Online Sources for the Salem Witch Hunt

Brooks, Rebecca Beatrice. "History of the Salem Witch Trials."  History of Massachusetts blog (August 18, 2011) <http://historyofmassachusetts.org/the-salem-witch-trials/>.
General history with some snippets of primary sources among the entries on various participants.  

Burns, M. "A Guide to the On-Line Primary Sources of the Salem Witch Trials" (n.d.) 17th Century Colonial New England with Special Emphasis on the Essex County Witch-Hunt of 1692. <http://www.17thc.us/primarysources/>. Mostly links to U Virginia or Cornell, but also various rare books, the Library of Congress, Maryland State Archives, and New England Historic Genealogical Society.

Burr. George Lincoln, ed. Narratives of Witchcraft Cases 1648-1706. 19141 [Barnes & Noble 1946 reprint]: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.31175010811423> includes Increase Mather, "Remakable Providences;" Cotton Mather, Memorable Providences; Deodat Lawson, "A Brief and True Narrative;" Robert Calef, More Wonders of the Invisible World; John Hale, A Modest Inquiry.

Calef, Robert. More Wonders of the Invisible World. Cornell Witchcraft Collection; Internet Archive; Gutenberg.

Congregational Library and Archives. <http://www.congregationallibrary.org/nehh/series3/SalemWitchcraftTrials>. Collection drawn from books of Boston clergy.

Flotte TJ1, Bell DA." Role of skin lesions in the Salem witchcraft trials." PubMed.gov.

"Hawthorne in Salem." (n.d.) <http://www.hawthorneinsalem.org/Literature/Quakers&Witches
/YoungGoodmanBrown/OriginalDocuments.html>.
As part of much larger site on Nathaniel Hawthorne, numerous short excerpts from Mather, Hale, Upham; illustrations of title pages and warrents; examinations and depositions (many from Virginia site).

Latner, Richard B.  "The Salem Witchcraft Site." Tulane Unversity (n.d.) <https://www.tulane.edu/~salem/index.html>.
Some narrative but also databases constructed from the sources.

Levin, David. "Did the Mathers Disagree about the Salem Witch Trials?" American Antiquarian. <https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44539342.pdf>.

Linder, Douglas. "Salem Witchcraft Trials." Famous Trials (2018) <http://famous-trials.com/salem> . 
Chronology, map, examinations, letters, petitions, reports. 

Mass. Bay Colony Government. "An Act against Conjuration, Witchcraft, and Dealing with Evil and Wicked Spirits [December 1692]." Evans Early American Imprint Collection. <https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/evans/N00494.0001.001/1:4.30?rgn=div2;view=fulltext>.

Mather, Cotton. Magnalia Christi Americana or, The ecclesiastical history of New-England, from its first planting in the year 1620. unto the year of Our Lord, 1698. In seven books. London: Printed for Thomas Parkhurst, at the Bible and three crowns in Cheapside, 1702 https://archive.org/stream/magnaliachristia00math?ref=ol#page/n673/mode/2up.

Mather, Cotton. The Wonders of the Invisible World. Reiner Smolinski, ed.<https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeabook/4/>; <https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28513/28513-h/28513-h.htm>.

Perkins, William. A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft so Far Forth as it is Revealed in the Scriptures and Manifest by True Experience. Cambridge, UK, 1610, Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. <http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09402.0001.001>

Ray, Benjamin. "Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project." University of Virginia (2002) <http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/home.html>.
Court records, record books, letters, sermons, diaries, maps, primary source books (Hale, Mather, Burr collection), links to other archives.  

Salem Witchcraft Trial Records. Philips Library Digital Collection, Peabody Essex Museum. See also "Diving into the world’s largest collection of Salem witch trial documents at PEM," http://sponsored.bostonglobe.com/peabody-essex-museum/worlds-largest-collection-of-salem-witch-trial-documents/ and Shea, Andrea. "Authentic Salem Witch Trials Artifacts Are On Display Amid Halloween Kitsch."WBUR (October 26 2020). <https://www.wbur.org/artery/2020/10/26/salem-witch-trials-peabody-essex-museum>

Schaffer, Bridgitte. "Primary Sources on Puritanism and the Salem Witch Trials." Napa Valley College (2014) <http://www.napavalley.edu/people/bschaffer/Documents/
HIST%20120%20Spring%202014/Sources%20Puritanism.pdf>.
Selection of witch readings (Winthrop, Dane, Good, and Bishop) for an American History course.  

Sewell, Robert. "{Judge} Samuel Sewall." http://www.robertsewell.ca/samsewall.html.

Upham, Charles W. Salem witchcraft: with an account of Salem Village, and a history of opinions on witchcraft and kindred subjects. hathitrust.

Witch Trial Online Sites Tour. <https://salemwitchmuseum.com/witch-trials-online-tour/>. Pictures and descriptions of many places in the region associated with the hunts.

Woodside, Christine. "The Site of the Salem Witch Trial Hangings Finally Has a Memorial." smithsonianmag.com/history/.

Woodward, Elliot W, ed. Records of Salem Witchcraft, Copied from the Original Documents, 44–50. Roxbury, MA: Private Printer for W.E. Woodward, 1864 <https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433005881341&view=1up&seq=11>. Various warrants, oaths, summonses, indictments, depositions, examinations, and other legal documents related to the hunt.

For some student annotations on books about Salem, go here: <salemwitchbiblio.html>