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their property was then sold… i believe that one person was in charge of the sale for the village.
> On Nov 8, 2015, at 9:09 AM, Gordon Crooks via <colby(a)rootsweb.com> wrote:
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> This is interesting and I am a Colby descendant and have long ago seen other
> examples of this sort of thing before. Women have been persecuted by men
> since the beginning of time. In the 1660's Covenanter Martyrs were hanged,
> shot and killed by other means BUT it was ONLY WOMEN died at the "stake" for
> the most part. There are examples in the Martyrs list of women being staked
> out on the beach at low tide and who drowned when the tide came in. Sounds
> to me like "male dominant"
>
> Gordon Crooks
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> From: Jeanne Turner via
> Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2015 5:00 PM
> To: robert ; colby(a)rootsweb.com
> Subject: Re: [COLBY] The Witches: Salem, 1692 -New Best Seller Non-Fiction
> book
>
> Our daughter, Lauren, a colby descendant (who just had another), received an
> MA in US history. She says there are many interpretations of why there was
> such a frenzy of witch hunts but that women who were perceived as a threat
> to the patriarchal society - either single women or widows who owned
> property were apt to be accused of being witches. I found this online, which
> certainly fits that pattern.
>
> "Martin figures in historian Carol Karlsen's account of the Salem outbreak
> as an example of a woman who was easily targeted as a threat to the orderly
> transmission of property down the paternal line because of Martin's role in
> an ongoing court dispute over her father's will."
>
> Another version is that some children found a lot of power in testifying
> against various women. Some of them had lost parents on the frontier during
> Indian warfare, (Indians being likened to the devil), and were now being
> used as servants which did not sit well with them. When they began accusing
> people of being witches, all of a sudden they were listened to.
>
> Having lived 73 years, I suspect that it was a combination of both of the
> above in addition to is being dark outside (no street lights in those days)
> that led to the crazed frenzy of witch hunts.
>
> Jeanne
>
> On Nov 7, 2015, at 6:10 AM, robert via <colby(a)rootsweb.com> wrote:
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> For those new to Colby-L and connection to Colby's.
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> Book: The Witches: Salem, 1692
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> http://www.stacyschiff.com/the-witches-salem-1692.html
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> Susannah Martin: Accused Witch from Salisbury
>
> Posted on February 14, 2012 by Rebecca Beatrice Brooks
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> Susannah North Martin was one of a handful of accused witches during the
> Salem Witch Trials who did not actually live in Salem.
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> Born in 1621 in Buckinghamshire, England to Richard and Joan North, Susannah
> relocated with her father and stepmother to the Merrimack plantation in
> Salisbury, Massachusetts in 1639.
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> The North family were some of the first settlers of Salisbury, which is
> located 40 miles north of Boston and was originally called Colchester before
> being renamed Salisbury in 1640.
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>
> The family lived with the other settlers on plots along the "circular road,"
> now known as the triangle formation of Elm street, School street and Bridge
> road in Salisbury square. At the time, the area was inhabited by Penacook
> Native Americans, wolves and wild animals.
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> After Susannah grew up, she married a blacksmith from Salisbury named George
> Martin in 1646 and eventually gave birth to eight children. In 1654, George
> and Susannah moved to nearby Amesbury.
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>
> http://historyofmassachusetts.org/susannah-martin-accused-witch-from-salisbu
> ry/
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> http://www.macycolbyhouse.org/Susannah-Martin/
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> Mary MARTIN was born on 10 MAR 1709/10 in Amesbury, Essex County,
> Massachusetts. She was living in 1744 in Amesbury, Essex County,
> Massachusetts. She died before 1753 at Amesbury, Essex County,
> Massachusetts. She has Ancestral File Number K807-3L. Mary's great
> grandmother, Susannah Martin, was wrongly tried and executed for witchcraft
> during the Salem witch trials in 1672.
>
> SOURCE: Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, pg. 110 & 666
>
> Parents: John MARTIN and Mary WELLS.
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> Spouse: Isaac COLBY. Isaac COLBY and Mary MARTIN were married on 3 JAN
> 1727/28 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Children were: Eliphalet
> COLBY, John COLBY, Isaac COLBY, Elizabeth COLBY, Nehemiah COLBY, Nehemiah
> COLBY, David COLBY, Richard COLBY.
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> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~colby/colbyfam/b600.html
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> Bob Colby
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The Colby-Family-Association website was just now updated with the
descendants of Anthony & Susannah. AND!
*FREE TO GOOD HOME* sign as I need to re-home the site.There must be some
Colby descendant who would love to take on the challenge. I will give all
the pages I have and the right to the name.
Contact me & we can talk about it!
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Alice Colby Volkert
Past President Colby Family Association
www.volkertservices.comwww.colby-family-association.org
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