Certain documents by and about all of these strange matters were available at the Essex Institute, the Court House, and the Registry of Deeds, and included both harmless commonplaces such as land titles and bills of sale, and furtive fragments of a more provocative nature. There were four or five unmistakable allusions to them on the witchcraft trial records; as when one Hepzibah Lawson swore on July sixteenth, 1692, at the Court of Oyer and Terminen under Judge Hathorne, that “fortie Witches and the Blacke Man were wont to meete in the Woodes behind Mr. Hutchinson’s house,” and one Amity How declared at a session of August eighth before Judge Gedney that “ Mr. G. B. (George Burroughs) on that Nighte put the Divell his Marke upon Bridget S. , Jonathan A. , Simon O.