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Charges of Catherine Branch against Elizabeth Clawson (Elizabeth Clauson), Mercy Disbrough (Mercy Disbrow) and Goody Miller

Charges of Catherine Branch against Elizabeth Clawson (Elizabeth Clauson), Mercy Disbrough (Mercy Disbrow) and Goody Miller. Testimony of Cathoran Branch (Catherine Branch)

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Title	Charges of Catherine Branch against Elizabeth Clawson (Elizabeth Clauson), Mercy Disbrough (Mercy Disbrow) and Goody Miller
Contributors	Branch, Catherine; Pettit, John; Bell, Jonathan; Wescott, Daniel; Garnsey, Joseph; Wyatt, Nathaniel; Pennoyer, Lydia; Bishop, Joseph: Blatchley, Samuel; Cross, Abigail; Cross, Nathaniel
Date - Created	1692 Aug. 24-Sept. 19
Description	Case of witchcraft against Elizabeth Clawson of Stamford, Mercy Disbrough of Compo in Fairfield and Goody Miller, with testimony by Catherine Branch, John Pettit and others.
Subject	Trials (Witchcraft); Trials -- Connecticut -- History -- 17th century; Clauson, Elizabeth, 1630 or 31-1714; Disbrow, Mercy Holbridge, ca. 1637-ca. 1715; Miller, Goody; Branch, Catherine; Fairfield, (Conn.); Stamford (Conn.); Westport (Conn.)
Geographic Coverage	Fairfield (Conn.) ; Stamford (Conn.); Westport (Conn.)
Source	Connecticut State Library, State Archives, RG 000, Classified Archives, Samuel Wyllys papers, call no. 974.6 fW97
Physical size	12 manuscript documents, silked, size varies; Bound with collection, 39.4 x 27.9 cm.
Publisher	Connecticut State Library
Relation - Is Part Of	Samuel Wyllys papers. Document No. 25-36
Type	image
Format - Digital	jpeg
Date - Digital	2008 Oct. 1
Language	eng
Rights	Digital image © Connecticut State Library. All rights reserved. Images may be used for personal research or non-profit educational uses without prior permission. For permission to publish or exhibit, see Reproduction and Publication of State Library Collections, http://www.cslib.org/repropub.htm
File name	sa_b2980580_no025_036

Title	Charges of Catherine Branch against Elizabeth Clawson (Elizabeth Clauson), Mercy Disbrough (Mercy Disbrow) and Goody Miller. Testimony of Cathoran Branch (Catherine Branch)
Contributors	Branch, Catherine
Date - Created	1692 Sept. 19
Description	Cathoran Branch testifies that Goodwife Closon and Marcy Disbrow are afflicting her by scratching, pinching and wringing her body at night.
Transcript	cathoran branch aged seventeene years or theare abouts/ testifieth and saith that som time this last somer shee saw {good}/ {wif} and felt good wife closon and marcy disbrow afflict/ hur not together but apart by scraching pinching and wringing/ hur body and further saith that good wife {cason} \clason/ was the first/ that did afflict hur and affter wards marcy disbrow and/ after that somtimes one of them and som times \the other/ {crossed out} of them/ and {crossed out} in her affliction: though it was night yet it appearing/ as light as noone day sworn in court septr 19: 1692 attest J Allyn secyr/
Physical size	Manuscript, 3.25 x 8 in.
Relation - Is Part Of	Samuel Wyllys papers. Document No. 25
Rights	Digital image © Connecticut State Library. All rights reserved. Images may be used for personal research or non-profit educational uses without prior permission. For permission to publish or exhibit, see Reproduction and Publication of State Library Collections, http://www.cslib.org/repropub.htm
File name	sa_b2980580_025_dv.jpg

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