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The Witches And Witchcraft In Wells And Arundel
Author: Seacoast Online Source: Seacoast Online (ME)
Title: THE WITCHES AND WITCHCRAFT IN WELLS AND ARUNDEL
Wells minister Rev. George Burroughs was hanged as a witch during the Salem delirium of 1692. A century later, widow Elizabeth Smith of Arundel was accused of witchcraft at the York County Court of Common Pleas and Sessions in Biddeford.
Rev. Burroughs was probably a hothead and a show-off who liked to impress his neighbors with feats of amazing strength. According to testimony at his trial he could lift a molasses barrel with one finger.
George might not have been a perfect husband, either. When his second wife died, her funeral expenses went unpaid. As the preacher at Danvers, Mass., he was embroiled in a turf war within the Salem religious hierarchy and could not get them to pay his salary. John Putnam, the keeper of the coin at the Danvers church, also allowed him to buy two gallons of rum on account. Burroughs skipped town with a new wife, leaving word that his salary would easily cover the bills he had with Putnam. A debt charge was filed against him in Salem.
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