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Case of Goody Ayers

Case of Goody Ayers. Testimony of Goody Burr and Sammuell Burr

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Title	Case of Goody Ayers
Contributors	Burr, Goody; Burr, Samuel; Marsh, Joseph; Bull, Thomas; Catlin, Thomas; Graves, George; Nash, Joseph; Willet, Nath; Wolterton, Gregory
Date - Created	circa 1662
Description	Case of witchcraft against Goodwife Ayers of Hartford with testimony by Goody Burr, Joseph Marsh and others.
Subject	Trials (Witchcraft); Trials (Murder); Trials -- Connecticut -- History -- 17th century; Ayers, Goodwife; Hartford (Conn.)
Geographic Coverage	Hartford (Conn.)
Source	Connecticut State Library, State Archives, RG 000, Classified Archives, Samuel Wyllys papers, call no. 974.6 fW97
Physical size	3 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. Documents No. 3-5
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_no003_005

Title	Case of Goody Ayers. Testimony of Goody Burr and Sammuell Burr
Contributors	Burr, Goody; Burr, Samuel
Date - Created	circa 1662
Description	Testimony from Goody Burr and her son Sammuell about a story Goodwife Ayers told of a gentleman she met in London, whom she believed to be the devil.
Transcript	Gooddy burr: and her sonn Sammuell: can Testify: Such an exspression as/ this: being both together in my house: that goody Ayers sayd when she Lived at Londdon/ in Ingland: that ther came: a fine young gentellman a suting to her: and when they/ were disscoursing together: the young gentellman: made her: promis him to meete/ him at that place another tyme: the which she {pr} ingaged to do so: but looking/ downe upon his foote: she perseived: it was the devill: {she} then she would not/ meete him as she promised him: but he coming ther: and found her not: she sayd/ that he caryed away: the Iorn barrs:/ The marke of gooddy burr: X/ Samuel burr/
Physical size	Manuscript, 3.375 x 8 in.
Relation - Is Part Of	Samuel Wyllys papers. Document No. 3
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_003_dv.jpg

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