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"buttermaker"
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Jim Watkinson <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 7 May 2003 10:33:16 -0400
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While I know the last trial for witchcraft in Virginia was circa 1705 in
Princess Anne Co., I have just come across an accusation of witchcraft
in Orange Co. from February 1745 (!).  Rather late in the day it seems.
My question, tho', involves the accusation that "you (the said Barbara
[Moyer] again meaning :) are a Buttermaker meaning that the said Barbara
is a witch."

 

"Buttermaker"?  Any thought on the origin of this epithet?

 

James D. Watkinson, Ph.D.

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