As when a storm clears away, it leaves the atmosphere clearer, so the common mind of New England became more wise. By employing a cautious spirit of search, eliminating error, rejecting superstition as tending toward cowardice and submission, the people cherished religion as a source of courage and a fountain of freedom, and forever after refused to separate belief from reason.
The actual fate of Mr. Parris is not certainly known. Some have intimated that he died of a loathsome disease, others that, like Judas, he took his own life; but we are assured that he received his share of earthly torment for his base hypocrisy and cruel wrongs. Most of the people who pretended to be afflicted afterward made confessions admitting their error. Efforts were made by the legislature to make amends for some of the great wrongs done at Salem; but such wrongs can never be righted. The victims of Parris' hate and avarice have slept for two hundred years on Witches' Hill, and there await the trump that shall rouse the dead, when the just shall be separated from the unjust.
Salem Village is peaceful, happy and quiet. In the gentle murmur of waves, the whisper of breezes and the laugh of babbling brooks, about the quaint old town, all nature seems to rejoice that the age of superstition has passed.
THE END.
HISTORICAL INDEX.
Albany resists Leisler, [223]
Albany Convention, resolutions of, [229]
Andover remonstrates against the doings of the witch tribunes, [342]
Andros, governor of New York, claims dominion of Connecticut, [102]
Andros arrives at Hartford for charter, [104]
Andros has a vice-royal commission to rule New York and all New England, [135]
Andros seized, imprisoned and sent to England, [218]
Anne's, Queen, war, [324]
Archdale, governor of the Carolinias, [148]
Arrival of William Penn at Newcastle, [30]
Arrival of Sloughter in the Beaver, [228]
Assembly meets at Philadelphia, [36]
Assembly condemns Leisler and Milborne, [231]
Baltimore, Lord. Penn makes satisfactory arrangements with him for Delaware, [34]
Baltimore, Lord, goes to England, [137]
Baltimore, Lord, death of, [139]
Barclay, Quaker author, appointed governor of East Jersey, [142]
Bayard receives Andros, [102]
Bayard and Cortlandt oppose Leisler, [220]
Berkeley, Lord, sells his interest in New Jersey, [140]
Board of Trade and Plantations, [325]
Boll, Captain, and Andros, [102]
Bradford, William, first printer in Philadelphia, [37]
Burroughs, Rev. George, rival of Parris, [330]
Byllinge sells his interest in New Jersey to Penn, [141]
Calvert, Leonard, death of, [139]
Carteret, death of, [142]
Casco, Maine, attacked by Indians, [312]
Catholicism in New York under King James, [216]
Charles II., his reign drawing to a close, [6]
Charles Stuart (the Pretender), [326]
Charter of Connecticut in mahogany box, [107]
Charter Oak, story of, [109]
Church establishment in Maryland, [139]
Circle at Mr. Parris' house, [67]
Cloyse, Mrs., arrested, [328]
Connecticut refuses to surrender charter, [103]
Coode's plot, [137]
Coode in possession of the records of Maryland, [138]
Culpepper, John, surveyor-general of North Carolinia, [147]
Daston, Sarah, acquitted of witchcraft, [380]
Delaware's independent legislature, 1703, [41]
Deliverance Hobbs confesses to being a witch, [330]
Dougan, Colonel, leaves New York, [217]
Duke of Monmouth, [44]
Duke of York, fears of, [6]
Duke of York gives Penn a quitclaim deed to Delaware, [29]
Duke of York releases the Jerseys, [142]
Dustin, Mr., defending his children, [319]
Dustin, Mrs., captured, [320]
Dustin, Mrs., and fellow-captives slay ten Indians and escape, [322]
Dustin, Hannah, monument of, [324]
Easty, Mary, arrested for a witch, [328]
East Jersey, Barclay appointed governor for, [142]
Ennis, Episcopal preacher, misrepresents Leisler in interest of Nichols, [219]
English Friends purchase New Jersey, [140]
Escape of condemned witches, [302]
Evidence against Rebecca Nurse, [265]
Fenwick's first day in New Jersey, [140]
Fits and witchcraft, [252]
Fletcher succeeds Andros, [115]
Fox, George, founder of Quakers, [25]
Franklin, William, son of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, last royal governor of New Jersey, [144]
Friends, the term applied to Quakers, [25]
Frontenac fitting out expedition against Salmon Falls, 311
Good, Sarah, and little child arrested as witches, [253]
Governor of New Jersey a tyrant, [144]
Hale, Sir Mathew, on witchcraft, [235]
Haverhill attacked by Indians, [317]
Haverhill a second time attacked, [325]
Heir of James II. to throne, [135]
Holme, Thomas, the surveyor who aided Penn in laying out Philadelphia, [35]
Hyde, Sir Edmund, governor of Jerseys, [144]
Immigrants to South Carolinia, [150]
Indented slaves, [46]
Ingoldsby, Sloughter's captain, [229]
Ingoldsby arrests Leisler and eight of his council, [230]
James II. on the throne of England, [39]
James II. sends agent to Rome to visit the Pope, [40]
Jeffries, judge of the "Bloody Assizes,", [45]
Jerseys, the, surrendered to the crown, 1702, [143]
John, Mr. Parris' West Indian slave, [66]
Jury acquits Rebecca Nurse, [272]
Jury reconsiders verdict and convicts Rebecca Nurse, [273]
Kidd, Captain Robert, the pirate, [377]
Kidd, Captain, fate of, [378]
King William's War, [308]
Kirk hunting Monmouth's rebels, [44]
Laws fashioned by William Penn, [36]
Lawson, Rev. Deodat, at Salem, [276]
Lawson, Rev. Deodat, and the bewitched, [278]
Lawson interrupted in his sermon by the bewitched, [279]
Legislatures in American colonies do not favor the malice of James II., [47]
Leisler, Jacob, [216]
Leisler seizes the garrison of New York, [218]
Leisler sends an address to King William, [219]
Leisler in charge of affairs at New York, [221]
Leisler and Milborne arrested, [250]
Leisler tried and condemned, [231]
Leisler executed, [233]
Leonardson, Samuel, escapes with Mrs. Dustin, [323]
Locke and Cooper's scheme, [145]
Markham, William, sent to take possession of Pennsylvania for William Penn, [28]
Martin, Susanna, accused of being a witch, [246]
Mary, eldest daughter of James II., marries Prince of Orange, [135]
Maryland, how affected by the Revolution of 1688, [136]
Maryland becomes a royal province, [138]
Maryland, seat of government moved to Anne Arundel [139]
Mather, Cotton, [249]
Mather's, Cotton, Mexican argument, [184]
Mather's, Cotton, triumph, [331]
Mather's tendency to atheism, [381]
Milborne, Jacob, son-in-law of Leisler, [219]
Milborne, Jacob, captures Albany, [226]
Milborne hung, [232]
Monk, Duke of Albemarle, created viceroy over empire of North Carolinia, [145]
Monmouth, Duke of, beheaded, [44]
Morris commissioned governor of New Jersey, [144]
Neff, Mrs., nurse to Mrs. Dustin, captured, [320]
New Castle, arrival of Penn at, [30]
New Englanders, character of, [5]
New England settled by fugitives, [351]
New Jersey divided into East and West Jersey, [141]
Nicholson, lieutenant-governor of New York, [210]
Nicholson misrepresents Leisler, [220]
Nicholson made governor of Virginia, [221]
Nicholson, governor of Maryland, sends Mrs. Dustin a silver tankard, [321]
North Carolinia and the navigation act, [146]
Noyes, Rev. Mr., and the eight firebrands of hell, [375]
Nurse, Rebecca, arrested as a witch, [256]
Nurse, Rebecca, trial of, [265]
Nurse, Rebecca, acquitted, [272]
Nurse, Rebecca, convicted and sentenced, [273]
Nurse, Rebecca, excommunicated, [274]
Nurse, Rebecca, hung, [275]
Orange, Prince of, marries Princess Mary, [135]
Parris, Samuel, minister at Salem, [65]
Parris' circle, [251]
Parris propagating the delusion of witchcraft, [258]
Parris, fate of, unknown, [382]
Penn, William, adopts the religion of a Quaker, [26]
Penn's attention drawn to America—his charter, [27]
Penn gets a quitclaim deed to Delaware from Duke of York, [29]
Penn's treaty with the Indians, [31]
Penn's new charter adopted, [36]
Penn returns to England in summer of 1684, [37]
Penn bidding colonists farewell—his departure, [38]
Penn, restored to his rights, returns to America, [40]
Penn, death of, [41]
Pennsylvania, how named, [28]
Pennsylvania divided into three counties, [37]
Persecution of the Monmouth rebels, [47]
Philadelphia, how named and laid out by Penn and Holme, [35]
Phipps reduces Acadia, [314]
Phipps in Massachusetts, [342]
Pilgrims persecute Quakers, [24]
Puritan superstition, [160]
Quakers persecuted by Pilgrims, [24]
Quaker, how the term came to be used, [25]
Rhode Island charter surrendered, [114]
Ryswick, treaty of, [325]
Salem, [2]
Salem witchcraft, [234]
Salmon Falls attacked, [311]
Schenectady attacked by French and Indians, [309]
Sidney, Algernon, aids Penn in drawing up a code of laws for Pennsylvania, [29]
Sloughter, Colonel Henry, commissioned governor of New York, [228]
Sothel, Seth, governor of North Carolinia, [147]
Sothel arrested, tried and convicted, [148]
South Carolinia politics in 1672, [149]
Stoll, Jost, the ensign who bore Leisler's letter to King William, [220]
Stoughton, judge to try witches, [343]
Superstition, the reign of, [328]
Swedes and William Penn, [34]
Tituba, Mr. Parris' slave, [66]
Train-bands summoned, [107]
Treat, Robert, governor of Connecticut, [115]
Uplands (now Chester County), Penn meets assembly at, [34]
Van Cortlandt's burnt offering, [135]
Wadsworth and the Charter Oak, [110]
Walcut, Mary, bitten by a witch, [277]
Welcome, name of Penn's ship, [30]
West Jersey, first popular assembly at Salem, [142]
William and Mary deprive Penn of his rights as governor, [40]
William and Mary's ascension to the throne of England hailed with joy throughout New England, [217]
Williams, Abigail, niece of Mr. Parris, [68]
Williams, Abigail, bewitched, [279]
Winthrop's expedition fails, [314]
Witchcraft, belief in general, [235]
Witchcraft, evidence of, [266]
Witchcraft, trials for, [331]
Witchcraft, doctrine of, [380]
Witch doctor, [236]
Witches hung on Witches' Hill, [275]