ABSTRACT

Sect. I. There dwells at this time in the south part of Boston a sober and pious man whose name is John Goodwin, whose trade is that of a mason and whose wife (to which a good report gives a share with him in all the characters of virtue) has made him the father of six now living children. Of these children, all but the elder, who works with his father at his calling, and the youngest, who lives yet upon the breast of its mother, have laboured under the direful effects of a (no less palpable than) stupendous witchcraft. Indeed, that exempted son had also, as was thought, some lighter touches of it, in

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sucking infant, who never felt any impressions of it. . . .