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A49794 A brief and true narrative of some remarkable passages relating to sundry persons afflicted by witchcraft at Salem village, which happened from the nineteenth of March to the fifth of April, 1692 collected by Deodat Lawson. Lawson, Deodat. 1692 (1692) Wing L702; ESTC R11950 7,673 10

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