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I know what the rest of 'em call him, said the young fellow. They call him Little Boston. There's no harm in that, is there? It is an honorable term, I replied. But why Little Boston, in a place where most are Bostonians? Because nobody else is quite so Boston all over as he is, said the young fellow. "L. B. Ob. 1692." Little Boston let him be, when we talk about him.
It is an instructive fact, as illustrating the retributive dealings of Providence, that the direst affliction of the Massachusetts Colony the witchcraft terror of 1692 originated with the Indian Tituba, a slave in the family of the minister of Danvers.
This accident fell out in 1692; and is of too particular a kind to pass unnoticed. Mr.
Upham has not seen this tract, as he neither mentioned it nor made use of its material." The document here spoken of was designed to give Increase Mather's ideas on the subject of witchcraft trials, written near the close of those in Salem, in 1692.
The extraordinary ability with which, at the beginning of the year 1692, he managed the conference on the Bill for regulating Trials in cases of Treason, placed him at once in the first rank of parliamentary orators. On that occasion he was opposed to a crowd of veteran senators renowned for their eloquence, Halifax, Rochester, Nottingham, Mulgrave, and proved himself a match for them all.
Judge Sewall, too, and the Jury that had given the verdicts at the Trials, in 1692, publicly and emphatically acknowledged that they had been led into error. All these things afford decisive and affecting evidence of a prevalent conviction that a great wrong had been committed.
Casbury said that he remembers not the year of Sir Everard Charlett's death, but it was 1692 or 3. Casbury was amaz'd when he learn'd the death. He was found in the town ditch, the hair as was said pluck'd clean off his head. Most bells in Oxford rung out for him, being a nobleman, and he was buried next night in St. Peter's in the East.
A simultaneous insurrection was planned in both kingdoms, while a descent from the French coast was to have divided the attention of the friends of government; but the defeat of the French fleet near Cape La Hogue, in 1692, frustrated this combined attempt, and relieved the nation from the dread of civil war.
I do not find this penalty ever was paid, as it was under the sway of grim Calvin, a fact which redounds to the credit both of justice and youth in colonial days. It was not strange that Judge Sewall, always finding in natural events and appearances symbols of spiritual and religious signification, should find in his children painful types of original sin. "Nov. 6, 1692.
The first threw out lava in 1718 and 1812; in the second there is a continual formation of sulphur by the condensation of vapours, which issue from the crevices of an ancient crater. The last eruption of the volcano of Guadaloupe took place in 1797. The Solfatara of St. Christopher's was still burning in 1692.
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