SWP No. 011: Sarah Bassett
(See also: Sarah Proctor -- Complaint
(Indictment of Sarah Bassett, for Afflicting Mary Walcott (Returned Ignoramus) )
[January 3,1693 ]
Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Essex ssAno RRs & Reginae Gulielmi & Mariae Angliae &c Quarto Anoq'e Dom 1692
The Juro'rs for o'r Sov'r lord & lady the King & Queen p'rsent That Sarah Bassett wife of William Basett of lyn in the County of Essex aforesaid upon or about the 23'd day of May last Anno: 1692 aforsaid And Divers other days & Times as well before #[and] as after Certaine detestable Arts Called Witchcraft & Sorceries wickedly mallitiously & felloniously hath used practised & Exercised at & in the Towne of Salem in the County of Essex aforesaid upon & Against One Mary Walcott of Salem Single Woman By which Wicked Arts The Said Mary Walcott is Tortured aflicted Tormented Consumed wasted & pined the day & yeare aforesaid & divers other days & times as well before as after Contrary to the peace of o'r Sov'r lord & lady the King & Queen their Crowne & dignity & the Laws in that Case made & provided
Wittness
An Putnam
Marcy lewis
(Reverse) Sarah Bassett
Ignoramus
*Robert: Payne
foreman
Salem Court 3'd Janu'a 1692/3
( Suffolk Court Files, vol. 32, docket 2701, p. 24, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Judicial Archives, Massachusetts State Archives. Boston, MA. )