Six Women of Salem (71 page)

April Superior Court: SJC
1
:
36
.

Grace and Emerson: SJC,
1
:
51
–
50
.

Arnold: SJC,
1
:
38
; Doc,
838
.

Alden and Green: SJC,
1
:
52
; Docs,
838
,
678
; Roach,
Salem Witch Trials
,
303
.

Watkins: Docs,
83
,
841
.

May
9
,
1693
Superior Court: Ibid.,
842
.

Tituba: Ibid.,
844
.

PART
THREE: AFTERWORD

Rebecca Nurse

Parris on the dissenters: Salem Village Church records in Boyer and Nissenbaum,
Salem-Village Witchcraft
,
288
(October
23
,
1693
),
303
(November
13
,
1693
).

November
1694
meetings: Boyer and Nissenbaum,
Salem-Village Witchcraft
,
295
–
310
.

Demand for Church Council: Ibid.,
300
–
304
.

Council of Mediators: Ibid.,
306
–
308
.

Francis Nurse’s will: Hoover,
Towne Family
,
8
.

1695
pro-and anti-Parris petitions: Boyer and Nissenbaum,
Salem-Village Witchcraft
,
260
–
263
,
308
–
309
.

Francis Nurse dies: Parris, “Records,”
22
.

Parris resigns: Boyer and Nissenbaum,
Salem-Village Witchcraft
,
311
–
312
.

January
1697
public fast: Sewall,
Diary
, December
2
,
1696
,
1
:
361
–
362
(and notes), January
14
,
1697
.

Suits against Parris and arbitration: Boyer and Nissenbaum,
Salem-Village Witchcraft
,
264
–
268
.

Reverend Green mediates: Salem Village Church records in C. Upham,
Salem Witchcraft,
668–669
; Perley, History of Salem,
3:35
.

Nurse farm paid off:
Suffolk Deeds,
11
:
50
; Perley, “Endicott Lands,”
379
–
382
.

Petitions to clear names: Docs,
875
–
877
,
879
.

Annie Putnam joins church: Salem Village Church records in C. Upham,
Salem Witchcraft,
671
–
672
.

1706
bill against spectral evidence: Doc,
879
.

1709
petition for restitution: Ibid.,
881
.

Isaac Esty statement: Ibid.,
883
.

Samuel Nurse statement: Ibid.,
921
.

1711
Reversal of Attainder: Ibid.,
931
,
933
.

Reparations: Ibid.,
930
,
964
,
954
.

Rebecca Nurse’s excommunication reversed: Salem Church,
Record
,
218
–
219
.

Nurse Farm: Perley, “Endicott Lands,”
380
–
382
; Tapley,
Rebecca Nurse
,
100
–
101
; W. Upham, “Account.”

Danvers: Galvin,
Historical Data,
37
. Salem Village was called Danvers in
1752
, and a township in
1757
, which the Privy Council disallowed yet sent a representative to the Massachusetts House of Representatives from
1758
onward, was called a town in
1772
and made a town by an act on August
23
,
1775
.

Rebecca Nurse Memorial: W. Upham, “Account,”
225
; Tapley,
Rebecca Nurse,
100
–
102
; Eben Putnam,
History,
1
:
200
–
201
.

Nurse Homestead: The homestead passed into the care of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (now Historic New England) and then to the Danvers Light Alarm Company (an eighteenth-century reenactment group, Light Alarm being the local minutemen).

Bridget Bishop

Thomas Oliver probate and Edward Bishop’s house: Perley, “Salem, No.
14
,” EA
35
–
38
, map opp.
22
; Perley, “Part of Salem, No.
1
,”
167
, map opp
167
,
172
–
173
; Thomas Oliver docket
20009
.

Christian Mason dies and husband remarries: August
11
,
1693
distribution in Thomas Oliver docket
20009
; D. Greene, “Bridget Bishop,”
138
.

Edward Bishop, guardian to Susanna Mason: Essex Deeds,
10
:
112
–
113
.

Edward Bishop buys a house: Essex Deeds,
10
:
3
verso; Perley, “Salem, No.
19
,”
79
, and “Salem, No.
14
,”
36
.

John and Susanna Becket: Perley, “Becket Genealogy,”
15
; Perley, “Salem, No.
22
,”
23
,
25
–
26
; Perley, “Salem, No.
19
,”
79
.

Susanna Babbidge: Perley, “Becket Genealogy,”
15
–
17
; Bentley,
Diary
,
3
:
90
–
91
; C. Upham,
Salem Witchcraft,
494
.

Bridget and Sarah Bishop confusion: D. Greene, “Bridget Bishop,”
131
–
137
.

Mary English

Confiscation losses: Cheever, “A Sketch,”
60
–
61
; Bentley, “Notices,”
232
; Docs,
902
,
840
.

Mansion repairs: Cheever, “A Sketch,”
160
; Perley, “Salem, No.
21
,”
168
.

Philip English’s economic losses: LeBeau, “Philip English,”
10
.

Ebenezer English: Salem,
Vital Records
,
1
:
282
.

Mary English’s death: Cheever, “A Sketch,”
166
.

English vs. Hollingworth lawsuits: James Duncan Philips Library, “Court of Common Pleas,”
7
:
41
,
8
:
57
,
59
.

Misc. English suits: LeBeau, “Philip English,”
35
n
17
.

March
31
,
1696
suits: James Duncan Philips Library, “Court of Common Pleas,”
8
:
57
,
61
–
62
.

Philip English vs. George Corwin: Perley, “Part of Salem, No.
2
,”
69
; George ­Corwin Probate, Essex County Probate docket #
6949
; “Seizing Corpses for Debt”; Roach, “The Corpse in the Cellar”; “Essex Institute ms. English Family ­Papers”: Box
1
, file
7
: “Philip English (
1651
–
1736
) Papers/Legal Documents,
1675
,
1682
–
1727
,
1733
.”

Philip English’s second marriage: Salem,
Vital Records
,
3
:
337
.

Susanna English:
Boston News-Letter
, September
30
to October
7
,
1706
,
6
; Bentley,
Diary
,
2
:
25
.

Philip English recoups: LeBeau, “Philip English,”
10
; Schutz,
Legislators,
215
.

1709
Petitions: Docs,
881
,
902
.

1717
reparations: Ibid.,
970
–
973
.

St. Michael’s Church: Miles, “
O, How We Have Loved Thee
.”

Philip English’s decline: James Duncan Philips Library, “Court of General Sessions of the Peace,”
4
:
76
–
78
; LeBeau, “Philip English,”
10
; “Essex Institute ms. English Family Papers,” Box
1
, file
8
: “Philip English (
1651
–
1736
) Papers/Guardianship and Estate Papers,
1732
–
1744
,
1751
”; Essex Probate Records,
324
:
182
–
183
(Touzel wills).

Philip English’s last words: Hawthorne,
American Notebooks,
75
(emphasis added).

Philip English’s funeral: English, Essex Probate Docket
9083
; Salem,
Vital Records
,
5
:
231
; Cheever, “A Sketch,”
175
–
176
.

Philip English probate problems and Susanna (English) Touzel’s health: Doc,
978
; Essex Probate Records:
324
:
182
–
183
.

Reverend William Bentley on Susanna English’s embroidery: Bentley,
Diary
,
1
:
23
.

Reverend Bentley on English’s mansion: Ibid.,
2
:
446
–
448
.