Roger Toothaker was a farmer and folk-healer from Billerica who
specialized in detecting and punishing witches. For several years
before the
Salem Witch Trials began in 1692, Toothaker had bragged to
locals that he had taught his daughter, Martha Emerson, wife of
Joseph Emerson, his trade and that she had killed a witch. According
to the book “The Salem Witch Trials: A Day-By-Day Chronicle of a
Community Under Siege,” the victim is believed to possibly be
Mathias Button of Haverhill, Mass
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