5. Examinations of Sarah Good, Sarah Osburn, and Tituba (Version 3)

1. What Sarah Good says

1 With none.

2 She says that she did do them no harm.

3 She employed nobody to do the children.

4 She says that she has made no contract nor covenant.

5 She says that she never did hurt the children.

6 She says that she never had familiarity at the Devil.

7 She says that she never saw the children in such a condition.

She says that she came not to meting for want of clothes.

Who is it she usually discourses with?

Nobody, butt it is a psalm or a commandment

Her God is the God that made heaven and earth.

She hopes, she says, that she never did no harm to Mr. Parris

She says it was not she. It is Gamer Osborne that does pinch and afflict the children.

William Good says that she is an enemy to all good.

She says she is clear of being a witch.

What Gammer Osborn says

1 she says she had no hand in hurting the children, neither by herself, by instruments

She says that she says that she was more likely bewitched than a witch.

She said she would never believe the Devil.

1 The Devil did propound to her that she should never go to meeting no more and at that time, nothing was suggested to her else.

Why did she pinch the young women?

She never did, nor don't know who did.

What the Indian woman says

They have done no harm to her.

She says she does not know how the Devil works.

Who is it that hurts them?

The Devil, for ought I know.

There is four that hurts the children, two of the women are Gammer Osburn and Gammer Good and they say it is she. One of the child women is a tall, and [a] short woman, and they would have her go with them to Boston and she owned that she did it at first but but she was sorry for it. It was the appearance of a man that came to her and told her that she must hurt the Children.

And she said that four times, shapes of a hog or a dog, and bid her serve him. She said that she could not, then she said he would hurt her. She also said that she saw a yellow cat bird that said unto her, "Serve me."

And she saw two cats and they said, "Serve me." She must more pinch the children.

She says she sends the cat to bid her pinch them, and the man brings the maid and bids her pinch her, and they do pull her and make her go with them to Mr. Putnam's to perplex them, and they make her ride upon a pole and they hold the pole and Osburn and Good also road upon poles.

And they, the two women, would have her kill Thomas Putnams child.

The two women and the man told her that if she told her master, they would cut off her] head.

And yesterday, Tituba, Abigail said, that she saw a thing with wings and two legs and vanished into the shape of Osborn and the Indian owns the same, and also attends Osborn a short and hairy thing with two legs and two wings.

Also Tituba owns that Sarah Good sent a wolf to scare the doctor's maid.

Written by Joseph Putnam
Salem Village
March the 1st 1692

[Reverse]

The papers relating to Sarah Good, Sarah Osburn, and Tituba Indian
Salem, March 1692

Against Sarah Good

Essex County Court Archives, vol. 1, no. 9, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Judicial Archives, on deposit James Duncan Phillips Library, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA.
Modernized transcription by Margo Burns, 3/8/13: Editorial Principles


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