title: The Salem Witchcraft Trials: A Legal History
author:  Peter Charles Hoffer 
description: "Hoffers analysis sheds important light on early American law. "<i><b>Law and Politics Book Review</b></i>
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  Contents
  
  [List of Authors](9781118326022_list_of_author.xhtml)
  
  [Chronology](9781118326022_Chronology.xhtml)
  
  [Thematic Table of Contents](9781118326022_Thematic.xhtml)
  
  [Preface to the Second Edition](9781118326022_fpref.xhtml)
  
  [Editorial Principles](9781118326022_Editorial.xhtml)
  
  [Acknowledgments](9781118326022_Acknowledgmet.xhtml)
  
  [Introduction](9781118326022_cintro.xhtml)
  
  [Cotton Mather (1663–1728)](9781118326022_c01.xhtml)
  
  [The Tryal of G. B. at a Court of OYER AND TERMINER, HELD IN SALEM,
  1692](9781118326022_c01.xhtml#head1)
  
  [The Trial of Martha Carrier, at the COURT OF OYER AND TERMINER, HELD BY
  ADJOURNMENT AT SALEM, AUGUST 2, 1692](9781118326022_c01.xhtml#head2)
  
  [A Notable Exploit; wherein, Dux Faemina Facti [The Narrative of Hannah
  Dustan]](9781118326022_c01.xhtml#head3)
  
  [“Abraham Panther”](9781118326022_c02.xhtml)
  
  [A surprising account of the Discovery of a Lady who was taken by the Indians
  in the year 1777, and after making her escape, she retired