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[64] Erroneously printed “Wilder.” The trials of Susannah Martin and Elizabeth Howe are in Records of Salem Witchcraft, vol. i. 193-215, and vol. ii. pp. 69-93; Mather’s Wonders, pp. 70-80, and, with the trials of Bishop, Burroughs and Carrier, were copied by Calef, pp. 114-139.
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[65] Calef [p. 101].
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[66] Calef [p. 103].
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[67] Samuel Sewall, one of the judges in the witchcraft trials, made, on this occasion, the following entry in his Diary—for the use of which I am indebted to the courtesy of the Massachusetts Historical Society: “Monday, Sept. 19, 1692. About noon, at Salem, Giles Corey was pressed to death for standing mute; much pains was used with him two days, one after another, by the court and Capt. Gardner of Nantucket, who had been his acquaintance; but all in vain. Sept. 20. Now I hear from Salem, that about eighteen years ago, he was suspected to have stamped and pressed a man to death; but was cleared. ’Twas not remembered till Ann Putnam was told of it by said Corey’s specter, the sabbath-day night before the execution.”
The following touching relation of the sufferings of the Corey family during the year 1692, is in Mass. Archives, vol. cxxxv. fol. 161. For the purpose of preserving the quaintness of the original document, I have copied it verbatim.