THE SALEM WITCHCRAFT PAPERS VOLUME II

   Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

   Main entry under title:

   The Salem witchcraft papers.

   Bibliography: v. 1, p.

   Includes index.

   1. Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts. 2. Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. I. Boyer, Paul. II. Nissenbaum, Stephen. III. United States. Work Projects Administration.

   KFM2478.8.W5S24 345'.744'0288 77-7530

   ISBN 0-306-70755-5 (v. 2)

   Grateful acknowledgment is made to Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, for permission to reprint documents from Volume II of Thomas Hutchinson: The History of the Colony and Province of Massachusetts-Bay , Lawrence Shaw Mayo, Ed. (London, 1768; reprint edition Cambridge, Mass., 1936), pp. 24-25, 26, 30-31, 31-32, 32-33, 34, 35, and 40 (Copyright 1936 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College).

   Grateful acknowledgment is made to Barnes and Noble Import Division, Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., for permission to reprint documents from Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 , George L. Burr, Ed. (New York, 1914; reprint edition New York, 1968), pp. 196-202, 250, 347-48, 350-52, 353-55, 359, 362-64, 365-66, and 419-20 (Copyright 1914 by Charles Scribner's Sons; All Rights Assigned to Barnes & Noble, Inc., 1946; Reprinted 1968).

    The Salem Witchcraft Papers is the first edition ever published of all the legal documents concerning the 1692 outbreak of witchcraft in Salem, as compiled and transcribed in 1938 by the Works Progress Administration under the supervision of Archie N. Frost, Clerk of Courts, Essex County, Massachusetts. The work contains all of the WPA transcripts, rearranged in a few instances to facilitate their use, and augmented by copies of several documents that are no longer extant in the Essex County Archives in Salem.

   Copyright © 1977 by Da Capo Press, Inc.

   Introduction Copyright © 1977 by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum

   Published by Da Capo Press, Inc.

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THE SALEM

WITCHCRAFT

PAPERS

VOLUME II