rd, Sarah Good, Martha Carrier, Samuel
Wardel, John Procter, Sarah Wild, Mary Bradbury, Abigail Falkner,
Abigail Hobbs, Ann Foster, Rebecca Eams, Dorcas Hoar, Mary Post,
Mary Lacy:

And having heard the several Demands of the Damages of the
aforesaid Persons & those in their behalf; & upon Conference have
so moderated their respective Demands that We doubt not but they
will be readily complied with by your Honours.

Which respective Demands are as follows:--

Elizabeth How, Twelve Pounds; George Jacob, Seventy nine Pounds;
Mary Easty, Twenty Pounds; Mary Parker, Eight Pounds; Mr. George
Burroughs, Fifty Pounds; Gyles Core & Martha Core his Wife, Twenty
one Pounds; Rebecca Nurse, Twenty five Pounds; John Willard,
Twenty Pounds; Sarah Good, Thirty Pounds; Martha Carrier, Seven
Pounds six shillings; Samuel Wardell & Sarah his Wife, Thirty six
Pounds fifteen shillings; John Proctor & ---- Proctor his Wife,
One Hundred and fifty Pounds; Sarah Wilde, Fourteen Pounds; Mrs.
Mary Bradbury, Twenty Pounds; Abigail Faulkner, Twenty Pounds;
Abigail Hobbs, Ten Pounds; Ann Foster, Six Pounds ten shillings;
Rebecca Eams, Ten Pounds; Dorcas Hoar, Twenty one Pounds seventeen
shillings; Mary Post Eight Pounds fourteen shillings; Mary Lacey
Eight Pounds ten shillings. The Whole amounting unto Five Hundred
& seventy eight Pounds, & twelve shillings.

(Sign'd) Jno. Appleton, Thomas Noyes, John Burrill,
Nehem'a Jewett.

Salem, Septemr. 14, 1711.

Read & Accepted in the House of Represent'ves
Signed JOHN BURRILL Speak'r

Read & Concur'd in Council
Consented to J. DUDLEY.

The following quaint memorandum of the expenses of the commission
is minuted in the report, viz.:--

_Ye Acct of gr servts_

Charges 3 days a peis ourselves & horses 4.0.0.
Entertainment at Salem Mr. Pratts 1.3.0.
Major Sewals attendans & sendg notifications
to all Concerned 1.0.0.
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L6.3.0.

It is a grave error into which many modern writers have been drawn,
when alluding to Salem witchcraft, to lay the responsibility of that
dire delusion entirely upon Salem people, as if they alone were to
be held accountable for the dreadful oc