Martha has very modernized thoughts for her time, such as believing that local Native Americans are upset at the settlers since they took their land. The women are taken in for examinations and are questioned by men who already believe them guilty.ĭespite all of this happening, Liv befriends a woman named Martha Corey.

Some of the first accused include Sarah Goode, a homeless woman and Tituba, a slave from Barbados. Not long after, many of the girls Liv's age (including Ann and Abigail Williams) become afflicted with what the doctor rules as the 'Devil.' The girls start to blame some of the outcasts of the village for becoming 'spectres' which appear only to them and make them have seizures and fits. They all find Hobbs very strange and vile. Just then Abigail Hobbs arrives and tells all the girls that she met the Devil in the woods. This makes the girls dislike Liv more and they all turn on her. She wants to be closer friends with them and decides to impress the girls by writing her full name in cursive as her signature. They try to practice signing their signatures so they don't have to stick with the boring 'X.' Liv sees Abigail Williams and Ann Putnam whispering to each other and feels envious of their good friendship. One day, Mem and Liv go outside to play with some of the local girl.

This proves to be a hard task with all the gossiping widows around. Their uncle has made them promise not to let anyone know they are living alone. Their uncle (who is their legal guardian) has left to get money from fishing whales on the coast. Not long after there Uncle found them and took the girls to live with him in Salem Village.ĭeliverance is living in Salem Village, Massachusetts with her seventeen-year-old sister Remembrance 'Mem' Trembley. Deliverance's brother Ben joined the militia and Mem and Liv moved to Hartford, Conneticut to live with their mother's cousin, Widow Ruste. Not long after, Deliverance's father and two of her older brother died from smallpox. There was a Native American attack and Deliverance's stepmother was taken captive.

After the war ended Deliverance's father remarried and they returned to their home in Maine. Her mother died when she was only about four years old, at the end of King Philip's War. Deliverance was born around 1679 in Hartford, Connecticut.

Walk in dread by Cecil Binney