“Salem, March 5.—­Sarah Good and Tituba again examined; and,
     in their examination, Tituba acknowledged the same she did
     formerly, and accused the other two above said.

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“Salem, March the 7th, 1691/2.—­Sarah Good, Sarah Osburn, and Tituba, an Indian woman, all sent to the jail in Boston, according to their mittimuses, then sent to their Majesties’ jail-keeper.”

It will be noticed that the magistrates did not venture to put into this their final record, what they had unfairly tried to make Sarah Osborn believe, that Sarah Good had been a witness against her.  The jail at Ipswich was at a distance of at least ten miles from the village meeting-house, by any road that could then have been travelled.  The transference of the prisoners day after day must have been very fatiguing to a sick woman like Sarah Osburn.  Sarah Good seems to have been able to bear it.  Samuel Braybrook, an assistant constable, having charge of her, says, that, on the way to Ipswich, she “leaped off her horse three times;” that she “railed against the magistrates, and endeavored to kill herself.”  He further testified, that, at the very time she was performing these feats, Thomas Putnam’s daughter, “at her father’s house, declared the same.”  As Braybrook was many miles from Thomas Putnam’s house, at the moment when his wonderful daughter exercised this miraculous extent of vision, it would have been more satisfactory to have had some other testimony to the fact.  I mention this to show of what stuff the evidence in these cases was made, and the credulity with which every thing was swallowed.  The prisoners were put to examination each day.

Osburn and Good steadily maintained their innocence.  Tituba all along declared herself guilty, and accused the other two of having been with her in confederacy with the Devil.  Mr. Parris made the following deposition, in relation to these examinations, to which he subsequently swore in Court, at the trial of Sarah Good:—­

“THE DEPOSITION OF SAM:  PARRIS, aged about thirty and nine years.—­Testifieth and saith, that Elizabeth Parris, Jr., and Abigail Williams, and Ann Putnam, Jr., and Elizabeth Hubbard, were most grievously and several times tortured during the examination of Sarah Good, Sarah Osburn, and Tituba, Indian, before the magistrates at Salem Village, 1 March, 1692.  And the said Tituba being the last of the above said that was examined, they, the above said afflicted persons, were grievously distressed until the said Indian began to confess, and then they were immediately all quiet the rest of the said Indian woman’s examination.  Also Thomas Putnam, aged about forty years, and Ezekiel Cheever, aged about thirty and six years, testify to the whole of the above said; and all the three deponents aforesaid further testify, that, after the said Indian began to confess, she was herself very much afflicted, and in the face