Rambles about Portsmouth. Sketches of persons, localities, and incidents of two centuries: principally from tradition and unpublished documents. By Charles W. Brewster.

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scene of this matter lay, and was her right; sjhe having
been often very clamorous about that affair, and heard to
say with much bitterness, that her neighbor (innuendo the
forementioned person, his name George Walton) should
never quietly enjoy that piece of ground. Which, as it
has confirm'd miyself and others in the opinion that there
are sucb things as Witches, and the effects of Witchcraft, or
at least of ithe mischievous actions of evil spirits.
";Sometime ago being in America, (in His then Majesty's
service,) I was log'd in the said George t~alton's house, a
Planter there, and on a Sunday night, about ten o'clock,
many stones were heard by myself and the rest of the family, to be thrown and (with noise) hit against the top and
all sides of the house, after he the said Walton had been at
his fence-gate, which was between him and his neighbor
one John Amazeen an Italian, to view it; for it was again,
(as formerly) wrung off the hinges, and east upon the
groui; and in his being there, and return home with several persons of (and frequenting) his family and house,
about a slight shot distance from the gate, they were all
assaulted with a peal of stones, (taken we conceive, from
the rocks hard by the House,) and this by unseen hands or
agents. For by this time I was come down to them, having
risen out of -y bed at this strange alarm of all that were
in the house, and do know that they all looked out as
narrowly as I did, or any person could, (it being a bright
moon-lightnight) but could make no discovery. Thereupon, and because there came many stones, and those
pretty great ones, some as big as my fist, into the entry or
porch of the House, we withdrew into the next room to
the Porch, no person having received any hurt, (Praised be
Almighty Providence, for certainly the infernal agent, constant enemy to mankind, had he not been over-ruled,
intended no less than death or maim).save only that two
youths were hit, one on the leg the other on the thigh,