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Examination for when ever she did but look upon me she would strick me down or almost Choak me to death: also on the day or hir Examination I saw sarah Wilds or hir Apperance most greviously torment and afflect mercy lewes Abigaill Williams and Ann putnam Jun'r by stricking them down and Choaking them to death. also severall times sence Sarah willds has most greviously tormented me with variety of tortor and I verily beleve she is a most dreadful wicth
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in the begining of Appril 1692 there came to me a woman which I did not know and she did most greviously torment me by pricking and pinching me and she tould me that hir name was wilds and that she lived at
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Hale also related the story of another stepson, John, who had also died young (and was, therefore, not around to substantiate or refute the story). John, portrayed as "an honest young man" went to the house of his uncle and aunt, the
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as for my mother I never saw aniey harm by har upon aniey sutch a cout naither in word nor action as she is now a cused for she hath awlwais in structed me well in the cristian religion and the wais of god ever sence I was abell to take in structions: and so I leve it allto this honred cort to
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William is known to have spelled his name, Averell, with a second "e", notably in the signature on his will, although his children and descendants often spelled the name
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trial, which further angered the family. Shortly after, John's ex-sister-in-law, Mary Gould Reddington, began circulating rumors that Sarah was a witch. When John Wildes threatened to charge her with
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1169:"Massachusetts Clears 5 From Salem Witch Trials"
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2728:People from Topsfield, Massachusetts
1335:Nathanial (or Nathaniel) Saltonstall
1076:Topsfield and the Witchcraft Tragedy
928:"Sarah Wilds Executed July 19, 1692"
486:Sarah was arrested by the Marshall,
479:, and others, due to a complaint by
1206:Caroline Newman, "X Marks the Spot"
1119:More Wonders of the Invisible World
1836:Frances Wycom or Wycome or Wycombe
1681:Samuel and Ruth Perley (or Pearly)
1391:convicted of witchcraft and hanged
1137:Baker, Emerson (11 January 2016).
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623:Mary Walcott similarly claimed:
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1726:Jonathan (or Johnathan) Putnam
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137:John Wildes (died 14 May 1705)
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997:. Taylor Trade Publications.
960:Avery, Clara Arlette (1906).
878:Avery, Clara Arlette (1922).
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81:Province of Massachusetts Bay
35:Sarah Wildes' Memorial Marker
1546:John Bly Sr. and Rebecca Bly
1042:Robinson, Enders A. (1992).
747:Sarah was exonerated by the
2723:People from Chipping Norton
989:Roach, Marilynne K (2004).
749:Massachusetts General Court
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435:Sarah Wildes Arrest Warrant
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1139:"The Gallows Hill Project"
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2087:Elizabeth Hutchinson Hart
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1088:Institute, Essex (1906).
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195:July 19, 1692]) was
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2647:Phillip and Mary English
316:Prior offences and feuds
271:Massachusetts Bay Colony
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213:maintained her innocence
168:William Averell (father)
59:Chipping Norton, England
2733:Executed American women
1646:Margaret Wilkins Knight
290:possession by the devil
171:Abigail Hynton (mother)
2698:Executed English women
2252:Mary Harrington Taylor
2157:Joan Penney (or Penny)
2152:Robert and Sarah Pease
2132:Jane Lilly (or Lillie)
2012:Daniel and Lydia Eames
1636:Thomas and Mary Jacobs
820:University of Virginia
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1766:Timothy Swan or Swann
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2047:Abigail Faulkner Sr.
2042:Abigail Faulkner Jr.
1922:John Busse (or Buss)
1845:Accused but survived
1045:The Devil Discovered
681:Salem, Massachusetts
492:jailhouse confession
343:held something of a
334:wearing a silk scarf
207:and was executed by
48:Bapt. March 16, 1627
2429:Executed by hanging
2017:Rebecca Blake Eames
1631:Nathaniel Ingersoll
1287:Cultural depictions
679:at Gallows Hill in
88:Cause of death
2340:William Barker Sr.
2335:William Barker Jr.
2267:Margaret Toothaker
1952:Bethiah Carter Sr.
1947:Bethiah Carter Jr.
1942:Thomas Carrier Jr.
1857:Nehemiah Abbot Jr.
1656:Abigail Martin Jr.
1521:William Barker Sr.
1463:and public figures
1350:Waitstill Winthrop
1310:Bartholomew Gedney
1265:Salem witch trials
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2232:Elizabeth Scargen
2187:Elizabeth Proctor
2107:Deliverance Hobbs
2057:Elizabeth Fosdick
2037:Thomas Farrar Sr.
2002:Mehitable Downing
1897:Dudley Bradstreet
1882:Edward Bishop III
1621:Joseph Hutchinson
1616:Elizabeth Hubbard
1427:William Milbourne
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661:William Stoughton
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483:and John Buxton.
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1967:Elizabeth Colson
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2688:1627 births
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2506:Wilmot Redd
2456:Mary Eastey
2410:Mary Warren
2330:Mary Barker
2142:Sarah Morey
2102:Dorcas Hoar
2062:Eunice Frye
1972:Mary Colson
1801:Mary Warren
1781:Moses Tyler
1776:Peter Tufts
1756:Mercy Short
1666:Sarah Nurse
1651:Mercy Lewis
1626:John Indian
1601:Mary Fuller
1571:John DeRich
1566:Mary Daniel
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766:Paul Tirone
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541:Boston Gaol
504:examination
498:Examination
473:Mercy Lewis
461:Mary Eastey
330:fornication
286:distraction
203:during the
102:Nationality
2682:Categories
2657:Mary Green
2627:John Alden
2618:Escaped or
2589:Ann Foster
2461:Sarah Good
2262:Job Tookey
2212:Sarah Root
2207:Sarah Rist
2072:Mary Green
1982:Phoebe Day
1887:Mary Black
1862:John Alden
1210:UVA Today,
1179:August 13,
865:References
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640:religion.
589:Sarah Good
569:Sarah Root
529:black mass
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310:selectmen
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