Mary Francis EATON

24 JAN 1883 - ____

Father: Leonard EATON
Mother: Ella Francis PEAVEY


                                                                                          _Joseph EATON _______+
                                                                                         | (1728 - 1784) m 1750
                                                                    _Joel EATON _________|_Hannah CROSSMAN ____
                                                                   | (1751 - 1851) m 1774  (1731 - 1830)       
                                              _Apollos EATON ______|
                                             | (1775 - ....) m 1795|
                                             |                     |                      _Simeon LEONARD _____+
                                             |                     |                     | (1709 - 1754) m 1735
                                             |                     |_Lucy LEONARD _______|_Abigail MORSE ______
                                             |                       (1748 - 1842) m 1774  (1711 - 1795)       
                        _Henry EATON ________|
                       | (1807 - 1897) m 1845|
                       |                     |                                            _Jesse LEACH ________+
                       |                     |                                           | (1714 - 1744)       
                       |                     |                      _Zadock LEACH _______|_Alice CHURCHILL ____
                       |                     |                     | (1741 - ....)                             
                       |                     |_Parnel LEACH _______|
                       |                        m 1795             |
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                       |                                           |_Susannah WASHBURN __|_____________________
                       |                                                                                       
 _Leonard EATON _______|
| (1848 - 1932) m 1880 |
|                      |                                                                  _Noah WHITCOMB ______+
|                      |                                                                 | (1714 - 1798) m 1742
|                      |                                            _Noah WHITCOMB ______|_Mary FRANKLIN ______
|                      |                                           | (1748 - ....)         (1724 - 1808)       
|                      |                      _Richard WHITCOMB ___|
|                      |                     | (.... - 1827) m 1806|
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|                      |                     |                     |_____________________|_____________________
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|                      |_Eliza Ann WHITCOMB _|
|                        (1811 - 1880) m 1845|
|                                            |                                            _____________________
|                                            |                                           |                     
|                                            |                      _____________________|_____________________
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|                                            |_Susan LITCHFIELD ___|
|                                              (.... - 1840) m 1806|
|                                                                  |                      _____________________
|                                                                  |                     |                     
|                                                                  |_____________________|_____________________
|                                                                                                              
|
|--Mary Francis EATON 
|  (1883 - ....)
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|                      |                                           |_____________________|_____________________
|                      |                                                                                       
|_Ella Francis PEAVEY _|
  (1861 - 1926) m 1880 |
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                       |                                            _____________________|_____________________
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                       |                      _____________________|
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                       |                     |                     |_____________________|_____________________
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                       |_____________________|
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                                                                   |_____________________|_____________________
                                                                                                               

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Sarah Anne EMERSON

[50648]

23 OCT 1839 - 15 AUG 1916

Family 1 : Dudley A. CLOSSON
  1. +William T. CLOSSON
  2. +Ada M. CLOSSON
  3. +Minnie I. CLOSSON

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[50648] Sarah is daughter of Samuel Emerson (1805-1858) & Louisa Gray (1805-1883).

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Hannah GANNET

[27199]

4 AUG 1684 - 2 MAR 1767

Family 1 : Ebenezer KENT
  1. +Hannah KENT

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[27199] http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/KENT/1998-09/0905042949 states Hannah is daughter of Joseph Gannet and Deborah Coombs.

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William Nash PERKINS

[17363]

1 DEC 1818 - 2 MAY 1899

Father: Thomas PERKINS
Mother: Clarissa NASH

Family 1 : Phoebe PERKINS

                                                                                           _Jacob PERKINS ______________+
                                                                                          | (1662 - 1705) m 1684        
                                                                     _Jacob PERKINS ______|_Elizabeth SPARKS ___________
                                                                    | (1685 - 1770) m 1712  (.... - 1692)               
                                             _John PERKINS _________|
                                            | (1712 - ....) m 1736  |
                                            |                       |                      _John STOVER ________________+
                                            |                       |                     | (1653 - ....)               
                                            |                       |_Lydia STOVER _______|_Abigail (Alcock or) ALCOTT _
                                            |                         (.... - 1717) m 1712  (.... - 1730)               
                       _Daniel PERKINS _____|
                      | (1752 - 1830) m 1774|
                      |                     |                                              _____________________________
                      |                     |                                             |                             
                      |                     |                        _William PEARCE _____|_____________________________
                      |                     |                       | (1680 - 1735) m 1702                              
                      |                     |_Elizabeth PEARCE _____|
                      |                       (1717 - ....) m 1736  |
                      |                                             |                      _Arthur BEALE _______________+
                      |                                             |                     | (1638 - 1711) m 1663        
                      |                                             |_Mary BEALE _________|_Anne (or Agnes) HILTON _____
                      |                                               (.... - 1730) m 1702  (.... - 1715)               
 _Thomas PERKINS _____|
| (1783 - 1862)       |
|                     |                                                                    _____________________________
|                     |                                                                   |                             
|                     |                                              _Thomas PENNY _______|_____________________________
|                     |                                             | (1653 - ....)                                     
|                     |                      _Thomas PENNY _________|
|                     |                     |                       |
|                     |                     |                       |                      _Francis LITTLEFIELD ________+
|                     |                     |                       |                     | (.... - 1675)               
|                     |                     |                       |_Joanna LITTLEFIELD _|_Meribah WARDWELL ___________
|                     |                     |                                               (1637 - ....)               
|                     |_Abigail PENNY ______|
|                       (1752 - ....) m 1774|
|                                           |                                              _____________________________
|                                           |                                             |                             
|                                           |                        _____________________|_____________________________
|                                           |                       |                                                   
|                                           |_Abigail GRAY _________|
|                                                                   |
|                                                                   |                      _____________________________
|                                                                   |                     |                             
|                                                                   |_____________________|_____________________________
|                                                                                                                       
|
|--William Nash PERKINS 
|  (1818 - 1899)
|                                                                                          _____________________________
|                                                                                         |                             
|                                                                    _____________________|_____________________________
|                                                                   |                                                   
|                                            _Joseph NASH __________|
|                                           |                       |
|                                           |                       |                      _____________________________
|                                           |                       |                     |                             
|                                           |                       |_____________________|_____________________________
|                                           |                                                                           
|                      _Isaiah NASH ________|
|                     | (1748 - ....)       |
|                     |                     |                                              _____________________________
|                     |                     |                                             |                             
|                     |                     |                        _____________________|_____________________________
|                     |                     |                       |                                                   
|                     |                     |_______________________|
|                     |                                             |
|                     |                                             |                      _____________________________
|                     |                                             |                     |                             
|                     |                                             |_____________________|_____________________________
|                     |                                                                                                 
|_Clarissa NASH ______|
  (1792 - 1873)       |
                      |                                                                    _Christopher STROUT _________
                      |                                                                   | (.... - 1714) m 1680        
                      |                                              _Joseph STROUT ______|_Sarah PICKE ________________
                      |                                             | (1693 - 1748)                                     
                      |                      _Jeremiah STROUT ______|
                      |                     | (.... - 1843)         |
                      |                     |                       |                      _____________________________
                      |                     |                       |                     |                             
                      |                     |                       |_Priscilla THOMAS ___|_____________________________
                      |                     |                                                                           
                      |_Priscilla STROUT ___|
                        (1768 - 1836)       |
                                            |                                              _____________________________
                                            |                                             |                             
                                            |                        _____________________|_____________________________
                                            |                       |                                                   
                                            |_Mary ("Molly") SMALL _|
                                              (.... - 1820)         |
                                                                    |                      _____________________________
                                                                    |                     |                             
                                                                    |_____________________|_____________________________
                                                                                                                        

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[17363] William r. Penobscot, Me where he was a lumber dealer and owned a mill. The 1850 federal census in Penobscot, Hancock Co., ME lists him next to his parents and as a trader. "Biographical review : containing life sketches of leading citizens of Somerset, Piscataquis, Hancock, Washington, and Aroostook counties, Maine (1898)", p. 212: "William N. Perkins, a retired business man of Penobscot, Hancock County, was born in Harrington, Me., December I, 1818, son of Thomas and Clarissa (Nash) Perkins. The grandfather, Daniel Perkins, a native of York, Me., before there were any roads in the district, settled in the southern part of Penobscot township. There he spent the rest of his life excepting the period of the Revolutionary War, during which he stayed in his native town. The maiden name of his wife was Abigail Penny. Thomas Perkins, the father, born in York, Me., was educated under the tuition of a minister in Sedgwick, Me. He taught school for a time, during which period he lived in Harrington. Then he engaged in farming and lumbering. After returning to the homestead in 1826, he bought the Winslow place in the village, also purchased a saw and grist mill, which he carried on for many years. He died at the age of eighty. Clarissa, his wife, became the mother of ten children; namely, Daniel M., Eliza Ann, Alexander G., Gil-bert, William N., Augustus S., Abbie, Mary, Priscilla, and Edgar S. Of these, Daniel M., Eliza Ann, Alexander G., Gilbert, Priscilla, and Edgar S. are no longer living. Augustus S. is a retired merchant of Castine and Abbie and Mary reside in Penobscot. William N. Perkins has resided in Penobscot since he was eight years old. After completing his studies in the district schools he assisted his father upon the farm until he was twenty-two. Afterward, in company with his brother, he established the first store in the neighborhood, and the partnership existed for twenty-five years. He then opened a store upon his own account, and also engaged in ship-building and lumbering, furnishing the timber for the construction of several vessels, mostly schooners. At a later period he admitted his son into partnership in the business of the store. He has been out of business now for the past ten years. Mr. Perkins married Phoebe A. Perkins, who is the mother of eight children; namely, Justin, Roscoe, Bertha, Dora, William Rosco, Ernest, Elmer E., and Jay. Justin, Roscoe, and Dora are no longer living. W. R. Perkins married Oressa Van Buskirk, of Cherryfield, Me. ; Elmer E. married Marjorie Perkins, of Ellsworth, and has four children; and Jay is a physician in Providence, R.I. The father has served as Road Surveyor for twenty-five years. He cast his first Presidential vote for W. H. Harrison in 1840, has been a Republican since the formation of the party, and is an earnest advocate of the temperance cause."

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Hannah WALLIS

[16671]

14 SEP 1740 - ____

Father: Robert WALLIS
Mother: Hannah KINSMAN


                                                                                          _____________________
                                                                                         |                     
                                                                   ______________________|_____________________
                                                                  |                                            
                                             _Nicholas WALLIS ____|
                                            | (.... - 1711) m 1657|
                                            |                     |                       _____________________
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                                            |                                                                  
                       _Samuel WALLIS ______|
                      | (1664 - 1737)       |
                      |                     |                                             _Thomas BRADSTREET __+
                      |                     |                                            | (1573 - ....)       
                      |                     |                      _Humphrey BRADSTREET _|_____________________
                      |                     |                     | (1594 - 1655) m 1622                       
                      |                     |_Sarah BRADSTREET ___|
                      |                       (1638 - 1721) m 1657|
                      |                                           |                       _____________________
                      |                                           |                      |                     
                      |                                           |_Bridget HARRIS ______|_____________________
                      |                                             (1604 - ....) m 1622                       
 _Robert WALLIS ______|
| (1704 - 1775) m 1734|
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|                     |                      _____________________|
|                     |                     |                     |
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|                     |                     |                     |______________________|_____________________
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|                     |_Anna PORTER ________|
|                       (1667 - 1728)       |
|                                           |                                             _____________________
|                                           |                                            |                     
|                                           |                      ______________________|_____________________
|                                           |                     |                                            
|                                           |_____________________|
|                                                                 |
|                                                                 |                       _____________________
|                                                                 |                      |                     
|                                                                 |______________________|_____________________
|                                                                                                              
|
|--Hannah WALLIS 
|  (1740 - ....)
|                                                                                         _Robert KINGSMAN ____+
|                                                                                        | (1572 - 1647)       
|                                                                  _Robert KINSMAN ______|_____________________
|                                                                 | (1603 - 1664)                              
|                                            _Robert KINSMAN _____|
|                                           | (1629 - 1712) m 1652|
|                                           |                     |                       _____________________
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|                                           |                     |______________________|_____________________
|                                           |                                                                  
|                      _Joseph KINSMAN _____|
|                     | (1673 - 1741)       |
|                     |                     |                                             _Thomas BOREMAN _____+
|                     |                     |                                            | (1570 - ....) m 1595
|                     |                     |                      _Thomas BOREMAN ______|_Elizabeth CARTER ___
|                     |                     |                     | (.... - 1679) m 1630                       
|                     |                     |_Mary BOREMAN _______|
|                     |                       (1631 - ....) m 1652|
|                     |                                           |                       _____________________
|                     |                                           |                      |                     
|                     |                                           |_Margaret OFFING _____|_____________________
|                     |                                             (1610 - 1679) m 1630                       
|_Hannah KINSMAN _____|
  (1709 - 1792) m 1734|
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                      |                                            _Robert DUTCH ________|_____________________
                      |                                           | (1623 - 1686)                              
                      |                      _John DUTCH _________|
                      |                     | (1646 - 1685)       |
                      |                     |                     |                       _Richard KIMBALL ____
                      |                     |                     |                      | (1595 - 1675) m 1615
                      |                     |                     |_Mary KIMBALL ________|_Ursula SCOTT _______
                      |                     |                       (.... - 1686)          (1596 - 1676)       
                      |_Susanna DUTCH ______|
                        (1675 - 1734)       |
                                            |                                             _John ROPER _________
                                            |                                            | (1588 - 1644)       
                                            |                      _Walter ROPER ________|_____________________
                                            |                     | (1614 - 1680)                              
                                            |_Elizabeth ROPER ____|
                                              (.... - 1692)       |
                                                                  |                       _____________________
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                                                                  |______________________|_____________________
                                                                                                               

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[16671] Hannah m. Pelatiah Brown.

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Samuel WARDWELL

[655]

16 MAY 1643 - 22 SEP 1692

Father: Thomas WARDWELL
Mother: Elizabeth WOODROFFE

Family 1 : Sarah HOOPER
  1.  Mary (or Mercy) WARDWELL
  2.  Elizabeth WARDWELL
  3. +William WARDWELL
  4.  Elizabeth WARDWELL
  5. +Eliakim WARDWELL
  6. +Rebecca WARDWELL

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                                                                            |     
                                                _Hugo (Wardall or) WARDALE _|
                                               | (1538 - ....)              |
                                               |                            |   __
                                               |                            |  |  
                                               |                            |__|__
                                               |                                  
                        _John Wardall DE WELL _|
                       | (1562 - 1642) m 1591  |
                       |                       |                                __
                       |                       |                               |  
                       |                       |                             __|__
                       |                       |                            |     
                       |                       |____________________________|
                       |                                                    |
                       |                                                    |   __
                       |                                                    |  |  
                       |                                                    |__|__
                       |                                                          
 _Thomas WARDWELL _____|
| (1602 - 1646) m 1633 |
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|                      |                        ____________________________|
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|                      |                       |                                  
|                      |_Margaret WEBSTER _____|
|                        (1570 - 1642) m 1591  |
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|                                              |____________________________|
|                                                                           |
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|                                                                                 
|
|--Samuel WARDWELL 
|  (1643 - 1692)
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|                                               ____________________________|
|                                              |                            |
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|                       _Francis WOODROFFE ____|
|                      |  m 1598               |
|                      |                       |                                __
|                      |                       |                               |  
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|                      |                       |                            |     
|                      |                       |____________________________|
|                      |                                                    |
|                      |                                                    |   __
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|_Elizabeth WOODROFFE _|
  (.... - 1697) m 1633 |
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                       |                        ____________________________|
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                       |_Ann YEOMAN ___________|
                         (1575 - ....) m 1598  |
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                                               |____________________________|
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Samuel was hanged as a witch at Salem. He was a founder of Andover, MA where he married. See "Wardwell," Elizabeth Wardwell Stay (Greenfield, MA: E. A. Hall & Co., 1905), pp. 7-8, and "Penobscot Pioneers," Philip Howard Gray (Camden: Penobscot Press, 1994), pp. 107-109. His first wife, probable mother of a son named Thomas, is unknown. Samuel was the last man in America to be hanged for alleged witchcraft - his neighbor, widow Mary (Ayer) Parker, was hanged on the same day. See "A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch trials," Frances Hill (New York: Doubleday, 1995), pp. 186-188. http://www.geocities.com/j_mgage/fam-pages/wardwell.html reports: "Like many others, Wardwell, in his anxiety and terror, was led to make a complete 'confession.' While he was in a discontented mood because of a thwarted clandestine love affair with 'a maid named Barker,' he had seen some 'catts' meeting together behind Mr. Bradstreet's house. One of them, assuming the form of a black man, told him that if he would only sign the book, he should 'live comfortably and be a captain,' like Dudley Bradstreet. Following the classic example of Faust, Wardwell attached his name to the contract, was then baptized in the Shawsheen River, and abandoned his church affiliation. When Wardwell later was released from 'brain-storming,' he declared that the urgency of his tormentors had persuaded him, under emotional stress, that he must have done the deeds attributed to him. From that hour until his execution he never again weakened. He regretted that he had even once 'belyed' himself and announced that even though it might cost him his life, he would stick to the truth. No one of sufficient importance intervened in the poor man's behalf, and he was hanged on September 22, 1692, together with seven others. Even as the noose was being adjusted around his neck, Wardwell declared in a firm voice that he was innocent. While he was speaking a puff of smoke from the executioner's pipe blew across his face and some misguided girl shouted, 'The Devil doth hinder his words!' On this occasion the Reverend Nicholas Noyes, of the First Church in Salem, not content with mere watching, addressed the multitude of spectators, saying, 'What a sad thing it is to see eight firebrands of hell hanging there!' Wardwell's example was used in later trials as a threat to others of what might be their fate if they recanted their confessions. The injustice in his case reached beyond his grave. On January 2, 1693, his wife was brought before the Court of Trials, where a jury delivered the familiar verdict that she was "guilty of covenanting with the Devill." Meanwhile, the selectmen of Andover notified the Court of Quarter Sessions at Ipswich that the four Wardwell children were in suffering condition, and then proceeded to bind them out to other households in the neighborhood until they should be mature enough to pursue some gainful occupation. To pay the expenses of Wardwell's trial, the sheriff seized property of his amounting to 36 pounds, 15 shillings, including five cows, nine hogs, eight loads of hay, and six acres of corn upon the ground. Furthermore both Wardwells had to provide their own subsistence while they were in prison. Eventually Sarah Wardwell was reprieved and released. In 1712, his mother meanwhile having died, Samuel Wardwell, Jr., requested and received compensation for the financial loss which his family had suffered. Unfortunately it was too late to bring his father back to life. - Excerpt from Chapter 8 of 'Andover: Symbol of New England' by Claude M. Fuess." For extensive genealogy see the Neil Underleider (neilu@comcast.net) 2003 web site http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/u/n/g/Neil-Ungerleider-MA - cf. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wardell/499.htm

See "The Salem Witch Trials: A Reference Guide," K. David Goss (Greenwood Press, 2007), pp. 103-104.

http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ma/county/essex/salemvill/wardwell.htm offers:
"Samuel Wardwell, a carpenter by trade, lived with his wife and several small children in the south end of the town. Up to 1692 he was regarded as an eccentric but harmless individual who sometimes told fortunes, played with magic, and perhaps in jesting moods even claimed supernatural powers. His peculiarities attracted the attention of the witch hunters, and he was shortly charged by Martha Sprague, of Boxford one of those involved in the case of Abigail Faulkner of having practiced upon her 'certain detestable arts called witchcraft and sorceries.' In a second and more precise indictment it was alleged that Wardwell had twenty years before made a covenant with the 'evill speritt,' in which he had promised to honor, worship, and believe the 'devill.' Witnesses against him were not only the familiar group of Salem Village girls but also three respectable citizens of Andover: Joseph Ballard and Thomas Chandler, neighbors of his in the south end, both of whom had been selectmen; and Ephraim Foster, who for years had been clerk of the proprietors. This was a formidable array of accusers.
"Like many others, Wardwell, in his anxiety and terror, was led to make a complete 'confession.' While he was in a discontented mood because of a thwarted clandestine love affair with 'a maid named Barker,' he had seen some 'catts' meeting together behind Mr. Bradstreet's house. One of them, assuming the form of a black man, told him that if he would only sign the book, he should 'live comfortably and be a captain,' like Dudley Bradstreet. Following the classic example of Faust, Wardwell attached his name to the contract, was then baptized in the Shawsheen River, and abandoned his church affiliation.
"When Wardwell later was released from 'brain-storming,' he declared that the urgency of his tormentors had persuaded him, under emotional stress, that he must have done the deeds attributed to him. From that hour until his execution he never again weakened. He regretted that he had even once 'belyed' himself and announced that even though it might cost him his life, he would stick to the truth. No one of sufficient importance intervened in the poor man's behalf, and he was hanged on September 22, 1692, together with seven others. Even as the noose was being adjusted around his neck, Wardwell declared in a firm voice that he was innocent. While he was speaking a puff of smoke from the executioner's pipe blew across his face and some misguided girl shouted, 'The Devil doth hinder his words!' On this occasion the Reverend Nicholas Noyes, of the First Church in Salem, not content with mere watching, addressed the multitude of spectators, saying, 'What a sad thing it is to see eight firebrands of hell hanging there!'
"Wardwell's example was used in later trials as a threat to others of what might be their fate if they recanted their confessions. The injustice in his case reached beyond his grave. On January 2, 1693, his wife was brought before the Court of Trials, where a jury delivered the familiar verdict that she was 'guilty of covenanting with the Devill.' Meanwhile the selectmen of Andover notified the Court of Quarter Sessions at Ipswich that the four Wardwell children were in suffering condition, and then proceeded to bind them out to other households in the neighborhood until they should be mature enough to pursue some gainful occupation. To pay the expenses of Wardwell's trial, the sheriff seized property of his amounting to 36 pounds, 15 shillings, including five cows, nine hogs, eight loads of hay, and six acres of corn upon the ground. Furthermore both Wardwells had to provide their own subsistence while they were in prison. Eventually Sarah Wardwell was reprieved and released. In 1712, his mother meanwhile having died, Samuel Wardwell, Jr., requested and received compensation for the financial loss which his family had suffered. Unfortunately it was too late to bring his father back to life.
"- Extracted from chapter 8 of an out-of-print book called 'Andover: Symbol of New England,' by Claude M. Fuess."
Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials

[654] [S33] The Maine Genealogist," 18:4 (Nov. 1996)

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