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Terminer was dissolved. Rebecca Eames remained in Salem prison. On December 5, she submitted a petition to Governor Phips retracting her "false and untrue" confession, saying she had been "hurried out of my Senses" by Abigail Hobbs and Mary Lacey who had said she would be hanged if she did not confess. Her husband, Robert Eames, died on July 22, 1693, four months after his wife's release from prison.
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Mary Walcott, Mary Warren and Ann Putnam Jr. gave testimony on September 15 that they had been afflicted by Rebecca Eames. She was tried and convicted on September 17, with nine others. They were all condemned to die. Four of those nine were executed on September 22. In October, the Court of Oyer and
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Rebecca Eames was in the crowd at the August 19, 1692, hanging of witches in Salem when she was accused of causing a pinprick in the foot of another spectator. She was arrested. Eames later testified that the devil had appeared to her as a colt and had persuaded her to follow him. She testified that
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she had allowed her son Daniel (born 1663) to be baptized by the devil. She confessed to afflicting Timothy Swan.
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Upham, Charles (1980). Salem Witchcraft. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. v 2 pp. 324, 480
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Daniel Eames and his wife, Lydia Wheeler Eames, were also accused but survived the trials.
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Nathaniel Eames (November 19, 1685 – January 11, 1765, at Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts)
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Joseph Eames (October 9, 1681 – December 27, 1753, at Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts)
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John Eames (October 11, 1670 – July 24, 1726, at Groton, Middlesex, Massachusetts)
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Hannah Eames (December 18, 1661 – July 8, 1731, at Andover, Essex, Massachusetts)
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Gloucester, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Boxford, Massachusetts Bay Colony
witchcraft
Salem witch trials
John Hathorne
Jonathan Corwin
Gloucester, Massachusetts
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Boxford, Massachusetts
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Nathanial (or Nathaniel) Saltonstall
Samuel Sewall
William Stoughton
Waitstill Winthrop

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