Six Women of Salem (68 page)

Disposal of Bridget Bishop’s body: Doc,
313
(and notes).

Wells attack: Massachusetts Archives, “General Court Records,”
226
; Massachusetts Archives, “Council Records,”
178
.

Phips consults the ministers: Massachusetts Archives, “General Court Records,”
227
–
228
; Boyer and Nissenbaum,
Salem-Village Wtchcraft
,
117
–
118
; Levin,
What Happened
,
110
–
111
.

Nathaniel Saltonstall resigns: Brattle, “Letter,”
84
.

Nurse family and Salem Village: Boyer and Nissenbaum,
Salem-Village Witchcraft
,
279
,
296
–
297
.

Nurse specter vs. Jonathan Putnam: Doc,
360
.

Sarah Good before the grand jury: Ibid.,
329
(Tituba).

Indictments vs. Sarah Good: Ibid.,
330
–
332
.

Statement for Elizabeth How: Ibid.,
341
.

Rebecca Nurse’s petition: Ibid.,
340
.

Indictments of June
29
: Ibid.,
347
–
348
(Elizabeth How);
349
–
350
(Susannah Martin);
348
,
350
,
111
(Putnam testimony).

Sarah Good’s trial: Ibid.,
345
,
352
–
353
,
369
(Bradford and Rayment),
326
,
364
–
365
,
367
(Sheldon/Chibbun),
364
–
365
,
367
(statements vs. Sarah Bibber); Calef,
More Wonders,
357
–
358
(knife episode).

Susannah Martin’s trial: Docs,
106
,
108
–
111
,
139
–
142
,
159
–
160
,
193
,
311
,
351
, and others; C. Mather,
Wonders
,
236
.

Reverend Samuel Willard accused: Calef,
More Wonders,
360
; Haefeli, “Dutch New York,”
303
.

Rebecca Nurse’s Indictments: Docs,
285
–
288
.

Defense for Rebecca Nurse: Ibid.,
35
(Samuel Nurse and John Tarbell),
368
(James Kettle),
371
(Joseph Hutchinson),
369
(William and Rachel Bradford and William Rayment Jr.),
370
(Robert Moulton Sr.).

Statements for and against Rebecca Nurse: Ibid.,
289
(Sheldon/Chibbun),
358
(Sarah Houlton),
359
(Nathaniel and Hannah Ingersoll),
362
(John Jr. and Hannah Putnam),
372
(John Sr. and Rebecca Putnam),
373
(Nathaniel Putnam Sr.),
285
(other).

Rebecca Nurse’s jury trial: Ibid.,
366
,
416
; Calef,
More Wonders,
358
–
359
.

Rebecca Nurse’s comment: The quotation here combines two versions of her comment: Calef,
More Wonders,
358
, has “What? Do you bring her? She is one of us.” And in Rebecca’s own statement in Doc,
416
, “and upon my saying that Goodwife Hobbs and her
Daughter were of our Company . . .”

Sarah Nurse’s statement: Doc,
366
.

Chapter 11: July 1 to 18, 1692

Rebecca Nurse July
3
excommunication: Salem Church,
Records
,
172
,
127
(combined); Lupson,
Saint Nicholas Church,
68
–
69
. Noyes’s remarks are based on Robert Keayne’s notes for Mistress Ann Hibbens’s
1640
excommunication from Boston’s First Church, in Demos,
Remarkable Providences
,
279
–
281
.

Ann Pudeator July
2
hearing: Doc,
399
; Perley,
The History of Salem,
2
:
39
,
122
(Neal).

Mary Bradbury hearing: Docs,
572
,
587
–
589
.

Margaret Hawkes and Candy hearing: Docs,
763
–
764
,
395
,
414
; Hale,
Modest Enquiry,
80
–
81
.

Nurse family gathers support: Docs,
254
(petition),
285
(Stephen Sewall’s statement),
416
(Thomas Fisk statement, see also Calef,
More Wonders,
358
),
417
(Rebecca Nurse’s statement, see also Calef,
More Wonders,
358
–
359
),
294
(Rebecca Preston and Mary Tarbell statement).

Phips and Council: Massachusetts Archives, “Council Records,”
180
–
184
.

Commencement: Roach,
Salem Witch Trials
,
194
–
195
.

Anthony Checkley: Massachusetts Archives,
40
:
264
.

Sir William Phips: Roach,
Salem Witch Trials
, xxxix–xl.

Rebecca Nurse reprieve: Calef,
More Wonders,
359
.

Nurse and others death warrants: Doc,
418
.

Invitation to Andover: Brattle, “Letter,”
180
; Calef,
More Wonders,
371
–
372
; Docs,
425
(Foster specter),
427
(Bradbury specter).

Ann Foster hearing and confession: Docs,
615
–
616
,
419
; Hale,
Modest Enquiry,
30

Foster specter vs Timothy Swan: Doc,
822
; Roach,
Salem Witch Trials
,
175
.

Francis Nurse and eclipse: Boyer and Nissenbaum,
Salem-Village Witchcraft
,
296
–
297
; Docs,
596
. Tully,
Almanac,
[xiv] “June,”
6
–
7
, (“Of the Eclipses”) says “
may presage the Death of Aged persons, as well [as] persons of Quality.
”

Chapter 12: July 19 to 31, 1692

Hanging of Rebecca Nurse and others: Doc,
418
; Calef,
More Wonders,
367
,
358
(Sarah Good); C. Mather,
Diary,
1
:
142
; C. Mather, “A Brand Pluck’d Out,”
269
. Noyes’s remark is paraphrased from Calef’s statement: “Mr. Noyes . . . told her she was a Witch, and she knew she was a Witch.” Sarah Good’s retort is given as: “You are a lyer; I am no more a Witch than you are a Wizard, and if you take away my Life, God will give you Blood to drink.” Her folk reference is based on the verse in Revelation
16
:
6
(see Weigle,
New Testament Octapla
for the Geneva Bible translation), in which the Angel of the Waters empties a vial upon the rivers and the fountains (springs) turning the earth’s waters to blood: “For they shed the blood of the Saintes, and Prophetes, and therefore hast thou given them blood to drinke for they are worthie [i.e., deserving of the punishment].”

Burials: C. Upham,
Salem Witchcraft
,
514
; Roach,
Salem Witch Trials
,
202
; Roach,
Gallows and Graves
,
7
–
9
,
14
–
17
.

Complaint vs. Mary Lacey Sr. and Jr.: Doc,
421
(and note).

Mary Lacey Sr. hearing: Ibid.,
426
,
424
.

Mary Lacey Jr. arrested: Ibid.,
422
.

Foster and Laceys questioned: Ibid.,
424
–
426
. Some quotations are combined from two versions of notes, such as: “[W]e have forsaken Jesus christ And the devil hath got hold of us. how shall we get cleare of this evil one?” Doc
426
, and “Oh, mother! how do you do? We have left Christ, and the Devil hath gat hold of us. How shall I get rid of this evil one? I desire God to break my rocky heart that I may get the victory this time,” Doc,
424
.

Richard and Andrew Carrier arrested: Ibid.,
625
,
423
.

Carrier brothers questioned: Ibid.,
423
,
425
,
428
–
430
; John Procter in Calef,
More Wonders,
363
.

Effect of the Andover confessions: C. Mather,
Diary,
1
:
142
.

Martha Emerson arrest: Doc,
427
.

John Procter’s letter: Calef,
More Wonders,
362
–
364
(and notes), addressed to Reverends [Increase] Mather, Allen, Moody, Willard, and Bailey.

Martha Emerson hearing: Doc,
432
.

Elizabeth Ballard dies: Savage,
Genealogical Dictionary,
1
:
108
.

Husbands accuse wives: Docs,
24
(Giles Corey),
745
(Andover kin).

Thomas and Mary Bradbury: Ibid.,
625
,
597
,
439
,
431
(petition).

Thomas Oliver probate: Essex Probate Docket #
20009
, July
30
,
1692
inventory.

Philip and Mary English in jail: Roach,
Salem Witch Trials
,
213
; Bentley,
Diary
2
:
24
–
25
; Docs,
975
–
976
.

Jail breaks: Roach,
Salem Witch Trials
,
213
; Calef,
More Wonders,
352
; Brattle, “Letter,”
178
.

Chapter 13: August 1 to 11, 1692

John and Elizabeth Procter’s trials: Docs,
310
,
389
(grand jury June
31
; trial jury August
5
).