Court transcripts

I know that many of you have expressed interest in looking at actual transcripts from the Salem trials. Here are a couple links for you to check out.

This link is a great resource of typed transcripts from the University of Virginia.

This link goes to a collection of scanned original documents. They are hard to read, but nice to see the actual handwriting.

As an example of what can be found at the above links, here is an image of  Abigail's testimony against Elizabeth. At the bottoms of the page you can see Abigail's "mark". By the handwriting you can tell that she had limited education, only being able to painfully write her initials.