This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...showed fight. But she yielded on a promise of speedy release, which promise was not kept. Four children, one of them an infant, were left in her truly desolate home. Those who were old enough to walk followed their mother, crying and vainly endeavoring to overtake the officer. Compassion had not all failed for the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1870 Excerpt: ...showed fight. But she yielded on a promise of speedy release, which promise was not kept. Four children, one of them an infant, were left in her truly desolate home. Those who were old enough to walk followed their mother, crying and vainly endeavoring to overtake the officer. Compassion had not all failed for the families of the accused, and the neighbors took the little ones to their homes. The mother was committed to jail. Few families felt the desolating storm of witchcraft more than the Jacobs family. 11 (c)uriou, but gao. BRAY WILKINS was a yeoman of the olden time and of the purest type. He lived at "Will's Hill," on the boundary line between Reading and Salem, about five miles from the Village. He was an old man in 1602. He had owned a lordly extent of land, on which were located his own farm and those of his children. His present domain was ample, and was to him all the more valuable as it had become his by enterprise, skillful management, and unflinching persistence in hard work. Like Francis Nurse, he had bought this valuable estate, thirty-one years before, without capital--having only a ton of bar iron and twenty shillings at the time--had put his brains and strong hands against the mortgage, and it became his. He, his children and children's children, as the generations came on, plodded punctually over the long distance to tho Village meeting-house to hear the word preached, and to secure thereby a better treasure in heaven. Sadly, though not so destructively as with many, did the witchcraft movement break in upon the quiet of his old age. Bray's grandson, John Willard, had been employed as a deputy constable, ami been engaged in arresting the accused persons. He seems to have been a straightforward man of strong sense. He had see.
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