Crafting the perfect name : the art and science of naming a company or product by Blake, George Burroughs

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Province of the Massachusetts-Bay : An act, made and passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly of Her Majesty's province of the Massachusetts-Bay in New-England, held at Bo...

“…Act to reverse the attainders of George Burroughs and others for witchcraft…”


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What happened in Salem?

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Colonial comics. New England, 1620-1750

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Witch hunt

Table of Contents: “…Massachusetts Bay Colony -- Mercy Lewis and her accusations -- Tituba's confession -- Madness in the air -- Special court trials -- Trial of minister George Burroughs -- September executions -- Historians debate.…”


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The Salem witch trials reader by Hill, Frances, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…The backgrounds -- Witchcraft -- The Massachusetts Bay Colony -- The witch-hunt -- The guilt of innocent blood -- The hunter and the hunted -- Samuel Parris (1653-1720) -- George Burroughs (1650-1692) -- The historians -- Myth and reality -- Fiction -- Pulp to masterpieces.…”


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Satan & Salem : the witch-hunt crisis of 1692 by Ray, Benjamin C., 1940-

Table of Contents: “…-- The magistrates -- Reports of witches' meetings -- Thomas Putnam -- Andover -- Confessions -- The apparition and trial of George Burroughs -- Samuel Parris, "the beginner and procurer" -- Blame and shame -- Mapping the Salem witch trials -- Indians, Africans, gender, and the "black man" -- The court records.…”


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Vexed with devils : manhood and witchcraft in Old and New England by Gasser, Erika

Table of Contents: “…Possession, gender, and power -- Discerning demonic and witchcraft-possession in early modern England -- Engendering English witchcraft-possession: the Samuel Family in Warboys -- Disputing possession in England: Samuel Harsnett versus John Darrell -- Engendering New England witchcraft-possession: George Burroughs in Salem -- Disputing possession in New England: Robert Calef versus Cotton Mather -- Continuity and patriarchy at the turn of the eighteenth century.…”


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Salem-village witchcraft : a documentary record of local conflict in colonial New England

Table of Contents: “…Bridget Bishop. John Willard. George Burroughs. -The accusers. Samuel Parris. The Wilkins family. …”


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What happened in Salem? : documents pertaining to the seventeenth-century witchcraft trials. Young Goodman Brown

Table of Contents: “…[Part 1] Trial evidence -- Sarah Good -- Bridget Bishop -- Susanna Martin -- John Proctor -- George Burroughs -- [Part 2] Contemporary comment -- A brief and true narrative ... / Deodat Lawson -- Excerpts from the diary of Samuel Sewall -- Letters of Governor Phips -- Confession of William Barker -- A discourse on witchcraft / Cotton Mather -- Letter to John Richards / Cotton Mather -- The return of several ministers consulted / Cotton Mather -- from The wonders of the invisible world / Cotton Mather -- Cases of conscience concerning evil spirits personating men / Increase Mather -- Letter of Thomas Brattle -- [Part 3] Legal redress -- Reversal of attainder, October 17, 1711 -- Resolve of the Massachusetts General Court, August 28, 1957 -- [Part 4] Historical fiction -- Young Goodman Brown / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- A mirror for witches / Esther Forbes.…”


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Records of Salem witchcraft : copied from the original documents

Table of Contents: “…Sarah Good -- Sarah Osborn -- Tituba Indian -- Martha Corey -- John Proctor -- Dorcas Good -- Rebecca Nurse -- Elizabeth Proctor -- Mary Warren -- Bridget Bishop -- Abigail Hobbs -- Sarah Wilds -- Philip English -- Susanna Martin -- Elizabeth Hart -- Dorcas Hoar -- George Jacob -- John Willard -- Ann Pudeator -- Rebecca Jacobs -- Roger Toothaker -- Mary Eastey -- Sarah Proctor -- Susanna Roots -- Benjamin Proctor -- Martha Carrier -- Elizabeth How -- William Proctor -- Wilmott Reed -- Elizabeth Patrick -- Elizabeth Paine -- Mary Ireson -- George Burroughs -- Abigail Faulkner -- Ann Foster -- Mary Lacey -- Rebecca Eames -- Samuel Wardwell -- Mary Parker -- Mary Bradbury -- Gilles Corey -- Alice Parker -- Margaret Scott -- Miscellaneous -- John Bradstreet -- Christopher Brown -- Abel Powell -- Margaret Reed.…”


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Death in Salem : the private lives behind the 1692 witch hunt by Foulds, Diane E.

Table of Contents: “…., Margaret Rule, Susannah Sheldon, Mercy Short, Martha Sprague, Mary Walcott, Mary Warren, Mary Watkins, and Abigail Williams -- The victims : Bridget Bishop, George Burroughs, Martha Carrier, Giles Corey, Martha Corey, Lydia Dustin, Mary Easty, Ann Foster, Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, George Jacobs Jr., Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Osborne, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, John Proctor, Ann Pudeator, Wilmot Reed, Margaret Scott, Roger Toothaker, Samuel Wardwell, Sarah Wildes, and John Willard -- The clergy : Thomas Barnard, Francis Dane, John Hale, John Higginson, Deodat Lawson, Cotton Mather, Increase Mather, Joshua Moody, Nicholas Noyes, Samuel Parris, and Samuel Willard -- The judges : Jonathan Corwin, Bartholomew Gedney, John Hathorne, John Richards, Nathaniel Saltonstall, Peter Sargeant, Samuel Sewall, William Stoughton, and Wait Still Winthrop -- The elite : Simon Bradstreet, Thomas Brattle, Robert Calef, Thomas Danforth, Philip English, Sir William Phips, and Britain's King William III and Queen Mary -- Conclusion : did seventeenth-century living conditions predispose English settlers to witch hunts?…”


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The Penguin book of witches

Table of Contents: “…Edmunds, England, 1662 -- Katherine Harrison, Weyersfield, Connecticut, and Westchester, New York, 1669 -- Possession of Elizabeth Knapp, Groton, Massachusetts, 1671-1672 -- Rebecca Fowler, Calvert county, Maryland, 1685 -- Goodwife Glover, Boston, Massachusetts, 1688 -- Salem -- Warrant for the apprehension of Sarah Good, and officer's return, Monday, February 29, 1692 -- Warrant for the apprehension of Sarah Osburn and Tituba, and officer's return, Monday, February 29, 1692 -- Examinations of Sarah Good, Sarah Osburn , and Tituba, Tuesday, March 1, 1692 -- Two examinations of Tituba, as recorded, Tuesday, March 1 and Wednesday, March 2, 1692 / Jonathan Corwin -- The suspicion of Martha Cory, Monday, March 21, 1692 -- The accusation of Rebecca Nurse, Thursday, March 24, 1692 -- Warrant for the apprehension of Rachel Clinton, with summons for witnesses, and officer's return, Tuesday, March 29, 1692 -- Deposition of Thomas Knowlton Jr. versus Rachel Clinton -- Bridget Bishop, Tuesday, April 19, 1692 -- The notorious Giles Cory, Tuesday, April 19, 1692 -- Examinations of Abigail Hobbs in prison, Wednesday, April 20, 1692 -- Susannah Martin and her poor reputation, Monday, May 2, 1692 -- Statement of Elizabeth Hubbard versus George Burroughs, Monday, May 9, 1692 -- Establishing the Court of Oyer and Terminer for Suffolk, Essex, and Middlesex Counties, Friday, May 27, 1692 -- Martha Carrier, Queen of Hell, Tuesday, May 31, 1692 -- Statement of Sarah Ingersoll and Ann Andrews regarding Sarah Churchill, June 1, 1692 -- After Salem -- The apology of Samuel Sewall, January 14, 1697 -- The apology of the Salem Jury, 1697 -- More wonders of the invisible world, 1700 / Robert Calef -- A case of poisoning in Albany, New York, 1700 -- A modest enquiry into the nature of witchcraft, 1702 / John Hale -- The trial of Grace Sherwood, Princess Anne County, Virginia, 1705-1706 -- Mob justice in the South, 1712 -- Littleton, Massachusetts, 1720 -- Boston, Massachusetts, 1728 -- New York, New York, 1737, 1741 -- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1787 -- Moll Pitcher, Lynn, Massachusetts, 1738-1813.…”


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Notable kin : an anthology of columns first published in the NEHGS nexus, 1986-1995 by Roberts, Gary Boyd

Table of Contents: “…. – Some descendants—and kinsmen of descendants—of Pocahontas: an excursion into southern genealogy – The progeny of “witches” and “wizards”; some descendants of Rev. George Burroughs and William and Joanna (Blessing) Towne, parents of Mary Estey and Rebecca Nurse – Nantucket soup – Figures in American folklore – New England in Texas – Molders and mythologizers of the American West – New England in Hollywood, Part I -- New England in Hollywood, Part II: behind the scenes -- New England in Hollywood, Part III: the possible Rhode Island ancestry of Marilyn Monroe -- New England in Hollywood, Part IV: the ancestry of James Byron Dean – Carter, Helms, and Presley: a foray into the Piedmont “non-plantation South” – “Hollywood Gothic” and the Alabama Three – The ancestry of Thomas Lanier “Tennessee” Williams – Royal scions in Northern New England: some notable descendants of Joseph Bolles, Elder William Wentworth, and/or Rev. …”


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A documentary history of religion in America

Table of Contents: “…Congregationalism (Puritanism) -- Anne Hutchinson -- Mary Dyer -- Witchcraft at Salem: trial of George Burroughs -- Witchcraft at Salem: Cotton Mather and spectral evidence -- Proposals of 1705 -- Jonathan Mayhew and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel -- b. …”


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The Britannica library of great American writing.

Table of Contents: “…John white's diary -- George Percy: A discourse of the plantation of the southern colonie in virginia -- John Smith: Captain tells of his captivity -- William Bradford: Landing of the pilgrims -- The hard beginnings -- John Winthrop: Governor Winthrop writes to his wife -- Thomas Morton: The revels at merry mount -- Roger Williams: The commonwealth as a ship -- Mary Rowlandson: Mary Rowlandson's story of her captivity -- Increase Mather: Portents and demons -- Cotton Mather: The bewitched child -- The trial of george burroughs -- Stephen Vincent Benet Giles Cory: We aren't superstitious -- Samuel Sewall: Samuel sewall goes courting -- Edward Burrough: A declaration of hte sad and great persecution and martyrdom ... of the quakers, in new england -- William Byrd: On the track of hte dividing line -- Jonathan Edwards: Jonathan Edwards considers his conversion -- The wrath of god, a sermon -- John Woolman: A pure heart charms the indians -- Michel-Guillaume Jean De Crevecoeur: What is an american -- The bay psalm book -- The new england primer -- Anne Bradstreet: Contemplations -- Michael Wigglesworth: The day of doom -- Vanity of vanities -- Benjamin Tompson: The good old times -- Edward Taylor: The ebb and flow -- Upon what base was fired the lath -- Housewifery -- Forefather's song -- The original yankee -- Old settler's' sayings -- Yankee comparisons -- The quaint custom of bundling -- A letter on bundling -- Colonial food and drink -- Jonathan moulton and the devil -- Benjamin Franklin: Beginning a career -- Poor richards' maxims -- Dialogue between franklin and the gout -- A dream: letter to madame helvetius -- Letter, to a relative -- Letter, to joseph banks -- Samuel Andrew Peters: The whapperknocker, the woodchuck, and cuba, and the skunk -- The humility, the whippoorwill, and athe tree-frog -- Daniel Boone: Adventuring into kentucky -- Patrick Henry: Give me liberty of give me death -- Thomas Paine: Common sense -- The american crisis -- Four days in july: We hold these truths to be self evident -- Cornel Lengyel -- George Washington -- Parson Weems: The cherry tree story -- A reply to his critics, a letter -- Washington refuses a crown, a letter -- Letter, to martha washington -- The mild concerns of ordinary life -- Thomas Jefferson -- The unanimous declaration of the thirteen united states of america -- First inaugural address -- A girl's education, a letter -- On the character of george washington, a letter -- Jefferson recalls the past and considers the present, a letter -- At seventy six jefferson answers a query about his health -- William Slade: Life and death on a prison ship -- Richard Dale: John paul jones and the bon homme richard -- Abigail Adams: Letters to her husband -- Philadelphia society, a letter -- Hugh Henry Brackenridge: The captain declines a duel -- Philip Freneau: The indian burying ground -- The wild honeysuckle -- On the death of benjamin franklin -- Joel Barlow: The husking -- The eating of the pudding -- A poignant farewell, a letter -- James Madison: United we stand -- Alexander Hamilton: For a strong central government -- Hamilton's last statement -- Aaron Burr: Letter, to his daughter theodosia -- Noah Webster: Toward an american tongue -- John Quincy Adams: The cause of god and man, from his diary -- John Randolph: The fairer and better part of creation, a letter -- Songs and ballads of the times -- The virginia song -- Thomas Paine: The liberty tree -- Edward Bangs: The yankee's return from camp (Yankee Doodle) -- Nathan Hale, a ballad -- The fate of john burgoyne, a ballad -- William Billings: Let tyrants shake their iron rod -- John Pierpont: Warren's address to the american soldiers -- Francis Hopkinson: The battle of the kegs -- Joseph Hopkinson: Hail columbia -- Francis Scott Key: The star spangled banner -- The country school -- Country couplets -- Signs and seasons -- Philip Hone: Living in new york, from his diary -- Washington Irving: The renowned wouter van twiller -- Rip van winkle -- Frontier folklore -- David crockett -- Crockett's courting -- Crockett's death in the alamo -- Homespun myths -- James Fenimore Cooper: An encouter, from The pilot -- William Cullen Bryant: To a waterfowl -- Thanatopsis -- To the fringed gentian -- The antiquity of freedom -- America -- The death of lincoln -- Joseph Rodman Drake: The american flag -- Ralph Waldo Emerson: Beauty -- We will speak our own minds -- Emerson's journals -- Days -- Good-bye -- The rhodora -- The snow storm -- Ode, inscribed to w. h. channing -- Give all to love -- Fable -- Brahma -- Concord hymn -- Ode, concord, july 4, 1857 -- Nathaniel Hawthorne: The maypole of merry mount -- Dr. heidegger's experiment -- The house of seven gables -- The look of lincoln -- Jones Very: The new world -- The dead -- Richard Henry Dana, Jr.: Two years before the mast -- Henry David Thoreau: The houses at walden pond -- Foxes, squirrels, bluejays, chickadees and partridges -- Why i went to jail -- January days, from his journals -- Smoke -- Mist -- Haze -- Francis Parkman: France acquires a new world -- Rumblings of war -- John Brown: John brown's body, attributed to charles sprague hall -- John brown's speech to the court -- John brown's last days, from god's angry man by leonard ehrlich -- Edgar Allan Poe: The gold bug -- The cask of amontillado -- To helen -- Israfel -- The city in the sea -- Alone -- To one in paradise -- A dream within a dream -- Romance -- The haunted palace -- The valley of unrest -- Annabel lee -- Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle tom's cabin -- Abraham Lincoln: Farewell remarks, springfield, february 11, 1861 -- Address in independence hall, philadelphia, february 22, 1861 -- First inaugural address, to major general joseph hooker -- Letter, to mrs. bixby -- Address to gettysburg national cemetery -- Second inaugural address -- A little treasury of lincoln's humor -- The logic of secession -- Jefferson davis to the united states senate, january 21, 1861 -- An officer resigns, letters of robert e. lee -Mary Boykin Chesnut -- John Beatty -- John Beauchamp Jones -- John Greenleaf Whittier: The moral warfare -- The kansas emigrants -- Laus deo -- Barbara frietchie -- Skipper ireson's ride -- New england winter from Snow Bound -- The eternal goodness -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: My lost youth -- Paul revere's ride -- The ship of state -- The arrow and the song -- A psalm of life -- Hymn to the night -- The children's hour -- The wreck of hte hesperus -- The village blacksmith -- The tide rises, the tide falls -- Chaucer -- Hiawatha's childhood -- The day is done -- Oliver Wendell Holmes: Old ironsides -- The last leaf -- The chambered nautilus -- The height of hte ridiculous -- The deacon's masterpiece; or the wonderful one hoss shay -- The key to the side door -- The brahmin caste of new england -- John Godfrey Saxe: Early rising -- The blind men and the elephant -- Phineas Taylor Barnum: In the days of my youth -- James Russell Lowell: Prelude to The vision of Sir Launfal -- The present crisis -- Stanzas on freedom -- Ez for war -- What mr. robinson thinks -- The pious editor's creed -- The courtin' -- Walt Whitman: I hear america singing -- Song of myself -- Come up from the fields father -- When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd -- Oh captain! …”


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