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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)
nt of arbitrary power, had no motive to dispel superstition, the daughter of John Goodwin, a child of thirteen years, charged a laundress with Chap. XIX.} having sthe devil. The culprit was evidently a wild Irish woman, of a strange tongue. Goodwin, who John Goodwin's Account. made the complaint, had no proof that could haveJohn Goodwin's Account. made the complaint, had no proof that could have done her any hurt; but the scandalous old hag, whom some thought crazed in her intellectuals, was bewildered, and made strange answers, which Cotton Mather were takthe paternoster fluently enough, but not quite correctly: so the ministers and Goodwin's family had the satisfaction of getting her condemned as a witch, and executed. Here, it was Goodwin, 48, 49. proclaimed, was food for faith. So desperately wicked is the heart of man: the girl, who knew herself to be a deceiver, had no reopious narrative of the recent case of witchcraft. The story was confirmed by Goodwin, and recommended by all the ministers of Boston and Charlestown as an answer t