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June ye 4th.

Robert Pike, coming into the Harbour with his
Sloop, from the Pemaquid country, looked in upon us
yesterday. Said that since coming to the Town he
had seen a Newbury man, who told him that old Mr.
Wheelwright, of Salisbury, the famous Boston Minister
in the time of Sir Harry Vane and Madam Hutchinson,
was now lying sick, and nigh unto his end. Also, that
Goodman Morse was soe crippled, by a fall in his barn,

that he cannot get to Boston to the tryal of his Wife,
which is a sore affliction to him. The tryal of the
Witch is now going on, and Uncle saith it looks much
against her, especially the testimony of the Widow
Goodwin about her child, and of John Gladding about
seeing one half of the bodie of Goody Morse flying
about in the Sun, as if she had been cut in twain, or as
if the Devil did hide the lower part of her. Robert
Pike saith such testimonie ought not to hang a Catt,
the Widow being little more than a fool; and as
for the fellow Gladding, he was no doubt in his
Cups, for he had often seen him in such a plight
that he could not have told Goody Morse from the
Queen of Sheba.