Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society

Excerpt from Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society: At the Semi-Annual Meeting, Held in Boston, April 29, 1874 This statement is from a letter of inquiry respecting our proposed publication of Cotton Mather's manuscript account of the case of Mercy Short, a case similar to that of Mar garet Rule, but of greater interest and fuller details. It will be remembered that the account of Margaret Rule was not published bv Mather himself, but by his enemy Calef, who, by some means, obtained possession of it. The story of Mercy Short, from an endorsement upon it, appears to have been privately circulated among friends, but there is nothing to show that Mather intended it for publication. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.