Witch Trials Hysteria

Brown, David C., A Guide to the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692,1984 -A comprehensive guide to the sites and events of the witchcraft hysteria.

Bonfanti, Leo, The Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692, Pride Publications,1977. - Each witchcraft trial and case histoty is treated separately.

Boyer, P. and Nissenbaum, S., Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft, Hacvard University Press,1974. - Examines the social forces underlying the trials.

Hansen, Chadwick, Witchcraft at Salem, Geo. Braziller,1969. - Premise is that some of those accused during the hysteria were indeed witches.

Nevins, Winfield S., Witchcraft in Salem Village in 1692, Salem Press Co.,1916. - An older account.

Phillips, James Duncan, Salem in the Seventeenth Century, The Riverside Press,1935. - Written by an outstanding local historian from the Essex Institute.

Robinson, Enders A., The Devil Discovered, Salem Witcicraft I692, Hippocrene Books,1991. - Premise is that conspiracy was the basis of the tragedy. Includes concise biographies of 86 victims. Based on records of those convicted.

Starkey, Marion L., The Devil in Massachusetts: A Modern Enquiry into the Salem Witch Trials, Alfred Knopf,1949. - An entertaining, well-written version. Upham, Charles W., Salem Witchcraft, Wiggins and Lunt,1867. - The classic account of the hysteria, with much information on the people and places of the Essex County of the time.

Maritime Trade

Edmonds, John Henry and How, George Francis, Pirates of the New England Coast.

Felt, Joseph B, Annals of Salem, Volumes I & II.

National Park Service, Maritime Salem in the Age of Sail, U.S. Department of Interior,1987. Traces the development of maritime interests, lives of traders and sailors, and scope of the trade.

Paine, Ralph D., The Ships and Sailors of Old Salem.

Peabody, Robert E., The Log of The Grand Turk.

Phillips, James Duncan, Pepper and Pirates, Houghton-Mifflin,1949. -The story of the perils faced by Salem ships and sailors in the fabulously lucrative Sumatran pepper trade.

Phillips, James Duncan, Salem and the Indies.

Phillips, James Duncan, Salem in the Eighteenth Century, The Riverside Press,1937. - An informed overview by a respected local historian.

Putnam, George Granville, Salem Vessels and Their Voyages (Series I).