To their Majesties
Goal-keeper[237] in Salem.
You are in Their Majesties Names hereby required to take into your care,
and safe custody, the Bodies of William Hobs, and Deborah[238] his Wife, Mary
Easty, the Wife of Isaac Easty, and Sarah Wild, the Wife of John Wild, all of
Topsfield; and Edward Bishop of Salem-Village, Husbandman, and Sarah his
Wife, and Mary Black, a Negro of Lieutenant Nathaniel Putmans of
Salem-Village; also Mary English the Wife of Philip English, Merchant in
Salem;[239] who stand charged with High Suspicion of Sundry Acts of Witchcraft,
done or committed by them lately upon the Bodies of Ann Putman, Mercy
Lewis[240]
and Abigail Williams, of Salem-Village, whereby great Hurt and Damage hath
been done to the Bodies of the said Persons, [as] according to the complaint of
Thomas Putman and John Buxton of Salem-Village, Exhibited Salem, Apr 21,
1692, appears, whom you are to secure in order to their further Examination. Fail
not.
John Hathorn,
Assistants. Jona. Curwin,
Dated Salem,
April 22, 1692.
