Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1841-05-11
GEORGETOWN, o, TUESDAY, MAY II, 1S41.

Then luck (look) the light in my hand
and went out in the other rune (room,
| some occasion, and passing tow OF
three times acros a rune, | heard 1e sd
Katharine serene out. Then tuck ye
light, and went into ys rune, and found
Abraham Finch setting upon ye bed and
sd. Katharine lying acros bis feet. And
seeing him look very pale,l asked himwhaI
was ye matter; and he sayed that lying
upon ye bed he heard sd. Katharine
serene out, and looked up and saw a ball
Of FIRE as big as his tow hands pas along
ye INNER TO We hearth, andthen vanisht
away. Then after small space, the sd,
Katharine came to herself, and we ask.
ed her what she saw when she screamed
out. She said that she saw Gooddy
Clawson come in with fiery eyes,
Againe. / laying on ye bed by ye sd.
Katharine and Abram Finch, lying on ye
chests felt picking inmy side which
caused me TO start up: which Abraham
Finch seeing; asked me what was the
matter. ! told him vt ! was picked in ye
side. Then the sayed Katharine holding
her hand over ye bed, sayed Gooddy
Miller give NEE the thing that you prickt
Mr.. SelIeck withall; then shetiing her
hand, Abraham Finch kecht hold Of her
hand, aud wee found a pin in it: Also
when she put out her hand there was
nothing that we could see. Then after a
small space, she came 10 herself, and
asked her why she prickt me; she answer
ed that she did not, and that It was Good
dy Miller. voH
"StanfOrd, August 81, 1892.
"The other is ready TO give oath TO the
above testimony, .a0 .. f.
"Sworn in court, Sept. Is 5--92. o..
-. "JOHN ALLYN, Sect"
"Edward Jesop, aged about 90 years,
teslifeth, that being at Thomas Disbur-
rows House at COmpob, sometime in ye
beginning Of last winter, in the evening,
he asked me TO tarry and sup with him;
and there | saw a pigg roasting that lOokt
very we'll, but when it came 10 ye table
(when we had very good lile) it SEEM
TO me to have ne skin upon it, and look
cd very strangely; but when ye sd Dis
borrow began TO cut it, ye skin Ito my aP-
prehension) came upon it, and it seemed
10 be as il was when il was upon the spit,
at which strange alterations Of ye pig, |
was much concerned. However, fearing
to displease his wife by refusing to eat,
did eat some Of ye pigg; and the same
time Isaac Sherwood being there, and
Dsburrow's wife and he discoursing con-
corning a certain place of Scripture, and
being of ye same mind that Sherwood
was concerning ye place OfScriPture, and
Sherwood telling her where ye place of
Scripture was, she brought A Bible (that
was of very large prin) 10 me to read ye
particular Scripture; but though ! had
good light, and looked directly upon the
book, could not see one letter; but
looked upon it again when in her hand,
after she had turned over few
leaves, ! could see TO read it Above A
yard off, Is a'..
Ye same night going home, and com
ing 10 Compoh Geek, il seemed TO be
high water, whereupOn | went to canoe
that was about ten rods Of(which lay up
on such a bank as ordinarily could have
showed it inlo We creek with ease,) and
though lifted with all my might, and
lifted one end from ye ground, could by
no means push it into ye creek, and then
We water seemed to be so lOe ytl might
ride over, whereuppn went again to ye
water side; but then it appeared as at first
very high: and then going 10 ys canoe
again, and finding that could not get it
into ye creek, | thought to ride round to
where had often been, and knew ye way
as we'll as before my own dOre, and had
nv old cart horse; yet could not keep
him in We road do what | could: but he
often turned sside into ye bushes, and !
then went back wards, so that though 1
kent upon my borS, and did my best en-
deavor to get home, was ye greatest part
of We night wandering, before got home,
altho' il was not much more than two
miles. a.'ri-a .gs eaf Be s.#"
"Fayrfeld, Sept. IS, 1892. sa s
"Sworn in court. Sept. l5.--92. 9
"Attost. JOHN ALLYN, Sect"
The testimony was generally Of a sim
liar character 10 the foregoing. with the
exception Of several affidaviis which went
10 show how strangely the swine, calves
and cattle, were effected BY the malicious
enchantuenis of these sotceresses.--
For the good people fully believed
that, '4
"Harmel by their skill, the wasting cattle die,
Sand drOop and languish through thelrevilsye."
The depositions proving these facts,
and numbers relating to cruelties praC-
tised By them upon children, we did not
think il worth the while TO copy. But
The testimony, thus far, was not deemed
sufficient to make out the case 90 as TO
warrant conviction. AccoFdinnly resort
was had to d more SURE and certain test Of