Massachusetts -- Periodicals; New England -- Periodicals
"We saw a keeler of bread turn over. A chair did often bow to me. Ye
chamber door did violently fly together. Ye bed did move to and fro. Ye
barn-door was unpinned four times. We agreed to a big noise in ye other
room. My chair would not stand still, but was ready to throw me
backward. Ye catt was thrown at us five times. A great stone of six
pounds weight did remove from place to place. Being minded to write,
my ink-horne was hid from me, which I found covered by a ragg, and my
pen quite gone. I made a new penn, and while I was writing, one eare
of corne hitt me in ye face, and sticks, stones, and my old pen were
flung att me. Againe my spectickles were throwne from ye table, and
almost into ye hot fire. My paper, do what I could, I could hardly
keep it. Before I could dry my writing, a mammouth hat rubbed along it,
but I held it so fast that it did only blot some of it. My wife and I
being much afraid that I should not preserve ye writing, we did think
best to lay it in ye Bible. Againe ye next night I lay it there againe,
but in ye morning it was not to be found, till I found it in a box
alone. Againe while I was writing this morning I was forced to forbeare
writing any more, because I was so disturbed by many things constantly
thrown att me."
Anthony Morse testified:--
"Occasionally, being to my brother Morse's hous, he showed to me a pece
of brick, what had several times come down ye chimne. I sitting in ye
cornar towde that pece of brick in my hand. Within a littel spas of tiem
ye pece of brick was gone from me I know not by what meanes. Quickly
after it come down chimne. Also in ye chimne cornar I saw a hammar on ye
ground. Their bein no person nigh it, it was sodenly gone, by what
meanes I know not; but within a littell spas it fell down chimne, and
... also a pece of woud a fute long.
"Taken on oath Dec. the 8, 1679, before me,
"JOHN WOODBRIDGE, COMMISSIONER."
Thomas Hardy testified:--
"I and George Hardy being at William Morse his house, affirm that ye
earth in ye chimny cornar moved and scattered on us. I was hitt with
somewhat; Hardy hitt by a iron ladle; somewhat hitt Morse a great blow,
butt itt was so swift none could tell what itt was. After, we saw itt
was a shoe."
Rev. Mr. Richardson testified:--
"Was at Bro. Morse his house on a Saturday. A board flew against my
chair. I heard a noyes in another roome, which I suppose in all reason
was diabolicall."
John Dole testified:--
"I saw, sir, a large fire-stick of candle-wood, a stone, and a
fire-brand to fall down. These I saw nott whence they come till they
fell by me."
Elizabeth Titcomb testified:--
"Powell said that he could find out ye witch by his learning if he had
another scholar with him."
Joseph Myrick and Sarah Hale testified:--
"Joseph Morse, often said in our hearing that if there are any Wizards
he was sure Caleb Powell was one."
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