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Note: N72000 !Lydia Dustin, the widow of Josiah Dustin of Reading, a woman of eighty years, had been arrested in May for "Witchcraft done or Comitted by her upon ye Bodys" of the afflicted persons at Salem Village. Mary Marshall had lived in Reading and, apparently, had been intimate with Lydia Dustin and the others whom she afterwards accused. Her afflictions began upon the day when Dustin was taken to Salem and continued for several months. It does not appear that she accused all her tormentors at once; but the list of her victims, at the end, included Lydia Dustin and her daughter, Mary, the widow of Adam Colson, a former schoolmaster of Reading, Mary, the wife of Seabred Taylor, and Jane, the widow of George Lilley, also a former schoolmaster, all of Reading. Colson, Lilley, and Taylor were brought before the magistrates at Salem, September 5, 1692.
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