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About the Author

EVE LAPLANTE, a sixth great-granddaughter of Samuel Sewall, is the author of two previous critically acclaimed books: American Jezebel, a biography of her ancestor Anne Hutchinson, and Seized, a narrative portrait of temporal lobe epilepsy. LaPlante has degrees from Princeton and Harvard and has written for The Atlantic, the New York Times, Ladies’ Home Journal, and Boston magazine. She lives with her family in New England on land once owned by Judge Sewall.

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SALEM WITCH JUDGE: The Life and Repentance of Samuel Sewall. Copyright © 2007 by Eve LaPlante. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

A Note on the Text

Introduction

Chapter 01

Chapter 02

Chapter 03

Chapter 04

Chapter 05

Chapter 06

Chapter 07

Chapter 08

Chapter 09

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Epilogue

Exploring Samuel Sewall's America and England

Chronology

Writing of Samuel Sewall

Phaenomena quaedam Apocalyptica
The Selling of Joseph
Talitha Cumi

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

About the Author

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Credits

Copyright

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