Editing the Legal Documents Pertaining to the Salem Witch Trials

FAIN: FA-51850-05

Bernard Rosenthal
SUNY Research Foundation, Binghamton (Binghamton, NY 13902-4400)

I am editing RECORDS OF THE SALEM WITCH-HUNT, under contract with Cambridge University Press. The edition will include transcriptions of all relevant manuscripts, in chronological order, related to the legal proceedings of the Salem witch trials as well as all published trial records where the original manuscript does not survive. It will include clarifying notations, historical and language introductions, and a biographical appendix of people named in the documents. Currently 938 documents have been located, 58 of which do not appear in the current standard edition. Of these 58, 21 have never appeared in print in any source.

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