Table of Contents for One Rape. Two Stories.

Table of Contents

One Rape. Two Stories. is long and involved. You can start from the top and work your way down one chapter at a time, or you can jump around using the links below.


	The "official" story	The story from Martha Ballard's Diary
Introduction	Indictment for an Assault	"Shocking Indeed!"
Chapter 1	The New Minister	The New Minister
Chapter 2	Henry Sewall mounts an attack against Rev. Mr. Foster	Martha likes Foster's sermons
Chapter 3	Foster sues the Sewalls	Martha attends the slander trial
Chapter 4	More suits and countersuits	Martha looks after the Fosters
Chapter 5	Foster is dismissed	Foster's dismissal is debated
Chapter 6	Foster haggles with the town	Foster haggles with the town
Chapter 7	Foster's creditors line up to collect	Fosters creditors line up to collect
Chapter 8	Foster is out of town in August of 1789	Martha is "at Mrs Fosters" in August of 1789
Chapter 9	What happened to Foster's wife while he was away?	What happened to Foster's wife while he was out of town?
Chapter 10	Rebecca Foster accuses Judge North and two others of rape	Rebecca Foster swears a Rape "on a number of men"
Chapter 11	The case is heard in Vassalboro	The case is heard in Vassalboro
Chapter 12	Judge North flees after the Sessions hearing	Judge North flees after the Sessions hearing
Chapter 13	Rebecca Foster has a child	Rebecca Foster has a child
Chapter 14	The Supreme Judicial Court hears the case in Pownalboro	The Supreme Judicial Court hears the case in Pownalboro
Chapter 15	The verdict of the Supreme Judicial Court	The verdict of the Supreme Judicial Court
Chapter 16	The Foster story in the official town history	Martha's entries on Rev. Foster appear in a 1904 town history
Chapter 17	The Foster epilogue	The Foster epilogue
Conclusion	CONCLUSION

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