"Occasionally, being to my brother Morse's hous, he showed to me a pece
of brick, what had several times come down ye chimne. I sitting in ye
cornar towde that pece of brick in my hand. Within a littel spas of tiem
ye pece of brick was gone from me I know not by what meanes. Quickly
after it come down chimne. Also in ye chimne cornar I saw a hammar on ye
ground. Their bein no person nigh it, it was sodenly gone, by what
meanes I know not; but within a littell spas it fell down chimne, and
... also a pece of woud a fute long.
"Taken on oath Dec. the 8, 1679, before me,
"JOHN WOODBRIDGE, COMMISSIONER."