Samuel Sewall's Diary was originally published as a 3 volume set. It was abridged and published in edited version in 1927.

DOES ANYONE HERE HAVE ACCESS TO THE UNABRIDGED VERSION?

The current version does not mention the execution of Daniel and Thomas Goble, sons of Thomas and Alice Brookman Goble circa 1676.

20 years ago I read a passage in a puritan era diary about the Goble executions, which mentioned that a man named White was brought to This execution in his bed. In a White genealogy researched in 1927, the genealogist found that White's young sons had been indentured to cover debts, some Whites had been killed by indians, and some had been killed for killing indians. John White m. Elizabeth Goble, daughter of Thomas and Alice Brookman Goble.

The reference and photo copy of that excerpt was lost in the great midwest flood of 1993, and I have been unable to find it again. My memory indicates the reference may have been in diary form, the author always receiving or handing out gloves associated with pallbearing...greater detail than I found in the abridged version of Samuel Sewall's diary. It is possible that funerals attended to by Sewall were part of what was edited out...and just as possible that I have not yet found the source for the notes on the Goble Execution.

If this passage seems familiar to you, or if you have access to the original unabridged version of Sewall's Diary, I would appreciate any assistance you can offer in locating the account.

Thanks!