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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 17: heresy and witchcraft. (search)
village, and soon spread widely. It was imagined that Satan was making a deadly assault on men through the intervention of witches. I do not propose to enter upon the general history of that tragedy; The mischief began at Salem in February; but it soon extended into various parts of the Colony. The conatgion, however, was principally the County of Essex. Before the close of September, nineteen persons were executed and one pressed to death, all of whom asserted their innocence.— Holmes' Amer. Annals, i. 438. but as one of the victims was a child of Cambridge, a brief notice of her case may be proper. Rebecca, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Andrew, was born here, April 18, 1646, and married John Frost, June 26, 1666; he died in 1672, and she married George Jacobs, Jr., of Salem. The father of her second husband and her own daughter had already been imprisoned, and her husband had fled to escape a similar fate, when she was arrested on suspicion of witchcraft. She was long con
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 20: Indian History. (search)
and not to stir above one mile from the centre of such place, upon peril of their lives. Coll. Amer. Antiq. Soc., II. 449, 450. This cruel frame of spirits (for I can give it no gentler denominatioh was distant from that place about four leagues, where I shall leave them at present. 1 Coll. Amer. Antiq. Soc., II. 473, 474. In May, 1676, many of the men having performed military service for tagainst them put the magistracy upon a kind of necessity to send them all to the island. Coll. Amer. Ant. Soc., II. 485. Again, an Indian who had a certificate of fidelity from Gookin and was actua against the Indian, but as much against Major Gookin, who granted him the certificate. Coll. Amer. Ant. Soc., II. 481. Again, he says, notwithstanding the council's endeavors in the former orderssh reflections and speeches were uttered against Major Daniel Gookin and Mr. John Eliot. Coll. Amer. Ant. Soc., II. 452, 453. As a specimen of the popular clamors and animosity, I copy a few ma
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
d that President Dunster was son of Henry, of Balehoult, England, a man liberally educated and living 20 Mar. 1640, as appears by a letter from him of that date; that he had three brothers, Thomas, Richard, and Robert, and two sisters, Faith, who m. Edmund Rice of Sudbury, and had many children, and Dorothy, who m. [Simon] Willard and had children. The marriage of Faith to Edmund Rice I have not been able to verify; nor have I found evidence that Dorothy was the name of Mrs. Willard. In the Amer. Quar. Reg., 1839, it is stated that Major Willard m. two of Mr. Dunster's sisters; but their names are given as Elizabeth (or Isabel), and Mary. Mr. Dunster, in his will, speaks of his sister Willard, and also of sister Hills, understood to be the w. of Joseph Hills of Malden; but Mr. Hills m. Helen Adkinson (or Atkinson) in Jan. 1635-6, who was prob. living at the date of the will, 1658; she may, however have, been a widow, at the time of this marriage, or she may have been sister to Mrs
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, D. (search)
d that President Dunster was son of Henry, of Balehoult, England, a man liberally educated and living 20 Mar. 1640, as appears by a letter from him of that date; that he had three brothers, Thomas, Richard, and Robert, and two sisters, Faith, who m. Edmund Rice of Sudbury, and had many children, and Dorothy, who m. [Simon] Willard and had children. The marriage of Faith to Edmund Rice I have not been able to verify; nor have I found evidence that Dorothy was the name of Mrs. Willard. In the Amer. Quar. Reg., 1839, it is stated that Major Willard m. two of Mr. Dunster's sisters; but their names are given as Elizabeth (or Isabel), and Mary. Mr. Dunster, in his will, speaks of his sister Willard, and also of sister Hills, understood to be the w. of Joseph Hills of Malden; but Mr. Hills m. Helen Adkinson (or Atkinson) in Jan. 1635-6, who was prob. living at the date of the will, 1658; she may, however have, been a widow, at the time of this marriage, or she may have been sister to Mrs