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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 Peabody
Historical Society at the Needham house, West Peabody, September 2nd.,
1903.]

It is now nearly forty years since I assisted my father, the late
Charles W. Upham, in the preparation of his work on Salem Village and
the Witchcraft tragedy of 1692, by collecting what information could
be obtained from the records as to the people and their homes in
that locality. In doing this I was enabled to construct a map showing
the bounds of the grants and farms at that time. On that map is
represented quite accurately the Downing Farm, so called, owned, in
1638, by Emanuel Downing, father of Sir George Downing, and occupied
as tenant, in 1692, by John Procter, the victim of the witchcraft
delusion