Is there any First-hand account of the Salem witch trials?

Answer 1

Yes, but not what we would call evidence. It was assumed it ws evidence.

The reason Bridget Bishop was the only one tried on June 2nd was because they had found what they thought were witches tools in her home and she was the only one the found anything for. That made it hard because the debate about whether or not to use spectral evidence as evidence.

Answer 2

We have some of the court records, some letters by prominet people and Cotton Mather's Wonders of the Invisible World, the book that defends the trials.