Transcriber’s Note Italic text displayed as: _italic_ THE WITCHCRAFT DELUSION OF 1692 BY GOV. THOMAS HUTCHINSON FROM AN UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT (AN EARLY DRAFT OF HIS HISTORY OF MASSACHUSETTS) IN THE MASSACHUSETTS ARCHIVES WITH NOTES BY WILLIAM FREDERICK POOLE BOSTON PRIVATELY PRINTED 1870 [Reprinted from the NEW-ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER for October, 1870.] DAVID CLAPP & SON, Printers, Boston. THE WITCHCRAFT DELUSION OF 1692. INTRODUCTION. In May last I had occasion to consult the original manuscript of Gov. Hutchinson’s second volume of the _History of Massachusetts_, which, it is well known, is among the Hutchinson papers in the State archives in Boston. I had never befo…
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