A Guide to the Primary Sources of the Salem Witch Trials
Statement of Susannah Shelden v. Philip English, Sarah Buckley, Mary Whittredge, Bridget Bishop, Giles Cory, Mary English, & Martha Cory Back
Source Citation Essex County Court Archives, vol. 1, nos. 153, 154 & 168, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Judicial Archives, on deposit James Duncan Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA.
Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt (2009) No. 164: Statement of Susannah Shelden v. Philip English, Sarah Buckley, Mary Whittredge, Bridget Bishop, Giles Cory, Mary English, & Martha Cory
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    indicates that there is no original date present in the record itself, and there is a lack of sufficient circumstantial evidence, so the date given is the best approximation
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    See pp. 98-99 of Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt for more information about how dates were assigned.
  • May 17, 1692
  • : Statement Against
The Salem Witchcraft Papers (1977) Vol. 1, pp. 105-106: Susannah Sheldon v. Bridget Bishop, Mary English, Phillip English, Giles Corey, and Martha Corey
Vol. 1, pp. 320-321: Susannah Sheldon v. Phillip English, Sarah Buckley and Mary Witheridge
Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive (University of Virginia, 2019) No. 13.18: Statement of Susannah Sheldon v. Bridget Bishop, Mary English, Phillip English, Giles Corey, and Martha Corey
Woodward's Records of Salem Witchcraft (1864) Vol. 1, pp. 191-193: Susanna Sheldon v. P. English
Levin's What Happened in Salem? (1960) pp. 31-32: Sus Sheldon v. Bridget Bishop

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