Mercy Lewis was seventeen at the start of the witchcraft hysteria, and a servant in the Putnam household. In March 1692 she joined Betty Parris, Abigail Williams, Elizabeth Hubbard, and Ann Putnam in having fits. With the support of these four and Ann Putnam Sr., she led the outcry against Martha Corey, and was to remain one of the chief accusers throught 1692. Lewis had come to live in Salem when she was fourteen, taken in by George Burroughs after witnessing the slaughter of her parents by Indians in Casco, Maine.

Mercy Lewis v. Susannah Martin