Margaret
This is the last letter I believe I will be able to write to you. The fortune your Father left us has been a great burden to this family and me. I really want to know how you are doing in Normandy with your husband, but I don’t believe that you’ll letter will arrive soon enough. Wurzburg has accused me of witchery, but I didn’t want to burden you with this trouble.
The people in the town believe that the success our family has is because of an arrangement with Satan. Everything has been taken away from us, the house, the cattle, currency. All the servants turned against me and our family. Remember I used to help them economically when they most needed in the years of war, plagues, and hunger. I would always give them more bread and soup for them to not starve to death.
Remember Ms. Parris and the girls I used to have tea with every Sunday after Church? My so called friends have decided to testify against me. They said that it was a conduct of witches’ behavior to have been very independent and that it was weird to them how your father died. Together with this, they want to take our dignity with this trial, they have harmed me so much that I can’t resist anymore and I have decided to confess to this lie. I can’t keep taking the tortures that keep getting worse with every single day that passes by. I can’t wait for my death because the tortures are worst than the fires of hell. Please don’t dare come back because this town has been forgotten by God and I believe that they will accuse you too.
I love you Margaret, please don’t let my grandson grow knowing this horrible story. Tell him of our moment in the house and of the great man his grandfather was. Tell him of our success and not of how they took away our dignity. Let him know that he is worth plenty and that his grand mother is watching him from heaven. Remember Margaret, that you will always be in my prayers and that no matter what, you had a good family that was in the grace of God.
Sincerely,
Eleanor Junius
September 12, 1675
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