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Salem Village Committeemen

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The Committee List Data Set (Sample)

Committee Members	Petition	Social	1685	1686	1687
Putnam, Lt. John [Senr]	Pro-P	Church Member	1685	1686	1687
Walcott, Jonathan	Pro-P	Householder	1685
Buxton, John	Anti-P	Householder	1685
Sibley, William	NoS	Householder	1685	1686
Putnam, Thomas Junr	Pro-P	Church Member	1685	1686	1687
Flint, Thomas	Pro-P	Church Member		1686	1687
Tarbill, John	Anti-P	Church Member		1686	1687
Porter, Lt. Isarell	Anti-P	Freeholder			1687

The Committee List Data Set provides information about all Salem Village committee members who held office from 1685 to 1698. The data set contains 18 columns:

• "Committee Members" records the names of the thirty-one villagers who held committee office from 1685-1698. They are listed in the order in which they first appeared in the village's Book of Record.

• "Petition" notes whether the committeeman signed either the pro- or anti-Parris petition in 1695. "NoS" (no signature) means that this committeeman did not sign either petition.

• "Social" indicates whether the committeeman was a church member or a householder.  (Three committeemen, William Sibley, James Smith, and Jacob Fuller, have been listed as householders in the absence of information linking them to a church; the three did not sign either petition.)

• Columns 4-17 indicate committee membership for each year.

• "Sort" permits data to be easily restored to their original order.

To explore how Salem Village's committeemen divided in their factional loyalty, click Next.