----- Original Message -----
From: Linda Reno <lreno(a)erols.com>
To: Shirley <swarren2(a)prodigy.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: [MDSTMARY-L] Joan Mitchell
Shirley, Joan Mitchell was the wife (?) of Capt. William Mitchell.
For
loads of
information, go the Archives of Maryland and do a search for Joan
Mitchell.
They did it all--adultery, living together while not married, etc.
Linda Reno
Shirley wrote:
> Witches of Wicomico
> Charles County, Maryland
> Contributed by Carole Hammett (From The Smoot Family Association on
the
> internet)
>
> Unquestionably the wife of John Hatch, one of Governor Fen dali's
Council,
> had brought abuseful reproaches upon Joan, his wife, in having
declared
that
> Goodie Mitchell had bewitched her face so that "shee
endureth abundance
of
> Misery by the soarness of her mouth ..." and two
depositions were filed
> attesting to the fact that Mrs. Hatch had spread such evil reports. The
> matter seems to have been dropped, however, until nearly two years later
> when at the September 24, 1661, at court, Joan Mitchell, now a widow,
> brought suits for defamation against four prominent residents of Charles
> County, including Francis. Doughtie, the minister, for having "raysed
> schandalous reports of mee . . . that I salluted a woman at church and
her
> teeth fell a Acking as if shee had been mad." It was also
testified that
> Mrs. Long, one of the others sued for defamation, had said that "the
hene
> and Chickens that she had of Goodie Mitchell ... did die in such
a
strang
> manner that she thaught sum old witch or other had bewitched
them" (pp.
> 54-55, 139, 142, 144-145, 155, 156).
>
> Is this Joan Mitchell the widow of Capt Wm Mitchell?