Samuel Page Fowler Salem Witchcaft

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. In a time when not only England in particu lar, but almopc all Europe, had been labouring againft the ufurpations Of tyranny and flavery, the Englifh America has not been behind in a {hare Of the common calamities; more efpe cially, New England has met not only with fuch calamities as are common to the reft, but with feveral aggra'vations enhancing fuch afflictions, by the devaf'tations and cruelties Of the barbar ous Indians in their eaf'tern borders, But this is not all; they have been haraft (on many accounts) by a more dreadful enemy, as will herein appear to the confiderate.