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The Salem witchcraft papers, original volumes edited by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum (1977) / revised, corrected, and augmented by Benjamin C. Ray and Tara S. Wood (2010)

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Case File: Nehemiah Abbott Jr.
Case File: John Alden
Case File: Abigail Barker
Case File: Mary Barker
Case File: William Barker, Sr.
Case File: William Barker, Jr.
Case File: Sarah Bassett
Case File: Sarah Bibber
Case File: Bridget Bishop Executed, June 10, 1692
Case File: Sarah Bishop
Case File: Mary Black
Case File: Mary Bradbury
Case File: Mary Bridges, Sr.
Case File: Mary Bridges, Jr.
Case File: Sarah Bridges
Case File: Hannah Bromage
Case File: Sarah Buckley
Case File: George Burroughs Executed, August 19, 1692
Case File: Candy
Case File: Martha Carrier Executed, August 19, 1692
Case File: Richard Carrier
Case File: Sarah Carrier
Case File: Thomas Carrier Jr.
Case File: Bethia Carter, Sr.
Case File: Elizabeth Cary
Case File: Sarah Churchill
Case File: Mary Clarke
Case File: Rachel Clenton
Case File: Sarah Cloyce
Case File: Sarah Cole (of Lynn)
Case File: Sarah Cole (of Salem)
Case File: Elizabeth Colson
Case File: Giles Corey Pressed to Death, September 16, 1692
Case File: Martha Corey Executed, September 22, 1692
Case File: Deliverance Dane
Case File: Mary De Rich
Case File: Ann Dolliver
Case File: Lydia Dustin Died in Prison, March 10, 1693
Case File: Sarah Dustin
Case File: Daniell Eames
Case File: Rebecca Eames
Case File: Mary Easty Executed, September 22, 1692
Case File: Esther Elwell
Case File: Martha Emerson
Case File: Joseph Emons
Case File: Phillip English
Case File: Thomas Farrer
Case File: Edward Farrington
Case File: Abigail Faulkner, Sr.

Case File: Dorothy Faulkner
Case File: Elizabeth Fosdick
Case File: Ann Foster Died in Prison
Case File: Nicholas Frost
Case File: Eunice Fry
Case File: Dorcas Good
Case File: Sarah Good Executed July 19, 1692
Case File: Mary Green
Case File: Elizabeth Hart
Case File: Margaret Hawkes
Case File: Sarah Hawkes
Case File: Dorcas Hoar
Case File: Abigail Hobbs
Case File: Deliverance Hobbs
Case File: William Hobbs
Case File: Elizabeth How Executed July 19, 1692
Case File: Elizabeth Hubbard
Case File: Frances Hutchins
Case File: Mary Ireson
Case File: John Jackson, Sr.
Case File: John Jackson, Jr.
Case File: George Jacobs, Sr. Executed, August 19, 1692
Case File: George Jacobs, Jr.
Case File: Margaret Jacobs
Case File: Rebecca Jacobs
Case File: Elizabeth Johnson, Sr.
Case File: Elizabeth Johnson, Jr.
Case File: Rebecca Johnson
Case File: Stephen Johnson
Case File: Mary Lacey, Sr.
Case File: Mary Lacey, Jr.
Case File: John Lee
Case File: Mercy Lewis
Case File: Jane Lilly
Case File: Mary Marston
Case File: Susannah Martin Executed July 19, 1692
Case File: Sarah Morey
Case File: Rebecca Nurse Executed July 19, 1692
Case File: Sarah Osborne Died in Prison, May 10, 1692
Case File: Mary Osgood
Case File: Alice Parker Executed, September 22, 1692
Case File: Mary Parker Executed, September 22, 1692
Case File: Sarah Pease
Case File: Joan Peney
Case File: Hannah Post
Case File: Mary Post
Case File: Susannah Post
Case File: Margaret Prince
Case File: Benjamin Proctor
Case File: Elizabeth Proctor
Case File: John Proctor Executed, August 19, 1692
Case File: Sarah Proctor
Case File: William Proctor

Case File: Ann Pudeator Executed, September 22, 1692
Case File: Wilmott Reed Executed, September 22, 1692
Case File: Sarah Rice
Case File: Susannah Roots
Case File: Henry Salter
Case File: John Sawdy
Case File: Margaret Scott Executed, September 22, 1692
Case File: Ann Sears
Case File: Susanna Sheldon
Case File: Abigail Somes
Case File: Martha Sparks
Case File: Mary Taylor
Case File: Tituba
Case File: Job Tookey
Case File: Jerson Toothaker
Case File: Mary Toothaker
Case File: Roger Toothaker Died in Prison, June 16, 1692
Case File: Johanna Tyler
Case File: Martha Tyler
Case File: Mercy Wardwell
Case File: Samuel Wardwell Executed, September 22, 1692
Case File: Sarah Wardwell
Case File: Mary Warren
Case File: Sarah Wilds Executed July 19, 1692
Case File: John Willard Executed August 19, 1692
Case File: Abigail Williams
Case File: Sarah Wilson, Sr.
Case File: Mary Witheridge
Case File: Additional Documents 1692-1750

Sarah Wilson, Sr.

( See also Mary Osgood -- Petition .)

( Rev. Increase Mather's Report of his Conversation in Prison with Sarah Wilson, Sr. )

Goodwife Wilson said that she was in the dark as to some things in her confession. Yet she asserted that, knowingly, she never had familiarity with the Devil; that, knowingly, she never consented to the afflicting of any person, &c. However, she said that truly she was in the dark as to the matter of her being a witch. And being asked how she was in the dark, she replied, that the afflicted persons crying out of her as afflicting them made her fearful of herself; and that was all that made her say that she was in the dark.

(Charles W. Upham, Salem Witchcraft [Boston, 1867] II, 406.)

(Recognizance for Sarah Wilson, Sr. and Sarah Wilson, Jr. )

Memorandum

That on the Thirteenth day of January 1692 In the fourth year of the Reigne of our Sovereigne Lord & Lady William & Mary by the Grace of God of England &c: King & Queen defenders of the faith &c: Personally appeared before W'm Stoughton Esq'r cheife Justice of their Maj'ies Province of the Massachusets bay in New England John Osgood of the Town of Andiver in the County of Essex husbandman & Joseph Wilson of the Same Towne and acknowledged themselves to be Joyntly and Severally Indebted unto our s'd Sovereigne Lord & Lady and the Surviver of them their Heires & Successors in the sum of One Hundred Pounds to be levied on their or either of their Lands and Tennements, goods and chattles for the use of our said Sovereigne Lord & Lady the King & Queen or Survivor of them On Condition that Sarah Wilson the wife of Joseph and Sarah her daughter haveing stood committed for suspition of Witchcraft shall make their Personall appearance before the Justices of our s'd Lord & Lady the King & Queen at the next Court of Assizes & Generall Goale Delivery to be holden for the County of Essex then and there to answer to all such matters & things as shall in their Maj'ies behalfe be alledged against them and to doe & receive that which by the s'd Court shall be then & there injoyned them & thence not to depart w'th out licence

Attest

*Jona Elatson Cler --

(Reverse)

Recognizance of Jno Osgood Joseph Willson ]

Sarah Willson the wife of Joseph Willson and Sarah her daughter

May the 10'th Appeared

( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 145 )