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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 9: civil History. (search)
retained through life, and presided in a court at Bristol, less than two months before his death. It is due to the reputation of Danforth, to state emphatically, that he was not a member of the court which tried and condemned the unhappy persons accused of witchcraft. That special Court of Oyer and Terminer, appointed by Governor Phips and his Council, May 27, 1692, consisted of William Stoughton, John Richards, Nathanael Saltonstall, Wait Winthrop, Bartholomew Gedney, Samuel Sewall, John Hathorne, Jonathan Corwin, and Peter Sargeant; Council Records. It is said that Saltonstall left the court, being dissatisfied with its proceedings. and it completed its bloody work before the next December, when the Superior Court was organized, of which Danforth was a member. Notwithstanding he held no judicial office during this period (except that he was one of the first Justices of the Peace and Quorum), the name of Danforth has often been very improperly associated with the witchcraft t
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 17: heresy and witchcraft. (search)
to the fence post. Ibid., p. 377. Amongst the rest, one Deborah Wilson, who, bearing a great burthen for your hardheartedness and cruelty, being under a deep sense thereof, was constrained, being a young woman of a very modest and retired life, and of sober conversation, as were her parents, to go through your town of Salem naked, as a sign; which she having in part performed, after she had gone through some part thereof, as aforesaid, she was soon laid hands on, and brought before old Hathorne, who ordered 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 there laid hold of by a blood-thirsty crew, and early in the morning had before Thomas Danfort and Daniel Goggings, (two wicked and bloody magistrates of yours, o
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Index of names (search)
Hamlet, 59. Hammond, 59, 76, 81, 5, 96, 7, 126, 210, 11, 400, 19. Hanchet, 76, 81. Hancock, 33, 58, 75, 97, 212, 25, 7, 31, 91, 3, 4, 305, 13, 69. Handy, 403. Hanford, 130. Harlakenden, 34-6, 40-3, 52, 3, 119, 74, 250, 4, 396. Harlow, 177. Harmon, 336. Harrington, 332. Harris, 233. Hart, 11, 32. Harvard, 44, 365. Hassell, 59, 75. Hastings, 59, 75, 6, 92, 4, 6, 8, 105, 8, 200, 69, 79, 81, 4, 6, 92,305, 20, 63, 9, 407, 13, 16, 17. Hatch, 321. Hathorne, 69, 77, 115, 256, 346, 7. Haugh, 12, 27, 35, 175. Haven, 184, 6, 331. Hayden, 177, 206. Haves, 216, 253. Haynes, 11, 12, 18, 21, 3, 31, 2, 42, 52, 175, 396, 459. Hayward, 35, 336. Hazeltine, 221. Healy, 75, 216, 18, 373. Hearsey, 310. Heate, 11, 32. Heath, 410, 11, 16, 27. Hedge, 231, 369. Henbury, 76. Henchman, 393. Hendley, 320. Henley, 427. Herrick, 310. Hervey, 323. Hicks, 75, 108, 227, 92, 412– 14. Higginson, 236, 9. Hildr