Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II: With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred SubjectsUpham, Charles Wentworth
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Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II: With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects
Upham, Charles Wentworth
Salem (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- History -- 17th century
The point was now reached when the accusers could safely strike at
higher game. But time was taken to mature arrangements. Great curiosity
was felt to know who the other two were whom Tituba saw in connection
with Good and Osburn in their hellish operations. The girls continued
to suffer torments and fall in fits, and were constantly urged by large
numbers of people, going from house to house to witness their
sufferings, to reveal who the witches were that still afflicted them.
When all was prepared, they began to cry out, with more or less
distinctness; at first, in significant but general descriptions, and at
last calling names. The next victim was also well chosen. An
account[ii.38] has been given, in the First Part, of the notoriety
which circumstances had attached to Giles Corey. In 1691 he became a
member of the church, being then (Vol. I. p. 182) eighty years of age.
Four daughters, all probably by his first wife Margaret, the only
children of whom there is any mention, were married to John Moulton,
John Parker, and Henry Crosby, of Salem, and William Cleaves, of
Beverly. On the 11th of April, 1664, Corey was married to Mary Britt,
who died, as appears by the inscription on her gravestone in the old
Salem burial-ground, Aug. 27, 1684. Martha was his third wife. Her age
is unknown. It was entered on the record of the village church, at the
time of her admission to it, April 27, 1690; but the figures are worn
away from the edge of the page. She was a very intelligent and devout
person.
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