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October 1692
October 3: Rev. Increase Mather denounced the court's reliance on spectral evidence.
October 8: Influenced by Increase Mather and other Boston-area ministers, Gov. Phips ordered the court to stop using spectral evidence in the proceedings.
October 12: Governor Phips wrote to the Privy Council in England that he formally halted the proceedings in the witch trials.
October 18: Twenty-five citizens, including Rev. Francis Dane, wrote a letter condemning the trials, addressed to the governor and the General Court.
October 29: Governor Phips ordered a stop to any more arrests. He also ordered some of the accused be released. He dissolved the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
