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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Colonial history. (search)
ted her to sign the devils book. Chap. XIX.} Dear child, exclaimed the accused in her agony, it 1692 is not so. There is another judgment, dear child; and her accusers, turning towards her husband, declared that he, too, was a wizard. All three were committed. Examinations and commitments multi- April 18. plied. Giles Cory, a stubborn old man of more than four- April 14. score years, could not escape the malice of his minister and his angry neighbors, with whom he had quarrelled. Edward Bishop, a farmer, cured the Indian servant of a fit by flogging him; he declared, moreover, his belief that he could, in like manner, cure the whole company April 22. of the afflicted; and, for his skepticism, found himself and his wife in prison. Mary Easty, of Topsfield, another sister to Rebecca Nurse,—a woman of singular gentleness and force of character, deeply religious, yet uninfected by superstition,—was torn from her children, and sent to jail. Parris had had a rival in George Apri