Notes
[[405].]
William Barker, of Andover.
[[407].]
Bishop and Burroughs?
[[411].]
Elizabeth Johnson. Her daughter, of the same name, was also accused and
confessed (see p. 382, note 4, above).
[[412].]
Abigail Falkner. She and her sister Elizabeth Johnson were daughters of
the Rev. Francis Dane (or Deane), senior pastor at Andover, who seems from the
first to have stood against the panic and who was largely instrumental in ending
it. All those here accused were Andover folk, neighbors of Barker. See as to
them Mrs. Bailey's chapter on “Witchcraft at Andover” (in her
Historical Sketches of Andover).
[[413].]
George Burroughs.
[[415].]
Abigail Falkner (see pp. 366, 420). “She was
urged,” says the record, “to confes the truth for the creddit of hir
Town,” but “she refused to do it, saying God would not require her
to confess that that she was not guilty of” (Records
of Witchcraft, II. 128-135, where may also be
found the evidence against her). She was condemned, but not executed.
[[416].]
“Better investigation” — i.e., a writ for a fresh inquiry.
