Hi Irene and everyone! On 7/14/02, Irene Del Bono wrote: >What I am trying to find is a good copy and/or translation of those >two appeals to authorities. I apologize if they are already on the >'net and easily found They are indeed already on-line! :D Digital images of the Petition of Mary Easty can be found at: http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/archives/essex/ecca/vol1/294.html and the WPA transcription of it is in Boyer & Nissenbaum's SWP, online at: http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-salem?specfile=/texts/english/salem/public/salem.o2w&act=text&offset=525312&textreg=0&query=Easty Digital Images of the petition of Mary Easty and Sarah Cloyce are at: http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/archives/essex/ecca/vol1/295.html and the WPA transcription of it is in BOyer & Nissenbaum's SWP, online at: http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-salem?specfile=/texts/english/salem/public/salem.o2w&act=text&offset=522984&textreg=0&query=Easty As for finding a place to share the images of the Easty desk -- and the Cloyce house, for that matter -- I have plenty of webspace available if you'd like to email me images directly off-list, and I can make up some pages and post the URL to the List. (Rootsweb sets up its lists so that images cannot be attached.) Cheers, Margo -- Margo Burns, List Owner of the SALEM-WITCH List at Rootsweb.com margo@ogram.org