Thought this might be of interest to descendants of Martha and Thomas.
Subject: [SALEM-WITCH-L] Today's visit to Danvers & Salem :D
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 23:59:10 -0400
From: Margo Burns <margo(a)ogram.org>
To: SALEM-WITCH-L(a)rootsweb.com
Hello all!
Yes, from the subject line you can see how I spent my day... :D After
reading that there was a new edition of Trask's "The Devil Hath Been
Raised," and learning that
Amazon.com claimed it was "back-ordered" and
would take 3-5 weeks to get, I was inspired to pop down to see if I
could
pick up a copy of the 1997 edition right at the source. So my first
stop
was the Danvers Historical Society, and they have a pile of them. If
anyone wants one, you can write to them directly and get it, postpaid
for
$18.75. Make checks available to: "Danvers Historical Society" and send
it
to them at P.O. Box 381, Danvers, MA 01923.
The new documents included are as follows:
* The Examination of Giles Corey
* Summons for Witnesses to the Examination of Rachel Clinton
* Indictment of Mary English
* Examination of Mary Lacey
* Fragment of an Examination of Richard Carrier
* Warrant for the Apprehension of Mary Green and Hannah Bromage
* Indictment of Mary Lacey
* Richard Carrier, Mary Lacey and Mary Lacey, Jr. Vs. George
Burroughs
* Deliverance Dane for Rev. Frances Dane
* Examination of Margaret Prince
* Indictment of Margaret Scott
* Second Indictment of Margaret Scott
* John Burbank and Daniel Wycomb Vs. Margaret Scott
* Mary Daniel Vs. Margaret Scott
* Thomas Nelson Vs. Margaret Scott
* Sarah Coleman Vs. Margaret Scott
* Excerpt From the Examination of Joanna Penny[?]
Then I drove over to the area where the foundation of the parsonage is
located on Center St. in Danvers, and decided to walk over to the
Danvers
Memorial, across the street from where the meetinghouse was located --
5-6
minutes away. From there I walked to the Rebecca Nurse Homestead --
another 15-20 minutes' walk -- trying to get a sense of where things
were
in relation to each other. The folks at the Homestead were delightful
to
talk to! If you have a chance, it's a really low-key museum experience,
but more likely to give you a sense of the space in which these events
took
place. There's a reconstruction of the meetinghouse on the property,
built
for the filming of the movie "Three Sovereigns for Sarah." You can get
a
real sense of the close quarters within which these events occured.
My last stop of the day: The Peabody Essex in Salem for a chat with Jane
Ward, the Curator of Manuscripts. She asked me to let folks on our list
know about an event the museum is sponsoring in September:
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The 1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials: Fact, Fiction, and our Forefathers
September 17, 18, & 19, 1999
Back by popular demand, the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Mass.,
announces
a repeat of its popular program on the 1692 Salem witchcraft trials. The
three-day seminar will take place at the museum in Salem.
Lectures will be offered on such topics as life in Salem in 1692,
witchcraft and Colonial law, and witchcraft in Europe, along with
videos,
tours, a demonstration of a new "Witchcraft in Salem Village" website,
and
an opportunity to take part in a mock witchcraft trial. A special
opportunity to do research in the renovated Phillips Library is also
available.
The keynote speech will be delivered by David Greene, co-editor of The
American Genealogist, and author of several articles on the trial
victims.
Other speakers include Danvers, Mass., town archivist Richard B. Trask,
Professor Stephen P. Marrone of Tufts University, Ph.D. candidate Thomas
E.
Conroy of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and assistant
curator
Paula B. Richter and curator Jane E. Ward of the Pebody Essex Museum.
The
seminar will conclude with an optional trip to sites in Danvers, Mass.
This seminar will appeal to anyone interested in the 1692 trials, but
especially to those descended from one of the vistims of this terrible
tragedy.
For more informtion and registration, contact; Jane E. Ward, Peabody
Essex
Museum, East India Square, Salem, Mass., 01970-3783, 978-745-9500, ext.
3032.
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The information is not at their website yet (
http://www.pem.org), but
she
said it should be there soon with info about how to register.
That's all for now!
--Margo
Margo Burns, Webweaver margo(a)ogram.org
http://www.ogram.org
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