Make sure you follow the link to the Corey family sight also.
Neal
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Date sent: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 00:53:49 -0800
To: ncarrier(a)dreamscape.com
From: "Steven Wallace" <stevenwallace7(a)hotmail.com>
Subject: PML Search Result matching carrier
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Source: MAESSEX-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [MAESSEX] Salem, Ma.- Bible
In my search for long lost Parkers and Proctors, I came across this ....
most of you have probably seen this but, if not, the town list and the
surnames are interesting. (and NO my Parkers and Proctors were NOT on these
lists <g>) ..I am still trying to find John Proctor's (b. 17 AUG 1663,
Chelmsford) wife Miriam. I have nothing on her, Steven
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From Diary of Judge Samuel Sewall (1674-1729)
19 AUG 1692 ....George Burroughs, John Willard, John Proctor, Martha Carrier
and George Jacobs were executed at Salem, a very great number of Spectators
being present. Cotton Mather, Simns, Hale, Noyes, and Cheever, etc. All of
them said they were innocent, Carrier and all.
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http://www.coryfamsoc.com/articles/witch.htm
In the spring of 1693, Sir William Phips, Governor of Massachusetts,
liberated 168 people in Salem's Witch Dungeon who awaiting the hangman's
noose. Several of these people died shortly thereafter from their neglect
and abuse while in the dungeon. By 1710, the General Court had begun to
"reverse some of the convictions, judgments and attainders and declare them
null and void," and in the next year or two some compensation, if
inadequate, had been paid to the families of some of the sufferers. The
First Church in Salem erased from their records and blotted out the
excommunication of Rebecca Nurse and Giles Cory.
The Reverend Samuel Parris, after a long acrimonious struggle with the men
whose wives, mothers, and friends he had helped to drag to the gallows, was
driven from the Village in 1697, and, after unimportant service in the
frontier towns, died in Sudbury in 1720. His wife died and was buried in
Danvers before he left that parish.
One of the young girls, Ann Putnam confessed her fraud 14 years later at the
age of 26. She had her minister read the confession at Sunday service "It
was a great delusion of Satan that deceived me in that sad time whereby I
justly fear I have been instrumental to bring upon myself and this land the
guilt of innocent blood." The following is a list of those hanged at Gallows
Hill, Salem, Massachusetts for witchcraft:
Name Village or Town Date
Bridget Bishop Salem 10-Jun-1692
Sarah Good Salem Village (Danvers) 19-Jul-1692
Susanna Martin Amesbury 19-Jul-1692
Elizabeth Howe Ipswich 19-Jul-1692
Rebecca Nurse (or Nourse) Salem Village (Danvers) 19-Jul-1692
Sarah Wildes Topsfield 19-Jul-1692
George Jacobs Salem Village (Danvers) 19-Aug-1692
Martha Carrier Andover 19-Aug-1692
Reverend George Burroughs Wells, Maine 19-Aug-1692
** John Proctor Salem Village (Peabody) 19-Aug-1692 **
John Willard Salem Village (Danvers) 19-Aug-1692
Martha Corey Salem Village (Peabody) 22-Sep-1692
Mary Easty Topsfield 22-Sep-1692
** Alice Parker Salem 22-Sep-1692 **
** Mary Parker Andover 22-Sep-1692 **
Ann Prudeater Salem 22-Sep-1692
Wilmot Reed Marblehead 22-Sep-1692
Margaret Scott Rowley 22-Sep-1692
Samuel Wardwell Andover 22-Sep-1692
Accused of Witchcraft, died in jail:
Sarah Osburn, May 10, 1692
Roger Toothaker, June 16, 1692
unnamed infant of Sarah Good, prior to July 19, 1692
Ann Foster, Dec. 3, 1692
Lydia Dastin, March 10,1693
While the term "Salem Witches" is common nowadays, it ignores the fact that
most of the accused were not from Salem. The jail and site of executions
were in Salem, but the accused were mostly from other towns and villages in
the area. Only 10 the 134 who were accused and were held in Salem's Jail
were from Salem Towne. The complete count was:
1 Amesbury
38 Andover
2 Boxford
1 Boston
6 Billerica
6 Beverly
3 Charlestown
1 Chelmsford
3 Gloucester
3 Haverhill
1 Great Island
2 Marblehead
7 Lynn
1 Malden
4 Reading
1 Rowley
1 Romney Marsh (today called Revere)
1 Salisbury
10 Salem
30 Salem Village (today this is part of Danvers and of Peabody)
7 Topsfield & Ipswich
1 Wells, Maine
3 Woburn
In addition to the 134 above, another 34 were accused and in various jails
awaiting trial when Governor Phips released all the prisoners.
The only person who seemed to profit from the witchcraft hysteria was
Sheriff George Corwin who confiscated property and pocketed fees collected
from the accused and their relatives.
Giles Corey's son-in-law, John Moulton, husband of Elizabeth Corey,
presented a document to the General Court on 13 September 1710:
"...in the yere 1692 some time in march our honerd father and mother Giles
Corey & Martha his wife ware acused for soposed wich Craft and imprisoned
and ware Removed from on prison to another as from Salem to ipswich & from
ipswitch to boston and from boston to Salem againe and soe remained in Close
imprisonment about four months...our father was put to soe Cruell and
painfull a death as being prest to death our mother was put to death also
though in another way."
It is remarkable that the original 552 documents recording court testimony
during the witchcraft trial have been preserved and are still stored by the
Peabody Essex Museum.
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