September 25, 2024 • 43 mins
In this gripping episode of Salem Witch Hunt 101, we delve into the pivotal period of March 8-24, 1692, when the Salem witch trials reached a fever pitch. We explore the dramatic escalation of accusations and arrests that rocked Salem Village, including the unexpected cases of respected community members Martha Cory and Rebecca Nurse, as well as the shocking arrest of 4-year-old Dorothy Good. The episode begins with the election of new selectmen and constables in Salem, setting the stage for the tumultuous events to come. We then chronicle the return of former Salem Village minister Deodat Lawson and his influential sermon that further inflamed tensions. Listeners will hear detailed accounts of the examinations of Martha Cory and Rebecca Nurse, providing chilling insight into the judicial proceedings of the time. Throughout the episode, we discuss the growing role of spectral evidence in the trials and how it shaped the accusations and outcomes. Key moments include Martha Cory's passionate declaration of innocence, Rebecca Nurse's heartbreaking plea, and the community's reaction to the arrest of young Dorothy Good. The episode concludes with an update on End Witch Hunts' recent activities and a preview of upcoming content. This episode offers a comprehensive look at a crucial turning point in the Salem witch trials, demonstrating how quickly suspicion and fear can escalate into a full-blown crisis. Whether you're a history buff, a legal scholar, or simply curious about this dark chapter in American history, this episode provides valuable insights and compelling storytelling.
Learn More:
Emerson W. Baker, A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
Mary Beth Norton, In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
Bernard Rosenthal, editor, Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt
Marilynne K. Roach, The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-By-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege
Marilynne K. Roach, Six Women of Salem: The Untold Story of the Accused and Their Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
Stacy Schiff, The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem
Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project
Massachusetts Witch-Hunt Justice Project
Maryland Witches Exoneration Project
Salem Witch-Hunt Education Project
The Salem Witch-Hunt Saga: Beginnings
The Ultimate Introduction to the Salem Witch Trials: Salem Witch-Hunt 101 Part 1
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Welcome to Witch Hunt, the podcast bringing you a detailed
turn by turn account of the Salem witch Hunt.
I'm Josh Hutchinson. I'm Sarah Jack, We're back with
the 4th installment of our SalemWitch Hunt One O 1 Series,
covering the pivotal events fromMarch 8th through March 24th,
1692. In today's episode, we'll
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explore the dramatic escalation of accusations and arrests that
rocked Salem Village during thiscrucial period.
We'll examine the unexpected cases of Martha Corey, Dorothy
Good, and Rebecca Nurse, 3 unusual witchcraft suspects.
We'll also discuss the return offormer Salem Village minister to
Salem Village and analyze his influential sermon and
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eyewitness account of the unfolding events.
As we walk you through these events, you'll gain insight into
how quickly suspicions spread and how the legal machinery of
the witch trials began to gathermomentum.
We'll breakdown the examinations, the testimonies,
and the growing atmosphere of fear and paranoia that gripped
the community. So join us as we continue our in
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depth exploration of one of history's most infamous witch
hunts, piercing together the complex tapestry of events that
led to the Salem Witch Trials. Let's dive in and uncover the
stories behind the accusations, the hidden tensions within the
community, and the fateful decisions that set the stage for
the tragedy to come. Previously in our Salem Witch
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Hunt One O 1 Series, we've introduced the witch hunt and
discussed events up to March 7th, 1692.
In the first episode in the series, we presented a broad
overview of the Salem witch hunt, addressing many of the key
events and people involved, as well as the reasons behind the
crisis. In Part 2, we focus on the
events of February 1692 as residents of Salem Village began
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to consider that there was witchcraft in their midst.
In the third episode, we coveredFebruary 29th Sara Good and Sara
Osborne through their interrogations and jailings.
Today in Part 4, we follow the cases against church member
Martha Corey, baby girl Dorothy Good, and pious grandmother
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Rebecca Nurse. These cases are captivating, so
let's join the action on March 8th, 1692.
On March 8th at Salem's Town Meeting, new selectmen and
constables were elected. The new selectmen included
future witchcraft suspect PhilipEnglish and John Higginson
Junior, the son of Salem senior minister, along with Salem
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villages Israel Porter and Daniel Andrew.
The newly elected constables included John Putnam, junior and
Jonathan Putnam of Salem Village2 cousins of Sergeant Thomas
Putnam. The next day in Boston, jailer
John Arnold bought chains for Sarah Osburn and Sarah Good for
14 shillings. Chains were believed to have the
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power to stop a witch's specter from roaming, and the cost of
the chains was added to each accused individual's jail bill,
which they would have to pay to be released if they were
acquitted or the charges were dropped.
The two Sarah's would be locked in these chains until their
deaths months later. On March 11th, John Hale and
other local ministers attended afast at the Salem Village
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Parsonage. Robert Caliph later wrote that
the afflicted persons were for the most part silent, but after
anyone prayer was ended they would act and speak strangely
and ridiculously, yet were such as had been well educated and of
good behavior. The one, a girl of 11 or 12
years old, would sometimes seem to be in a convulsive fit, her
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limbs being twisted several waysand very stiff, but presently
her fit would be over. On an unknown date in March,
perhaps shortly after this fast,Samuel Paris sent his daughter
Betty to stay with his kinsman Stephen Sewell, the brother of
future Salem Witch House judge Samuel.
While staying in Salem Town, separated from the other
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afflicted persons, Betty's condition appears to improve,
and after March she never takes part in any further courtroom
proceedings or is named as an afflicted person in any arrest
warrant or testimony on March. 12th and Putnam Junior was
purportedly attacked by Martha Corey Specter.
Martha was the wife of Giles Corey.
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Her maiden name is unknown, but her first husband was Henry
Rich, and the two had a son named Thomas.
While married to Henry, Martha had a second son, Ben, with
another man. Martha was accepted as a full
member of the Salem Village Church on April 27th, 1690.
Which was coincidentally the same day that a certain Mary
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Sibley was accepted into the church.
Ezekiel Cheever and Edward Putnam asked Anne Junior what
clothes Martha Corey Specter wore.
She told them she was blind and could not see what the supposed
witch had on. Cheever and Putnam went to
Martha Corey's house, where Martha told them she knew people
were talking about her and denied being a witch.
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She then asked if Anne Junior had described her clothes.
The two men took this question to have come from diabolical
knowledge. How else could Martha know what
they had asked Anne? Elsewhere in Salem, Martha Corey
Spector supposedly attacked MaryWarren at the home of Elizabeth
and John Proctor. On May 12th, Mary Warren would
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testify that when she was first afflicted by Martha Corey, she
reached out for Martha Spector, but instead pulled John Proctor
into her lap. When this happened John Proctor
said it is nobody, but it is my shadow that you see.
Mary again reached for the spectral Corey, but instead
pulled the shadow figure back into her lap.
John Proctor said, I see there is no heed to any of your
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talking, for you are all possessed with the devil, for it
is nothing but my shape. Mary also said she had seen
Martha Corey at the Proctor House in person and Martha told
Mary that she would be condemnedfor which as well as she herself
and she said that the children would cry out and bring out all.
On Sunday, March 13th, during worship service in Salem
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Village, Bethshewa Pope, an auntof Benjamin Franklin, was
allegedly afflicted by spectres and was temporarily unable to
see. Later, Anne Puttnam Junior was
visited by an unknown spectre athome.
She thought she sort of knew theperson from seeing her at
worship services, and she could just about picture where this
woman sat in the meeting house. But she didn't know her name
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until either her mother or her maid, Mercy Lewis suggested it
was Rebecca Nurse. Like Martha Corey, Rebecca Town
Nurse was a church member. However, she kept her membership
in the Salem Town Church and never joined the church in the
village, though she usually worshiped there.
She was noted for her devotion. On March 14th, Martha Corey and
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Elizabeth Proctor's shapes supposedly attacked Abigail
Williams, Nisa Village minister Samuel Paris.
In The Visible World, Thomas Putnam invited Martha Corey to
visit Anne Junior in person. When Martha entered the Putnam
house, Anne Junior had a fit, contorted into strange positions
and collapsed. Anne Junior cried out against
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Martha for causing her affliction, but then her tongue
thrust forward, her teeth clamped down and she was unable
to speak. When she regained control of her
mouth, Anne Junior told Martha she saw a yellow bird sucking
between her forefinger and her middle finger.
Anne Junior claimed Martha was the specter that had covered
Beth Shoe of Pope's eyes during the meeting the day before.
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Anne Junior's hands then got stuck in her own eyes and could
not be removed for some time. Then Anne Junior had a twisted
vision of the invisible world where she saw a man being
roasted in her parents heart, with Martha Corey turning the
spit. Mercy Lewis, the Putnam's maid,
grabbed a stick and struck whereAnne said the spectre was.
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The vision went away for a moment.
Mercy had been orphaned in King William's War and had previously
witnessed the killings of most of her extended family as a very
young girl during King Philip's War.
Her family lived on the frontierin the vulnerable settlement of
Falmouth, located in Maine on Casco Bay, where the city of
Portland now stands. Following each of these wars,
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Mercy relocated to Essex County,Massachusetts.
After her parents were killed, she spent some time in Beverly
before taking a position is madefor Thomas and Ann Putnam in
Salem Village. Mercy's sister, Priscilla had
married a Putnam neighbor, HenryKinney Junior.
When Anne's vision came back, Mercy struck at the specter
again and cried out. Do not if you love yourself.
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And Mercy shrieked as Anne said Martha Specter clubbed her with
an iron rod. Mercy claimed to see shadowy
female figures in the room and said they were trying to get her
to write in the Devil's book. As the real Martha Corey left
the Putnam house, Mercy Lewis succumbed to fit so violent it
took three men to restrain her. Around 11 O clock that night,
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while Mercy sat in a chair before the hearth, the chair
creeped forward towards the fire.
Two men had to grab the chair toprevent Mercy, who couldn't get
up from being burned. But they couldn't stop the chair
until Edward Putnam jumped in front and lifted Mercy's feet.
Elsewhere in Salem, Johns Corey's ox and cat were
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strangely afflicted but later recovered.
On March 15th, Martha Corey's shape allegedly afflicted
Elizabeth Hubbard. And Rebecca Nurse allegedly
attacked Abigail Williams spectrally.
Ipswich is Mary Fuller and Marjorie Thorne were afflicted
allegedly by Rachel Clinton, whoturned up at the James Fuller
Junior house at this moment. Rachel was a child free divorcee
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who'd been rumored to be a witchfor years.
At the Fuller House, she told them she was there to hear their
lies about her. Suddenly, Joseph Fuller ran in,
exclaiming that his sister Bettywas dead.
Rachel Clinton ran out and JamesFuller senior was unable to see
her when he tried to follow. As it turned out, Betty Fuller
had passed out and would recoverafter three to four hours of
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unconsciousness. When she came around, Betty said
she'd seen something so frightening that it had made her
turn on the spot and run, but she wasn't quick enough and
whatever she saw knocked her down.
On March 18th, Ann Putnam Seniorreportedly wrestled with Rebecca
Nurse's Specter for two hours. The next day, Ann Putnam senior
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was allegedly assailed by the specters of Martha Corey and
Rebecca Nurse because she refused to join their ranks.
Henry Kenny and Edward Putnam filed a witchcraft complaint
against Martha Corey, and magistrates issued a warrant for
her arrest. It is unclear which Henry Kenny
was involved, father or son. The complaint alleged that
Martha had afflicted Ann Putnam senior and Putnam junior,
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Abigail Williams, Elizabeth Hubbard and Mercy Lewis,
sister-in-law of Henry Kenny junior.
The warrant issued by John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin
instructed Marshall George Herrick to arrest Martha and
take her to Ingersoll's Tavern in Salem Village on Monday,
March 21st. Also on March 19th, former Salem
Village Minister Deodat Lawson returned to the village.
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Tituba had claimed that his wifeand his child were killed by
Maleficium. After Deodat Lawson checked into
a room at Ingersoll's, Mary Walcott, the daughter of near
neighbor Captain Jonathan Walcott, called upon him and
claimed to be bitten on the wrist.
In the candlelight, Lawson observed a set of teeth marks.
In the beginning of the evening,Lawson visited the Parsonage
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nearby Ingersolls. Abigail Williams ran back and
forth across the room with her arms held high and flapping like
a bird. She said wish, wish, wish as she
virtually flew about the home. She stopped suddenly and
declared that she saw the specter of Rebecca Nurse before
her. Nobody else could see the
specter which proffered the Devil's.
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Book, Abigail said. I won't, I won't.
I won't take it. I do not know what book it is.
I'm sure it's none of God's book.
It is the devil's book, for aught I know.
Across town, when Giles Gory went to prayer before bed, he
was hindered by some unseen force.
As his wife approached, his lipsloosened and he was able to say
his prayers. On March 20th, Deodat Lawson
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stood in for Samuel Paris to lead Sunday services, which were
interrupted by the afflicted persons.
As Lawson prepared to read the text introducing his sermon,
Abigail Williams said, Now standup and name your text.
Lawson read the text and Abigailasserted it is a long text.
Lawson began his sermon soon, Bethsua Pope said.
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Now there is enough of that. Abigail Williams claimed Martha
Corey Specter left her body and sat on a beam with her yellow
bird. The bird alighted on Lawson's
hat, which hung on a pig, but Abigail was silenced by
neighbors. In the afternoon, when Lawson
referred to his doctrine, Abigail said, I know no doctrine
you had. If you did name one, I have
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forgot it. On March 21st, Joseph Herrick
arrested Martha Corey. During the arrest, Herrick
spotted a strange ointment in Martha's house.
Herrick asked Martha about it, and she told him she got the
recipe from future witch Judge Major Bartholomew Gedney of
Salem. Constable Her took Martha to
Ingersoll's Tavern, where magistrates were preparing for
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her interrogation. Reverend Nicholas Noise opened
the hearing with prayer and the very biased Samuel Paris was
appointed to record the interrogation.
Hathorne began questioning Martha.
You are now in the hands of authority.
Tell me now why you have hurt these persons.
I do not. Who doth?
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Pray, give me leave to go to prayer.
We do not sin for you to go to prayer, but tell me why you hurt
these. I am an innocent person.
I never had to do with witchcraft since I was born.
I am a gospel woman. Do not you see these complain of
you? The Lord opened the eyes of the
magistrates and ministers. The Lord show His power to
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discover the guilty. Tell us who hurts these
children. I do not know.
If you'll be guilty of this fact, do you think you can hide
it? The Lord knows.
Well, tell us what you know of this matter.
Why? I am a gospel woman and do you
think I could have to do with witchcraft 2?
How could you tell then, that the child was bid to observe
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what clothes you wore when some came to speak with you?
Chievers interrupted her and bidher not begin with AY, and so
Edward Putnam declared the matter.
Who told you that? He said.
The child said. Ezekiel Achiever said you speak
falsely. Then Edward Putnam read again.
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And Hathorn asked why did you ask if the children told what
clothes you wore? My husband told me, the others
told. Who told you about the clothes?
Why did you ask that question? Because I heard the children
told what clothes the other wore.
Goodman Corey, did you tell her?The old man denied that he told
her so. Did you not say your husband
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told you so? She sighed.
Who hurts these children? Now look upon them.
I cannot help it. Did you not say you would tell
the truth? Why you asked that question?
How came you to the knowledge? I did but ask.
You dare thus to lie in all thisassembly.
You are now before authority. I expect the truth.
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You promised it. Speak now and tell who told you
what clothes. Nobody.
How came you to know that the children would be examined on
what clothes you wore? Because I thought the child was
wiser than anybody if she knew. Give an answer you said your
husband told you. He told me the children said I
afflicted them. How do you know what they came
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for? Answer me this truly.
Will you say how you came to know what they came for?
I had heard speech that the children said.
I troubled them, and I thought that they might come to examine.
But how did you know it? I thought they did.
Did not you say you would tell the truth?
Who told you what they came for?Nobody.
How did you know? I did think so.
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But you said you knew so. A child says there's a man
whispering in her ear. What did he say to you?
We must not believe all that these distracted children say.
Cannot you tell what that man whispered?
I saw nobody. But did not you hear?
No. If you expect mercy of God, you
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must look for it in God's way. By confession, do you think to
find mercy by aggravating your sins?
A true thing. Look for it then, in God's way.
So I do. Give glory to God and confess.
Then, but I cannot confess. Do not you see how these
afflicted you charge you? We must not believe distracted
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persons. Who do you improve to hurt them?
I improved none. Did not you say our eyes were
blinded? You would open them.
Yes, to accuse the innocent. Why cannot the girl stand before
you? I do not know.
What did you mean by that? I saw them fall down.
It seems to be an insulting speech, as if they could not
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stand before you. They cannot stand before others.
You said they cannot stand before you tell me what was that
turning upon the spit by you? You believe the children that
are distracted? I saw no spit.
Here are more than two that accuse you for witchcraft.
What do you say? I am innocent.
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Then Mr. Hathorne read further of Crossley's evidence.
What did? You mean by that the devil could
not stand before you? She denied it. 3 or 4 sober
witnesses confirmed it. What can I do?
Many rise up against me. Why confess?
So I would if I were guilty. Who are sober persons?
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What do you say to them? You are a gospel woman.
Will you lie? Abigail cried out.
Next Sabbath is Sacrament day, but she shall not come there.
I do not care. You charge these children with
distraction. It is a note of distraction with
persons very in a minute, but these fix upon you.
This is not the matter of distraction.
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When all are against me, what can I help it?
Now tell me the truth will you? Why did you say the magistrates
and ministers eyes are blinded and you would open them?
She laughed and denied it. Now tell us how we shall know
who does hurt these if you do not.
Can an innocent person be guilty?
Do you deny these words? Yes.
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Tell us who hurts these. We came to be a terror to evil
doers. You say you would open our eyes.
We are blind. If you say I am a witch.
You said you would show us. She denied it.
Why do you not now show us? I cannot tell.
I do not know. What did you strike the maid at
Mr. Thomas Putnam's with? I never struck her in my life.
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Who are two that see you strike her with an iron rod?
I had no hand in it. Who had Do you believe these
children are bewitched? They may, for aught I know.
I have no hand in it. You say you are no witch.
Maybe you mean you never covenanted with the devil?
Did you never deal with any familiar?
No, never. What bird was up the children
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spoke of? Then witnesses.
Spoke. What bird was it?
I know no bird. It may be you have engaged.
You will not confess, but God knows.
So he does. Do you believe you shall go
unpunished? I have nothing to do with
witchcraft. Why was you not willing?
Your husband should come to the former session here.
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But he came for all. Did not you take the saddle off?
I did not know what it was for. Did you not know what it was
for? I did not know that it would be
to any benefit. Did you not say you would open
our eyes? Why do you not?
I never thought of a witch. Is it a laughing matter to see
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these afflicted persons? She denied it.
Several prove it. Ye are all against me and I
cannot help it. Do not you believe there are
witches in the country? I do not know that there is any.
Do not you know that Tituba confessed it?
I did not hear her speak. I find you will own nothing
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without several witnesses, and yet you will deny for all.
It was noted when she bit her lip, several of the afflicted
were bitten when she was urged upon it that she bit her lip
save she what harm is there in it?
What do you say to all these things that are apparent?
If you will all go hang me, how can I help it?
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For you to serve the devil 10 years, tell how many?
She laughed. The children cried.
There was a yellow bird with her.
When Mr. Hathorne asked her about it, she laughed.
When her hands were at liberty, the afflicted persons were
pinched. Why do not you tell how the
devil comes in your shape and hurts these?
You said you would. How can I know how?
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Why did you say you would show us?
She laughed again. What book is that you would have
these children write in? What book?
Where should I have a book? I showed them none, nor have
none, nor brought none. The afflicted cried out.
There was a man whispering in her ears.
What book did you carry to Mary Walcott?
I carried. None.
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If the devil appears in my shape, then Needham said that
Parker some time ago thought this woman was a witch.
Who is your God? The God.
That made me. Who is that God?
The God that made me. What is his name?
Jehovah. Do you know any other name?
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God Almighty. Does he tell you that you pray
to that he is God Almighty? Who do I worship but the God
that made me? How many gods are there?
1. How many persons?
3. Cannot you say so?
There is one God in three blessed persons.
Then she was troubled. Do not you see these children
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and women are rational and soberas their neighbors when your
hands are fastened? Immediately they were seized
with fits and the standers by said she was squeezing her
fingers, her hands being eased by them.
That held them on purpose for trial.
Quickly after, the Marshall saidshe had bit her lip and
immediately the afflicted were in an uproar.
Why do you hurt these or who doth?
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She denied any hand in it. Why did you say if you were a
witch you should have no pardon?Because I am a woman.
After Martha's initial interrogation, Ezekiel Cheever,
Edward Putnam, Elizabeth Hubbard, Samuel Paris, Thomas
Putnam and Nathaniel Eager Sol were deposed against her.
Ezekiel Sheever and Edward Putnam described the events of
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March 12th when they had confronted Martha Corey at her
home. Edward Putnam testified about
Martha's March 14th visit to theThomas Putnam family.
Elizabeth Hubbard said Martha had afflicted her many times
since March 15th. She said.
I believe in my heart that Martha Corey is a dreadful witch
and that she has very often afflicted and tormented me.
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Samuel Paris, Nathaniel Ingersoll and Thomas Putnam
described how the afflicted weretormented during Martha's
examination. After the examination, Marshall
Herrick and the magistrates dined and fed their horses at
Ingersoll's, racking up a bill of four shillings and sixpence.
Then they took Martha Corey to Salem, where Marshall Herrick
secured her in jail. On March 22nd, Rebecca nurses
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Shape allegedly assaulted Anne Putnam senior while wearing
nothing but her shift and nightcap.
The nurse specter offered Anne alittle red book that Anne
refused to sign and quoted scripture at the specter.
The specter threatened to tear Anne's soul from her body, but
yielded after another two hour battle and left.
Around this time in March, PeterCloyce, Daniel, Andrew and
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Elizabeth and his reporter visited Rebecca Nurse had been
in bed for around a week. After Rebecca expressed concern
for the afflicted, whom she regretted not visiting but
couldn't, the visitors informed her that she too was being
accused. Once Rebecca recovered from the
shock, she said, Well, as to this thing, I am as innocent as
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the child unborn, but surely what sin hath God found out in
me unrepented of that He should place such an affliction upon me
in my old age? On March 23rd, Martha Corey and
Rebecca nurses Spectres reportedly afflicted Anne Putnam
senior again. Diadot Lawson visited and found
Anne in bed where she was getting over a fit.
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Lawson prayed over Anne. At some point in the prayer,
Anne seemed to fall asleep. Thomas Putnam took her in his
arms and found her to be stiff as a board.
He tried to sit her up on his lap and she eventually had
another fit. Her arms and legs jerked about
as she argued with the specter of Rebecca Nurse again.
That day, Jonathan and Edward Putnam filed complaints against
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young Dorothy Good and aged Rebecca Nurse.
The magistrates issued arrest warrants for Dorothy and
Rebecca. Rebecca's warrant stated that
she was wanted for allegedly bewitching Ankar Putnam and her
daughter Anne Putnam Junior. Dorothy's warrant did not
specifically list city victims or even what form of witchcraft
she'd been accused of, but it was likely given to Marshall
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George Herrick at the same time as Rebecca's warrant.
To the northeast, Captain John Alden travelled to Saint John,
Canada, to ransom captive, including his own son.
His attempt failed and his son and others were moved to Quebec.
On March 24th, constables arrested Dorothy Good and
Rebecca Nurse. They took the girl and the older
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woman to Ingersoll's Tavern in Salem Village.
There, magistrates John Hathorneand Jonathan Corwin interrogated
Rebecca Nurse and Dorothy Good. Reverend John Hill Beverly gave
the invocation, and Samuel Parisagain recorded the proceedings
through his bias lens. Hathorne began with a question
to an afflicted person. What do you say?
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Have you seen this woman hurt you?
Yes, she beat me this morning. Abigail, have you been hurt by
this woman? Yes, Anne Putnam and a grievous
fit cried out that she hurt her.Goody nurse, Here are two Anne
Putnam, the child, and Abigail Williams.
Complain. If you're hurting them, what do
you say to it? I can say before my Eternal
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Father I am innocent and God will clear my innocency.
Here is never A1 in the assemblybut desires it.
But if you be guilty, pray God discover you.
Then Henry Kenny rose up to speak.
Goodman Kinney, what do you say?Then he entered his complaint
and further said that since thisnurse came into the house, he
was seized twice with an amazed condition.
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Here are not only these, but here is the wife of Mr. Thomas
Putnam, who accuseth you by credible information, and that
both of tempting her to iniquity, and of greatly hurting
her. I am innocent and clear and have
not been able to get out of the doors these eight or nine days.
Mr. Putnam, given what you have to say.
Then Mr. Edward Putnam gave in his relation.
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Is this true gutty nurse? I never afflicted no child never
in my life. You see these accuse you.
Is it true? No.
Are you an innocent person relating to this witchcraft?
Here Thomas Putnam's wife cried out.
Did you not bring the black man with you?
Did you not bid me tempt God anddie?
How OFT have you eat and drunk your own damnation?
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What do you say to them? Oh, Lord, help me.
And she spread out her hands, and the afflicted or grievously
vexed. Do not see what a solemn
condition these are in. When your hands are loose, the
persons are afflicted. Then Mary Walcott, who often
heretoforest said she had seen her but never could say or did
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say that she either bit or pinched her or hurt her, and
also Elizabeth Hubbard under thelike circumstances, both openly
accused her of hurting them. Here are these two grown persons
now accuse you. What say you?
Do not you see these afflicted persons and hear them accuse
you? The Lord knows I have not hurt
them. I am an innocent person.
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It is very awful to all to see these agonies, and you, an old
professor that's charged with contracting with the devil by
the effects of it, and yet to see you stand with dry eyes when
there are so many wet. You do not know my heart.
You would do well if you are guilty to confess and give glory
to God. I'm as clear as the child I'm
born. What uncertainty there may be in
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apparitions I know not. Yet this with me strikes hard
upon you, that you are at this very present charged with
familiar spirits. This is your bodily person they
speak to, they say. Now they see these familiar
spirits come to your bodily person.
Now what do you say to that? I have none, Sir.
If you have confess and give glory to God, I pray God clear
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you if you be innocent, and if you are guilty, discover you and
therefore give me an upright answer.
Have you any familiarity with these spirits?
No, I have none, but with God alone.
How came you sick? For there's an odd discourse of
that in the mouths of many. I am sick at my stomach.
Have you no wounds? I have none but old age.
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You do know whether you are guilty and have familiarity with
the devil. And now when you are here
present to see such a thing as these testify a black man
whispering in your ear, and birds about you, what do you say
to it? It is all false.
I am clear. Possibly you may apprehend you
are in a witch, but have you notbeen LED aside by temptations
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that way? I have not.
What a sad thing it is that a church member here and now
another of Salem, should be thusaccused and charged.
Missus Pope fell into a grievousfit and cried out a sad thing,
sure enough. And then many more fell into
lamentable fits. Tell us, have not you had
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visible appearances more than what is common in nature?
I have none nor ever had in my life.
Do you think these suffered voluntary or involuntary?
I cannot tell. That is strange.
Everyone can judge. I must be silent.
They accuse you of hurting them,and if you think it is, not
unwillingly but by design, you must look upon them as
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murderers. I cannot tell what to think of
it afterwards, when this was somewhat insisted on, she said.
I do not think so. She did not understand or write
what was said. Well then, give an answer now.
Do you think these suffer against their wills or not?
I do not think these suffer against their wills.
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Why did you never visit these afflicted persons?
Because I was afraid I should have fits too.
Upon the motion of her body. Fits followed upon the
complainants abundantly and veryfrequently.
Is it not an unaccountable case that when you are examined,
these persons are afflicted? I have got nobody to look to but
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God. Again, upon stirring her hands,
the afflicted persons were seized with violent fits of
torture. Do you believe these afflicted
persons are bewitched? I do think they are.
When this witchcraft came upon the stage, there was no
suspicion of Tituba. She professed much love to that
child Betty Parris, but it was her apparition did the mischief.
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Why should not you also be guilty?
For your apparition doth hurt also.
Would you have me be lie myself?She held her neck on one side,
and accordingly, so were the afflicted taken.
Then authority requiring it. Samuel Parris read what he had
in characters taken from Mr. Thomas Putnam's wife in her
fits. What do you think of this?
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I cannot help it. The devil may appear in my
shape. When the hearing was over, the
magistrates committed Rebecca Nurse to the jail in Salem.
Next the magistrates questioned little Dorothy.
Good daughter of a witchcraft suspect, Sarah Goode, Dear dot
Lawson wrote an account. Quote, The magistrates and
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ministers also did inform me that they apprehended a child of
Sarah Goode, and examined it being between four and five
years of age. And as to matter of fact, they
did unanimously affirm, that when this child did but cast its
eye upon the afflicted persons, they were tormented, and they
held her head, and yet so many as her eye could fix upon were
afflicted, which they did several times make careful
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observation of The afflicted complained.
They had often been bitten by this child, and produced the
marks of a small set of teeth. Accordingly, this was also
committed to Salem prison. The child looked Hale and well
as other children. I saw it at Lieutenant
Ingersoll's. Giles Corey made a statement
against his wife Martha. He recounted the time when he
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was stopped from praying and theincidents which befell his ox
and cat. He also described a time when
Martha knelt at the hurt as if in prayer, but he did not hear
her pray. Anne Putnam, junior and Mary
Walcott were deposed against Dorothy Good.
Anne said that she was tortured by the apparition of Dorothy
Good many times from March 3rd through the child's examination
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on March 20. 4th Mary Walcott claimed that she was afflicted
by Dorothy's apparition from March 21st through 24th.
Anne Putnam, senior, was deposedagainst Martha Corey and Rebecca
Nurse. She gave a day by day account of
her torments at the hands of thespectres of Martha Corey and
Rebecca Nurse for March 18th through 24th.
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Daniel Andrew Peter Cloyce is a reporter and Elizabeth Porter
made a statement for Rebecca Nurse on the 24th.
Later, on the 24th, Dear dot Lawson delivered the Thursday
lecture, but she soon published as Christ Fidelity, the only
shield against Satan's malignity.
In published form, the book was endorsed by ministers Increase
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Mather, Cotton Mather, Charles Morton, James Allen, Samuel
Willard and John Bailey. The key verse Lawson used was
Zechariah 3 two. And the Lord said unto Satan,
The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan, even the Lord that hath chosen
Jerusalem rebuke thee. Is not this a brand plucked out
of the fire? Lawson stated that his doctrine
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was that the Lord Jesus Christ is the only prevalent
intercessor with God the Father for the relief of those that are
in covenant with Him and are made partakers of His special
mercy. When they are under the most
threatening and amazing distresses, that by the rage and
mouths of Satan, that they can be exposed unto you.
Then he put forth 6 propositionsand expounded upon 6 uses for
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this verse. One, Satan is the adversary and
enemy. He is the original, the fountain
of malice, the instigator of allcountry, variety, malignity, and
enmity. Two, Satan makes it his business
to improve all opportunities andadvantages to exercise his
mouths upon the children of men.He is an indefatigable as well
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as an implacable enemy. Three, the covenant people of
God and those that would devote themselves entirely to his
service are the special objects of Satan's rage and fury.
Four, that in all Satan's malicious designs and operations
he is absolutely bounded and limited by the power and
pleasure of the great and everlasting God, the Lord
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Jehovah. Five, That whensoever God hath
declared a person or people to be in covenant with him, as the
objects of his special mercy andfavor, he will assuredly and
shortly suppress the malice of Satan, however violently engaged
against them. 6 The great God doth manage all his designs of
mercy to his people under the gospel dispensation, in and
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through the mediator. The very tenure of the gospel
covenant is such, and the terms thereof are so methodized as to
introduce a necessity of depending on a mediator.
The whole transaction of the gospel covenant betwixt the
great God and fallen man is by the mediator.
Hence it is on better terms thanthe covenant of works.
Hebrews 86 Under the New Covenant, all addresses to God
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are by the Mediator, Hebrews 415and 16 and all communications of
grace from God are by the Mediator.
John, 116. After stating these six
propositions, Lawson then listedhis 6 uses for the chosen verse.
One, let it be for solemn warning and awakening to all of
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us that are before the Lord of this time, and to all other of
this whole people, who shall come to the knowledge of these
direful operations of Satan which the holy God hath
permitted in the midst of us. Two, let it be for deep
humiliation to the people of this place, which is in special.
Under the influence of this fearful judgement of God, the
Lord doth at this day manage a great controversy with you, to
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the astonishment of yourselves and others.
You are therefore to be deeply humbled and fit in the dust
considering. Three.
It is matter of terror, amazement, and astonishment to
all such wretched souls, if there be any here in the
congregation. And God of His infinite mercy,
grant that none of you may ever be found such as have given up
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their names and souls. To the Devil, who by covenant,
explicit or implicit, have boundthemselves to be his slaves and
dredges, consenting to be instruments in whose shapes he
may torment and afflict their fellow creatures even of their
own kind. To the amazing and astonishing
of the standers by. Four, Let it be for caution to
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all of us that are before the Lord.
As ever we would prevail with God to prevent the spreading of
this sore affliction, and to rebuke Satan for us.
Let us take heed of siding with or giving place unto the devil.
Five. Let it be for exhortation and
direction to this whole assembly, and to all others that
shall come to the knowledge of these amazing dispensation.
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Here, then, give me leave to press those special duties which
all persons are concerned to putin practice at such a time as
this. Six.
The 6th and last use is in two words of comfort, to bear up the
fainting souls of those that arepersonally under or relatively
concerned in these direful operations of the grand enemy of
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mankind. Lawson wrapped up his sermon
with a conclusion. He said, to conclude, The Lord
is known by the judgments which He executes in the midst of us.
The dispensations of his Providence appear to be
unsearchable, and is doing past finding out.
He seems to have allowed Satan to afflict many of our people,
and that thereupon he has come down in great wrath, threatening
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the destruction of the bodies. And if the infinite mercy of God
prevent not of the souls of manyin this place, yet may we say,
in the midst of the terrible things which he doth in
righteousness, He alone is the God of our salvation, who
represents Himself as the Saviorof all that are in a low and
distressed condition, because heis good, and his mercy endureth
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forever. Let us then return and repent,
rent our hearts and not our garments.
Who can tell if the Lord will return in mercy on to us, and by
His Spirit lift up a standard against the grand enemy, who
threatens to come in like a flood among us, and overthrow
all that is holy and just and good?
It is no small comfort to consider that Job's exercise of
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patience had its beginning from the devil, but we have seen the
end to be from the Lord. James 511.
But we also may find by experience the same blessed
issue of our present distresses by Satan's malice.
Let us repent of every sin that hath been committed, and labor
to practice every duty which hath been neglected.
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And when we are humbled and proved for our good in the
latter end, then we shall assuredly and speedily find that
the kingly power of our Lord andSavior shall be magnified in
delivering His poor sheep and lambs out of the jaws and paws
of the roaring lion. Then will Jesus, the blessed
anti type of Joshua, the Redeemer and juicer, while
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suppress and utterly Vanquish this adversary of ours with
irresistible power and authority, according to our
text. And the Lord said unto Satan,
The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan, even the Lord that hath chosen
Jerusalem rebuke thee. Is not this a brand plucked out
of the fire? Once Rebecca Nurse and Northey
Goode were jailed, there were a total of 6 people behind bars
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for allegedly participating in the Salem Wish conspiracy.
Also imprisoned were Martha Corey, Sarah Goode, Sarah
Osborne and Tituba. In the next episode in Our Salem
Witch at One O 1 Series, we willcover the remainder of March and
the beginning of April, getting into accusations against Rachel
Clinton, Sarah Kloice, and Elizabeth Proctor.
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Welcome to Witch Hunt, the podcast bringing you a detailed
turn by turn account of the Salem witch Hunt.
I'm Josh Hutchinson. I'm Sarah Jack, We're back with
the 4th installment of our SalemWitch Hunt One O 1 Series,
covering the pivotal events fromMarch 8th through March 24th,
1692. In today's episode, we'll
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explore the dramatic escalation of accusations and arrests that
rocked Salem Village during thiscrucial period.
We'll examine the unexpected cases of Martha Corey, Dorothy
Good, and Rebecca Nurse, 3 unusual witchcraft suspects.
We'll also discuss the return offormer Salem Village minister to
Salem Village and analyze his influential sermon and
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eyewitness account of the unfolding events.
As we walk you through these events, you'll gain insight into
how quickly suspicions spread and how the legal machinery of
the witch trials began to gathermomentum.
We'll breakdown the examinations, the testimonies,
and the growing atmosphere of fear and paranoia that gripped
the community. So join us as we continue our in
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depth exploration of one of history's most infamous witch
hunts, piercing together the complex tapestry of events that
led to the Salem Witch Trials. Let's dive in and uncover the
stories behind the accusations, the hidden tensions within the
community, and the fateful decisions that set the stage for
the tragedy to come. Previously in our Salem Witch
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Hunt One O 1 Series, we've introduced the witch hunt and
discussed events up to March 7th, 1692.
In the first episode in the series, we presented a broad
overview of the Salem witch hunt, addressing many of the key
events and people involved, as well as the reasons behind the
crisis. In Part 2, we focus on the
events of February 1692 as residents of Salem Village began
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to consider that there was witchcraft in their midst.
In the third episode, we coveredFebruary 29th Sara Good and Sara
Osborne through their interrogations and jailings.
Today in Part 4, we follow the cases against church member
Martha Corey, baby girl Dorothy Good, and pious grandmother
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Rebecca Nurse. These cases are captivating, so
let's join the action on March 8th, 1692.
On March 8th at Salem's Town Meeting, new selectmen and
constables were elected. The new selectmen included
future witchcraft suspect PhilipEnglish and John Higginson
Junior, the son of Salem senior minister, along with Salem
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villages Israel Porter and Daniel Andrew.
The newly elected constables included John Putnam, junior and
Jonathan Putnam of Salem Village2 cousins of Sergeant Thomas
Putnam. The next day in Boston, jailer
John Arnold bought chains for Sarah Osburn and Sarah Good for
14 shillings. Chains were believed to have the
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power to stop a witch's specter from roaming, and the cost of
the chains was added to each accused individual's jail bill,
which they would have to pay to be released if they were
acquitted or the charges were dropped.
The two Sarah's would be locked in these chains until their
deaths months later. On March 11th, John Hale and
other local ministers attended afast at the Salem Village
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Parsonage. Robert Caliph later wrote that
the afflicted persons were for the most part silent, but after
anyone prayer was ended they would act and speak strangely
and ridiculously, yet were such as had been well educated and of
good behavior. The one, a girl of 11 or 12
years old, would sometimes seem to be in a convulsive fit, her
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limbs being twisted several waysand very stiff, but presently
her fit would be over. On an unknown date in March,
perhaps shortly after this fast,Samuel Paris sent his daughter
Betty to stay with his kinsman Stephen Sewell, the brother of
future Salem Witch House judge Samuel.
While staying in Salem Town, separated from the other
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afflicted persons, Betty's condition appears to improve,
and after March she never takes part in any further courtroom
proceedings or is named as an afflicted person in any arrest
warrant or testimony on March. 12th and Putnam Junior was
purportedly attacked by Martha Corey Specter.
Martha was the wife of Giles Corey.
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Her maiden name is unknown, but her first husband was Henry
Rich, and the two had a son named Thomas.
While married to Henry, Martha had a second son, Ben, with
another man. Martha was accepted as a full
member of the Salem Village Church on April 27th, 1690.
Which was coincidentally the same day that a certain Mary
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Sibley was accepted into the church.
Ezekiel Cheever and Edward Putnam asked Anne Junior what
clothes Martha Corey Specter wore.
She told them she was blind and could not see what the supposed
witch had on. Cheever and Putnam went to
Martha Corey's house, where Martha told them she knew people
were talking about her and denied being a witch.
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She then asked if Anne Junior had described her clothes.
The two men took this question to have come from diabolical
knowledge. How else could Martha know what
they had asked Anne? Elsewhere in Salem, Martha Corey
Spector supposedly attacked MaryWarren at the home of Elizabeth
and John Proctor. On May 12th, Mary Warren would
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testify that when she was first afflicted by Martha Corey, she
reached out for Martha Spector, but instead pulled John Proctor
into her lap. When this happened John Proctor
said it is nobody, but it is my shadow that you see.
Mary again reached for the spectral Corey, but instead
pulled the shadow figure back into her lap.
John Proctor said, I see there is no heed to any of your
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talking, for you are all possessed with the devil, for it
is nothing but my shape. Mary also said she had seen
Martha Corey at the Proctor House in person and Martha told
Mary that she would be condemnedfor which as well as she herself
and she said that the children would cry out and bring out all.
On Sunday, March 13th, during worship service in Salem
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Village, Bethshewa Pope, an auntof Benjamin Franklin, was
allegedly afflicted by spectres and was temporarily unable to
see. Later, Anne Puttnam Junior was
visited by an unknown spectre athome.
She thought she sort of knew theperson from seeing her at
worship services, and she could just about picture where this
woman sat in the meeting house. But she didn't know her name
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until either her mother or her maid, Mercy Lewis suggested it
was Rebecca Nurse. Like Martha Corey, Rebecca Town
Nurse was a church member. However, she kept her membership
in the Salem Town Church and never joined the church in the
village, though she usually worshiped there.
She was noted for her devotion. On March 14th, Martha Corey and
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Elizabeth Proctor's shapes supposedly attacked Abigail
Williams, Nisa Village minister Samuel Paris.
In The Visible World, Thomas Putnam invited Martha Corey to
visit Anne Junior in person. When Martha entered the Putnam
house, Anne Junior had a fit, contorted into strange positions
and collapsed. Anne Junior cried out against
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Martha for causing her affliction, but then her tongue
thrust forward, her teeth clamped down and she was unable
to speak. When she regained control of her
mouth, Anne Junior told Martha she saw a yellow bird sucking
between her forefinger and her middle finger.
Anne Junior claimed Martha was the specter that had covered
Beth Shoe of Pope's eyes during the meeting the day before.
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Anne Junior's hands then got stuck in her own eyes and could
not be removed for some time. Then Anne Junior had a twisted
vision of the invisible world where she saw a man being
roasted in her parents heart, with Martha Corey turning the
spit. Mercy Lewis, the Putnam's maid,
grabbed a stick and struck whereAnne said the spectre was.
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The vision went away for a moment.
Mercy had been orphaned in King William's War and had previously
witnessed the killings of most of her extended family as a very
young girl during King Philip's War.
Her family lived on the frontierin the vulnerable settlement of
Falmouth, located in Maine on Casco Bay, where the city of
Portland now stands. Following each of these wars,
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Mercy relocated to Essex County,Massachusetts.
After her parents were killed, she spent some time in Beverly
before taking a position is madefor Thomas and Ann Putnam in
Salem Village. Mercy's sister, Priscilla had
married a Putnam neighbor, HenryKinney Junior.
When Anne's vision came back, Mercy struck at the specter
again and cried out. Do not if you love yourself.
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And Mercy shrieked as Anne said Martha Specter clubbed her with
an iron rod. Mercy claimed to see shadowy
female figures in the room and said they were trying to get her
to write in the Devil's book. As the real Martha Corey left
the Putnam house, Mercy Lewis succumbed to fit so violent it
took three men to restrain her. Around 11 O clock that night,
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while Mercy sat in a chair before the hearth, the chair
creeped forward towards the fire.
Two men had to grab the chair toprevent Mercy, who couldn't get
up from being burned. But they couldn't stop the chair
until Edward Putnam jumped in front and lifted Mercy's feet.
Elsewhere in Salem, Johns Corey's ox and cat were
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strangely afflicted but later recovered.
On March 15th, Martha Corey's shape allegedly afflicted
Elizabeth Hubbard. And Rebecca Nurse allegedly
attacked Abigail Williams spectrally.
Ipswich is Mary Fuller and Marjorie Thorne were afflicted
allegedly by Rachel Clinton, whoturned up at the James Fuller
Junior house at this moment. Rachel was a child free divorcee
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who'd been rumored to be a witchfor years.
At the Fuller House, she told them she was there to hear their
lies about her. Suddenly, Joseph Fuller ran in,
exclaiming that his sister Bettywas dead.
Rachel Clinton ran out and JamesFuller senior was unable to see
her when he tried to follow. As it turned out, Betty Fuller
had passed out and would recoverafter three to four hours of
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unconsciousness. When she came around, Betty said
she'd seen something so frightening that it had made her
turn on the spot and run, but she wasn't quick enough and
whatever she saw knocked her down.
On March 18th, Ann Putnam Seniorreportedly wrestled with Rebecca
Nurse's Specter for two hours. The next day, Ann Putnam senior
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was allegedly assailed by the specters of Martha Corey and
Rebecca Nurse because she refused to join their ranks.
Henry Kenny and Edward Putnam filed a witchcraft complaint
against Martha Corey, and magistrates issued a warrant for
her arrest. It is unclear which Henry Kenny
was involved, father or son. The complaint alleged that
Martha had afflicted Ann Putnam senior and Putnam junior,
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Abigail Williams, Elizabeth Hubbard and Mercy Lewis,
sister-in-law of Henry Kenny junior.
The warrant issued by John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin
instructed Marshall George Herrick to arrest Martha and
take her to Ingersoll's Tavern in Salem Village on Monday,
March 21st. Also on March 19th, former Salem
Village Minister Deodat Lawson returned to the village.
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Tituba had claimed that his wifeand his child were killed by
Maleficium. After Deodat Lawson checked into
a room at Ingersoll's, Mary Walcott, the daughter of near
neighbor Captain Jonathan Walcott, called upon him and
claimed to be bitten on the wrist.
In the candlelight, Lawson observed a set of teeth marks.
In the beginning of the evening,Lawson visited the Parsonage
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nearby Ingersolls. Abigail Williams ran back and
forth across the room with her arms held high and flapping like
a bird. She said wish, wish, wish as she
virtually flew about the home. She stopped suddenly and
declared that she saw the specter of Rebecca Nurse before
her. Nobody else could see the
specter which proffered the Devil's.
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Book, Abigail said. I won't, I won't.
I won't take it. I do not know what book it is.
I'm sure it's none of God's book.
It is the devil's book, for aught I know.
Across town, when Giles Gory went to prayer before bed, he
was hindered by some unseen force.
As his wife approached, his lipsloosened and he was able to say
his prayers. On March 20th, Deodat Lawson
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stood in for Samuel Paris to lead Sunday services, which were
interrupted by the afflicted persons.
As Lawson prepared to read the text introducing his sermon,
Abigail Williams said, Now standup and name your text.
Lawson read the text and Abigailasserted it is a long text.
Lawson began his sermon soon, Bethsua Pope said.
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Now there is enough of that. Abigail Williams claimed Martha
Corey Specter left her body and sat on a beam with her yellow
bird. The bird alighted on Lawson's
hat, which hung on a pig, but Abigail was silenced by
neighbors. In the afternoon, when Lawson
referred to his doctrine, Abigail said, I know no doctrine
you had. If you did name one, I have
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forgot it. On March 21st, Joseph Herrick
arrested Martha Corey. During the arrest, Herrick
spotted a strange ointment in Martha's house.
Herrick asked Martha about it, and she told him she got the
recipe from future witch Judge Major Bartholomew Gedney of
Salem. Constable Her took Martha to
Ingersoll's Tavern, where magistrates were preparing for
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her interrogation. Reverend Nicholas Noise opened
the hearing with prayer and the very biased Samuel Paris was
appointed to record the interrogation.
Hathorne began questioning Martha.
You are now in the hands of authority.
Tell me now why you have hurt these persons.
I do not. Who doth?
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Pray, give me leave to go to prayer.
We do not sin for you to go to prayer, but tell me why you hurt
these. I am an innocent person.
I never had to do with witchcraft since I was born.
I am a gospel woman. Do not you see these complain of
you? The Lord opened the eyes of the
magistrates and ministers. The Lord show His power to
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discover the guilty. Tell us who hurts these
children. I do not know.
If you'll be guilty of this fact, do you think you can hide
it? The Lord knows.
Well, tell us what you know of this matter.
Why? I am a gospel woman and do you
think I could have to do with witchcraft 2?
How could you tell then, that the child was bid to observe
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what clothes you wore when some came to speak with you?
Chievers interrupted her and bidher not begin with AY, and so
Edward Putnam declared the matter.
Who told you that? He said.
The child said. Ezekiel Achiever said you speak
falsely. Then Edward Putnam read again.
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And Hathorn asked why did you ask if the children told what
clothes you wore? My husband told me, the others
told. Who told you about the clothes?
Why did you ask that question? Because I heard the children
told what clothes the other wore.
Goodman Corey, did you tell her?The old man denied that he told
her so. Did you not say your husband
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told you so? She sighed.
Who hurts these children? Now look upon them.
I cannot help it. Did you not say you would tell
the truth? Why you asked that question?
How came you to the knowledge? I did but ask.
You dare thus to lie in all thisassembly.
You are now before authority. I expect the truth.
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You promised it. Speak now and tell who told you
what clothes. Nobody.
How came you to know that the children would be examined on
what clothes you wore? Because I thought the child was
wiser than anybody if she knew. Give an answer you said your
husband told you. He told me the children said I
afflicted them. How do you know what they came
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for? Answer me this truly.
Will you say how you came to know what they came for?
I had heard speech that the children said.
I troubled them, and I thought that they might come to examine.
But how did you know it? I thought they did.
Did not you say you would tell the truth?
Who told you what they came for?Nobody.
How did you know? I did think so.
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But you said you knew so. A child says there's a man
whispering in her ear. What did he say to you?
We must not believe all that these distracted children say.
Cannot you tell what that man whispered?
I saw nobody. But did not you hear?
No. If you expect mercy of God, you
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must look for it in God's way. By confession, do you think to
find mercy by aggravating your sins?
A true thing. Look for it then, in God's way.
So I do. Give glory to God and confess.
Then, but I cannot confess. Do not you see how these
afflicted you charge you? We must not believe distracted
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persons. Who do you improve to hurt them?
I improved none. Did not you say our eyes were
blinded? You would open them.
Yes, to accuse the innocent. Why cannot the girl stand before
you? I do not know.
What did you mean by that? I saw them fall down.
It seems to be an insulting speech, as if they could not
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stand before you. They cannot stand before others.
You said they cannot stand before you tell me what was that
turning upon the spit by you? You believe the children that
are distracted? I saw no spit.
Here are more than two that accuse you for witchcraft.
What do you say? I am innocent.
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Then Mr. Hathorne read further of Crossley's evidence.
What did? You mean by that the devil could
not stand before you? She denied it. 3 or 4 sober
witnesses confirmed it. What can I do?
Many rise up against me. Why confess?
So I would if I were guilty. Who are sober persons?
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What do you say to them? You are a gospel woman.
Will you lie? Abigail cried out.
Next Sabbath is Sacrament day, but she shall not come there.
I do not care. You charge these children with
distraction. It is a note of distraction with
persons very in a minute, but these fix upon you.
This is not the matter of distraction.
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When all are against me, what can I help it?
Now tell me the truth will you? Why did you say the magistrates
and ministers eyes are blinded and you would open them?
She laughed and denied it. Now tell us how we shall know
who does hurt these if you do not.
Can an innocent person be guilty?
Do you deny these words? Yes.
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Tell us who hurts these. We came to be a terror to evil
doers. You say you would open our eyes.
We are blind. If you say I am a witch.
You said you would show us. She denied it.
Why do you not now show us? I cannot tell.
I do not know. What did you strike the maid at
Mr. Thomas Putnam's with? I never struck her in my life.
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Who are two that see you strike her with an iron rod?
I had no hand in it. Who had Do you believe these
children are bewitched? They may, for aught I know.
I have no hand in it. You say you are no witch.
Maybe you mean you never covenanted with the devil?
Did you never deal with any familiar?
No, never. What bird was up the children
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spoke of? Then witnesses.
Spoke. What bird was it?
I know no bird. It may be you have engaged.
You will not confess, but God knows.
So he does. Do you believe you shall go
unpunished? I have nothing to do with
witchcraft. Why was you not willing?
Your husband should come to the former session here.
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But he came for all. Did not you take the saddle off?
I did not know what it was for. Did you not know what it was
for? I did not know that it would be
to any benefit. Did you not say you would open
our eyes? Why do you not?
I never thought of a witch. Is it a laughing matter to see
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these afflicted persons? She denied it.
Several prove it. Ye are all against me and I
cannot help it. Do not you believe there are
witches in the country? I do not know that there is any.
Do not you know that Tituba confessed it?
I did not hear her speak. I find you will own nothing
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without several witnesses, and yet you will deny for all.
It was noted when she bit her lip, several of the afflicted
were bitten when she was urged upon it that she bit her lip
save she what harm is there in it?
What do you say to all these things that are apparent?
If you will all go hang me, how can I help it?
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For you to serve the devil 10 years, tell how many?
She laughed. The children cried.
There was a yellow bird with her.
When Mr. Hathorne asked her about it, she laughed.
When her hands were at liberty, the afflicted persons were
pinched. Why do not you tell how the
devil comes in your shape and hurts these?
You said you would. How can I know how?
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Why did you say you would show us?
She laughed again. What book is that you would have
these children write in? What book?
Where should I have a book? I showed them none, nor have
none, nor brought none. The afflicted cried out.
There was a man whispering in her ears.
What book did you carry to Mary Walcott?
I carried. None.
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If the devil appears in my shape, then Needham said that
Parker some time ago thought this woman was a witch.
Who is your God? The God.
That made me. Who is that God?
The God that made me. What is his name?
Jehovah. Do you know any other name?
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God Almighty. Does he tell you that you pray
to that he is God Almighty? Who do I worship but the God
that made me? How many gods are there?
1. How many persons?
3. Cannot you say so?
There is one God in three blessed persons.
Then she was troubled. Do not you see these children
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and women are rational and soberas their neighbors when your
hands are fastened? Immediately they were seized
with fits and the standers by said she was squeezing her
fingers, her hands being eased by them.
That held them on purpose for trial.
Quickly after, the Marshall saidshe had bit her lip and
immediately the afflicted were in an uproar.
Why do you hurt these or who doth?
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She denied any hand in it. Why did you say if you were a
witch you should have no pardon?Because I am a woman.
After Martha's initial interrogation, Ezekiel Cheever,
Edward Putnam, Elizabeth Hubbard, Samuel Paris, Thomas
Putnam and Nathaniel Eager Sol were deposed against her.
Ezekiel Sheever and Edward Putnam described the events of
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March 12th when they had confronted Martha Corey at her
home. Edward Putnam testified about
Martha's March 14th visit to theThomas Putnam family.
Elizabeth Hubbard said Martha had afflicted her many times
since March 15th. She said.
I believe in my heart that Martha Corey is a dreadful witch
and that she has very often afflicted and tormented me.
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Samuel Paris, Nathaniel Ingersoll and Thomas Putnam
described how the afflicted weretormented during Martha's
examination. After the examination, Marshall
Herrick and the magistrates dined and fed their horses at
Ingersoll's, racking up a bill of four shillings and sixpence.
Then they took Martha Corey to Salem, where Marshall Herrick
secured her in jail. On March 22nd, Rebecca nurses
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Shape allegedly assaulted Anne Putnam senior while wearing
nothing but her shift and nightcap.
The nurse specter offered Anne alittle red book that Anne
refused to sign and quoted scripture at the specter.
The specter threatened to tear Anne's soul from her body, but
yielded after another two hour battle and left.
Around this time in March, PeterCloyce, Daniel, Andrew and
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Elizabeth and his reporter visited Rebecca Nurse had been
in bed for around a week. After Rebecca expressed concern
for the afflicted, whom she regretted not visiting but
couldn't, the visitors informed her that she too was being
accused. Once Rebecca recovered from the
shock, she said, Well, as to this thing, I am as innocent as
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the child unborn, but surely what sin hath God found out in
me unrepented of that He should place such an affliction upon me
in my old age? On March 23rd, Martha Corey and
Rebecca nurses Spectres reportedly afflicted Anne Putnam
senior again. Diadot Lawson visited and found
Anne in bed where she was getting over a fit.
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Lawson prayed over Anne. At some point in the prayer,
Anne seemed to fall asleep. Thomas Putnam took her in his
arms and found her to be stiff as a board.
He tried to sit her up on his lap and she eventually had
another fit. Her arms and legs jerked about
as she argued with the specter of Rebecca Nurse again.
That day, Jonathan and Edward Putnam filed complaints against
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young Dorothy Good and aged Rebecca Nurse.
The magistrates issued arrest warrants for Dorothy and
Rebecca. Rebecca's warrant stated that
she was wanted for allegedly bewitching Ankar Putnam and her
daughter Anne Putnam Junior. Dorothy's warrant did not
specifically list city victims or even what form of witchcraft
she'd been accused of, but it was likely given to Marshall
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George Herrick at the same time as Rebecca's warrant.
To the northeast, Captain John Alden travelled to Saint John,
Canada, to ransom captive, including his own son.
His attempt failed and his son and others were moved to Quebec.
On March 24th, constables arrested Dorothy Good and
Rebecca Nurse. They took the girl and the older
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woman to Ingersoll's Tavern in Salem Village.
There, magistrates John Hathorneand Jonathan Corwin interrogated
Rebecca Nurse and Dorothy Good. Reverend John Hill Beverly gave
the invocation, and Samuel Parisagain recorded the proceedings
through his bias lens. Hathorne began with a question
to an afflicted person. What do you say?
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Have you seen this woman hurt you?
Yes, she beat me this morning. Abigail, have you been hurt by
this woman? Yes, Anne Putnam and a grievous
fit cried out that she hurt her.Goody nurse, Here are two Anne
Putnam, the child, and Abigail Williams.
Complain. If you're hurting them, what do
you say to it? I can say before my Eternal
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Father I am innocent and God will clear my innocency.
Here is never A1 in the assemblybut desires it.
But if you be guilty, pray God discover you.
Then Henry Kenny rose up to speak.
Goodman Kinney, what do you say?Then he entered his complaint
and further said that since thisnurse came into the house, he
was seized twice with an amazed condition.
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Here are not only these, but here is the wife of Mr. Thomas
Putnam, who accuseth you by credible information, and that
both of tempting her to iniquity, and of greatly hurting
her. I am innocent and clear and have
not been able to get out of the doors these eight or nine days.
Mr. Putnam, given what you have to say.
Then Mr. Edward Putnam gave in his relation.
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Is this true gutty nurse? I never afflicted no child never
in my life. You see these accuse you.
Is it true? No.
Are you an innocent person relating to this witchcraft?
Here Thomas Putnam's wife cried out.
Did you not bring the black man with you?
Did you not bid me tempt God anddie?
How OFT have you eat and drunk your own damnation?
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What do you say to them? Oh, Lord, help me.
And she spread out her hands, and the afflicted or grievously
vexed. Do not see what a solemn
condition these are in. When your hands are loose, the
persons are afflicted. Then Mary Walcott, who often
heretoforest said she had seen her but never could say or did
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say that she either bit or pinched her or hurt her, and
also Elizabeth Hubbard under thelike circumstances, both openly
accused her of hurting them. Here are these two grown persons
now accuse you. What say you?
Do not you see these afflicted persons and hear them accuse
you? The Lord knows I have not hurt
them. I am an innocent person.
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It is very awful to all to see these agonies, and you, an old
professor that's charged with contracting with the devil by
the effects of it, and yet to see you stand with dry eyes when
there are so many wet. You do not know my heart.
You would do well if you are guilty to confess and give glory
to God. I'm as clear as the child I'm
born. What uncertainty there may be in
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apparitions I know not. Yet this with me strikes hard
upon you, that you are at this very present charged with
familiar spirits. This is your bodily person they
speak to, they say. Now they see these familiar
spirits come to your bodily person.
Now what do you say to that? I have none, Sir.
If you have confess and give glory to God, I pray God clear
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you if you be innocent, and if you are guilty, discover you and
therefore give me an upright answer.
Have you any familiarity with these spirits?
No, I have none, but with God alone.
How came you sick? For there's an odd discourse of
that in the mouths of many. I am sick at my stomach.
Have you no wounds? I have none but old age.
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You do know whether you are guilty and have familiarity with
the devil. And now when you are here
present to see such a thing as these testify a black man
whispering in your ear, and birds about you, what do you say
to it? It is all false.
I am clear. Possibly you may apprehend you
are in a witch, but have you notbeen LED aside by temptations
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that way? I have not.
What a sad thing it is that a church member here and now
another of Salem, should be thusaccused and charged.
Missus Pope fell into a grievousfit and cried out a sad thing,
sure enough. And then many more fell into
lamentable fits. Tell us, have not you had
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visible appearances more than what is common in nature?
I have none nor ever had in my life.
Do you think these suffered voluntary or involuntary?
I cannot tell. That is strange.
Everyone can judge. I must be silent.
They accuse you of hurting them,and if you think it is, not
unwillingly but by design, you must look upon them as
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murderers. I cannot tell what to think of
it afterwards, when this was somewhat insisted on, she said.
I do not think so. She did not understand or write
what was said. Well then, give an answer now.
Do you think these suffer against their wills or not?
I do not think these suffer against their wills.
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Why did you never visit these afflicted persons?
Because I was afraid I should have fits too.
Upon the motion of her body. Fits followed upon the
complainants abundantly and veryfrequently.
Is it not an unaccountable case that when you are examined,
these persons are afflicted? I have got nobody to look to but
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God. Again, upon stirring her hands,
the afflicted persons were seized with violent fits of
torture. Do you believe these afflicted
persons are bewitched? I do think they are.
When this witchcraft came upon the stage, there was no
suspicion of Tituba. She professed much love to that
child Betty Parris, but it was her apparition did the mischief.
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Why should not you also be guilty?
For your apparition doth hurt also.
Would you have me be lie myself?She held her neck on one side,
and accordingly, so were the afflicted taken.
Then authority requiring it. Samuel Parris read what he had
in characters taken from Mr. Thomas Putnam's wife in her
fits. What do you think of this?
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I cannot help it. The devil may appear in my
shape. When the hearing was over, the
magistrates committed Rebecca Nurse to the jail in Salem.
Next the magistrates questioned little Dorothy.
Good daughter of a witchcraft suspect, Sarah Goode, Dear dot
Lawson wrote an account. Quote, The magistrates and
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ministers also did inform me that they apprehended a child of
Sarah Goode, and examined it being between four and five
years of age. And as to matter of fact, they
did unanimously affirm, that when this child did but cast its
eye upon the afflicted persons, they were tormented, and they
held her head, and yet so many as her eye could fix upon were
afflicted, which they did several times make careful
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observation of The afflicted complained.
They had often been bitten by this child, and produced the
marks of a small set of teeth. Accordingly, this was also
committed to Salem prison. The child looked Hale and well
as other children. I saw it at Lieutenant
Ingersoll's. Giles Corey made a statement
against his wife Martha. He recounted the time when he
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was stopped from praying and theincidents which befell his ox
and cat. He also described a time when
Martha knelt at the hurt as if in prayer, but he did not hear
her pray. Anne Putnam, junior and Mary
Walcott were deposed against Dorothy Good.
Anne said that she was tortured by the apparition of Dorothy
Good many times from March 3rd through the child's examination
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on March 20. 4th Mary Walcott claimed that she was afflicted
by Dorothy's apparition from March 21st through 24th.
Anne Putnam, senior, was deposedagainst Martha Corey and Rebecca
Nurse. She gave a day by day account of
her torments at the hands of thespectres of Martha Corey and
Rebecca Nurse for March 18th through 24th.
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Daniel Andrew Peter Cloyce is a reporter and Elizabeth Porter
made a statement for Rebecca Nurse on the 24th.
Later, on the 24th, Dear dot Lawson delivered the Thursday
lecture, but she soon published as Christ Fidelity, the only
shield against Satan's malignity.
In published form, the book was endorsed by ministers Increase
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Mather, Cotton Mather, Charles Morton, James Allen, Samuel
Willard and John Bailey. The key verse Lawson used was
Zechariah 3 two. And the Lord said unto Satan,
The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan, even the Lord that hath chosen
Jerusalem rebuke thee. Is not this a brand plucked out
of the fire? Lawson stated that his doctrine
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was that the Lord Jesus Christ is the only prevalent
intercessor with God the Father for the relief of those that are
in covenant with Him and are made partakers of His special
mercy. When they are under the most
threatening and amazing distresses, that by the rage and
mouths of Satan, that they can be exposed unto you.
Then he put forth 6 propositionsand expounded upon 6 uses for
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this verse. One, Satan is the adversary and
enemy. He is the original, the fountain
of malice, the instigator of allcountry, variety, malignity, and
enmity. Two, Satan makes it his business
to improve all opportunities andadvantages to exercise his
mouths upon the children of men.He is an indefatigable as well
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as an implacable enemy. Three, the covenant people of
God and those that would devote themselves entirely to his
service are the special objects of Satan's rage and fury.
Four, that in all Satan's malicious designs and operations
he is absolutely bounded and limited by the power and
pleasure of the great and everlasting God, the Lord
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Jehovah. Five, That whensoever God hath
declared a person or people to be in covenant with him, as the
objects of his special mercy andfavor, he will assuredly and
shortly suppress the malice of Satan, however violently engaged
against them. 6 The great God doth manage all his designs of
mercy to his people under the gospel dispensation, in and
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through the mediator. The very tenure of the gospel
covenant is such, and the terms thereof are so methodized as to
introduce a necessity of depending on a mediator.
The whole transaction of the gospel covenant betwixt the
great God and fallen man is by the mediator.
Hence it is on better terms thanthe covenant of works.
Hebrews 86 Under the New Covenant, all addresses to God
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are by the Mediator, Hebrews 415and 16 and all communications of
grace from God are by the Mediator.
John, 116. After stating these six
propositions, Lawson then listedhis 6 uses for the chosen verse.
One, let it be for solemn warning and awakening to all of
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us that are before the Lord of this time, and to all other of
this whole people, who shall come to the knowledge of these
direful operations of Satan which the holy God hath
permitted in the midst of us. Two, let it be for deep
humiliation to the people of this place, which is in special.
Under the influence of this fearful judgement of God, the
Lord doth at this day manage a great controversy with you, to
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the astonishment of yourselves and others.
You are therefore to be deeply humbled and fit in the dust
considering. Three.
It is matter of terror, amazement, and astonishment to
all such wretched souls, if there be any here in the
congregation. And God of His infinite mercy,
grant that none of you may ever be found such as have given up
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their names and souls. To the Devil, who by covenant,
explicit or implicit, have boundthemselves to be his slaves and
dredges, consenting to be instruments in whose shapes he
may torment and afflict their fellow creatures even of their
own kind. To the amazing and astonishing
of the standers by. Four, Let it be for caution to
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all of us that are before the Lord.
As ever we would prevail with God to prevent the spreading of
this sore affliction, and to rebuke Satan for us.
Let us take heed of siding with or giving place unto the devil.
Five. Let it be for exhortation and
direction to this whole assembly, and to all others that
shall come to the knowledge of these amazing dispensation.
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Here, then, give me leave to press those special duties which
all persons are concerned to putin practice at such a time as
this. Six.
The 6th and last use is in two words of comfort, to bear up the
fainting souls of those that arepersonally under or relatively
concerned in these direful operations of the grand enemy of
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mankind. Lawson wrapped up his sermon
with a conclusion. He said, to conclude, The Lord
is known by the judgments which He executes in the midst of us.
The dispensations of his Providence appear to be
unsearchable, and is doing past finding out.
He seems to have allowed Satan to afflict many of our people,
and that thereupon he has come down in great wrath, threatening
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the destruction of the bodies. And if the infinite mercy of God
prevent not of the souls of manyin this place, yet may we say,
in the midst of the terrible things which he doth in
righteousness, He alone is the God of our salvation, who
represents Himself as the Saviorof all that are in a low and
distressed condition, because heis good, and his mercy endureth
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forever. Let us then return and repent,
rent our hearts and not our garments.
Who can tell if the Lord will return in mercy on to us, and by
His Spirit lift up a standard against the grand enemy, who
threatens to come in like a flood among us, and overthrow
all that is holy and just and good?
It is no small comfort to consider that Job's exercise of
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patience had its beginning from the devil, but we have seen the
end to be from the Lord. James 511.
But we also may find by experience the same blessed
issue of our present distresses by Satan's malice.
Let us repent of every sin that hath been committed, and labor
to practice every duty which hath been neglected.
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And when we are humbled and proved for our good in the
latter end, then we shall assuredly and speedily find that
the kingly power of our Lord andSavior shall be magnified in
delivering His poor sheep and lambs out of the jaws and paws
of the roaring lion. Then will Jesus, the blessed
anti type of Joshua, the Redeemer and juicer, while
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suppress and utterly Vanquish this adversary of ours with
irresistible power and authority, according to our
text. And the Lord said unto Satan,
The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan, even the Lord that hath chosen
Jerusalem rebuke thee. Is not this a brand plucked out
of the fire? Once Rebecca Nurse and Northey
Goode were jailed, there were a total of 6 people behind bars
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for allegedly participating in the Salem Wish conspiracy.
Also imprisoned were Martha Corey, Sarah Goode, Sarah
Osborne and Tituba. In the next episode in Our Salem
Witch at One O 1 Series, we willcover the remainder of March and
the beginning of April, getting into accusations against Rachel
Clinton, Sarah Kloice, and Elizabeth Proctor.
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And now Sarah has End witch hunts news.
As we wrap up this episode, we're excited to share some
recent developments. End Witch Hunts just completed
its first international trip, attending and presenting at two
academic conferences outside theUnited States.
This journey was more than just a professional milestone, it was
a testament to the global community we've built.
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Through this podcast, we have the incredible opportunity to
meet ten of our past podcast guests in person for the first
time, plus a rare encounter withLeo Egway, Director of Advocacy
for Alleged Witches. The experience of connecting
face to face with these experts,along with several of our
dedicated listeners, reinforce the impact of our work.
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This podcast is unique in delivering first hand
experiences and research organizations and individuals
working directly in communities affected by witch hunts.
Our guests bring context and perspective from around the
world, offering insights you won't find anywhere else.
Our time in England, filled withenriching conversations, has
inspired a wealth of important updates and fascinating content
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that we can't wait to share withyou this fall.
Well, they're bringing you snippets from our conference
presentations on our projects, World Without Witch Hunts, and
Saura and the Connecticut Witch Trial Exoneration Project.
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Your support is crucial in our ongoing efforts to end harmful
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critical mission. We'll be back next week with
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