Mistress Ann Putnam, Abigail Williams (the minister's niece), Elizabeth Hubbard and Mary Walcott, were the accusers.
"Abigail Williams, have you been hurt by this woman ?" said magistrate Hathorne.
"Yes," replied Abigail.

And then Mistress Ann Putnam fell to the floor in a fit; crying out between her violent spasms, that it was Rebecca Nurse who was then afflicting her.
"What do you say to those charges ?" The accused replied: "I can say before the eternal Father that I am innocent of any such wicked doings, and God will clear my innocence." Then a man named Henry Kenney rose, and said that Mistress Nurse frequently tormented him also; and that even since he had been there that day, he had been seized twice with an amazed condition.
"The villain!" muttered Joseph Putnam to those around him, "if I had him left to me for a time, I would have him in an amazed condition!" "You are an unbeliever, and everybody knows it, Master Putnam," said one near him.

"But we who are of the godly, know that Satan goes about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour." "Quiet there!" said one of the magistrates.
Edward Putnam (another of the brothers) then gave in his evidence, saying that he had seen Mistress Ann Putnam, and the other accusers, grievously tormented again and again, and declaring that Rebecca Nurse was the person who did it.
"These are serious charges, Mistress Nurse," said Squire Hathorne, "are they true ?" "I have told you that they are false.

Why, I was confined to my sick bed at the time it is said they occurred." "But did you not send your spectre to torment them ?" "How could I?
And I would not if I could." Here Mistress Putnam was taken with another fit.

Worse than the other, which greatly affected the whole people.