Burr: "...they who begin by excusing their ancestors may end by excusing themselves." Burr accuses Kittredge of becoming carried away in the "generous zeal of his apology" and Burr states that Kittredge's findings are: "...so contradictory of ... my own lifelong study ... so unconfirmed by the further research ..." GL Burr "New England's Place in Witchcraft" (AAS, 1911)p. 187, 217. Available free online as both PDF and book. Burr's 1914 compilation of "Narratives" might be the single most cited work on the subject of witchcraft in New England and it includes an abridged but lengthy reprint of Calef.
George Lyman Kittredge "Notes on Witchcraft" 1907 from AAS as a PDF. See p 178, 212. This essay also comprises Chapter 18 of the book Kittredge had printed by Harvard University Press in 1929. Also see Kittredge's shift away from witchcraft as his primary subject and toward biographical details of Cotton Mather's later years: "Cotton Mather's Election into the Royal Society" 1912 Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts PDF. Despite not completing the final step to obtain membership, Kittredge argues that F.R.S. should be added to his title. Also see: Kittredge, "Cotton Mather's Scientific Communications to the Royal Society" 1916 AAS PDF.
David Levin "Did the Mathers Disagree about the Salem Witchcraft Trials" PDF from AAS. See note 19.
Burr: "...they who begin by excusing their ancestors may end by excusing themselves." Burr accuses Kittredge of becoming carried away in the "generous zeal of his apology" and Burr states that Kittredge's findings are: "...so contradictory of ... my own lifelong study ... so unconfirmed by the further research ..." GL Burr "New England's Place in Witchcraft" (AAS, 1911)p. 187, 217. Available free online as both PDF and book. Burr's 1914 compilation of "Narratives" might be the single most cited work on the subject of witchcraft in New England and it includes an abridged but lengthy reprint of Calef.
See thorough study by Irene Parker in 1914. These private academies were created in opposition to the Conformity legislation of 1662 (Parker, p 44). Daniel Defoe attended one at Newington Green taught by Charles Morton, who emigrated to New England around the same time period as Calef. Also see S. Wesley's contemporary account.
Gill, Obadiah; Barnard, John; Goodwin, John; Robie, William; Wadsworth, Timothy; Cumbley, Robert; Robinson, George (1701). "To the Christian Reader". upon a Scandalous Book, against the Government and Ministry of New-England. Boston: T. Green/Nicholas Boone. p. A2.
