CHAPTER IX.
One Hundred and Fifty More Alleged Witches.
Ah this was bad enough, but it was but the beginning of trouble.

Tituba had spoken of two other women, but had given no names.

The "afflicted children" were still afflicted, and growing worse, instead of better.
The Rev.Master Noyes of Salem town, the Rev.Master Parris of Salem village, Sergeant Thomas Putnam, and his wife,--which last also was becoming bewitched, and had many old enmities--and many other influential people and church members, were growing more excited, and vindictive against the troubles of their peace, with every passing day.
"Who are they that still torment you in this horrible manner ?" was the question asked of the children and young women, and they had their answers ready.
There had been an old quarrel between the Endicotts and the Nurses, a family which owned the Bishop Farm, about the eastern boundary of said farm.

There had been the quarrel about who should be minister, in which the Nurses had sided with the determined opponents of Mistress Ann Putnam's reverend brother-in-law.

The Nurses and other families were staunch opposers of Master Parris's claim to ownership of the Parsonage and its grounds.