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Deodat Lawson was an English-born Puritan minister who served as minister at Salem Village from 1684 to 1688 and later as pastor of the Second Society in Scituate, Massachusetts. He returned to England in 1696, after which his life is largely obscure. His surviving publications include sermons, a firsthand narrative of the Salem witchcraft accusations, and an elegy for victims of a 1693 shipwreck.

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Cover of A Brief and True Narrative of Some Remarkable Passages Relating to Sundry Persons Afflicted by Witchcraft, at Salem Village: Which Happened from the Nineteenth of March, to the Fifth of April, 1692

A Brief and True Narrative of Some Remarkable Passages Relating to Sundry Persons Afflicted by Witchcraft, at Salem Village: Which Happened from the Nineteenth of March, to the Fifth of April, 1692

Lawson's best-known surviving work and a primary contemporary account of the opening weeks of the 1692 Salem witchcraft outbreak.

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Novels (1)
  1. A Brief and True Narrative of Some Remarkable Passages Relating to Sundry Persons Afflicted by Witchcraft, at Salem Village: Which Happened from the Nineteenth of March, to the Fifth of April, 1692

    nonfiction · 1692

Essays and speeches (2)
  1. Christ's Fidelity the Only Shield Against Satan's Malignity: Asserted in a Sermon Delivered at Salem-Village, the 24th of March, 1692, Being Lecture-Day There, and a Time of Publick Examination, of Some Suspected for Witchcraft

    sermon · 1693

  2. The Duty and Property of a Religious Housholder Opened in a Sermon Delivered at Charlestown, on Lords Day December 25, 1692

    sermon · 1693

Poetry (1)
  1. Threnodia, or a Mournfull Remembrance, of the Much to Be Lamented Death of the Worthy & Pious Capt. Anthony Collamore, Who Together with Five Persons More Were Cast-Away in a Sloop Going from Scituate Harbour Toward Boston, on the 16. Day of December 1693

    poetry · 1694