ABSTRACT
Eleven-year-old Elizabeth Pacy and her nine-year-old sister, Deborah, were the key witnesses in the case against Amy Denny and Rose Cullender. Matters concerning them-their fits, contortions, agonies, and antics-occupy more than a third of the trial report-twenty of the fifty-nine pages. This is more than twice the amount of space accorded to any other witnesses. The tale of Samuel Pacy’s daughters, as it unfolded, seemed to doom Amy Denny and Rose Cullender, but, as we will see subsequently, a sense of skepticism arose among some persons at the trial. That element of doubt would fuel a dramatic showdown that largely determined the fate of the accused women.
