Robert Calef (baptized 2 November 1648 – 13 April 1719) was a cloth merchant in colonial Boston. He was the author of More Wonders of the Invisible World...

December 24, 2014. Robert Calef, More Wonders of the Invisible World Part 5, p. 143. ISBN 978-1947587106 Francis 2005, pp. 181–182 Robert Calef, More Wonders...

sustaining the witch hysteria behind those proceedings was denounced by Robert Calef in his book More Wonders of the Invisible World, published in 1700. In...

Osbourne would have me hurt the children." According to an investigation by Robert Calef that began soon after the trials, Tituba later recanted her confession...

author Robert Calef (baptized 1648–1719), English cloth merchant in colonial America Dr. John Calef House This page lists people with the surname Calef. If...

date is from "Biographical Notes" by Marilynne K. Roach. Robert Calef pp. 92-93. Robert Calef places this event on April 3, 1692, following the contemporaneously...

was chained. Eastey was tried and condemned to death on September 9. Robert Calef, in More Wonders of the Invisible World, described Eastey's parting words...

Glanvill. A copy of Glanvill's book was in Mather's library when he died. Robert Calef published a refutation of Mather's book in 1700. Cotton Mather was born...

More Wonders of the Invisible World, written by Boston merchant Robert Calef (1700) Calef accuses Mather of being the "most active and forward of any minister...

Below is the original account as first compiled and published in 1700 by Robert Calef in More Wonders of The Invisible World, and later reprinted or relied...

unknown person for the price of her jail fees. In an interview with Robert Calef for his collection of papers on the trials, titled More Wonders of the...

Speaker of the General Court, ceded authority Thomas Brattle Robert Calef Major Robert Pike John Hale, of Beverly, Massachusetts Cotton Mather, of Boston...

complied. Occasionally, Corwin would even stand on the stones himself. Robert Calef, who was a witness along with other townsfolk, later said, "In the pressing...

first-hand narrative of the witchcraft trials was later published by Robert Calef in More Wonders of the Invisible World, and the transcript from his trial...

laws of God and man. As a result, the overall message was equivocal. Robert Calef, a contemporary critic of the trials, called the document "perfectly...

also briefly mentioned in a thorough treatment of his son Cotton by Robert Calef in his comprehensive book of the Salem Trials and their aftermath, More...

letter writing campaign from a Boston wool merchant named Robert Calef. Among other things, Calef criticized them for suggesting "that hanging or chaining"...

1692 Salem witch trials by Robert Calef was printed in London and in his own book Hutchinson praises and recommends Calef's work, providing the name of...

stating that he relies on a work that shares a similar sentiment by Robert Calef. (Calef had been born and raised in Stanstead, England, only 11 miles south...

Invisible World by Cotton Mather More Wonders of the Invisible World by Robert Calef The warrant for Elizabeth's arrest Brief biographical notes "Salem's...

"The Weird Gathering"(1831), and later, "Calef in Boston" (1849), about the public debates between Robert Calef and Cotton Mather in the aftermath of the...

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timeline makes no direct mention of the sermon. Robert Calef also seems to take no notice of it despite Calef having published a manuscript that Cotton Mather...

October 13,1693, entry. Salem Village Church Recordbook facsimile p. 27 Robert Calef, More Wonders of the Invisible World, 1700, reprinted as The Witchcraft...

Despite a keen intelligence, his literacy skills were likely rudimentary. Robert Calef wrote, "It will be generally acknowledged, that not withstanding the...

Census 2001, Stanstead had a population of 316 with 127 households. Robert Calef (1648 - 1719), cloth merchant in colonial Boston and author. Edmund Rice...

 309. ISBN 978-1-58979-132-9. Retrieved 8 June 2012. Cotton Mather; Robert Calef (1866). The wonders of the invisible world, by C. Mather. W. Elliot Woodward...

who became more open about their criticisms of the trials. Along with Robert Calef and Thomas Maule, he was particularly critical of the procedures adopted...

interpretation favored by "antiquarians" had begun with the "malice of Robert Calef or deep hostility to Puritanism," either way "such notions are no longer...

Cambridge Association Minutes. ibid. Parris "Acknowledgements" recorded by Robert Calef in a book sent to England in 1697 and printed in 1700, p 58. Parris also...