Historical dream account · English · original historical text
The gallery above the child
Samuel Sewall (1652–1730)
Diary of Samuel Sewall, vol. I (1674–1700), in Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. V, fifth series, second edition (1878) · Diary, printed p. 240
Dreamer identified by the source: Samuel Sewall
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Dream'd much of my wife last night. She gave me a piece of Cake for Hannah Hett; was in plain dress and white Apron. Methoughts was brought to bed, and I through inadvertency was got up into the upermost Gallery, so that I knew not how to get down to hold up the Child.
“Last night” within the 18 December 1688 shipboard entry; an exact dream date is not supplied.
Source & context
A complete short firsthand dream within the December 18, 1688 shipboard entry. It stops before the waking latitude observation. The older childbirth, gallery and spelling expressions are retained without supplying an unstated subject or interpreting the event as waking fact. 'Last night' is retained; no exact modern dream date is assigned.
Samuel Sewall (1652–1730), own diary, Diary of Samuel Sewall, vol. I (1674–1700), in Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, vol. V, fifth series, second edition (Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1878), Diary, printed p. 240. Original Committee of Publication: George E. Ellis; William H. Whitmore; Henry Warren Torrey; James Russell Lowell (Committee of Publication). Original-edition witness: Internet Archive, University of California Libraries scan funded by MSN. Original dates, spelling, source brackets and author qualifications retained; descriptive title and navigation metadata added by Synastry.
“Last night” within the 18 December 1688 shipboard entry; an exact dream date is not supplied.
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Original 1878 second edition of seventeenth-century diary text, visually verified from title page and verso. IA metadata marks US status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT. Publication predates 1931; Samuel Sewall (1652–1730) and the original nineteenth-century publication committee are long deceased. This uses the old published text and an expired-US-publication basis, not a modern edited transcription or new Creative Commons licence. No blanket worldwide clearance is asserted.
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Diary, printed p. 240
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