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Stephen Sewall document signed in ink ''Stephen Sewall'' as recorder for Essex County, thirty years after he served as Clerk in the Court of ''Oyer & Terminer'' in Salem Town, site of the most notorious of the ''Salem Witch Trials''. Lethal paranoia, accusations and trials swept three additional towns in colonial Massachusetts during the year of 1692-93, during which nineteen people were ultimately executed for witchcraft. Single-page handwritten partial document is dated 1723 and names Samuel Aborne and George Dalandis as parties to a contract, likely a sale of land. Measures 9'' x 7''. Contemporary pencil notations to bottom edge; minor separation to folds at top edge, scattered pinholes and an irregularly trimmed right edge. Overall very good, near fine given age.
Salem Witch Trials Participant Stephen Sewall 1723 Document Signed -- Clerk for the Infamous Court That Conducted the Worst of the Deadly Colonial Witch-Hunt Trials
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