![]() ![]() ![]() My local library didn't have Baker's book so I asked my daughter, who lives in Chicago, to pick it up for me from her library. Baker that I truly understood the times which she lived and the hysteria surrounding the trials. I scoured the library website and gleaned as much information as I could about Mary Osgood, but it wasn't until I read " A Storm of Witchcraft-The Salem Trials and the American Experience" by Emerson W. Her other comment was "don't tell our husbands!" I immediately emailed my sister and she thought it was cool. There was no better place to research from the comfort of my home than the resources of the University of Virginia. Of course, I was a little excited as it meant I could research this part of my ancestry. This was the first indication that I had an ancestor involved with the trials and to find out one confessed to being a witch surprised me. I decided to look over the names of those involved in the trials and discovered that my eighth great grandmother, Mary Clements Osgood, was one of the accused. One will find documents, transcriptions, historical maps, archival collections, books and more at their website. The University of Virginia has an excellent online collection of material relating to the Salem Witch Trials in their Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcriptions Project. ![]()
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