In September of 1692 nine Gloucester women were accused of witchcraft.  Esther Elwell, Margaret Prince, Elizabeth Dicer, Joan Penney, Phoebe Day, Mary Rowe, Rachel Vinson, Abigail Rowe and Rebecca Dike.  That same year Gloucester resident Ebenezer Babson asked some of the afflicted Salem village girls to visit his mother who was complaining of “spectral visions” of […]