Some miscellany observations on our present debates respecting witchcrafts : in a dialogue between S. & B. /

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Author / Creator:	Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707.
Imprint:	Philadelphia [i.e. Boston?] : Printed by William Bradford, for Hezekiah Usher., 1692.
Description:	1 online resource (16 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Witchcraft -- New England. Trials (Witchcraft) -- New England. Trials (Witchcraft) Witchcraft. New England. Dialogues.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11467412

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Other authors / contributors:	English, Philip, 1651-1736. Alden, John.
Notes:	Written by Samuel Willard. The purported authors P.E. and J.A. are identified as Philip English and John Alden by David C. Brown in his "The Salem witchcraft trials: Samuel Willard's 'Some Miscellany Observations.'" Essex Institute Historical Proceedings 122 (1986): 207-236. Alden and Hezekiah Usher, a Boston merchant, were members of Willard's church, and English, Alden and Usher were fugitives from justice at the time of the book's publication. According to Brown, "S." and "B." represent either Salem and Boston or, less likely, Stoughton and Brattle. Evidently not in fact printed by William Bradford at Philadelphia, as the typeface is not one used by Bradford. The false imprint was intended to circumvent an order by the governor against printing of any discourses on the witchcraft controversy. Cf. Brown. Evans 631 Wing (2nd ed.) W2296 Print version record.
Other form:	Print version: Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707. Some miscellany observations on our present debates respecting witchcrafts. Philadelphia [i.e. Boston?] : Printed by William Bradford, for Hezekiah Usher., 1692

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