"… widow Susanna was one of those unfortunate ones arraigned for witchcraft. The complaint was entered by Thos. Putnam, clerk of the parish in Salem village, May 21, 1692, on account of injuries supposed to be committed upon his wife, a poor nervous body, and upon sundry other persons afflicted with the mania. The only evidence against her was that she was accustomed to absent herself from prayers while living in Andrew Elliott's house, and that said Elliott and wife heard her rise in the night and talk in the room below, also 'flying in ye chamber over said roome as if there were 5 or 6 persons with her.' She had her trial before Justices Hathorne and Corwin on the 21st of May, and she was sent to Boston jail with other prisoners, Monday the 23d May, 1692, where she was put in irons. There is no record of her appearance before the Court of Oyer and Terminer, which had jurisdiction in cases of Witchcraft. She was probably discharged shortly from custody because of insuffient evidence, or released when the delusion abated. … There is no record of her decease."
