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(SALEM WITCH TRIALS)
A lot of two pieces, including JOHN HATHORNE (1641 - 1717) Salem judge who sat on the 1692 trials who ordered the arrest of Sarah Good, Sarah Osburne and Tituba. Grandfather of author Nathaniel Hawthorne (who added the "w" to distance himself from his grandfather's tarnished reputation). Manuscript D.S. "Jno Hathorne Just Ps." 1p. oblong 4to., Salem, Nov. 14, 1700, authorizing the commission of Samuel Wakefield as a sheriff's deputy. Folds with minor partial separations, some soiling and toning, else very good. Offered together with an A.E.S. of Salem Judge, JONATHAN CORWIN (1640 - 1718) accomplished on the verso of a manuscript D.S. "Benjamin Pickering" 1p. 4to., Salem, June 22, 1702. Usual folds, else very good. Both pieces bear remnants of archival hinging tissue from prior framing. Also offered together with the July 8, 1863 edition of The Athenian Mercury (London) containing an advertisement of "A Further Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches, with the Observations of a Person that was upon the place six or seven days when the suspected Witches were first taken into Examination: To which is added Cases of Conscience concerning Witchcrafts and Evil Spirits personating Men. Written at the Request of the Ministers of New-England, by Increase Mather, President of Harvard -Colledge [sic]...." Together, three pieces.

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December 9, 2011 11:00 AM EST
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