Well, the list was awfully slow in 2006, hopefully we can be more active
in 2007.
While googeling around today I found the following on the Billerica
Library site and was wondering if any one recalls ever seeing what was
contained in the mentioned petition and who submitted it.
Neal Carrier
Thomas Carrier, alias Morgan, an emigrant from Wales, was not at first
accepted as an inhabitant, and a petition was presented to the county court
against his admission. The witchcraft delusion in 1692, involved his family
in the greatest distress. Richard Carrier, his son, (born in this town,
16 July,
1674,) was one of the witnesses against Mr. George Burroughs. His wife
was arrested on suspicion of witchcraft, had a trial before the court at
Salem, was condemned, 5 August, and executed on the 11th, among the
unhappy victims at Salem village. The confession of his daughter, Sarah
Carrier, a child about seven years old, before Major Willard, is given by
Hutchinson, vol 2, page 44, first edition. It appears that he had left
town,
before his family was involved in this sad catastrophe, and had settled in
Andover, or in its vicinity.