Paul Boyer, Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft, (USA: Harvard University Press, 1974) Ancestry.com, comp. Salem Witches. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original information from surviving legal records from the towns and villages in question and appearing in Godbeer, Richard, comp. The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England, Appendices A & B. [Information taken from Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum, eds. The Salem Witchcraft Papers: Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak. 3 vols. New York, NY: 1977.). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

In her defense, Elizabeth Howe's father-in-law testified to her good nature. He said that she "[set] a side humain infurmitys as [become] a Christion with Respact to [himself] as a father very dutifully & a wifife to [his] son very carfull loveing obedient and kind Considering his want of eyesight." He concluded his witness by saying, "now desiering god may guide your honours to se a difference between predigous and Consentes I rest yours to Sarve." Conclusion At the time, an interim colonial government was in charge and Sir William Phips, the new governor, was considered weak. In response, says Baker, people felt a spiritual decline. “Puritans thought God was telling them something,” he says. Add to this the extreme weather of the “ Little Ice Age”—hot dry summers and lethally cold winters—famine, economic failures and frontier wars with the French and Native Americans, and it became a scenario ripe for disaster. Mid-February: A local doctor (historically assumed to be Doctor Griggs), attends to the "afflicted" girls, and first suggests that witchcraft may be the cause. September 21: Several ministers successfully petition the Court to postpone Dorcas Hoar's execution to give her time to repent.

Edward Datnow

He has been staunchly supported throughout his tenure by his wife, Bobbie, whose warmth and kindness has endeared her to so many. Sir Henry and Lady Aubrey-Fletcher have given generously of themselves for the good of the county, and I extend my gratitude and best wishes to them both.‘ When my wife came home, my wife told me that she was much startled to see Goody Howe [waiting at her house] but she took her by the hand and said ‘Goody Strafford, I believe that you are not ignorant of the great scandal that I lie under upon the evil report that is raised upon me about Samuel Perley’s child’ and other things Joseph Strafford saith that after this his wife was taken beyond reason and all persuasion to take the part of this woman…” A colleague of Phillips, Payson of Rowley, was also present at this "encounter" between Elizabeth Howe and the Perley (also spelled Pearly)'s daughter. He added his testimony as a second witness stating, "their afflicted daughter, upon something that her mother spake to her with tartness, presently fell into one of her usuall strange fitts, during which, she made no mention(as I observed)of the above s'd How her name, or any thing relating to her some time after, the s'd how came in." While Howe was imprisoned, probably either in the Salem jail or the Ipswich jail, her husband and daughters came to visit her twice a week, according to Charles W. Upham in his book Salem Witchcraft:

If we only focus on those whom we have material objects remaining of, we’re left with stories of the wealthier people in the community, mostly men,” said Danziger Halperin. “But in reality, the accusations were overwhelmingly hurled at women, and it helps us say, ‘This trial started with the scapegoating of ostracized members of the community.’ It started with marginalized women who were in one way or another more easily scapegoated, and then it spread to these wealthier and sometimes male figures.” Strafford claimed when Howe tried to join the church, church officials held a meeting and Howe bewitched his wife into attending the meeting. A few days later, Strafford said his son began behaving as if he was also bewitched and his wife fell into a strange trance: March 26: John Hathorne, Jonathan Corwin and Rev. John Higginson question Dorothy Good, now in jail. [7] Sir Henry has been an inspirational Lord-Lieutenant, upholding the dignity of the Crown, as Her Majesty’s representative. He has immersed himself indefatigably in every facet of community life, giving selflessly of his time, and providing support and encouragement to all he met. We owe him a great debt.

March 11: Ann Putnam Jr. shows symptoms of affliction by witchcraft. Mercy Lewis, Mary Walcott and Mary Warren later alleged affliction as well. Sir Colin first became involved with Epilepsy Society in 1991, serving as chairman of the Snapshot Appeal in 1993 to raise funds for our first MRI scanner, and later as a member of the development board for the assessment centre appeal in 1999. Eddy said that unlike some of her neighbors, "I think it's pretty cool. I think it's amazing. To me, the memorial is…like a hallowed ground. It represents kind of where the human race was at a certain point in history. It makes me think about that and how we never want to go that way again. We need to practice tolerance."

Oct 2001, Additional Victims Included, Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives in General Court, AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE WITCHCRAFT TRIAL OF 1692, chapter 145 is hereby further amended by adding Bridget Bishop, Susannah Martin, Alice Parker, Margaret Scott and Wilmot Redd. [9]John Indian cried out ‘O she bites,’ and fell into a grievous fit, & so carried to her in his fit & was well upon her grasping him. Mercy Lewis at length spake & charged this woman with hurting & pinching her: And then Abigail Williams cryed she hath hurt me a great many times, a great while & she hath brought me the book. Further Deborah Perley testifieth and as concerning Hannah Perley, Samuel Perley’s daughter, that was so sore: afflicted her mother and she coming to our house Hannah Perley being suddenly scared and said ‘There’s that woman, she goes into the oven and out again,’ and then fell in to a dreadful fit and when I have asked her when she said that woman what woman she meant she told me James Howe’s wife sometime Hannah Perley went along with me to James Howe’s and soon fell in to a fit. Goody Howe was very loving to her and when the girl and I came away I asked her why she talked so of Goody Howe being she was so loving to her she told me that if I were afflicted as she was that I would talk as bad of her as she did at another time I saw Goody Howe and Hannah Perley together and they were very loving together and after Goody Howe was gone I asked her why she was so loving to Goody Howe when they were together she told me that she was afraid to do other wise for then Goody Howe would kill her.”