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From: "Leslie Hope" <>
Subject: Re: [SALEM-WITCH-L] Encephalitis theory
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 13:53:43 -0700


> Illness? Infection? Poison? I, for one, doubt it.
Very well put Stephanie. Thanks for articulating it so well. I hope u don't
mind that I fwded to my sisters and an old friend. I feel certain that
Susannah Martin's hanging was the result of a land dispute that George
Martin was involved in earlier as well as her own outspoken nature. As far
as I can tell my families were only nominally Puritans and became Quakers
after the witch persecutions. They were also fairly prosperous judging from
their wills and occupations. I put no creedence in the disease theory unless
we are talking about the diseases of power control and greed.
Leslie
(a Martin descendant, Gould descendant, etc)

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