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The Witchcraft Delusion in New England: Its Rise, Progress, and Termination (Vol. 3 of 3)

Chapter 40: Corrections.
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About This Book

An eyewitness and critical compilation of accounts surrounding the witchcraft panic in colonial New England, assembling depositions, examinations, and commentary that trace how local disputes and religious tensions intensified episodes of alleged demonic affliction. It details the onset of strange fits among household members, communal responses of fasting and prayer, investigations producing confessions and accusations against marginalized individuals, and courtroom examinations by magistrates where afflicted witnesses identified supposed tormentors. The work critiques investigative methods, records procedural irregularities, and highlights how fear, suggestion, and authority combined to produce prosecutions, imprisonments, and social ruptures.

FINIS.


Transcriber's Note.

Variable spelling and hyphenation have been retained. Minor punctuation inconsistencies have been silently repaired. Footnotes were renumbered and placed at the end of each section. The entries Kembell and Tockinosh, John, ii, 23. in the index do not correspond to the text.

Corrections.

The first line indicates the original, the second the correction.

Footnote 18:

  • Remarks upou a Scandalous Book
  • Remarks upon a Scandalous Book

Footnote 19:

  • Qnincy is entirely too
  • Quincy is entirely too

Footnote 37:

  • is fully given in Vo.l i, 152-63
  • is fully given in Vol. i, 152-63

Footnote 90:

  • Newbury to Amesbury, having boughtPiece of
  • Newbury to Amesbury, having bought a Piece of

Footnote 96:

  • does not appear in the Reeords
  • does not appear in the Records

Footnote 167:

  • and Charter Streeet,
  • and Charter Street,

p. 138:

  • Achievements as either were never peformed by
  • Achievements as either were never performed by

p. 226:

  • Baxter, Richard, I, xx
  • Baxter, Richard, I, xxx

p. 236:

  • his own Estimate of of his Labors
  • his own Estimate of his Labors

p. 240:

  • Roggers, John, Witnesses against Martha Carrier, 197; of Billerica, iil, 118;
  • Roggers, John, Witnesses against Martha Carrier, 197; of Billerica, iii, 118;

p. 241:

  • Stacy, William, 172, iii, 86-7, 76, 86-7.
  • Stacy, William, 172, iii, 86-7, 76.

Errata.

The first line indicates the original, the second how it should read.

p. 42:

  • you would evdeavour to have
  • you would endeavour to have

Footnote 144:

  • And now they fall to Tragical Exclamattons;
  • And now they fall to Tragical Exclamations;