Transcript:Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England/v3p321

she saved her life by confess. of impossib. guilt. See Abbot, Calef, and
Hutchinson, II. 31. Charming page is that in 1 Mass. Hist. Coll. VII.
241, wh. gives her indictm. the gift of it being, that she "a covenant
with the devil did make, and signed the devil's book, and took the devil
to be her God, and consented to serve and worship him, and was bapt.
by the devil, and renounc. her former Christian bapt. and promised to
be the devil's, both body and soul forever, and to serve him." I rejoice,
that, aft. the evaporation of the infernal spirit, she had energy eno. to
acknowledge, 19 Oct. 1692, bef. the venerab. Increase Mather (not Cotton
M. as in Geneal. Reg. XIII. 118, told) the falsehood of her confess.
for surely most of the charges in that indict. would be better laid
against the judges in the oyer and terminer. They served, if they did
not worship the devil, and took him to be their God, whether they signed
his book or not. Had that book been brot. into Court, as it ought to
have been, or the governm. call. on to show at least, what means they
had used to get the precious rec. to the open view of the jury, the name
of William Stoughton, and more than one of his assoc. judges, I doubt
not, as clear. as that of Mary Osgood, would have flared in the sapphire
blaze. Hard is it to decide, whether prisoners or judges were under
stronger delusion. Sarah d. 22 Apr. 1667; Hannah d. 3 Aug. 1674.
Lydia m. 20 Jan. 1680, James Frye; Mary m. 8 July 1680, John,
Aslett. Clement d. 18 Nov. 1680. JOHN, Salisbury, s. of William, m.
5 Nov. 1688, Mary Stephens, had Mary, b. 7 May 1669; Joseph, 12
Apr. 1671; William, 30 July 1673; John, 1 July 1677; Timothy, 2
May 1680; and Hannah, 19 Oct. 1682. JOHN, Andover; eldest s. of
John, sec. of the same, m. 17 Oct. 1681, Hannah Ayres, had John, b. 28
June 1683; Ebenezer, 16 Mar. 1685; Nathaniel, 6 Jan. 1687; Jeremiah,
16 Jan. 1689, d. 7 Apr. foll.; Jeremiah, again, 11 July 1691;
Daniel, 19 July 1693; William, 1697; Hannah, 24 June 1699; Benjamin,
28 Aug. 1700, d. young; Samuel, 8 July 1704, d. young; and
Josiah, 13 July 1706; was freem. 1691, and d. 1725, aged 71. PETER,
Salem, br. of the preced. a tanner, m. 19 May 1690, Martha, d. of Peter
Ayres of Haverhill, had Mary, b. 15 Apr. 1691; Peter, 13 Mar. 1693; Samuel,
6 Nov. 1695; Peter, again, 2 June 1697; John, 16 June 1700; William, 23 Dec.
1702, H. C. 1721; James, 1 or 6 Aug. 1705, H. C. 1724; was rep. 1714, and
some yrs. more to 23, deac. of the first ch. but when he was 70 was inv. in the
distract. of that body, and with others form. a new ch.; d. 24 Sept. 1753, and
his wid. Martha d. 10 Sept. 1760, aged 92. SAMUEL, Andover, br. of
the preced. m. 1702, Hannah Dane, had Samuel, b. 1702; Hannah, 1704;
Mary, 1706; James, 1707; Sarah, 1709; Mehitable, 1711; Dean, 27 July
1714; and Lydia, 20 Oct. 1716; and he d. 1717. STEPHEN, Andover,
s. of John first of the same, m. 24. Oct. 1663, Mary Hooker, but I can