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- Mary Towne was summoned to testify against her sister in laws on 6 September
1692. On 7 September 1692 the widow Towne sent her regrets to the court, "I
humbly beg that your honors will not impute anything concerning our not coming
as contempt of authority. We would come, but we are in a strange condition.
Most of us can scarcely get out of our beds, we are so weak, and not able to
ride at all. As for my daughter, Rebecca, she has strange fits and sometimes
she is knocked down of a sudden."
On 8 September 1692 a second summons for the widow Towne and her daughter
Rebecca stated, "We command you, all excuses set apart to be and appear at the
Court of Oyer and Terminer holden at Salem tomorrow morning at eight of the
clock precisely, there to testify the truth against Mary Easty. Hereof, fail
not at your utmost peril." Ephraim Wildes, constable of Topsfield, answered,
"I have warned the widow Towne and her daughter to appear in court." No Towne
testimony is extant.
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Reference:
"The Devil Discovered", 1991, Enders A. Robinson, p 277-278.
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