Witch-Hunting in Seventeenth-Century New England: A Documentary History, 1638-1693

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This documentary collection details the history of witch-hunting in 17th-century New England, beginning in 1638 through the 1692 Salem witch trials, and the 1693 Stamford-Fairfield, Connecticut witch-hunt. Hall (American religious history, Harvard Divinity School) provides an introduction to the his Contents Preface to the Second Edition Introduction Guide to Sources and Abbreviations 1. The Early Cases (1638-1651) 2. The Parsons of Springfield: A Family at Odds (1651-1652) 3. Suspicion: A Widow's Resistance (1653-1655) 4. The High Price ofSilence (1654) 5. A Handful oj Troublemakers (1652-1661) 6. A Long-Running Feud (1656-1675) 7. One Man's Many Accusers (1658-1669) 8. Mother and Daughter: The Holmans of Cambridge (1659-1660) 9. The Hartford Witch-hunt (1662-1665) 10. A Father's Battle (1666-1667) 11. One "Cunning Woman": At Odds With All (1668-1670) 12. Three Ambiguous Cases (1669-1681) 13. A Servant "Possessed" (1671-1672) 14. Vehement Suspicion: Eunice Cole of Hampton (1656-1680) 15. Two Grandparents, One Grandson, and a Seaman (1679-1681) 16. The Strange Death ofPhilip Smith (1683-1684) 17. The "Possession" of the Goodwin Children (1688) 18. The Salem Witch-hunt (1692) 19. The Stamford-Fairfield Witch-hunt (1692-1693) Appendix: The Hartford Witch-hunt: Additional Texts Selective Bibliography Index