Map of the Village of Salem, Massachusetts, during the 1692 Witchcraft Trials with Original Document

A fine 5x7” document written from Salem in reference to purchase of supplies and timber. It is signed for by three individuals who lived in Salem and related to the persecution going on at the time. John Burton was arrested for his religious beliefs a couple of times . Thomas Putnam Thomas Putnam was a member of the Putnam family and a resident of Salem Village (present-day Danvers, Massachusetts) and a significant accuser in the notorious 1692 Salem witch trials. Thomas Flint the emigrant ancestor, came to America from Wales, in Great Britain. The first mention made of him in the town records of Salem, MA, under the date March 1637-38.

This is accompanied with a Rare Map of Salem 1866 W. P. Upham Map of the Village of Salem, Massachusetts, during the 1692 Witchcraft Trials dated 1866  size 11 x 14 in accopmpanied with manuscript booklet designated every home on the map with the designated number on the Map. This booklet was done in manuscript and most likely from pre 1900.

A scarce example map of Salem Village, Massachusetts, in 1692, at the height of the infamous Salem Witchcraft Trails by William Phineas Upham. William Phineas Upham prepared this map in 1866 as the frontispiece for his father Charles Wentworth Upham's two-volume 1867 Salem Witchcraft, With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Spirits, a seminal work on the witchcraft trials. Here Upham attempts to map the village of Salem as it appeared in 1692 with numerical references for many of the known figures associated with the witchcraft trials. Some 147 individual homes are noted numerically. Numerous important buildings are noted alpha-numerically in the Town of Salem, in the lower right quadrant. The map extends from Andover and Rowley to the Town of Salem and from Humphrey's Pond to Topsfield. The present example includes numerous manuscript annotations in an extremely fine hand identifying the residents of individual homes. teacher to lawyer, to fireman, to mayor of Salem. Upham was a member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Rhode Island Historical Society, the Essex Institute, and the American Historical Association.

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