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 SOURCES

A PARTIAL list of suggestions. Compiled by Gloria Barnes Harper (Mrs. N.V. Harper), Honorary President General, ADEAW, April, 2000

1. The best sources are the original records, such as vital and court records, from the towns and state.
   

2. Family trees by family name can be good secondary sources, if the book uses original sources.  Example: The Barnes Genealogy, Thomas Barnes of Hartford and Farmington, Connecticut.
   

3. The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut 1647-1697, by John Taylor.  Paperback pamphlet.  Published 1989 by The Heritage Press/Book Company, Bowie, MD.  Lists more Connecticut ancestors accused and/or tried.  (Your library might have it.)
   

4. Salem Witchcraft and Hawthorne’s House of Seven Gables, by Enders Robinson.  Published 1992 by The Heritage Press/Book Company.
   

5. Crime and Punishment in Early Maryland, by Raphael Semmes, LLB PhD. and Patterson Smith.  Published 1970, Montclair, New Jersey.
   

6. The Genealogical Record, Vol. 4, page 99-100.  Published 1934 by Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York.
   

7. The Devil in the Shape of Woman, by Carol Carlson.  Published 1989 by Vintage Press.
   

8. Entertaining Satan, by John Putnam Demos.  Published 1982 by Oxford Press.
   

9. A Delusion of Satan, the Story of the Salem Witch Trials, by Frances Hill.

Your local library and/or the internet may help with more sources.  Please remember, the best sources are the original records.