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[87] God would discover that witch. And further the deponent saith not.

Taken on oath before the Commissioners of Hampton, the 8th of the 2nd mo., 1656.


Vera copea: Thos. Bradbury, Recorder.
Sworn before, the 4th of September, 1656,
Edward Rawson.
Thomas Philbrick testifieth that Goody Cole told him that if any of his calves did eat of her grass, she hoped it would poison them; and it fell out that one never came home again, and the other coming home died soon after.

Henry Morelton's wife and Goodwife Sleeper depose that, talking about Goody Cole and Marston's child, they did hear a great scraping against the boards of the window, which was not done by a cat or dog.

Thomas Coleman's wife testifies that Goody Cole did repeat to another the very words which passed between herself and her husband, in their own house, in private; and Thomas Ormsby, the constable of Salisbury, testifies, that when he did strip Eunice Cole of her shift, to be whipped, by the judgment of the Court at Salisbury, he saw a witch's mark under her left breast. Moreover, one Abra. Drake doth depose and say, that this Goody Cole threatened that the hand of God would be against his cattle, and forthwith two of his cattle died, and before the end of summer a third also.


About five years ago, she was again presented by the Jury for the Massachusetts jurisdiction, for having ‘entered into a covenant with the Devil, ’


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