The Salem Witchcraft Papers: Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692. Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum. Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library

Notes

With the exceptions noted below, this Index contains each name occurring in The Salem Witchcraft Papers. Included are all persons who gave testimony or were its subjects, signed petitions or offered recognizances for the release of jailed witches, registered formal complaints resulting in an arrest warrant, or were named in indictments as the afflicted victims of witchcraft. All entries contain an identifying phrase and are cross-referenced under the names of both the accused and their accusers or defenders.

To keep the Index within manageable proportions without significantly diminishing its usefulness, we have omitted the following names:

• 1. Public officials such as constables, sheriffs, jailers, examining magistrates jurors, etc.
  
  
• 2. People mentioned in passing in any document who were neither accusers or defenders nor themselves accused; people named in the course of a public examination but who were not its subject(s); and people included in lists of prospective witnesses but who did not actually testify.
  
  
• 3. Lists of names which occur in the officers' expense accounts (pp. 945-962), and the various relatives of the accused who claimed restitution in the 1710-11 period and afterwards (pp. 977-1046). These post-1692 documents are, however, indexed under the name of the accused person to whom they pertain.