Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Martha Cory” in chapter 1, page 93 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition.:
...muel Wardwell had confessed, and was safe; but, from shame and penitence, he retracted his confession, and, speaking the truth boldly, he was hanged, not for witchcraft, but for denying witchcraft.
Martha Cory was, before execution, visited in prison by Parris, the two deacons, and another member of his church.
The church record tells that, self-sustained, she imperiously rebuked her destroyers, and they...
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