[2] He spent time as the chaplain with troops in Connecticut during King Philip's War in 1675–76.
According to legend, she yelled to him: "I'm no more a witch than you are a wizard, and if you take away my life God will give you blood to drink", although this sentence does not appear in any of contemporary reports of the execution.
It is reported that he turned toward the suspended bodies of the victims and said, "What a sad thing it is to see eight firebrands of hell hanging there.
William Noyes, and great grandmother of renowned patriot Nathan Hale), and the ghost of executed Mary Eastey of afflicting her, but unsurprisingly Sarah Noyes Hale was never formally charged or arrested.
[8] Some sources claim Noyes later retracted his opinions on the witch trials, and publicly confessed his error,[2] but an entirely unflattering portrait of Noyes as an active persecutor of the accused witches in the examinations prior to their trials is presented by Frances Hill in her book, A Delusion of Satan.