Birth: 1416 Normandy, France
Witchcraft Accusation: 1469 England; Accused of witchcraft by Thomas Wake, but Jacquetta was cleared by the king's great council of the charges in 1470. After her death, Richard III also accused her of witchcraft, but offered no proof.
Death: 30 May 1472 Northamptonshire, England
Burial: Body lost or destroyed
Kinfolk of Note: Great-Grandmother of King Henry VIII
Jacquette was the wife of Larry's 20th Great-Uncle, Sir Richard Wydeville
Birth: Jun 1614 St Bride, London, England
Witchcraft Accusation: 1635 Shropshire, England; Mary Garner was tried by water for witchcraft. She was weighed down with stones and thrown in the river. Since she had not been able to free her bonds and escape without drowning, she was deemed to have been innocent.
Death: 1635 Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England; Drowned proving her innocence of witchcraft
Cause of Death: Executed for Witchcraft
Burial: Shropshire, England;
The State provided a Christian burial because she was found to be innocent
Mary Garner is the sister-in-law of Don Steven's 10th Great-Grandfather, Richard Gardner
The Witches of Shropshire - the Wives of Richard and Thomas Garner
Was it about witchcraft or was it about gaining control of the Lion Inn?
John Garner, born 1578 in Solihul, Warwickshire, England had three sons - Thomas, John, and Richard. They had each inherited a 1/3 interest in the Lion Inn, a carriage inn at Shrewbury, from their mother Joan Underwood’s dowry about 1631.
Thomas married Mary Lacye. She was drowned as a witch in 1635 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England.
Richard married Katharn Lacey. She was drowned as a witch in 1636 in Shropshire, England.
Thomas and Richard took their children and immigrated to Virginia in 1636 and 1637. Richard “freely gave” his share of the inn to brother John, or so John said. John stayed in England. It is assumed that he was married. He still owned the inn in 1643 and he wanted quiet title to it.
Birth: 1604 Stanton Lacy, Shropshire, England
Witchcraft Accusation: 1636 Shropshire, England; She was accused of witchcraft, and "tried by ordeal", which involved being bound, weighed down with heavy stones and thrown in a river. If she was a witch, and in league with the devil, he would free her bonds and she would be able to swim to the surface, in which case she would have been burned as a witch. However, she drowned, was declared innocent, and was given a proper Christian Burial
Death: 1636 Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England; Drowned to be found innocent of Witch Craft in trial by Water
Cause of Death: Executed for Witchcraft
Burial: Shropshire, England;
The State provided a Christian burial because she was found to be innocent
Birth: Abt. 1593 Somerset, England
Witchcraft Accusation: 1656 New Hampshire; Three other deponents say, they heard Eliz, the wife of Nicholas Rowe, say that there were three male Witches at Strawberry Bank; one was Thomas Turpin, who was drowned . . .
Death: 29 Oct 1649 York County, Maine
Cause of Death: Accidental Drowning
Burial: Lost at Sea
Birth: 11 Jul 1653 Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts
Witchcraft Accusation: 1692 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; Accused of witchcraft- Convicted in the Salem Trials and hanged
Trial: 25 Mar 1692 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; Good was tried and convicted of witchcraft, although she never confessed. Good was pregnant at the time of her arrest and gave Birth to an infant named Mercy in her cell in the jail in Ipswich. Mercy died before her mother was hanged.
Death: 19 Jul 1692 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; While the other four quietly awaited execution, Good firmly proclaimed her innocence
Cause of Death: Executed for Witchcraft
Burial: Salem Witch Trials Memorial, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts;
(the actual location of her body is unknown. It was likely cast off in a ditch, not deserving of a Christian burial due to the witchcraft charge)
Notable Quote: I am no more a witch than you are a wizard, and if you take away my life, God will give you blood to drink
Birth: 1688 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
Witchcraft Accusation: 1692 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; Age: 4; Dorothy Good was in custody from March 24, 1692 until December 10, 1692. She was never charged, but was kept in the cold Ipswich jail until her her poor father managed to gather up £50 for Dorothy’s bail and “board.” By that time, the child suffered from grave psychological damage that would destroy the rest of her life. By some historic accounts, she had become insane.
Death: Aft. 1721 Massachusetts
Birth: Bef. 30 Sep 1621 Olney, Buckinghamshire, England
Witchcraft Accusation: 1692 ; She was accused of being a witch by several residents of Salem Village and was arrested and tried for witchcraft. She defended herself defiantly but was found guilty and hanged, along with four other women
Witchcraft Accusation: 1669 Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts; William Sargent accused Susannah of witchcraft. George Martin sued Sargent for slander against Susannah and a higher court dismissed the witchcraft charges
Trial: 1692 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; She was tried for witchcraft, during which she proved to be pious and quoted the Bible freely, something a witch was said incapable of doing. Cotton Mather countered Susannah's defense by stating the Devil's servants were capable of putting on a show
Death: 19 Jul 1692 Massachusetts; Hanged for witchcraft in Salem Village
Cause of Death: Executed for Witchcraft
Burial: Salem Witch Trials Memorial, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
Birth: 19 Aug 1650 Andover, Essex, Massachusetts
Witchcraft Accusation:
May 1692 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; Martha was accused of witchcraft by a group of young women known as the Salem Girls, who would travel through Essex County, Massachusetts rooting out suspected witches by engaging in a theatrical display
Trial: 31 May 1692 Salem Village, Essex, Massachusetts; Cotton Mather believed the testimony of her son and daughter that she had made them become witches, even though John Proctor witnessed the children's torture in the jail where he was also imprisoned, until they said what their interrogators wanted to hear
Death: 19 Aug 1692 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts;
Martha was taken in the back of a cart to Gallows Hill in Salem. Cheering crowds lined the streets and gathered at the scaffold to witness the hanging. She never gave up as even from the scaffold, her voice was heard asserting her innocence
Cause of Death: Executed for Witchcraft
Burial: Salem Witch Trials Memorial, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
Birth: 18 Jul 1682 Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Witchcraft Accusation: Aug 1692 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; At Age 10, he was accused of being a witch, and testified that his mother had taught him witchcraft.
Death: 07 Mar 1739 Colchester, New London, Connecticut
Burial: Colchester, New London, Connecticut
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