This Document’s Pages

1	Frontispiece: William and Mary
2	Introduction
3	Contents: How to Find the Pieces		Pages	Maps
4	The Short Version
5	Beginnings: the Ball Family		Grandpa John Ball’s Inventory	Papa John Ball Reproved for Wife-beating	Ball Family Breakup
6	The Bacons of Woburn
7	Consternation and Barratry
8	Pregnancy and Birth		Hudson’s Bill
9	“Michael Billerica” Bacon
10	Letter to Bacon
11	Complaint and Warrant
12	Mary Writes to the Court
13	Bacon Breaks Jail
14	Friends Go Bacon’s Bail		Richard Nevers
15	Bastardy Bond
16	Warned Out of Town	26	Motivation
17	The Heroic Rescue	27	Second Hearing
18	William Munroe	28	Countersuit
19	William and Martha Munroe	29	Reaffirmation
20	Swine-stealing	30	Bacon’s “Reesons”
21	Summons	31	Munroe’s Answers
22	Witnesses: Gleason	32	Danforth’s Answers
23	Witnesses: Russell	33	Verdict
24	More on the Russells	34	Four Years Later
25	First Hearing	35	Epilogue: God rest her…

Most of the pieces fall on the backbone (pages 1 through 35). I may add other digressions to those which appear unnumbered in the columns on the right. You can approach them from here, or from links in the text.

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