Contents viii
100 To My Dear and Loving Husband
100 In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who
Deceased Augusty 1665, Being a Year and Half O1d
101 Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House
103 To My Dear Children
107 Cultural Portfolio: The Witchcraft Trials
109 C. L'ESTRANGE EWEN
Witch Hunting & Witch Trials: The Indictments for Witchcraft from the
Records of 1373 Assizes Held for the Home Circuit A.D. 1559-1736
Appendix II: The Discovery of Witches
110 COTTON MATHER
Magnalia Christi Americana, Boston, 1702
The Witchcraft Trials in Salem
115 SAMUEL SEWALL
The Diary of Samuel Sewall
April 11, 1692 lA witchcraft trial at the meeting-house in Salem]
August 19, 1692 [Dolefull! Witcraft]
September 19, 1692 [About noon, at Salem, Giles Corey was pressed to
death]
September 20, 1692 [Now I hear from Salem]
November 22 1692 [I prayed that God would pardon all my sinful
Wanderings]
117 ANNE HUTCHINSON'S TRIAL
117 from The Antinomian Controversy
120 from John Winthrop's Journal [Examination of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson]
121 MARY ROWLANDSON (ca. 1637-ca.1710/11)
122 A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
152 RELATED VOICES
COTTON RATHER
Hannah Dustan's Narrative
155 Cultural Portfolio: The Ways of the Native Americans
156 ROBERT BEVERLY
The History and Present State of Virginia, 1705
Book III: Of the Indians, Their Religion, Laws, and Customs, in War and
Peace