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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 17: heresy and witchcraft. (search)
urt, Samuel Green. Court Files, 1660. Similar warrants were issued March 28, 1660, requiring John Gibson, Sen., his wife, and his daughter Rebecca, wife of Charles Stearns, to make answer to the widow Winifred Holman. Both cases seem to have been tried together. A mass of testimony is still preserved in the files of the County grounds the charge of witchcraft was made two hundred years ago:— A relation of the passages between Mrs. Holman and her daughter Mary, and the wife of Charles Stearns, The orthography of this testimony is corrected, except that proper names are left unchanged. Mrs. Stearns was daughter of John Gibson, Sen., subject to fMrs. Stearns was daughter of John Gibson, Sen., subject to fits, and partially demented. now living in Cambridge. The first thing that makes us suspect them is that after she had two extraordinary strange fits, which she never had the like before, Mary Holman asked her why she did not get some help for them, and she answered she could not tell what to do; she had used means by physicians,
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
f Hinsdale, N. H., m. Abigail, dau. of Henry Prentice, 22 Sept. 1763. Gearner, Edmund, in 1635, owned house and land at the S. W. corner of Brighton and Winthrop streets. He removed before 1642. Gibson, John, in 1635, owned a house on the easterly side of Sparks Street not far southerly from Vassall Lane; and soon after he added three acres more, so that his estate extended across to Garden Street. By his w. Rebecca he had five children, all bap. here: Rebecca, b. about 1635, m. Charles Stearns 22 June 1654, and within two years afterwards was grievously afflicted with a mental disorder, imagining herself to be under the power of witchcraft; Mary, b. Mar. 1637-8, m. John Ruggles of Rox. 3 Ap. 1655; and d. 6 Dec. 1674; Martha,b. . Ap. 1639, m. Jacob Newell of Rox. 3 Nov. 1657; John, b. about 1641; Samuel, b. 28 Oct. 1644. His w. Rebecca was buried at Rox. 1 . Dec. 1661, and he m. Joanna wid. of Henry Prentice, 24 July 1662. He signed a petition to the King in 1688, and d. in
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, G. (search)
f Hinsdale, N. H., m. Abigail, dau. of Henry Prentice, 22 Sept. 1763. Gearner, Edmund, in 1635, owned house and land at the S. W. corner of Brighton and Winthrop streets. He removed before 1642. Gibson, John, in 1635, owned a house on the easterly side of Sparks Street not far southerly from Vassall Lane; and soon after he added three acres more, so that his estate extended across to Garden Street. By his w. Rebecca he had five children, all bap. here: Rebecca, b. about 1635, m. Charles Stearns 22 June 1654, and within two years afterwards was grievously afflicted with a mental disorder, imagining herself to be under the power of witchcraft; Mary, b. Mar. 1637-8, m. John Ruggles of Rox. 3 Ap. 1655; and d. 6 Dec. 1674; Martha,b. . Ap. 1639, m. Jacob Newell of Rox. 3 Nov. 1657; John, b. about 1641; Samuel, b. 28 Oct. 1644. His w. Rebecca was buried at Rox. 1 . Dec. 1661, and he m. Joanna wid. of Henry Prentice, 24 July 1662. He signed a petition to the King in 1688, and d. in