Communities Under Assault
| Bin | Amesbury | Andover | Beverly | Billerica | Boston |
| -1 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 5 |
| 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 5 | |
| 2 | 8 | 5 | 5 | ||
| 3 | 8 | 6 | |||
| 4 | 8 | ||||
| 5 | 7 |
The Towns Data Set provides a convenient way to construct histograms of the communities whose residents were charged with witchcraft in 1692. (To construct your own data set, click here).
It contains 25 columns:
- Twenty-four columns record each town for which at least one formal accusation occurred (Salem Village and Salem Town are listed separately). Each cell lists the month of an accusation, numerically expressed: 1=January 1692, 2=February 1692, and so forth. The negative number, -1, indicates that the month of accusation is unknown.
- A "Bin" column contains the range of months of witchcraft accusations, from 1 (January 1692) to 12 (December 1692), with -1 for unknown months of accusation.
To construct histograms of the leading centers of witch accusations, click Next.