UNCLE SAM'S FARM. 93 



" 27Tn March, Sab., 1692. 

 Sacrament Bay. 



" After the common auditory were dismissed, and 

 before the church communion of the Lord's Table, 

 the following Testimony against the Error of our sis- 

 ter Mary Sibley, who had given direction to my In 

 dian man in an unwarrantable way to find out witches, 

 was read by the Pastor. It is altogether undeniable 

 that our great and blessed God hath suflfered many 

 persons, in several Families of this little village, to be 

 grievously vexed and tortured in body, and to be 

 deeply tempted, to the endangering of the destruc- 

 tion of their souls, and all these amazing facts (well 

 known to many of us) to be done by Witchcraft and 

 Diabolical operations. It is also well known that 

 when these calamities first began, which was in my 

 own family, the affliction was several weeks before 

 such hellish operations as witchcraft was suspected. 

 Nay, it never broke forth to any considerable light 

 until diabolical means was used by the making of a 

 cake by my Indian man, who had his directions from 

 this our sister Mary Sibley, since which operations 

 have been plenty, and exceeding much mischief hath 

 followed. But by this means it seems the Devil hath 



