The Salem Witchcraft Papers, Volume 3 : Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692 / edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum

. The Salem Witchcraft Papers, Volume 3 : Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692 / edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum
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(John Parker and Josiah Eaton v. Mary Taylor)

Sworne [unclear: ] in Court

Jno Parker

Josiah Eaton

Say that Mary Taylor thretened them Saying they were high but they should have a down fall and Used other thretening words

and also thretened Goodwif Marshall saying shee was the Cause of her displeasure aginst them and they should see what would become of her for her god would deceive her The said Parker said her god what do you mean by her God I [doubt] you have been somewhere to often/ but afterward goeing home ward one came runing and sed his son was redy to dy and he was prest almost Choked. and his wife s'd that if he the s'd Parker did not goe to Mary Taylor her husband would die & so soon as she had named her Parkers name his son became well Imideately and: Sundry times his son was strangly handled and was som times blind in one Ey and som times on the other Ey And the s'd Eaton Sweares to all but what related to s'd Parkers son.

( Suffolk Court Records Case No. 2710 Page 43 )

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