Auction Date:2010 May 12 @ 10:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Selected as a judge for the special Court of Oyer and Terminer, a specific court responsible for the trial and sentence of people, mostly women, for the crime of witchcraft in Massachusetts during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. He resigned from the Court of Oyer and Terminer around June 8, 1692, the same time as Bridget Bishop's trial and execution for witchcraft. Presumably, he was "displeased with the handling of the Bishop case." Though he left no indication of his feelings toward witchcraft, he is considered to be one of the more principled men of his time. Rare ADS, signed “Nath: Saltonstall,” one page, 8.25 x 4.5, November 11, 1702. Saltonstall summarizes his examination of a sailor who escaped from prison. In part: “He ownes his name to be John Ford; & that he came from Portsmouth; That he came w’th one Joseph Stevens into this country as a Sailor, & yet because he was not willing to go to Sea with him again, The Commander Stevens caused him to be put into prison; where he lay neer Six weeks and then that he broke ye Lock of ye Prison Door & gott out, & made his escape from thence. He saith that he received Telve pounds and thirteen shillings of ye master, & yet he is not now any thing indebted to ye s’d Capt. Stevens; nor obliged to sail with him.” In very good condition, with intersecting single horizontal and vertical folds, scattered light toning and soiling, a bit heavier to central vertical fold, and a couple pinholes of paper loss at junction of folds. RRAuction COA.
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