“Samuel Willard’s account of her afflictions, widely available in published form after 1684 in Increase Mather’s Remarkable Providences, almost certainly influenced the statements offered eight years later during the witchcraft outbreak. The historian Jane Kamensky has cogently argued that the… — Mary Beth Norton Copy Share Image
“The autumn hit-and-run raids and the colonists’ attempts to retaliate ended with the early onset of especially heavy snowfalls that year. Over the next few months, the Massachusetts government dispatched to Maine companies of “country soldiers” to augment the inadequate regional militia forces. The troops, however, proved a mixed blessing to local residents and stimulated great controversy, especially in Black… — Mary Beth Norton Copy Share
“Cruell mordrous Rogs in the first Indian war”; it was, he emphasized, “very straing that a govnor shoold bee soe Carless of his majestys… — Mary Beth Norton Copy Share Image
“Goody Putnam thereby became the first to follow Tituba in describing the devil’s book—an object that, in many guises, was eventually to appear in… — Mary Beth Norton Copy Share Image
“The accused and the magistrate next engaged in a dialogue about what constituted witchcraft. If she had not signed the book, had she dealt… — Mary Beth Norton Copy Share Image
“Samuel Willard’s account of her afflictions, widely available in published form after 1684 in Increase Mather’s Remarkable Providences, almost certainly influenced the statements offered… — Mary Beth Norton Copy Share Image
