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| Notes for Elizabeth THORNDIKE | ||||||||||||||
| 9"ELIZABETH, aged "twenty & upward" 26 Nov. 166119, when she testified in Court at Salem; d. at Salem, 30 Aug. ,1672; m. at Ipswich in Dec. 1662, JOHN PROCTOR, b. in England in 1632; executed for witchcraft at Salem, 19 Aug. 1692, son of John & Martha Proctor. He m. (2) 1 Apr 1674 Elizabeth Bassett, who was one of the first to be tried at Salem for witchcraft and who would probably have met the fate of her husband had it not been for the delicate state in which she was at the time." [she was pregnant] Children (surname PROCTOR), the second child recorded at Ipswich, Mass., the five younger children recorded at Salem, Mass.: 1. Elizabeth, b. about 1663. 2. Martha, b. 1 April 1665; d. 10 May 1665. 3. Martha, b. 4 June 1666. 4. Mary, b. 20 Oct. 1667; d. 15 Feb. 1667/8. 5. John, b. 28 Oct 1668. 6. Mary, b. 30 Jan .1669/70. 7. Thorndike, b. 15, July 1672. (looks like mother Elizabeth she died in childbirth after birth of this last child). | ||||||||||||||
| Notes for John (Spouse 1) | ||||||||||||||
| 20John Proctor was hung in Salem, Ma. as a wizard on August 19, 1692. 9"ELIZABETH, aged "twenty & upward" 26 Nov. 1661, when she testified in Court at Salem; d. at Salem, 30 Aug. ,1672; m. at Ipswich in Dec. 1662, JOHN PROCTOR, b. in England in 1632; executed for witchcraft at Salem, 19 Aug. 1692, son of John & Martha Proctor. He m. (2) 1 Apr 1674 Elizabeth Bassett, who was one of the first to be tried at Salem for witchcraft and who would probably have met the fate of her husband had it not been for the delicate state in which she was at the time." 21John PROCTOR had three wives: Martha (---), m. 1655, Ipswich, Essex Co MA; Elizabeth THORNDIKE (dau John THORNDIKE & Elizabeth STRATTON), m. Dec. 1662, Ipswich, Essex Co MA; and Elizabeth BASSETT, m. 1 Apr 1674, Salem, Essex ("Witchcraft in Salem Village", by Winfield S. Nevins): Quote: John Bailey deposed that, "On the 25th of May last myself and wife being bound to Boston on the road, when I came in sight of the house where John Proctor did live there was a very hard blow struck on my breast, which caused great pain in my stomach and amazement in my head, but did see no person near me only my wife on my horse behind me on the same house; and when I came against said Proctor's house, according to my understanding, I did see John Proctor and his wife at said house. Proctor himself looked out of the window, and his wife did stand just without the door. I told my wife of it; and she did look that way and see nothing but a little maid at the door. Afterwards, about a mile from the aforesaid house, I was taken speechless for some short time. My wife did ask me several questions, and desired me if I could not speak I should hold up my hand; which I did and immediately I could speak as well as ever. And when we came to the way where Salem road cometh into Ipswich road, there I received another blow on my breast which caused me so much pain I could not sit on my horse. And when I did alight off my horse, to my understanding, I saw a woman coming towards us about 16 or 20 pole from us, but did not know who it was. My wife could not see her. When I did get up on my horse again, to my understanding, there stood a cow where I saw the woman." As matter of fact, Proctor and his wife were at this time, in jail in Boston, and had been there since April 11. Bailey was undoubtedly frightened at the stories he had heard the previous evening in Salem Village, where he must have passed the night on his way from his home in Newbury to Boston. His wife, who perhaps had not heard the stories about Proctor and other "witches," was not agitated and could plainly see that there was only a maid standing at the door. From Diary of Judge Samuel Sewall (1674-1729) 19 AUG 1692 ....George Burroughs, John Willard, John Proctor, Martha Carrier and George Jacobs were executed at Salem, a very great number of Spectators being present. Cotton Mather, Simns, Hale, Noyes, and Cheever, etc. All of them said they were innocent, Carrier and all. | ||||||||||||||
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