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TheWitchcraft DelusionInNew England Vol. III
Woodward's
Historical Series.
No. VII.
THE
Witchcraft Delusion
IN
NEW ENGLAND:
ITS
Rise, Progress, and Termination,
AS EXHIBITED BY
Dr. COTTON MATHER,
IN
THE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD;
AND BY
Mr. ROBERT CALEF,
IN HIS
MORE WONDERS OF THE INVISIBLE WORLD.
WITH A
Preface, Introduction, and Notes,
By SAMUEL G. DRAKE.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. III.
More Wonders of the Invisible World.
PRINTED FOR W. ELLIOT WOODWARD,
ROXBURY, MASS.
MDCCCLXVI.
No.____
Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1865,
By SAMUEL G. DRAKE,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States
for the District of Massachusetts.
Edition in this size 280 Copies.
Munsell, Printer.
[90] MORE WONDERS
OF THE
INVISIBLE WORLD.
PART V.
An Impartial Account of the most MemorableMatters of Fact, touching the supposedWitchcraft in New-England.
MR. Parris[1] had been some years a Ministerin Salem-Village, when this sad Calamity(as a deluge) overflowed them, spreading4itself far and near. He was a Gentleman of LiberalEducation, and not meeting with any great Encouragement,or Advantage in Merchandizing, towhich for some time he apply'd himself, betookhimself to the work of the Ministry; this Villagebeing then vacant, he met with so muchEncouragement, as to settle in that Capacityamong them.
After he had been there about two years, heobtained a Grant from a part of the Town, thatthe House and Land he Occupied, and whichhad been Alotted by the whole People to theMinistry, should be and remain to him, &c. ashis own Estate in Fee Simple. This occasionedgreat Divisions both between the Inhabitantsthemselves, and between a considerable part ofthem and their said Minister, which Divisionswere but as a beginning or Præludium to whatimmediately followed.
It was the latter end of February