Salem, Massachusetts was the home of Reverend Trask. It is most notorious for the Salem witch trials of 1692.
In 1795, Abigail Collins became convinced that Victoria Winters was practising witchcraft at Collinwood and sent to Salem for Reverend Trask. His great-great-grandson, Gregory Trask, said that Reverend Trask mysteriously disappeared after he left Collinsport to return to Salem.