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Subject, Description, and (Best Source to Locate Information On Them)

Devil, AKA Lucifer, Satan, Beelzebub, (Americana, Infotrac, Web search engine)

Daniel Webster, statesman, lawyer and the story’s protagonist. (Americana, Discovering, Infotrac, Web search engine)

Walter Butler, the loyalist, who spread fire and horror through the Mohawk Valley in the
times of the Revolution. (Americana, Infotrac, Web search engine)

Simon Girty, the renegade, who saw white men burned at the stake and whooped with the Indians to see them burn.  (Wilson, Americana, Infotrac, Web search engine)

King Philip was there, wild and proud as he had been in life, with the great gash in his head that gave him his death wound, and cruel (Americana, Discovering, search terms: "King Philip's War, Infotrac, Web search engine)

Governor Thomas Dale, who broke men on the wheel. (Americana, Infotrac, Web search engine)

Thomas Morton of Merry Mount, who so vexed the Plymouth Colony, with his flushed, loose, handsome face and his hate of the godly. (Wilson, Americana, Web search engine)

Teach (Edward), the bloody pirate, with his black beard curling on his breast.  (Wilson, Discovering, Americana, Infotrac, Web search engine)

Reverend John Smeet, with his strangler's hands and his Geneva gown, walked as daintily as he had to the gallows. The red print of the rope was still around his neck, but he carried a perfumed handkerchief in one hand. (Little now known about him on the Web.)

Benedict Arnold, American Revolutionary War general and traitor to the U.S.  (Americana, Discovering, Infotrac,Wilson, Web search engine)

Justice Hathorne a jurist of experience, he presided at certain witch trials once held in Salem. There were others who repented of the business later, but not he. (Americana- do a full-text search, Web search engine)