Records of Salem witchcraft, copied from the original documents

This volume assembles primary-source documents relating to the Salem witch trials, preserving testimony, legal records, and contemporary statements. Its historical importance lies in its documentary approach, which gives readers direct access to the language and procedures of one of the most studied episodes in colonial American history.

William Eliot Woodward appears to be an obscure figure associated in bibliographic records with esoteric or occult literature. I do not have enough reliable information to provide a detailed biography without speculation.