SAM PARRIS vs. TITUBA INDIAN
The deposition
of Sam: Parris aged about thirty and nine years, testifyeth and saith that
Eliz: Parris junr and Abigail Williams and Ann Putnam junr and Elizabeth
Hubbard were most greviously and severall times tortured during the examinations
of Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba Indian, before the magistrates
at Salem Village 1 March 1691/2 And the said Tituba being the last of the
abovesaid, that was examined, they the above---afflicted persons were greviously
distressed until the said Indian began to confess, and then they were immediately
all quiet the rest of the said Indian womans examination.
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