Thomas Hutchinson, the last civilian royal governor of Massachusetts, wrote a careful account of the Salem witch trials for his history of the colony. William Frederick Poole prints it here from Hutchinson’s own manuscript, introducing the text and its survival of the Stamp Act riot, and the narrative covers the accusations, the examinations, the evidence against George Burroughs and others, and the executions.
An early, sober history of Salem by a writer who knew the colony’s records first-hand. Download the free EPUB.