Annals of witchcraft in New England, and elsewhere in the United States, from their first settlement. Drawn up from unpublished and other well authenticated records of the alleged operations of witches and their instigator, the devil. By Samuel G. Drake. | ORKG Ask

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Records of the Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. From 1628 to 1641. As contained in the first volume of the archives of the commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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Felt, Joseph B. (Joseph Barlow), 1789-1869.
Pulsifer, David, 1802-1894.
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January 1850

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January 1645

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Records of the Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. From 1628 to 1641. As contained in the first volume of the archives of the commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Massachusetts.
Felt, Joseph B. (Joseph Barlow), 1789-1869.
Pulsifer, David, 1802-1894.
Haven, Samuel F. (Samuel Foster), 1806-1881, ed.

January 1850

No more published by the society. The Records were published in their entirety by the state in 1853-...

The lawes against vvitches, and conivration And some brief notes and observations for the discovery of witches. Being very usefull for these times, wherein the Devil reignes and prevailes over the soules of poore creatures, in drawing them to that crying sin of witch-craft. Also, the confession of Mother Lakeland, who was arraigned and condemned for a witch, at Ipswich in Suffolke. Published by authority.

Lakeland, Mother. aut

January 1645

8 p.Annotation on Thomason copy: "Oct: 27".Reproductions of the originals in the British Library and...

Further notes on the history of witchcraft in Massachusetts, containing additional evidence of the passage of the Act of 1711, for reversing the attainders of the witches; also, affirming the legality of the Special Court of Oyer and Terminer of 1692: with ... an appendix of documents, etc.

Goodell, Abner Cheney, 1831-1914.

January 1884

Reprinted, with slight alterations, from the Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society.On ...

A true account of the tryals, examinations, confessions, condemnations, and executions of divers witches, at Salem, in New-England: for their bewitching of sundry people and cattel to death, and doing other great mischiefs, to the ruine of many people about them. With the strange circumstances that attended their enchantments: and their conversation with devils, and other infernal spirits. In a letter to a friend in London. Licensed according to order.

M. C.

January 1692

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January 1582

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H. F.

January 1645

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Records of the Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. From 1628 to 1641. As contained in the first volume of the archives of the commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Massachusetts.
Felt, Joseph B. (Joseph Barlow), 1789-1869.
Pulsifer, David, 1802-1894.
Haven, Samuel F. (Samuel Foster), 1806-1881, ed.

January 1850

No more published by the society. The Records were published in their entirety by the state in 1853-...

The lawes against vvitches, and conivration And some brief notes and observations for the discovery of witches. Being very usefull for these times, wherein the Devil reignes and prevailes over the soules of poore creatures, in drawing them to that crying sin of witch-craft. Also, the confession of Mother Lakeland, who was arraigned and condemned for a witch, at Ipswich in Suffolke. Published by authority.

Lakeland, Mother. aut

January 1645

8 p.Annotation on Thomason copy: "Oct: 27".Reproductions of the originals in the British Library and...