We resolve uprightly to study what is our duty, & to make it our grief, & reckon it our shame, whereinsoever we find our selves to come short in the discharge of it, & for pardon thereof humbly to betake our selves to the Blood of the Everlasting Covenan

Salem Village Church Covenant, 1689

We resolve uprightly to study what is our duty, & to make it our grief, & reckon it our shame, whereinsoever we find our selves to come short in the discharge of it, & for pardon thereof humbly to betake our selves to the Blood of the Everlasting Covenant.

And that we may keep this covenant, & all the branches of it inviolable for ever, being sensible that we can do nothing of our selves,

We humbly implore the help & grace of our Mediator may be sufficient for us: Beseeching that whilst we are working out our own salvation, with fear & trambling, He would gratiously work in us both to will, & to do.And that he being the Great Shapherd of our sould would lead us into the paths of Righteousness, for his own Names sake. And at length receive us all into the Inheritance of the saints in Light.

1. Samuel Parris Pastor	The women which embodyed with us are by their sevarall Names as followeth Viz.
2. Nathaniel Putnam	1. Eliz: (wife to Sam) Parris
3. John Putnam	2. Rebek: (wife to John) Putman
4. Bray Willkins 79	3. Anna (wife to Bray) Wilkins
5.Joshua Rea	4. Sarah (wife to Joshuah) Rea
6. Nathaniel Ingersoll	5. Hannah (wife to Jn^o (jun?) Putman
7. Peter Clayes	6. Sarah (wife to Benj^a) Putman
8. Thomas Putnam	7. Sarah Putman
9. John Putnam Jun^r.	8. Deliverance Walcott Persis
10. Edward Putnam	9.Peiny (wife to William) Way
11. Jonathan Putnam	10. Mary (wife to Sam) Abbie
12. Benjamin Putnam
13. Ezekiel Ch[?]
14. Henry Wilkins
15. Benj^a Wilkins
16. William Way
17. Peter Prescott

Illi quont nominibus hoc signum praefigitur
+ e vivis cesserunt.

Part of the Salem Village Church Covenant, with signatures, 1689. In: Paul Boyer, Stephen Nissenbaum: Salem Possessed. The Social Origins of Witchcraft (Cambridge, Mass. And London, England: Harvard University Press, 1974), ii.