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Elizabeth Hubbard Vs. Rebecca Nurse

The Deposistion of Elizabeteh Hubburd agged about 17 years who testifieth and saith that about the 20 th march 1692 1 saw the Apperishtion of Rebekah Nurs the wife of frances Nurs senr senr tho she did not hurt me tell the 24 th march being the day of hir examination and then she did hurt me most geviously dureing the time of hir examination for if she did but look upon me she would strick me down or allmost choak me and also severall times sence the Apperishtion of Rebekah Nurs has most greviously afflected me by pinching pricking and almost choaking me urging me to writ in hir book and also on the day of hir examination I saw the Apperishtion of Rebeckah Nuts goe and hurt the bodys of Ann putnam senr and Mary Walcott and Abigail williams and Ann putnamjunr.

elizabeth hubard upon har oath she had taken did owne this testimony before us the Jariars of Inquest: this 3dy of June: 1692

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Eliz: Hubbard against Rebekah Nurs

(Essex County Court Archives, Salem Witchcraft Papers, 1, 78)