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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 11 1 Browse Search
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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 17: heresy and witchcraft. (search)
tion of Rebecca Fox. Mrs. Kendall. a man troubled by cats or the devil. Winifred Holman, and her daughter Mary Holman. testimony. verdict At the present timend his daughter Rebecca, wife of Charles Stearns, to make answer to the widow Winifred Holman. Both cases seem to have been tried together. A mass of testimony is e used in this trial, as a justification of the charge formerly made against Mrs. Holman and her daughter. A recital of this testimony is tedious, but it may be excft was made two hundred years ago:— A relation of the passages between Mrs. Holman and her daughter Mary, and the wife of Charles Stearns, The orthography o Stone. The result of the trial is entered on the County Court Records: Winifred Holman, Plt. against John Gibson senr. and his wife, in an action of defamation; inding for the defendants costs of court, fifteen shillings and ten pence.—Winifred Holman, Plt. against Rebecca the wife of Charles Sternes, Deft., in an action of