From The Gazetteer of the State of New Hampshire (in three parts), 
compiled from the best authorities, by Eliphalet Merrill and the Late 
Phinehas Merrill, Esq.,
Printed by C. Norris & Co. , Exeter, NH, ©1817, pg 54

Part I - General View- History

1648 - This year, Rhode-Island requested admission into the New England confederacy, 
but she was not received.
	The first instance of an execution for witchcraft, was in June, 1748.  Margaret 
Jones of Charlestown, was indicted as a witch, condemned and hung.  She was charged 
with having such a malignant touch, that if she laid her hands upon any person in anger, 
the person was immediately seized with deafness, vomiting or some other violent 
affection.  After the execution of this woman, her husband took passage for Barbadoes in 
a ship which was well ballasted, and which had eighty horses on board.  The vessel 
happening to roll on a sudden, in an alarming manner, an officer was ordered to apprehend 
this man and put him in confinement; the ship was then said to roll no more.  Such was the 
wonderful credulity and infatuation of that day.  Happy would it have been for New 
England if this had been the only specimen of these follies.

Submitted by T.C. Parziale 5/30/00
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