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Genealogy is just great. Now I find that I'm descended from another witch.
While Martha was quite a character who didn't deserve her fate, it sounds
like Rebecca did.
The Jarvis Mudge below is my 8th great- grandfather and I'm descended from
Micah.
Rebecca Elsen Mudge Greensmith who was brought to trial and hanged for
being a witch on Jan 8 1662 in Wethersfield, Connecticut.
Rebecca first married Abraham Elsen who died and left her a widow with two
young girls.
She later married Jarvis Mudge with whom she had two sons, Amos and Micah.
Jarvis Mudge died and she then married a Nathaniel Greensmith, a man
described as a prosperous deviant.
Rebecca Greensmith was described during her trial as a "lewd, ignorant and
considerably aged woman".
She had claimed that the devil and his followers had afflicted her body,
spoiled her name and hindered her marriage.
They were considered outcasts to the community. The gossip and rumours
around town was that they were possessed by the devil.
Nathaniel Greensmith, defending his wife, took his accuser to court, only
to be accused of being a witch himself.
The jury found them both guilty as being the Devil familiars and sentenced
them both to be hung on Gallow Hills in Hartford Connecticut.