In the summer of 1661, George Milton, a resident of Sammuelston in the Haddington region, found himself drawn into the judicial machinery of the Scottish witch trials. His case, formally registered under the reference C/JO/3137, began on July 7 of that year. Throughout the contemporary legal records, his name is occasionally transcribed as Milnetown, as noted in the *Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland*.
The administrative trail of George’s ordeal indicates that his proceedings were marked by multiple stages of legal scrutiny. He was subjected to at least two distinct trial sessions, recorded in the archives as T/JO/1632 and T/JO/2165. While the surviving documentation focuses primarily on these procedural milestones, they stand as a quiet testament to the intense period of judicial activity that characterized the Haddington area during the mid-seventeenth century.