‘Whereas on Complaint of Luke Hill in behalf of her Majesty y{t} now is ag{t} Grace Sherwood for a person Suspected of Witch craft & having had Sundry Evidences sworn ag{t} her, proving many Circumstances to which She could not make any Excuse, Little or Nothing to say in her own behalf, only Seamed to Rely on w{t} y{e} Court should doo, and there upon Consented to be tryed in y{e} Water, & Like-wise to be Serched again Bodily. Experiment being tried, She swiming w{en} therein, and bound Contrary to Custom & y{e} judg{t} of all y{e} Spectators, & afterward, being Serched, & five Ancient weomen who have all Declared on Oath y{t} she is not like y{em} nor noo Other women y{t} they know of ... all w{ch} Circumstances y{e} Court weighing in their Consideration, Doo there fore ord{r} y{t} y{e} Sherr take y{e} s{d} Grace Into his custody, and to comm{t} her body to ye Common Gaol of this County, there to secure her by irons or other Wise, there to Remain till Such time as shall be otherwise Directed in order for her comming to y{e} Common Gaol of y{e} County, to be brought to a future tryall there. ‘Edw{d} Moseley & ‘Jno Richason.’ As nothing more can be found respecting her, she was probably let go. As a justice of the peace, William Penn had to sit in judgment upon two Swedish women who were indicted as witches, and true bills were found against them; but they got off, owing to some flaw in the indictment. And this, as far as I know, is the sole instance of a trial for witchcraft in Pennsylvania. Drake, in ‘Annals of Witchcraft,’ p. 215, says: ‘About this period [1712], in the Colony of South Carolina, some suspected of witchcraft were seized upon by a sort of ruffianly Vigilance Committee, and condemned to be burnt, and were actually roasted by fire, although we do not learn that the injuries thus inflicted proved fatal. The parties so tortured, or their friends, brought action in the regular courts, for the recovery of damages; but the jury gave them nothing.’ In the early days of Connecticut there were twelve crimes punishable by death, according to the ‘Capitall Lawes, established by the General Court the First of December 1642,’ the second of which is: ‘Yf any man or woman be a witch (that is) hath, or consulteth w{th} a familliar spirit, they shall be put to death. Ex. xxii. 18. Lev. xx. 27. Deu. xxvij. 10, 11.’[122] And they had not to wait long for a victim, for the last entry in John Winthrop’s Journal for 1646 is, ‘One ... of Windsor arraigned and executed at Hartford for a witch,’ Nothing more is _certainly_ known of this case, which is memorable as being the first execution for witchcraft in New England. The Connecticut Legislature also applied the same law, somewhat modified, to the Pequot Indians, on May 31, 1675:[123] ‘(2) That whosoever shall _powau_, or use witchcraft, or any worship to the divill, or any fals god, shall be convented and punished.’