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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 17: heresy and witchcraft. (search)
Chapter 17: heresy and witchcraft. Antinomians. Baptists. Quakers. Elizabeth Hooton and other disturbers of the peace. Benanuel Bowers, and his family. witchcraft. Rebecca Jacobs. petition of Rebecca Fox. Mrs. Kendall. a man troubled by cats or the devil. Winifred Holman, and her daughter Mary Holman. testimony.rdered her to appear at the next Court of Salem, at which your wicked rulers sentenced her to be whipped. Ibid., p. 383. After this at Cambridge, as she [Elizabeth Hooton, called Horton by Hutchinson] returned, she crying Repentance through some part of that town, where no Friend had been before (as she heard of) she was therefor extravagance and embellishment, it appears by Bishop's account, that no Quaker missionaries visited Cambridge before 1662; The date 1662 is affixed to Elizabeth Hooton's first visit and imprisonment, by Sewell, in his History of the Quakers, p. 327. that when they did appear, Gookin and Danforth were ready to enforce the la