[12] The case of Ann Cole was fully reported in a letter by Mr. John
Whiting, minister at Hartford, under whose observation it occurred,
to Increase Mather, dated Dec. 10, 1682. The document is one of the
_Mather Papers_, and is printed in _Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll._, vol.
xxxviii. pp. 466-469. An abstract of the case is in Increase Mather’s
_Remarkable Providences_, chap. v. pp. 96-99, London ed. 1856, and
Cotton Mather’s _Magnalia_, Hartford ed. 1855, vol. ii. p. 448. Several
of the incidents are not correctly stated by Hutchinson, either in the
manuscript or printed text. Ann Cole did not live next door to a Dutch
family. The name of the woman executed, Greensmith, appears in both
abstracts by the Mathers, but not in Mr. Whiting’s original statement.
The woman and her husband were both executed.