May 16, 1740

1740 May 16 (Friday).  Mr. William Nurse[1] here with Mr. Calef’s Book of the Witchcraft at Salem in the Year 1692.[2]

[1]Of Westborough.

[2]Robert Calef (1648-1719) was a Boston merchant and writer who disputed with Cotton Mather over witchcraft.  No printer in Boston would print his tract but it  appeared in England as More Wonders of the Invisible World: or The Wonders of the Invisible World, display’d in Five Parts (London 1700).