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HOUSE

OF

JOHN PROCTER, WITCHCRAFT MARTYR, 1692. 

BY WM. P. UPHAM. 

 PEABODY: PRESS OF C. H. SHEPARD, 1904. 

[Illustration: Map]

HOUSE OF JOHN PROCTER

WITCHCRAFT MARTYR, 1692. 

[A paper read by William P. Upham at a meeting of the PeabodyHistorical Society at the Needham house, West Peabody, September 2nd. , 1903. ]

It is now nearly forty years since I assisted my father, the lateCharles W. Upham, in the preparation of his work on Salem Village andthe Witchcraft tragedy of 1692, by collecting what information couldbe obtained from the records as to the people and their homes inthat locality. In doing this I was enabled to construct a map showingthe bounds of the grants and farms at that time. On that map isrepresented quite accurately the Downing Farm, so called, owned, in1638, by Emanuel Downing, father of Sir George Downing, and occupiedas tenant, in 1692, by John Procter, the victim of the witchcraftdelusion. When I made the map I knew that John Procter at his deathowned, as appears by the inventory of his estate, fifteen acres ofland in Salem, but I was not able then to locate it with exactness. Lately, in making a more complete study of the records relating to theDowning farm and the surrounding lands I have learned the exactsituation of the fifteen acre lot owned by him, and also that he had ahouse upon it as early as 1682 and until his death in 1692. It appearsthat this lot is the place where he was buried, according to thefamily tradition, although the knowledge as to its being once owned byhim seems to have passed out of the neighborhood for more than acentury. 

This lot is indicated, on the accompanying map of the locality which Ihave drawn for the purpose, by heavy dark lines. It was on the northside of Lowell Street in West Peabody, just west of the westernmostline of the Downing Farm and about one hundred and fifty rods eastfrom the place of this meeting, which is the Needham homestead on theNewburyport Turnpike, or Newbury Street as it is now called, marked onthe map as then, in 1692, the home of Anthony Needham, Junior. 

The discovery that this was John Procter's land called to mind aconversation I had with Mrs. Jacobs, an aged lady who lived in the oldJacobs house, now the Wyman place, and of which I made the followingmemorandum about thirty years ago:--

"Mrs. Jacobs (Munroe) says that it was always said that Procters wereburied near the bars as you go into the Philip H. Saunders place. Mr. James Marsh says he always heard that John Procter, of witch time, wasburied there. "

Upon inquiring lately of Mrs. Osborn, the librarian of the PeabodyHistorical Society, as to what was the family tradition, I learnedthat it was said by Mrs. Hannah B. Mansfield, of Danvers, that JohnProcter was buried "opposite to the Colcord" (now the Wyman) "pasture, amongst the rocks. " In answer to an inquiry by Mrs. Osborn, Mrs. Mansfield wrote to her as follows:--"A great aunt took me, when alittle girl, with her to a spot in a rocky hill where she pickedblackberries, and said there was the place 'among birch trees androcks where our ancestor of witchcraft notoriety was buried. ' It wason the north side of Lowell Street in what was then called the Marshpasture nearly opposite the Jacobs farm which is on the south side ofLowell Street. "

The Marsh pasture from which Mrs. Mansfield's aunt pointed out the"birch trees and rocks" near by where John Procter was buried was, nodoubt, the pasture conveyed by James Marsh to Philip H. Saunders, 11June, 1863, and then described as "thirteen acres known by the name ofBates Pasture. " I do not know of any other place near there that wouldbe called the Marsh pasture at the time Mrs. Mansfield mentions. Thisthirteen acre pasture was conveyed by Ezekiel Marsh to John Marsh, 15Oct. , 1819, having been devised to him by his father Ezekiel Marsh. Ithad a way leading to it from Lowell Street over the eastern end of theJohn Procter lot as shown on my map. This way is still used as well asthe bars opening into it on Lowell Street a few rods east of thewesterly way leading southerly to the Jacobs, or Wyman, place. Theseare the "bars as you go into the Philip H. Saunders place" mentionedby Mrs. Jacobs as stated above, unless we suppose the expression tomean bars leading from the John Procter lot where the way enters thePhilip H. Saunders place, or Marsh pasture, as Mrs. Mansfield callsit. Perhaps the latter locality is the most probable since it is highrocky ground; but which bars were meant is uncertain. 

Mr. Daniel H. Felton, who has an intimate knowledge of the history ofall the lands about Felton's Hill, and is himself a descendant of JohnProcter, informs me that Mrs. Hannah B. Mansfield some years sincerelated to him "that she went berrying at the Jacobs farm when she wasa child and that older persons said that John Procter was buried onthe opposite side of the way (among the rocks) from where they turnedoff from Lowell Street to go to the Jacobs farm. " Mrs. Mansfield livedwhen a child on the Newburyport Turnpike opposite the Needhamhomestead. It was, I understand, her "aunt Betsey Gardner" who, whenpicking blackberries "on a rocky hill" pointed out to her the place"among birch trees and rocks" where John Procter was buried. 

To reconcile these traditions with the known facts, we may suppose, as related by Mrs. Jacobs and Mrs. Mansfield, that the place of burialwas pointed out to them from the high land on the Jacobs place southof Lowell Street, where the "rocky hill" and the bars leading into theMarsh pasture on the north side of Lowell Street could be plainlyseen. Subsequently Mrs. Mansfield's aunt took her to the rocky hillitself and pointed out the exact spot, probably close to where thebars lead into the Marsh pasture, now the Saunders place. In goinghome from the Jacobs farm they would turn into Lowell Street at theold way near the house marked "White" on my map, and some ten rodswesterly from the way above mentioned leading from the opposite sideof Lowell Street to the Saunders place. This way from the Jacobs placeis a very old way. Mr. Felton tells me: "I recollect that my fathersaid over forty years ago that the gate posts of locust were nearlyone hundred years old then. "

Two hundred years ago the Saunders place, formerly the Marsh pasture, was part of the large tract of homestead land owned by AnthonyNeedham. This Needham land included eight acres of land conveyed byAnthony Needham to his son-in-law, Thomas Gould, 26 Sept. , 1705, andconveyed to Thomas Gardner 27 Jan. , 1743, by George Gould, the son ofThomas Gould. The eight acre lot descended to John Gardner and fromhim to John Gardner Walcott, and is where John G. Walcott, Jun. , nowlives. 

The land which I find to be identical with the fifteen acre lot ownedby John Procter is on the north side of Lowell Street between theabove mentioned eight acre lot, now the home of John G. Walcott, Jun. , and the lot marked "Flint Pasture" on my map, the Procter lot beingenclosed by heavy black lines. The westerly part of the Flint Pasturewas conveyed, 17 Sept. , 1898, to John D. Dennis, who lives there now. 

The uniform family tradition that John Procter was buried in thelocality I have thus described, is confirmed in my mind from aconsideration of certain facts, bearing with more or less definitenessupon the question, which I will endeavor briefly to recite. 

It is well known that the victims executed as witches on Gallows Hillin Salem, in 1692, were thrown into mere shallow graves or crevices inthe ledge under the gallows, where the nature of the ground did notallow complete burial, so that it was stated at the time that portionsof the bodies were hardly covered at all. It was natural that therelatives of those thus cruelly put to death and left practicallywithout burial, should, where they were able and courageous enough forthe dangerous undertaking, remove the bodies to their homes forinterment. It is the tradition that this was done in several cases, secretly and during the night, that it might not incur the oppositionof the frenzied and deluded people. This removal was made by thechildren of Rebecca Nourse, and a beautiful monument now marks thespot to which her body was removed. There is a similar tradition inthe Procter family, and there is good reason to believe that his bodywas removed in a similar manner. But if so, the necessary secrecy withwhich the sad duty was performed has caused the place where he wasburied to be known only by the slender thread of tradition which Ihave mentioned. 

The boulder inscribed to the memory of John Procter, which wasdedicated this past year at the junction of Lowell and Summit Streetsin Peabody, must be considered to have been placed there not asindicating the locality of his burial, but because that was the mostsuitable and available ground in the near neighborhood of the housewhere for so many years and at the time of his death he lived as thetenant of the great Downing Farm. There was the entrance to the Farmfrom Salem, and from that spot one obtains a full view of the farmhouse where he lived, believed to be in part still standing on thesame site, and of the fine and far extending tillage land whichprobably first attracted the admiration of Emanuel Downing two hundredand seventy years ago, and is now found so attractive and admirablysuited to the purposes of a golf ground by the Salem Country Club. 

What is now known as the Procter Tomb on the north side of LowellStreet at the southeastern corner of the Downing Farm is of modernorigin. We cannot believe that John Procter's family would havedeposited his body in ground to which they then had no title except astenants. At the time of the imprisonment of John Procter and his wifeElizabeth the family was no doubt broken up and the house stripped ofeverything that could be taken away to pay the fees of arrest andimprisonment. The great farm was no longer their home and they werenot again in a position to return to and occupy it as their own untilnearly a decade had passed, when, through the efforts of Thorndike, one of the sons of John Procter, the Downing Farm in its entirety waspurchased from Charles, the grandson of Emanuel Downing and son of SirGeorge Downing, then deceased. 

At the time of his death in 1692 John Procter owned, except what landin Ipswich he may have inherited from his father, only the fifteenacres with a house upon it, which, as I have said, was just west ofthe Downing Farm on the north side of Lowell Street. This fact alonewould render it entirely probable that when the body was removed, in1692, it would be carried to this place. In fact, in view of thepeculiar circumstances of the necessity of secrecy and the otherwisehomeless condition of the family, no other place would have beenchosen. 

And now that direct tradition of the descendants, independently of anyknowledge that John Procter owned this land, confirms this view by soremarkably agreeing with long forgotten records as to the locality, it may be said confidently that we know with reasonable certainty thespot where these revered and honored relics were laid so long ago. The"bars as you go into the Philip H. Saunders place" are still there, and the way through is still used and marks the place where in 1708John Higginson 3d and Hannah wife, in conveying to Daniel and LawrenceSouthwick the nine acre lot next east of Procter's lot, reserved theliberty of a "highway of one pole wide at the western end of said landto be for ye use of Anthony Needham Sen, " "they to maintain a pair ofsufficient bars next ye common highway so long as they use the same. "

Anthony Needham, Sen. , at that time owned what has recently been knownas the Philip H. Saunders place, and this right of way was for thebenefit of that place. Mr. Dennis now lives at the westerly end of thenine acre lot conveyed by Higginson, as above mentioned, which waslong known as the "Flint Pasture. " The bars and the way are now on thewest side of the wall dividing the Dennis land from the Procter lotinstead of being on the east side; indicating that the dividing linewas at some time changed. This change may have been made without anyevidence of it appearing on record, by Zachariah King, who owned bothlots from 1811 till 1818; and this would account for the apparentchange in size of the two lots as described in the deeds, the westerly(or Procter) lot increasing while the easterly lot decreased. 

On the north side of Lowell Street, about half way between these barsand the John G. Walcott, Jun. , house, is a well on the edge of theroad against a steep rocky hill rising back of it. This, I understand, has sometimes been called the "Procter well. " There seems to be noroom for a house close by it on that side of the road, but it ispossible that the road may anciently have turned more to the south atthis point, though I have not found any evidence in the records tothat effect. 

The history of the John Procter house and fifteen acres of land, asderived from the records, may be briefly stated as follows:--

Before we can understand the meaning of the deeds of the Procter lotwe must know something of the history of the Downing Farm andparticularly of the nine acre lot known formerly as the Flint Pasture, which is the large area of cleared land on the north side of LowellStreet, on the west end of which is at present the house of Mr. Dennis. That this may be better understood at a glance I have markedon my sketch, by a broken line, the bounds of the Downing Farm, whichincluded the "Flint Pasture. "

It seems that about two hundred and seventy years ago Roger Morey, acompanion and it is thought a relative or connection of RogerWilliams, had a grant of forty or fifty acres, which was located tothe west or southwest of a large tract granted to Robert Cole and soldto Emanuel Downing before 1638. The Roger Morey grant was on bothsides of what is now Lowell Street, that part on the northerly sidebeing the same nine or ten acres above mentioned as afterwards knownby the name of the Flint Pasture. 

In a deposition by Nathaniel Felton Sept. 18, 1700, he being then 85years of age, he says: "Soon after Roger Morrey removed from Salem, which was before 1644, I, this deponent, heard that said Morrey hadsold his land in the woods to Emanuel Downing and I do further testify[as to?] a parcel of swamp or upland & meadow being a part andbelonging to ye said Morrey, and [it] lyeth at the westerly end of Mr. Downing's farm"--deponent "has lived about 55 years a near neighbor tosaid farm and never heard that said Morrey's land was claimed byanybody but the tenants living on Mr. Downing's farm. " [Reg'y ofDeeds, Salem, B. 15, Fol. 5. ] Fortunately for the identification ofthis land, a most remarkable bound often referred to in the ancientdeeds is still to be seen marking the exact northeasterly corner ofthe Morey grant. It is a high and precipitous rock about twenty rodsnortherly from Lowell street just opposite the house on the south sidewhich was formerly the house of Nathaniel Flint, and a few rodswesterly from the easterly way leading southerly to the Wyman Farm. Itforms the northeasterly corner bound of the "Flint Pasture, " and ismarked on my sketch "Morey's Bound, " that being the name given to itin the numerous ancient deeds and depositions. 

The return of the settlement of the northwesterly bounds of theDowning Farm in 1681, recorded in Salem town records, gives the linefrom the extreme northwestern corner by Putnam's land as running"strait on to a white oak called Morey's Bound. "

In a controversy which seems to have existed in 1685 and in 1690between Anthony Needham and the owners of land adjoining his, presumably the owners of the Downing Farm, Nathaniel Felton testifiesthat "about 30 years since" (that is about 1660) "Mr. Thomas Gardnerand Jeffry Massey (who by virtue of a grant of 200 acres due unto Mr. Bacon[A]) when they went to lay out the said 200 acres I this deponentwent with them, where cominge upon the land neere adjoyning to thefarm called Mr. Downings farme, the first bound they made of the saidtwo hundred acres was upon a hill being as I conceive about 20 rods onthe north side of the highway[B] leading up to Joseph Pope's farme, and was a white oak sufficiently marked, ye which white oak thesurveyors affirmed was the northeast corner bounds of [Moreys][C]farm, from thence they went upon a straight line westward to anotherwhite oak which was marked also upon four sides, and stood neer about20 rods to the northward of ye said highway which the said surveyorsaffirmed to be the northwest corner bounds of the said [Morey's]farme, and it also was the northeast corner bounds of John Marsh hisfarme, which did joyne to ye [Morey] farme; and I doe further testifiethat John Marsh shewed me the said white oake and affirmed it to bethe northeast corner bound of his land and the northwest corner boundof [Morey's] land. "

[Footnote A: There are depositions recorded in Essex Reg'y, B. 11, Fol. 186-9, by which it appears that Rebecca, wife of William Bacon, was a daughter of Thomas Potter, Esq. , and that her brother, HumphreyPotter, was the father of Ann Potter, afterwards the wife of AnthonyNeedham. ]

[Footnote B: Now Lowell Street. ]

[Footnote C: In the record it is Massey, evidently a mistake, as shownby Marsh's deposition, next given. ]

In 1685 Zachariah Marsh testifies that "about 25 years since my fatherJohn Marsh, desirous I should know the bounds of his farme took mealong with him, and he then shewed me all the four corner boundsbelonging to his farme, and this I doe testifie that he shewed me awhite oake sufficiently marked standing about 20 rods northward of thehighway leading up to Joseph Pope's by a little swamp the which oakemy father affirmed was the northeast corner bounds of his farme, andthat it was also the northwest corner bounds of Roger More's farme;and further I doe testifie that when we run the line Anthony Needhambeing present owned the said white oake to be the corner bounds of myfather's farme, and this is the bounds in controversy and ye same thatNath. Felton attested unto, and hath ever been reputed so to be, noman that ever I know having questioned it, till of late AnthonyNeedham. " This deposition was again sworn to in 1690. See Reg'y ofDeeds at Salem, Book 8, F. 181. 

This controversy was probably between Anthony Needham and JohnProcter as tenant of the Downing Farm, as appears by an action atthe Salem Court, Nov. , 1685, for damage done to John Procter inclaiming "land belonging to the plaintiff as being in possession of, and hiring the said land of the Worshipful Symon Bradstreet Esq. , "said land being part of a farm "formerly belonging to Mr. EmanuelDowning"--Bradstreet married the daughter of Downing. 

The bounds described in these depositions are those of the "Flintpasture" and have remained substantially unchanged to the present day, as is evident to the eye, for, in passing along Lowell Street one cansee plainly the old and venerable looking stone wall beginning at"Morey's Bound" on the top of the high rock and running along in awesterly direction at about twenty rods distance northerly from thestreet. In the deed of the Downing Farm to Thorndike Procter 13 Sept. , 1700, the two bounds testified to by Felton and by Marsh are mentionedas follows:--the line of the Downing Farm running from the northwestcorner bound "southwestward unto a white oak tree standing on theRocks, and from thence northwestward unto a swamp white oak stumpstanding about 20 poles on the northerly side of the way leading toAnthony Needhams" etc. In the deed by Thorndike Procter to his brotherBenjamin, in 1701, of that portion of the Downing Farm now owned byDaniel Brown, the Morey bound is described as "a dead white oak BoundTree standing on the Rocks. "

The portion of the Downing Farm marked on my sketch as the FlintPasture, being about nine or ten acres, was conveyed with otherportions by Thorndike Procter to Samuel Marble, in 1701, the twobounds above mentioned being described in the same words. SamuelMarble the next year conveyed the same to Samuel Gardner. Hannah, thewife of John Higginson 3d, mentioned above as conveying this lot tothe Southwicks in 1708, was a daughter of Samuel Gardner. DanielSouthwick, Jr. , conveyed the same to Jonathan Flint in 1729 and heconveyed it to John Jacobs in 1738. John Jacobs left it by will to hisson Daniel, who conveyed it to Zachariah King in 1775. By him it wasdivided between his daughters Desire Procter and Mary Upton, in 1818, and its history is thus brought within the knowledge of those nowliving. 

West of this Flint Pasture was the Procter fifteen acre lot, thedescription of which in the deeds and depositions we can nowunderstand. How John Procter became owner of this fifteen acre lotdoes not appear upon record, but as John Marsh appears, by thedepositions of Nathaniel Felton and Zachariah Marsh given above, tohave been the owner there originally, we may conjecture that thetitle came from him by some unrecorded deed or otherwise. 

The following deed, dated 5 Nov. , 1681, and recorded Book 6, Fol. 48, may throw some light on this question, as it apparently conveys theeight acre lot which, as above mentioned, was conveyed by AnthonyNeedham to his son-in-law Thomas Gould, in 1705, where John G. Walcott, Jun. , now lives. 

Joseph Procter of Ipswich conveys to Anthony Needham of Salem "acertain tract of land being the third part of twenty three acres ofland (formerly the land of John Herod) lying and being in ye towne ofSalem aforesaid, the said twenty three acres of land being bounded onye northerly side with ye land of ye said Needham, on ye south with yehighway, on ye west with ye land of ye said Anthony Needham, and on yeeast with ye land now in ye occupation of John Procter. "

Supposing this third part of the twenty-three acres to have been theeight acre lot referred to above, being the only locality that wouldagree with the description, the land in the "occupation of JohnProcter" on the east side of the whole "twenty three acres" would bethe "Flint Pasture, " part of the Downing Farm, which was then, in1681, in the occupation of John Procter, as tenant. It is thereforequite probable that the "fifteen acre" lot which John Procter ownedwas the other two thirds part of the "twenty three acres, " and that hebecame possessed of it in the same way that his brother, JosephProcter, became possessed of the third part, perhaps in the divisionof an estate. What the estate was may be ascertained by futureinvestigation. 

The first we know positively of the lot in question as being JohnProcter's is through the record of an action which he brought at theCounty Court, in 1685, against Steven Fish for nine pounds tenshillings due for rent. Procter was nonsuited. Fish at the same timesued Procter for non delivery of land hired of him by lease March 1st, 1681, (1681-2). The jury found for a delivery of the land according tothe lease. 

In 1689 John Procter "for my love and parental affection unto mybeloved wife Elizabeth Procter and all her children" conveys tocertain trustees for their benefit "all my estate for their supply andmaintenance and make over and give to them my house and land lying inSalem bounds containing fifteen acres, more or less, bounded with yeland of Anthony Needham northwest and east southerly[D] and south andwest with ye common road or highway in part and partly alsoe with landof John Marsh and some land of Thomas Gardner Sen. That comes withinthe highway. " The last words in this description are puzzling andperhaps indicate that the road at the westerly end of the lot ranfurther to the south than it does to-day. 

[Footnote D: This probably refers to the way which Needham had to hisland over the western end of the lot lying next east of the Procterlot. ]

The next information is obtained from a deposition by Anthony Needham, Thomas Gould and Isaac Needham, in 1730, taken "in perpetuam reimemoriam" and recorded in the Registry, Book 54, Leaf 246, asfollows:--They testify that "they very well knew that Mr. John Procterlate of Salem, deceased, possessed in his own right for several yearsbefore and untill ninety two[E] a certain tract of land situate inSalem aforesaid containing about 15 acres, butting easterly on landnow in ye possession of Jonathan Flint, southerly and southwesterly onthe highway leading to Joseph Popes, [F] northwesterly and northerly onland of the deponent Thomas Gould and northeasterly on land of ThomasNeedham. That the said John Procter had a house upon the abovesaidland which he leased to one Stephen Fish[G] since let to one Lincolnand to one Bates, who improved it under and in right of the said JohnProcter. That Benjamin Procter son of the said John Procter possessedand improved ye above described parcel of land from the year 1692untill his decease which happened about fourteen years since. ThatMary the widow of said Benjamin Procter and her son John Procter havepossessed and improved the same right from the time of his deceaseuntill this day. " The deposition is dated Jan. 7, 1730. The name of"Bates pasture" applied to the Philip H. Saunders place in the deedfrom Marsh, in 1863, suggests the thought that it may have beenderived from the Bates mentioned in the deposition as one of thetenants of the John Procter house. 

[Footnote E: 1692. ]

[Footnote F: Now Lowell Street. ]

[Footnote G: See above, the suit against Fish for rent. ]

It only remains to trace the title of the John Procter lot to thepresent time. It appears from various deeds and other records that thetitle descended from John Procter to his son Benjamin, and then to hisson John, the grandson of the first named John Procter. From him itpassed to his son Benjamin, and then to this Benjamin's sons, Jamesand Francis Procter. Francis gave a deed of it to James April 19, 1802. Desire Procter, widow and administratrix of James Procter, conveyed it to Zachariah King Aug. 9, 1811, describing it as "acertain piece of land called the upper pasture situate in said Danverscontaining sixteen acres, be the same more or less, and is bounded asfollows, viz. --southerly on the highway, northwesterly and northerlyon land of John Gardner, Jr. , northeasterly on land of Ezekiel Marsh, and southeasterly on land of the said Zachariah King to the boundfirst mentioned. " Zachariah King conveyed the same to his daughter, Desire Procter of Danvers, widow, Feb. 18, 1818. 

From Desire Procter the title descended to Rebecca P. Osborne, hergranddaughter, and others who, in 1889, conveyed the lot to Harriet A. Walcott, wife of John G. Walcott, the description being as follows:--"aparcel of land in that part of Peabody called West Peabody, containingabout seventeen acres and two fourths and formerly called the UpperPasture, bounded southwesterly by Lowell Street about ninety two rodsand eleven links, northwesterly by land of Walcott, formerly of JohnGardner, about thirty eight rods, northeasterly by land of Walcott, formerly of Gardner, and by land of Philip Marsh, formerly of EzekielMarsh, about seventy six rods and nineteen links, southeasterly byother land of the grantors, formerly of Zachariah King, about seventeenrods and fourteen links. "

John G. Walcott and Harriet A. Walcott, wife, conveyed the same toMary E. Collins, wife of William F. M. Collins, by deed dated June 27, 1898. 

INDEX. 

 Bacon, Rebecca, 12 " William, 11

 Bates, ----, 16

 Bates pasture, 5, 16

 Bradstreet, Symon, 12, 13

 Brown, Daniel, 13

 Burial in shallow graves, 7 " removal of bodies for, 7

 Colcord place (now Wyman), 4

 Cole, Robert, 10

 Collins, Mary E. , 17 " William F. M. , 17

 Danvers, Mrs. H. B. Mansfield of, 4 " land in, 16 " Desire Procter of, 17

 Dennis, John D. , 6, 9, 10

 Downing, Charles, 8 " Emanuel, 3, 8, 10, 13 " George, Sir, 3, 8

 Downing Farm, 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

 Felton, Daniel H. , 5, 6 " Nathaniel, 10, 11, 12, 14

 Felton's Hill, 5

 Fish, Steven or Stephen, 15, 16

 Flint, Jonathan, 13, 16 " Nathaniel, 11

 Flint pasture, 6, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14

 Gallows Hill, Salem, 7

 Gardner, Betsey, 5 " Hannah (married Higginson), 13 " John, 6, 17 " John, Jr. , 17 " Samuel, 13 " Thomas, 6, 11, 15

 Gould, George, 6 " Thomas, 6, 14, 15, 16

 Herod, John, 14

 Higginson, Hannah (daughter of Samuel Gardner), 9, 13 " John, 3d. , 9, 13

 Ipswich, land in, owned by John Procter, 8

 Jacobs, ----, Mrs. , account of the Procter tradition, 4, 6 " Daniel, 13 " John, 13

 Jacobs house and farm (now Wyman), 4, 5, 6

 King, Zachariah, 9, 13, 16, 17

 Lincoln, ----, 16

 Lowell Street, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 16, 17

 Mansfield, Hannah B. , account of the Procter tradition, 4, 5, 6

 Marble, Samuel, 13

 Marsh, Ezekiel, 5, 17 " James, account of the Procter tradition, 4, 5, 6 " James, to Philip H. Saunders, 5, 16 " John, 5, 12, 14, 15 " Philip, 17 " Zachariah, 12, 14

 Marsh pasture, 4, 5, 6

 Massey, Jeffry, 11

 Morey (or Morrey, More), Roger, 10, 11, 12

 Morey's Bound, 11, 13

 Munroe, ----, Mrs. Jacobs (Munroe) mentioned, 4

 Needham, Ann, wife of Anthony (formerly Potter), 11 " Anthony, Sen. , 6, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15 " Anthony, Jun. , 4 " Isaac, 15 " Thomas, 16

 Needham Homestead, 3, 4, 5

 Newburyport Turnpike (or Newbury Street), 5

 Nourse, Rebecca, monument to, 7

 Osborn, Elizabeth C. , Mrs. , Librarian of Peabody Hist. Soc. , 4

 Osborne, Rebecca P. , 17

 Peabody, 7, 17

 Peabody Historical Society, 3, 4

 Pope, Joseph, 11, 12, 16

 Potter, Ann, 11 " Humphrey, 11 " Thomas, 11

 Procter, Benjamin, 13, 16 " Desire, 13, 16, 17 " Elizabeth, imprisonment of, 8, 15 " Francis, 16 " James, 16 " John, tenant of Downing Farm, 3, 12, 14 " " house and land of, in Salem, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16 " " land of, in Ipswich and Salem, 8 " " place of burial of, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 " " monument in memory of, 7 " " imprisonment of, 8 " " Thorndike Procter, son of, 8 " " Daniel H. Felton, descendant of, 5 " John, grandson of John, 16 " Joseph, 14, 15 " Mary, widow of Benjamin, 16 " Thorndike, son of John, 8, 13

 Procter Tomb, 8

 Procter Well, 9

 Putnam, ----, land of, 11

 Salem, 3, 7, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16

 Salem Country Club, 8

 Salem Court, 12

 Salem Village, 3

 Saunders, Philip H. , 4, 5, 6, 9, 16

 Southwick, Daniel, 9, 13 " Lawrence, 9, 13

 Summit Street, in Peabody, 7

 Upham, Charles W. , 3

 Upton, Mary, 14

 Walcott, Harriet A. , 17 " John Gardner, 6, 17 " " " Jun. , 6, 9, 14

 West Peabody, 3, 4, 17

 White, ----, house of, 6

 Williams, Roger, 10

 Witchcraft tragedy, 3

 Wyman, ----, house and farm of, (formerly of Jacobs), 4, 5, 11

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