -<p class='c006'>The seat of the family bearing -the above arms was in county -Warwick; the seat of Robert -Howe and the place of the -original Howe arms: “<i>Argent</i> -(silver) a chevron between -three wolves’ heads couped -<i>sable</i> (black)” was in county -Essex.</p> - -<div class='figright id009'> -<img src='images/image075b.jpg' alt='Coat of Arms' class='ig001' /> -</div> - -<p class='c006'><span class='pageno' id='Page_67'>67</span>If the query is now suggested, why did not our -James Howe claim a coat of arms if he were entitled -to one, this answer is persuasive if not -conclusive; so early created and so long unused, -it was forgotten; or maybe, in New England -practical home life its value was considered zero, -or negative.</p> - -<p class='c006'>It may be said, further, that the Howe coat -armor, the Howe family, the Barrington family, -and the King’s forest—each and all—belonged -to Hatfield, county Essex, and it may be thought -strange that the ancient Howe arms should not -include our James, the immigrant, in its descent. -On the whole, there is a preponderating impression -that the wolf’s head on the Howe arms was -captured in the Hatfield forest by a Howe.</p> - -<p class='c006'><a id='jameshowesr'></a>James Howe, Sr., was of Roxbury, and made -freeman May 17, 1637, and removed to Ipswich -before 1648. He was granted June 11, 1650, on -motion of Mr. Norton, one of the farms of a -hundred acres formerly reserved for Mr. Norton’s -friends. He bought, July 3, 1651, about twenty-one -acres adjoining to Mr. Winthrop’s and Mr. -Symonds’s farms. He was a commoner, 1641; -a tithing man, 1671. His wife, Elizabeth Dane, -only daughter of John Dane, of Roxbury, died -Jan. 21, 1693-4. Both joined the church at -Topsfield in 1684.</p> - -<p class='c006'>He was eminently an all round man. He was -a weaver by trade, but he could butcher a swine -or write a will or deed; he could practice in probate -or dig a grave; he could make a coffin or -<span class='pageno' id='Page_68'>68</span>build a house; he could cultivate a farm or survey -it; he could shoe a horse or an ox or make his -own or others’ shoes; he was a ready helper -in every department of country life. He died -May 17, 1701-2,<a id='r4' /><a href='#f4' class='c009'><sup>[4]</sup></a> at the age of one hundred and -four years, a man of three centuries.</p> - -<p class='c006'><a id='jameshowejr'></a>James Howe, Jr., was born in Roxbury, in 1635 -or 1636, since he was “about 30” in 1666 and -“about 34,” Sept. 28, 1669. He married, April 13, -1658, Elizabeth Jackson, a neighbor, daughter of -William and Joanna, of Rowley, and sister to -Mary, who married Wm. Foster, of Boxford, and -to Deborah, who married Lieut. John Trumble, of -Newbury, official men in their respective towns.</p> - -<p class='c006'>He had a share in Plum Island, 1664; was a -voter, 1679; at about fifty years of age was blind, -so he had to be led. His will is dated Nov. 19, -1701. He confirms to his daughter Elizabeth -Jackson’s children, what he had given her; mentions -his daughter Deborah and grandson James -“when 21” and granddaughters Martha How and -Sarah How “when 18 or married.” He gave his -other two daughters, Mary and Abigail, “for their -pains and care that they have taken of me for several -years and their labor for my maintenance,” -my house, barn, orchard, lands, and movables, -and appointed them executrices. He signed his -<span class='pageno' id='Page_69'>69</span>will “James How,” but it was proved, March 11, -1701-2, as the will of James Howe, Jr. He died -Feb. 15, 1701. Their children were:</p> - - <ul class='ul_2'> - <li>James, who died in July, 1664. - </li> - <li class='c000'>Elizabeth, born June 1, 1661, married Caleb Jackson, son of - Nicholas, a neighbor. - </li> - <li class='c000'>Mary, born Feb. 25, 1664, petitioner, p. 73. - </li> - <li class='c000'>Deborah, who married Isaac Howe, of Roxbury, son and - grandson of Abrahams. - </li> - <li class='c000'>John, born April 17, 1671, married Hannah Browne, and had - Martha, 1691; Sarah, 1692-3; who married Thomas Wood; James, 1695, ancestor of the - Methuen family of Howes. His widow married Ephraim Roberts, of Methuen, and had Patience, - 1703, and Mary, 1705. - </li> - <li class='c000'>Abigail, born Dec. 3, 1673, petitioner, p. 73. - </li> - </ul> - -<p class='c012'>All the family connections of the alleged witch -were well-to-do people and stable and standard -in church and civic life.</p> -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div class='chapter'> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_70'>70</span> - <h2 id='biblio' class='c004'>BIBLIOGRAPHY</h2> -</div> - -<div class='nf-center-c0'> -<div class='nf-center c002'> - <div>M. V. B. Perley, Salem, Mass., Publisher</div> - </div> -</div> - -<table class='table5' summary=''> -<colgroup> -<col width='91%' /> -<col width='8%' /> -</colgroup> - <tr> - <th class='c007'> </th> - <th class='c008'>PAGE</th> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>The Perley Family History and Genealogy</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#perleyhist'>71</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Perley’s Chronological Chart</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#perleychrono'>74</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Family Genealogies</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#genealogies'>75</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Essex Antiquarian</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#antiquarian'>76</a></td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Essex County Vital Records</td> - <td class='c008'><a href='#vitalrecords'>76</a></td> - </tr> -</table> -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div class='figcenter id002'> -<img src='images/image081.jpg' alt='THE PERLEY FAMILY HISTORY AND GENEALOGY' class='ig001' /> -<div class='ic002'> -<p>THE PERLEY FAMILY HISTORY AND GENEALOGY</p> -</div> -</div> -<table class='table6' summary=''> -<colgroup> -<col width='88%' /> -<col width='11%' /> -</colgroup> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Leather back and corners, gold top-edge and gold lettering</td> - <td class='c008'>$6.50</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Fine Maroon cloth and gold lettering</td> - <td class='c008'>$5.50</td> - </tr> -</table> -<div class='c025'><span class='sc'>M. V. B. Perley</span>, Salem, Mass., U.S.A., Publisher</div> -<div class='pbb'> - <hr class='pb c000' /> -</div> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_71'>71</span> - <h3 id='perleyhist' class='c026'>THE PERLEY FAMILY HISTORY AND GENEALOGY</h3> -</div> - -<p class='c012'>839 pages; printed page, 4¼ × 7½ inches; 5 -dozen full page portraits; 280 illustrations; all -handwork binding; index to every proper name; -biography covers two thirds of the book; weight, -4¾ lbs.</p> - -<h4 class='c016'><span class='sc'>Favorable Comment</span></h4> - -<p class='c012'>The N. E. Historical-Genealogical Register -says, “So copious are the details respecting -nearly every member of the family that the work -may be described as a Biographical Genealogy.”</p> - -<p class='c006'>Maj. E. T. Bouvé, Mass., compiler of war -records, writes: “Your very fine genealogy.... -The information is of great importance to me.”</p> - -<p class='c006'>The Sutton Reference Library, Mass., ordered -a copy for approval or return. It was not returned; -a check was sent in payment.</p> - -<p class='c006'>The <cite>Essex Antiquarian</cite> says: “A more interesting -family history has not been published.”</p> - -<h4 class='c016'><span class='sc'>Family Pride</span></h4> - -<p class='c012'>Family pride is a commendable trait, like -national pride or patriotism. The book is the -story of the family, male and female, and cannot -fail to awaken the just pride of all loyal members. -They can write in it their own families as years -<span class='pageno' id='Page_72'>72</span>make them, and leave priceless heirlooms to their -posterities.</p> - -<h4 class='c016'><span class='sc'>A History</span></h4> - -<p class='c012'>Don’t be deceived. The book is not the ordinary -genealogy of dates and names. It is a <em>history</em>; -it reads like a history. There are more -than five dozen portraits with their biographies; -numerous examples of unsurpassed bravery, as -witness there doubt of Bunker Hill, the Pigwacket -of Captain Lovewell and the War of 1812; and of -patriotism, as witness the wars for the mother -country; as colonists; against her, as revolutionists, -and as defenders of our home government in the -Civil War.</p> - -<p class='c006'>It has its Wandering Jew, its Country’s Wonder, -its escapades in courtship, its triumphs in politics, -and its stories of pioneering and of country-wide -travel. It shows how the family’s money built -churches and schools; how ministers, doctors, -lawyers, and teachers were ornaments to their -professions; how statesmen, by efficiency and integrity, -enjoyed repeated elections; and how men -“with the hoe,” the trowel, the saw, and other -implements of their craft, by diligence, enterprise, -and sobriety, reared happy homes and garnered -wealth.</p> - -<h4 class='c016'><span class='sc'>An Inspiration</span></h4> - -<p class='c012'>The book is an inspiration. Squire H—— wrote, -“I read a chapter in the Perley History every -<span class='pageno' id='Page_73'>73</span>day,” meaning to say that every chapter has its -peculiar interest, pleasure, and uplifting sentiment. -Mrs. W—— bought six copies, Mrs. H—— -four, both saying, “I want each of my children to -have a copy.” Other buyers have done relatively -the same.</p> - -<h4 class='c016'><span class='sc'>A Splendid Gift</span></h4> - -<p class='c012'>Take a copy with you to “the old folks at -home” at Thanksgiving; it would gratify them. -Give one to your daughter at “sweet sixteen,” and -to your son at twenty-one. It would be a magnificent -present for a dear friend. Your Public -Library would write you a letter of cordial thanks -for a copy. As a <span class='sc'>New Year’s</span>, a <span class='sc'>Birthday</span>, a -<span class='sc'>Wedding</span>, or a <span class='sc'>Christmas</span> gift, it would crown -the occasion with proud delight.</p> - -<p class='c006'>The books are in patent corrugated wrappers, -and can be ready for the mail in five minutes after -receiving your order.</p> - -<h4 class='c016'><span class='sc'>For Libraries</span></h4> - -<p class='c012'>The numerous intermarriages with old New England -families, and its fulness of biography, make -it a valuable addition to libraries, and Genealogical -and Historical Societies.</p> - -<table class='table3' summary=''> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Price: Leather back and corners, gold top edge and gold lettering</td> - <td class='c008'>$6.50</td> - </tr> - <tr> - <td class='c007'>Fine Maroon cloth and gold lettering</td> - <td class='c008'>5.50</td> - </tr> -</table> - -<p class='c006'>Carriage on each prepaid, but if at destination, -send only $5.10 and $6.10 respectively.</p> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_74'>74</span> - <h3 id='perleychrono' class='c026'>PERLEY’S CHRONOLOGICAL CHART <br /> <br /> FOR (1) VERIFYING, (2) CORRECTING, AND (3) INTERPRETING DATES, THUS:</h3> -</div> - -<p class='c012'>(1) Gen. Geo. Washington was born on Friday, -Feb. 11, 1731-2.</p> - -<p class='c006'>(2) A transit of Venus occurred, in 1639, on -Sunday, Dec. 6 (almanac); Dec. 4 (astronomy); -Nov. 24 (another astronomy).</p> - -<p class='c006'>(3) Bryan, the 175th monarch of Ireland died -Good Friday, 1714. Durham Cathedral, England, -was struck by lightning, “The night before -the day of Corpus Christi, 1429.” Thomas -Ryhale dated his will, “Vigil of Easter, 1427.”</p> - -<p class='c006'>The Chart is adapted to the styles: Julian, -Russian, Dionysian, Gregorian, Old and New.</p> - -<p class='c006'>With a little primary arithmetic it furnishes -the date of Easter for any year.</p> - -<p class='c006'>It gives the day of the week corresponding to -any possible date in 4,000 years, beginning, -Saturday, Jan. 1, <span class='fss'>A.D.</span> 1.</p> - -<p class='c006'>One can easily determine the Friday occurrences -of great men and events, and so determine -the proportion of unlucky Fridays.</p> - -<p class='c006'>Lawyers, historians, genealogists, teachers, and -all students and readers of history would find -the Chart eminently serviceable. For a number -of weeks in 1892 the Boston <cite>Transcript</cite> discussed -the four elements of dates; this Chart would have -<span class='pageno' id='Page_75'>75</span>given the result in ten minutes. See the <cite>Transcript</cite>, -Oct. 1, 1892.</p> - -<h3 id='genealogies' class='c027'>FAMILY GENEALOGIES</h3> - -<p class='c012'>These are gleaned from the various records of -Essex County. If your name does not appear -in the list, we can furnish your genealogy. Correspondence -solicited.</p> - -<p class='c006'>Abbot, Aborn, Abraham, Abram, Acie, Acres, -Adams, Ager, Akerman, Alexander, Alford, Alger, -Allen, Alley, Ambrose, Ames, Anderson, Anderton, -Andrews, Annable, Annis, Antrum, Appleton, -Archer, Arnold, Ash, Ashby, Ashton, Aslebee, -Atkins, Atkinson, Atwell, Atwood, Aubin, Austin, -Averill, Ayer, Babidge, Babson, Bacon, -Babcock, Badger, Bagley, Bailey, Baker, Balch, -Ball, Ballard, Bancroft, Barber, Barker, Barnard, -Barnes, Barney, Barr, Barrett, Bartholomew, -Bartlett, Bartoll, Barton, Bassett, Batchelder, -Bates, Batter, Battin, Beadle, Beal, Bean, Bear, -Beck, Becket, Beckford, Belcher, Belknap, Bell, -Bennett, Barry, Bessom, Best, Bickford, Biles, -Birch, Bishop, Bisson, Bixby, Black, Blackly, -Blake, Blanchard, Blaney, Blasdell, Blashfield, -Blunt, Blyth, Boardman, Bodwell, Bolles, Bolton, -Bond, Booth, Bourn, Bowden, Bowditch, -Bowen, Bowles, Bowiman, Boyce, Boyd, Boynton, -Bradbury, Bradford, Bradley, Bradstreet, -Bragg, Bray, Breed, Brewer, Brickett, Bridgeo, -Bridges, Briggs, Brimblecome, Britton, Brock, -Brocklebank, Brooks, Broughton, Browne.</p> - -<div> - <span class='pageno' id='Page_76'>76</span> - <h3 id='antiquarian' class='c027'>THE ESSEX ANTIQUARIAN</h3> -</div> - -<p class='c012'>The work begins with the earliest records of -Essex County—parish, town, and court; births, -marriages, and deaths; probate and deeds -registry, etc. The search is thorough and reliable. -It is put up in thirteen volumes, in -strong and attractive binding, and fully indexed.</p> - -<p class='c006'>The price for the set complete is $35.</p> - -<h3 id='vitalrecords' class='c027'>ESSEX COUNTY VITAL RECORDS</h3> - -<p class='c012'>The publication of these records is progressing. -They are derived from gravestone, parish, church, -town, old Bible, and private records, and end -with the year 1849. The following list gives the -towns now ready, the number of pages in each, -and the price of each:</p> - -<p class='c006'>Andover, pp. 966, $10.10; Beverly, pp. 1,027, -$10.75; Boxford, pp. 274, $2.90; Bradford, pp. -373, $3.90; Danvers, pp. 915, $9.75; Essex, pp. -86, $ .95; Hamilton, pp. 112, $1.20; Haverhill, -pp. 827, $8.65; Ipswich, pp. 1,125, $12.75; -Lynn, pp. 1,050, $10.95; Lynnfield, pp. 98, $1.10; -Manchester, pp. 296, $3.15; Marblehead, pp. -1315, $13.70; Methuen, pp. 345, $3.63; Middleton, -pp. 143, $1.55; Newbury, pp. 1,323, $13.75; -Newburyport, in press; Saugus, pp. 81, $ .90; -Topsfield, pp. 258, $2.75; Wenham, pp. 227, -$2.40.</p> - -<hr class='c028' /> - -<div class='footnote' id='f1'> -<p class='c006'><a href='#r1'>1</a>. See Perley Family History and Genealogy, pages 15, 19.</p> -</div> - -<div class='footnote' id='f2'> -<p class='c006'><a href='#r2'>2</a>. See M. V. B. Perley’s Ipswich History in J. W. Lewis’s -History of Essex County, Mass., Vol. I, page 626.</p> -</div> - -<div class='footnote' id='f3'> -<p class='c006'><a href='#r3'>3</a>. In 1908 or 1909 a Dutch woman in Pennsylvania was -charged in court with the misdemeanor of casting a spell -on a cow, so that the cow gave no milk. The woman was -fined $5 and ten days in jail.</p> -</div> - -<div class='footnote' id='f4'> -<p class='c006'><a href='#r4'>4</a>. Caldwell’s <cite>Antiquarian Papers</cite> quote Sewell: “May 19, -1701, was buried Mr. James How, a good man, aged 104 -years. He died, I think, Lord’s day night, just about the -time the news of the King’s death was brought from -Medera.” King William died Sunday, March 8, 1701-2, -<span class='fss'>O.S.</span>; Sunday, March 8, 1702, <span class='fss'>J.S.</span>; or March 19, 1702, <span class='fss'>N.S.</span>]</p> -</div> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Short History of the Salem Village -Witchcraft Trials, by Martin Van Buren Perley - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SHORT HISTORY--SALEM WITCHCRAFT TRIALS *** - -***** This file should be named 54042-h.htm or 54042-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/4/0/4/54042/ - -Produced by MWS, ellinora and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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