eighteen years after the memorable year, 1692, four members, a
committee of the Legislature, were sent to Salem to hear certain
parties and receive certain petitions, and the following is the
record, in the Journal, of their Report:--

October 26, 1711. Present in Council, His Excellency Joseph
Dudley, Esqr., Governor, John Hathorne, Samuel Sewall, Jonathan
Corwin, Joseph Lynde, Penn Townsend, John Higginson, Daniel Epes,
Andrew Belcher, etc., etc.

Report of the Committee appointed, Relating to the Affair of
Witchcraft in the year 1692; viz.--

We whose Names are subscribed in Obedience to your Honours' Act at
a Court held the last of May, 1710, for our inserting the Names of
the several Persons who were condemned for Witchcraft in the year
1692, & of the Damages they sustained by their prosecution; Being
met at Salem, for the Ends aforesaid, the 13th Septem., 1710, Upon
Examination of the Records of the several Persons condemned,
Humbly offer to your Honours the Names as follows, to be inserted
for the Reversing their Attainders: Elizabeth How, George Jacob,
Mary Easty, Mary Parker, Mr. George Burroughs, Gyles Cory & Wife,
Rebecca Nurse, John Willard, Sarah Good, Martha Carrier, Samuel
Wardel, John Procter, Sarah Wild, Mary Bradbury, Abigail Falkner,
Abigail Hobbs, Ann Foster, Rebecca Eams, Dorcas Hoar, Mary Post,
Mary Lacy:

And having heard the several Demands of the Damages of the
aforesaid Persons & those in their behalf; & upon Conference have
so moderated their respective Demands that We doubt not but they