Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum. The Salem witchcraft papers, Volume 1 : verbatim transcipts of the legal documents of the Salem witchcraft outbreak of 1692 / edited and with an introduction and index by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum.
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Margaret Scott Executed, September 22, 1692

( Frances Wycom v. Margaret Scott )

   The deposistion of frances wycum who testifyeth and saith that quickly after the first court at [Salem] about wicthcraft margerit Scott whom I very well knew: or hir Apperance came to me and did most greviously torment me by choaking and almost presing me to death: and so she did continue affleting me by times tell the 5'th August 1692 being the day of hir examination allso during the time of hir examination margerit scott did most greviously afflect me: and also severall times sence: and I beleve in my heart that margerit Scott is a wicth and that she has often afflected me by acts of wicthcraft

    frances Wycum owned: to the grand Inquest: that the above written evidence: is the truth upon oath: Sept'r 15: 1692 : Jurat in Curia.

   (Reverse) frances Wycomb ags't Margaret Scott

    ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2, Page 45 )

( Phillip Nelson and Sarah Nelson v. Margaret Scott )

   #[also] phillip Nellson and Sarah his wife doe testifie and say that for Two or three years be fore #[the said] Robert Shilleto dyed we have often hard him complaining of margerit Scott for hurting of him and often said that she was a wicth and so he continewed complaining of Margarit Scott saying he should never be well so long as margerit Scott lived & so he Complayned of Margret Scott: att times untill he dyed



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    Phillip Nelson and Sarah his wife affirmed: upon their oath to the grand Inquest that the above written evidence: is the truth


Sept'r 15: 1692 Jurat in Curia
(Reverse) Sarah Nelson Depo ag'st Mary Scott

( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2 Page 45 )

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