Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines; Milwaukee:privately printed, 1943; Vol. 1, p. 195
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The madness which was witchcraft, aided and abetted probably by the hallucinations of delirium caused great distress for Mary during her last illness as well as anxiety for her relatives. A court record at Boston under date of November 5, 1692, shows that complaint had been made by Lt. James Stevens...her brother, William Stevens..., her nephew and by Nathaniel Coit...her son against Esther (Dutch) Elwell daughter of Osman and wife of Samuel, Abigail Roe [Rowe] daughter of Hugh and Mary (Prince) Roe and against Rebecca (Dolliver) Dike daughter of Samuel and wife of Richard, for committing acts of witchcraft against Mary Fitch wife of John Fitch of Gloucester. The case seems so very weak that it is a marvel that the court took cognizance of it, and they may have thrown it out, for no decision is recorded, but her brother James Stevens testified weakly, "that Mary Fitch did say that she felt A woman upon ye bed, and put forth hir hand and felt ye hair of hir head and A peg in it, also testified that she said she was squesed to pieces, wheras I saw nobody hurt hur." Poor Mary died two days later on November 7 and got out of her misery, both mental and physical and we may hope that her passing ended the complaints against the defendants.
