 | Thomas Smith - Portland (Me.) - 1821 - 336 pages
..." The affidavits of the witnesses were taken in writing, and sworn to in open court, and are now on the files of the Court of Common Pleas in Salem. "Samuel...that he had killed three children, of his neighbor's, his own two wives, and two of his own children." • He lived in i house which was built near where... | |
 | Thomas Smith - Portland (Me.) - 1821 - 332 pages
...now on the files of the Court of Common Pleas in Salem. "Samuel Webber testifies, thafabout 7or8years before that time he lived at Casco Bay. George Burroughs...his fore finger into the muzzle of a large gun, and hold-it out -straight." "Susannah Slielden testified, that " Mr. Burroughs' apparition came to her,... | |
 | Thomas Smith - Portland (Me.) - 1821 - 346 pages
...lived at Casco Bay. .George Burroughs was then minister there, that having seen much of his g' eat strength, and the said Burroughs coming to our house,...testified, that " Mr. Burroughs' apparition came to Jier, And told her that he had killed three children of bis neighbor's, his own two wives, and two... | |
 | William Durkee Williamson - Maine - 1832 - 742 pages
...with Burroughs about his great strength, when he saiJ — " I have put my "fingers into the bunghole of a barrel of molasses, and lifted it up, and " carried it around me and set it down again." Suiannah. Skelden swore, that '.Mr. Burroughs1 apparition carne and... | |
 | William Durkee Williamson - Maine - 1839 - 746 pages
...Burroughs about his great strength, when lie said — "I bare put mjr " fingers into the bunjrhole of a barrel of molasses, and lifted it up, and " carried it around mo and set it down again." Susannah Shelden swore, that ' Mr. Burroughs' apparition ca:ne and... | |
 | Peleg Whitman Chandler - Law - 1841 - 462 pages
...him about it, and he then told me, that he had put his fingers into the bung of a barrel of molasses, lifted it up, and carried it round him, and set it down again. Susannah Harris testified, that she formerly lived at the house of Burroughs in Falmouth, and often... | |
 | 1844 - 772 pages
...; he told me then that lie had put his fingers into the bung of a barrel (bung hole ?) of molasses, lifted it up and carried it round him, and set it down again.' " — P. 1 20. On such evidence as this, the jury found Burroughs guilt}', and he was added to the... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - Danvers (Mass.) - 1848 - 322 pages
...diabolical operation." Samuel Webber, aged 36 years, testified that Burroughs put his fingers in the bung of a barrel of molasses, and lifted it up, and carried it clear around him. Simon Willard affirmed that he saw Mr. Burroughs at Casco Bay, put his forefinger... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - Salem (Mass.) - 1869 - 120 pages
...before. Burroughs told him that, by putting his fingers into the bung of a barrel of molasses, he had lifted it up, and "carried it " round him, and set it down again." Parris, in his notes of this trial, not in the files, says that " Capt. Wormwood testified about the... | |
 | History - 1869 - 398 pages
...before, Burroughs told him that, by putting his fingers into the bung of a barrel of molasses, he had lifted it up, and " carried it "round him, and set it down again." Parris, in his notes of this trial, not in the files, says that "Capt. Wormwood testified about the... | |
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about 7 or 8 years before that time he lived at Casco Bay. George Burroughs was then minister there, that having seen much of his great strength, and the said Burroughs coming to our house, we were in discourse about the same, and he then told me, he... 
