5 George Winthrop Geib, “A History of Philadelphia, 1776-1789” (thesis, Univ. of Wis., 1969), 23; citing Philadelphia Pennsylvania Packet, 16 July 1787; Pennsylvania Herald, 21 July 1787.
6 Gummere, “Friends in Burlington,” 259.
7 These books were John Heydon, Theomagia: or, The Temple of Wisdom (1644), and Agrippa [a false attribution], The Fourth Book of Occult Magic (1655). Reginald Scot, Discoverie of Witchcraft (1584), argued that witches did not exist. A discussion of this episode appears in Jon Butler, “Magic, Astrology and the Early American Religious Heritage, 1600-1760,” AHR 84 (1979), 333-34.