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"pid": "GMQ1-VHN",
"url": "https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Barnard-254",
"name": "Thomas Barnard",
"gender": "Male",
"desc": "In 1692, he was involved in the Salem Witchcraft Trials. \"It was in this season...that the devil took over Andover...There were two ministers in Andover, it was apparently the younger, Thomas Bernard, who opened the door .\" \"After Mr. Barnard had been at prayer, we were blindfolded, and our hands were laid upon the afflicted persons, they being in their fits and falling into their fits at our coming into their presence, as they said; and some led us and laid our hands upon them, and then they said they were well, and that we were guilty of afflicting them: Whereupon, we were all seized, as prisoners...,\" Declaration of Mary Osgood, Martha Tyler, Deliverance Dane, Abigail Barker, Sarah Wilson, and Hannah Tyler"
}