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A true account of the tryals, examinations, confessions, condemnations, and executions of divers witches, at Salem, in New-England, : for their bewitching of sundry people and cattel to death, and doing other great mischiefs, to the ruine of many people about them. With the strange circumstances that attended their enchantments: and their conversation with devils, and other infernal spirits. In a letter to friend in London.

Publication date: 1692

Topics: Trials (Witchcraft) -- Massachusetts -- Salem, Witchcraft -- Massachusetts -- Salem, Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, Imprint 1692, Imprint 1693

Publisher: London, : printed for J. Conyers, in Holbourn.

Collection: JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: English

8 pages ; 20 cm (4to)

Signed and dated on page 8: Salem, 8th month, 1692. C.M

Attributed to Cotton Mather by Sabin

Holmes states that this work was not written by Cotton Mather but devised from his "Wonders of the invisible world" printed in London, 1693

Dated 1692 by ESTC and Wing

Dated 1693 by European Americana based on the publication of Mather's work

Signatures: A⁴

Title printed within single rule border

See: Holmes, T.J. Cotton Mather, page 1133

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