imilar fate, when she was arrested on suspicion of witchcraft.
She was long confined in prison, leaving four young children, one of them an infant, to the tender mercies of her neighbors.
What made her case the more deplorable was, that she had long been partially deranged.
During her confinement, her mother
Thomas Andrew, the father of Mrs. within Jacobs, died about 1647, and his widow married Nicholas Wyeth; he died July 19, 1680, and she married Thomas Fox, Dec. 16, 1685; she died in 1698. presented a petition to the court in her behalf, on account of her mental infirmity, but in vain.
She then addressed to the Governor and Council a petition which is still preserved in the archives of the Commonwealth, and which deserves insertion here:—
To his Excellency Sir William Phips, Knt., Governor, and the honorable Council now sitting in Boston, the humble petition of Rebeccah Fox of Cambridge sheweth,—
That whereas Rebecah Jacobs (daughter of your humble petitioner) has
vid Fiske, 1689, 1697.
Thomas Oliver, 1692, 1693, 1698, 1701-1713.
John Leverett, 1696, 1699, 1700, 1706
Jonathan Remington, 1674, 1688, 1689, 1691-1694, 1698-1700.
Isaac Stearns,* 1674.
Matthew Bridge,* 1
Ephraim Winship,* 1679.
John Oldham, 1679, 1695-1698, 1700– 1703, 1706-1708, 1711-1714.
John Hastings,nship, 1691-1693, 1695– 1701.
James Oliver, 1694, 1698, 1699.
Abraham Hill, 1695, 1696.
William Russe 1700-1702, 1704, 1705, 1712-1714.
Joseph Simons, 1698, 1699.
William Reed, 1698, 1699.
John Leverett1698, 1699.
John Leverett, 1699, 1700.
Samuel Sparhawk, 1701-1705, 1709, 1710.
Samuel Cooper, 1702-1710, 1712– 1716.
Andrew Bopt in the year 1694.
Walter Hastings, 1694, 1697, 1698, 1700-1705.
Samuel Stone, 1694, 1697, 1698.
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Thomas Oliver, 1694, 1697-1699, 1706, 1715.
Josiah Parker, 1699.
Francis Bowman, 1699-1709, 1711.
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Samuel Andrew, 1682-1692.
Jona. Remington, 1693, 1698-1700.
Samuel Green, 1694-1697.
Andrew Bordman,<
fterwards, 16 Dec. 1685, Mr. Fox m. Rebecca, wid. of Nicholas Wyeth.
He had no children by his last three wives.
He d. 25 Ap. 1693, aged 85; his w. Rebecca d. in 1698.
After his marriage to Mrs. Green he resided in Holmes Place, about midway between its northeasterly angle and North Avenue, until the house was destroyed by firen about 1679;, and d. of small-pox 28 Feb. 1702-3, a. 56; his w. Judith m. Col., Jonathan Tyng and d. 5 June 1736, a. 98.
4. John, s. of Jabez (3), grad.
H. C. 1698, succeeded his father in the ministry at Woburn 17 Nov. 1703 and d. 12 Dec. 1756, a. 78, having been blind for the last fifteen years of his life.
His son Jabez, Bethia, b. 23 Nov. 1661, m. Nathaniel Bond 1684; Elizabeth, b.——,m. Job Hyde; Isaac, b. 2 Dec. 1665, d. 1691, a. 26.
John the f. was a farmer and maltster; he d. 1698, a. 87.
2. John, s. of John (1), m. Abigail Ballstone (or Boylston) 30 June 1682, and had Sarah, b. 5 Oct. 1683; John, b.2 Sept. 1685, and perhaps others.
John
y, b. 27 June 1683; Isaac, b. 15 Ap. 1685; Ephraim,b. 11 Sept. 1686; Elizabeth, b. 14 Mar. 1690-91; Timothy, b. 4 Mar. 1692-3; Eliphalet; Abiah.
4. Samuel, s. of Samuel (3), was styled waterman, and rem. from Billerica to Camb.
about 1692.
In 1698 his father conveyed to him the warehouse, boat-house, and wharf rights (which he had inherited), at the southwest corner of Dunster and South streets, and a house and land on the southeast corner.
A part of this estate he sold to Jonathan Remingtr inscription of like nature, it appears that he had a third wife, Elizabeth, formerly wife of Edward Wyer; she d. 14 Dec. 1714, a. 79.
2. John, s. of William (1), res. at the Farms, where his children John, Hannah, and Constance, were bap. in 1698-9, and Nathan, 12 Mar. 1699-1700.
He had also, by w. Hannah, William, b. 1 Feb. 1700-1, m. Phebe——about 1725, and Tabitha Jones 29 May 1745; Elizabeth, b. 5 Mar. 1702-3; Susanna. b. 23 Jan. 1705; Jonas, b. 22 Nov. 1707, m. Joanna Locke 3 Jan. 173