| No. |
Title in Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt |
How it was found |
| No. 17 * |
Examination of Martha Cory, as Told by Deodat
Lawson |
These
four entries in Records have
been extracted from Rev. Deodat Lawson's first person account published
in the book, A Brief and True Narrative of Some Remarkable Passages... (1692). These descriptions of the second wave
of examinations were not included in SWP although the larger work has been reprinted
in various anthologies and is available on-line. We have chosen to
extract only the accounts of examinations, in keeping with our stated
objective to present the legal proceedings. Although there are formally
recorded accounts of the examinations of Cory and Nurse, these are
the only extant accounts of the examinations of five-year-old Dorothy
Good. |
| No. 25 * |
Examination of Dorothy Good, as Told by Deodat
Lawson |
| No. 29 * |
Examination of Rebecca Nurse, as Told by Deodat
Lawson |
| No. 33 * |
Examination of Dorothy Good, as Told by Deodat
Lawson |
| No. 36 |
Deposition of Thomas Burnam Jr. v. Rachel Clinton |
This manuscript was located by Mary Beth Norton
at the Maine Historical Society and is transcribed here for the first
time. |
| No. 38 |
Deposition of Thomas Knowlton v. Rachel Clinton |
This manuscript has been part of the Cornell
University Witchcraft Collection for many years, but the appearance
of the date "1687" in 18th century handwriting has generally
removed it from consideration as pertaining to the events in 1692.
Closer scrutiny of the handwriting, the numerals forming the age
of the deponent, and other contextual clues support its inclusion
as a record from 1692, not 1687. |
| No. 65 * |
Examination of Giles Cory |
This examination was published in transcription
in the 1823 edition of Calef's More Wonders of the Invisible World,
but not included in SWP. |
| No. 81 * |
Summons for Witnesses v. Rachel Clinton, and
Officer's Return |
This record was found in transcription in a
19th century history of Ipswich. |
| No. 220 * |
Order for the Establishment of a Special Commission
of Oyer & Terminer for Suffolk, Essex, and Middlesex Counties |
This is one of several entries found in the
Governor's Council Executive Records of 1692. |
| No. 232 |
Warrant for Jurors for the Court of Oyer and
Terminer |
This original manuscript has re-surfaced only
in the past decade, in the hands of a private manuscript collection. |
| No. 309 |
Examination of Ann Dolliver |
These are two of six original manuscripts located
in the Boston Public Library that were overlooked when Boyer &
Nissenbaum added items from the BPL collection to the WPA transcriptions
that make up the bulk of SWP.
They are transcribed here for the first time. |
| No. 310 |
Examination of Mary Ireson |
| No. 319 * |
Petition of William Milborne |
This item appeared in transcription in a 19th
century antiquarian journal. |
| No. 320 * |
Order for the Arrest of William Milborne |
This is one of several entry taken from the
records of the Colonial Office at the National Archives, London. |
| No. 342 |
Fragment of the Examination of Deliverance
Hobbs |
This is a very small piece of manuscript found
in the Essex County Court Archives, currently held at the Phillips
Library of Peabody Essex Museum. The text does not appear in SWP. |
| No. 394 * |
Testimony of Martha Wood v. Elizabeth How |
Although most of the manuscripts transcribed
by Rev. Cotton Mather in his book Wonders of the Invisible World (1692) are still in the Essex County Court
Archives, this one is not extant, and has not been included in other
collections. |
| No. 415 * |
Examination of Candy, as Told by John Hale |
This is a slightly different account of this
woman's examination, as extracted from Rev. John Hale's A Modern
Enquiry (1702). |
| No. 430 * |
Fragment of the Examination of Richard Carrier |
When
writing his The History of the Province of Massachusetts-Bay in the late 18th century, Thomas Hutchinson
had access to various manuscripts that have since disappeared. Some
of the transcriptions he published in his history appeared in SWP, but a 19th century discovery of a draft of
the History by
William Frederick Poole revealed small excerpts from transcriptions
of additional manuscripts. This is one of these pieces, as published
in an antiquarian journal in 1870 by Poole. |
| No. 435 * |
Appointment of Anthony Checkley and Payment
to Stephen Sewall |
This is another entry from the Governor's Council
Executive Records of 1692 |
| No. 436 |
Commission from William Phips to Anthony Checkley
as Attorney General |
This manuscript was located at the Massachusetts
State Archives. |
| No. 438 * |
Warrant for the Apprehension of Mary Green
& Hannah Bromage, and Officer's Return |
A facsimile of this manuscript appeared in
a history published in 1904. The original manuscript itself turned
up at the University of Michigan. |
| No. 451 |
Warrant for the Apprehension of Mary Clark,
and Officer's Return |
This is a third of six original manuscripts
located in the Boston Public Library that were overlooked when Boyer &
Nissenbaum, and appear in transcription for the first time. |
| No. 456 * |
Fragment of a Statement of Richard Carrier,
Mary Lacey Sr., & Mary Lacey Jr. v. George Burroughs |
This is a transcription of a short bit of text
in Hutchinson's History that
was not used in SWP. |
| No. 471 * |
Deposition of Mary Daniel v. Margaret Scott
& Elizabeth Jackson |
A transcription of this document appeared in
a 19th century history of the town of Rowley, but during the work
on Records, the original manuscript of this and another
record in the Scott case surfaced in a dealer's catalog for sale,
and our transcriptions are taken from the original. |
| No. 493 * |
Testimony of Thomas Ruck v. George Burroughs |
This is a second record that Cotton Mather
transcribed for Wonders of the Invisible World for which the locations of the original manuscript
is unknown. |
| No. 509 |
Examination of Daniel Eames |
This is one of four manuscripts that Mary Beth
Norton located at the Massachusetts Historical Society among the
uncatalogued manuscripts. They are presented in transcription
for the first time. |
| No. 529 |
Examination of Mary Marston, Copy |
Although the original manuscript of this record
has been published, this entry was contained in a longer document
that contains copies of eighteen examinations, many of which were
transcribed and included in SWP,
but this particular one was not. |
| No. 545 * |
Examination of Margaret Prince |
A facsimile image of this manuscript appeared
in a book dealer's catalog in 1936, but the location of the original
is unknown. |
| No. 553 |
Deposition of Thomas Putnam & William Murray
v. Alice Parker |
This manuscript is currently in the Essex County
Court Archives, and was included in the W. Elliot Woodward's Records
of Salem Witchcraft (1864),
but it was not incoluded in SWP. |
| No. 577 * |
Fragment of the Examination of Deliverance
Dane |
This is another small portion of a transcription
found in Hutchinson's History that was not included in SWP. |
| No. 604 |
Report of William Arnold, re Elizabeth Colson |
This manuscript was in the Suffolk Court Files
at the Massachusetts State Archives, and was not included in SWP. |
| No. 605 |
Testimony of Mary Marshall v. Elizabeth Colson |
These
are the fourth and fifth of six original manuscripts located in the
Boston Public Library that were overlooked when Boyer & Nissenbaum,
and appear in transcription for the first time. |
| No. 616 |
Indictment of Ann Foster for Afflicting Mary
Walcott |
| No. 634 |
Deposition of Thomas Greenslit v. George Burroughs |
There are two versions of this document. The
version that appears in SWP is
clearly a cleaned up version of this original, found in the Massachusetts
Historical Society's collection. The original, still in the Essex
County Court Archives has Greenslit's personal mark on it, and is
the one that was transcribed in Woodward's Records of Salem Witchcraft in 1864. Records includes transcriptions of both manuscripts. |
| No. 641 * |
Indictment of Margaret Scott, for Afflicting
Mary Daniel |
This is the second manuscript in the Scott
case that was sold by a rare manuscript dealer in the 1990s. |
| No. 642 * |
Indictment of Margaret Scott, for Afflicting
Frances Wycomb |
These
are five more documents that appeared in transcription in a nineteenth
century history of the town of Rowley. |
| No. 643 * |
Deposition of Sarah Coleman v. Margaret Scott |
| No. 645 * |
Deposition of Thomas Nelson v. Margaret Scott |
| No. 646 * |
Statements of Mary Warren, Elizabeth Hubbard,
& Ann Putnam Jr. v. Margaret Scott |
| No. 647 * |
Deposition of Daniel Wycomb & John Burbank
v. Margaret Scott |
| No. 675 * |
Fragment of the Examination of Joan Penny |
This is another small excerpt transcribed by
Hutchinson for his History,
the original manuscript of which is no longer extant. |
| No. 678 * |
Judgment v. John Shepherd for Assisting Mary
Green to Escape |
The original record book of The Court of General
Sessions of the Peace, an inferior court, in Essex County contained
these two and a third entry related to the witchcraft, and are transcribed
here for the first time. |
| No. 679 * |
Provision for the Support of the Children of
Samuel Wardwell Sr. |
| No. 680 * |
Placement of the Wardwell Children by the Selectmen
of Andover |
This item was found in transcription in a 19th
century history of the town of Andover. |
| No. 684 |
Deposition of John Browne Jr. v. Sarah Cole
(of Lynn) |
This is the last of of six original manuscripts
located in the Boston Public Library that were overlooked when Boyer & Nissenbaum,
and appear in transcription for the first time. |
| No. 692 * |
Receipt of Sheriff George Corwin to Samuel
Bishop for the Seized Estate of Edward & Sarah Bishop |
The transcription of this item appeared in
Robert Calef's More Wonders of the Invisible World (1700). |
| No. 700 * |
An Act for the Prevention of Juggling, Spells,
Charms, etc. |
These manuscripts were located at the Massachusetts
State Archives. |
| No. 701 * |
General Court Bill Proposing a General Day
of Prayer and Fasting and Calling a Convocation of the Elders to
Determine a Course of Action Due to the Recent Witchcraft Outbreak |
| No. 707 |
Deposition of Elizabeth Hubbard v. Abigail
Row, Esther Elwell & Rebecca Dike |
This is the second of four uncatalogued manuscripts
located by Mary Beth Norton at the Massachusetts Historical Society. |
| No. 709 * |
Statement of John Hale & Joseph Gerrish
v. Mary Herrick |
This transcription was located in a 19th century
antiquarian journal |
| No. 724 * |
An Act for Enabling the Justices of the Superior
Court to Hold a Court of Assize and General Goale Delivery |
This manuscript was located at the Massachusetts
State Archives. |
| No. 727 * |
Call for a Day of Prayer and Fasting |
This item was found in the Colonial Office
papers of the National Archives, London. |
| No. 729 * |
Appointment of the Justices and Clerk of the
Superior Court of Judicature and Court of Assize |
This is from the Governor's Council Executive
Records. |
| No. 789 |
Indictment of Mary English, for Afflicting
Elizabeth Hubbard (Returned Ignoramus) |
This original manuscript was located in a collection
at Yale University. |
| No. 817 * |
Indictment of Mary Lacey Jr., for Covenanting |
A hand-written 19th century transcription of
this document was located at the Danvers Archival Center. |
| No. 824 * |
Crown's Reply to William Phips about Proceedings
Against Witches |
These
two entries were located in the records of the Colonial Office at
the National Archives, London. |
| No. 835 * |
Order for Paying Mary Gedney |
| No. 840 * |
Letter of William Phips to George Corwin |
This manuscript was located at the American
Antiquarian Society, and was located by Bernard Rosenthal when working
on Salem Story. |
| No. 841 |
Account for Payment Submitted by John Arnold,
Jailkeeper |
This item was located in the Judicial Records,
Massachusetts State Archives. |
| No. 843 |
Indictment of Daniel Eames, for Afflicting
Mary Warren (Returned Ignoramus) |
This is the third of four uncatalogued manuscripts
located by Mary Beth Norton at the Massachusetts Historical Society. |
| No. 852 * |
Petition of Anthony Checkley |
The manuscript was located in the Massachusetts
State Archives by Molly Warsh, a student of Mary Beth Norton. |
| No. 853 |
Order for the Release of Mary Watkins |
This is one of two manuscripts located at the
Maine Historical Society. |
| No. 854 * |
Council Record Noting Arrival of Crown's Reply
to William Phips |
This item was found in the Colonial Office
papers of the National Archives, London. |
| No. 857 |
Account for Payment Submitted by William Dounton,
Jailkeeper |
This is the last of four uncatalogued manuscripts
located by Mary Beth Norton at the Massachusetts Historical Society |
| No. 867 * |
Bill to Towns for Courts of Oyer &
Terminer and Other Matters |
This is the third of three entries transcribed
for the first time from the original record book of The Court of
General Sessions of the Peace, an inferior court, in Essex County. |
| No. 877 * |
An Act for the Reversing the Attainder of Abigail
Faulkner Sr. & Others |
This item was located in the Acts and Resolves,
Public and Private, of the Province of Massachusetts Bay |
| No. 923 |
Petition of John Parker & Joseph Parker
for Restitution for Mary Parker |
This manuscript was overlooked by the WPA when
transcribing Vol. 135 at the Massachusetts State Archives, and not
included in SWP. |
| No. 960 * |
Order of Rachel Slue for Payment |
This is a manuscript in the Essex County Court
Archives that was apparently overlooked by the WPA and not included
in SWP. |
| No. 974 |
Resolve Allowing £50 to Thomas Rich |
This item was located in the Acts and Resolves,
Public and Private, of the Province of Massachusetts Bay |
| No. 975 * |
Deposition of Susannah Touzel, re Phillip English |
These
two depositions in an 18th century case, referring to the escape
of Philip English, were transcribed in an early 20th century antiquarian
journal. |
| No. 976 * |
Deposition of Margaret Casnoe re Phillip English |
