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Lacey, Mary Foster |
| Birth |
25 May 1674 |
Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, USA  |
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Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA |
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- Both mother and daughter were found guilty, and both were sentenced to execution. Though there were several others who were also tried that day and their executions carried out on September 22, 1692, the Foster women were not among them. All three were imprisoned. Mary Lacey, Jr. was released on bond in October 1692 and later found not guilty. Mary Foster Lacey, Sr. would be released in 1693 after the trials were discredited and ended. But, for Ann Alcock Foster, it was too late. After spending 21 weeks in prison, she died there on December 3, 1692. Mary Foster Lacey, Sr. would continue to live in Andover until her death on June 18, 1707.
Mary Lacey, Jr. (1674-17??) – Born to Lawrence and Mary Foster Lacey in Andover on May 24, 1674, Mary, Jr. was 18 years old at the time she was accused of witchcraft. Her mother Mary Foster Lacey, Sr. and grandmother, Ann *Alcock Foster were also accused. Both of her elders were found guilty and sentenced to be executed. However, they were not. Her mother was released in 1693 after the witch hysteria had ended. Unfortunately, her grandmother, Ann *Alcock Foster died in prison in December 1692. Mary Lacey, Jr. was released on bond in October, 1692 and later found not guilty. She went on to marry Zerubbabel Kemp on January 27, 1703/04, in Groton, Massachusetts."
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17 Sep 1692 |
Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA |
| witchcraft, age 18. Both mother and daughter were found guilty, and both were sentenced to execution. Though there were several others who were also tried that day and their executions carried out on September 22, 1692, the Foster women were not among them. All three were imprisoned. Mary Lacey, Jr. was released on bond in October 1692 and later found not guilty. Mary Foster Lacey, Sr. would be released in 1693 after the trials were discredited and ended. But, for Ann Alcock Foster, it was too late. After spending 21 weeks in prison, she died there on December 3, 1692. Mary Foster Lacey, Sr. would continue to live in Andover until her death on June 18, 1707. |
- Both mother and daughter were found guilty, and both were sentenced to execution. Though there were several others who were also tried that day and their executions carried out on September 22, 1692, the Foster women were not among them. All three were imprisoned. Mary Lacey, Jr. was released on bond in October 1692 and later found not guilty. Mary Foster Lacey, Sr. would be released in 1693 after the trials were discredited and ended. But, for Ann Alcock Foster, it was too late. After spending 21 weeks in prison, she died there on December 3, 1692. Mary Foster Lacey, Sr. would continue to live in Andover until her death on June 18, 1707.
Mary Lacey, Jr. (1674-17??) – Born to Lawrence and Mary Foster Lacey in Andover on May 24, 1674, Mary, Jr. was 18 years old at the time she was accused of witchcraft. Her mother Mary Foster Lacey, Sr. and grandmother, Ann *Alcock Foster were also accused. Both of her elders were found guilty and sentenced to be executed. However, they were not. Her mother was released in 1693 after the witch hysteria had ended. Unfortunately, her grandmother, Ann *Alcock Foster died in prison in December 1692. Mary Lacey, Jr. was released on bond in October, 1692 and later found not guilty. She went on to marry Zerubbabel Kemp on January 27, 1703/04, in Groton, Massachusetts."
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Mary Walcott at the Salem witch trials
John Whetton Ehninger - "Giles Corey of the Salem Farms" (1868), in The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth
Mary Walcott (July 5, 1675 – c. 1752) was one of the "afflicted" girls called as a witness at the Salem witch trials in early 1692-93.
Life
Born July 5, 1675, she was the daughter of Captain Jonathan Walcott (1639–1699), and his wife, Mary Sibley (or Sibly; 1644–1683), both of Salem. Her mother died when she was eight years old and her father married Deliverance Putnam (1656-1699). Her stepsister Anne Walcott Felt (1685-1736) was born two years later.[1]
Mary was about seventeen years old when the allegations started in 1692. Her aunt, Mary (née Wolcott), the wife of Samuel Sibley (or Sibly; 1657–1708), was the person who first showed Tituba and Tituba's husband John Indian how to bake a "witch cake" to feed to a dog in order that she and her friends might ascertain exactly who it was that was afflicting them. Joseph B. Felt quoted in The Annals of Salem (1849 edition) vol. 2, p. 476 [from the town records]:
March 11, 1692 – "Mary, the wife of Samuel Sibley, having been suspended from communion with the church there, for the advices she gave John [husband of Tituba] to make the above experiment, is restored on confession that her purpose was innocent."
Marriage
Mary Walcott married Isaac Farrar, son of John Farrar of Woburn, Massachusetts, on April 28, 1696. They had several children, and eventually moved to Townsend, Massachusetts. She married, secondly, to David Harwood in 1701 in Sutton, Massachusetts. They had nine children:
Mary Harwood, b. Abt. 1702.; d. Abt. 1753.
Emma Harwood, b. Abt. 1705. (m. Ebenezer Macintyre, May 23, 1728).
Hannah Harwood, b. Abt. 1706; (m. Ebenezer Twiss, Abt. 1752).
David Harwood, b. Abt. 1708, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts; d. August 22, 1781, Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts; (m. Margaret Cox, March 13, 1730/31, Salem, Essex Cnty, Massachusetts).
Elizabeth Harwood, b. Abt. 1711; d. Abt. 1738; (m. Benjamin Moulton, October 1734).
Ezra Harwood, b. Abt. 1715.
Alice Harwood, b. Abt. 1720, Salem, Massachusetts (m. Jonathan Nourse Jr., August 12, 1743).
Absalom Harwood, b. Abt. 1723; (m. Anna Boyce, September 23, 1748).
Solomon Harwood, b. Abt. 1725; (m. Abagail Phelps, December 20, 1748; m. Sarah Taylor December 4, 1752).
Later years
They moved to Sutton about 1729, leaving most of their children living in Salem. David was a weaver by occupation. David died before 1744. Mary Walcott Harwood probably died before 1752.[2]
Sources
Perley, Sidney (1928). The History of Salem Massachusetts. Vol. 1–3. Higginson Book Company. ISBN 9780740460319. Archived from the original on 2012-05-09. Retrieved 2016-03-01.
Essex Institute (1927). Vital Records of Salem Massachusetts. Vol. 1–6. ISBN 1153428784.
Sanborn, Melinde Lutz (1987). Essex County Massachusetts Probate Records, 1630–1840. Vol. 1–2. M.L. Sanborn. ISBN 0961871105.
Sawtelle, Ithamar B., ed. (1878). History of the Town of Townsend, Middlesex County, Massachusetts: 1676–1878. ISBN 978-1112145001.
Hallowell, Henry C. (1992). Vital Records of Townsend, Massachusetts. New England Historic Genealogical Society. ISBN 9780880820301.
Stearns, Ezra S., ed. (1908). Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire. Vol. II. ????? ???????. p. 591. ISBN 9781462261413.
References
Anne married Joshua Felt of Rumney Marsh, Mass., in 1712. He was the great-grandfather of Peter Felt. The Felt Genealogy. A Record of the Descendats of George Felt of Casco Bay. United States, Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1893.
U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Record Name: Mary Wolcott
Gender: Female
Birth Place: MA
Birth Year: 1675
Spouse Name: David Harwood
Marriage Year: 1701
Number Pages: 1
External links
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Both mother and daughter were found guilty, and both were sentenced to execution. Though there were several others who were also tried that day and their executions carried out on September 22, 1692, the Foster women were not among them. All three were imprisoned. Mary Lacey, Jr. was released on bond in October 1692 and later found not guilty. Mary Foster Lacey, Sr. would be released in 1693 after the trials were discredited and ended. But, for Ann Alcock Foster, it was too late. After spending 21 weeks in prison, she died there on December 3, 1692. Mary Foster Lacey, Sr. would continue to live in Andover until her death on June 18, 1707.
Mary Lacey, Jr. (1674-17??) – Born to Lawrence and Mary Foster Lacey in Andover on May 24, 1674, Mary, Jr. was 18 years old at the time she was accused of witchcraft. Her mother Mary Foster Lacey, Sr. and grandmother, Ann *Alcock Foster were also accused. Both of her elders were found guilty and sentenced to be executed. However, they were not. Her mother was released in 1693 after the witch hysteria had ended. Unfortunately, her grandmother, Ann *Alcock Foster died in prison in December 1692. Mary Lacey, Jr. was released on bond in October, 1692 and later found not guilty. She went on to marry Zerubbabel Kemp on January 27, 1703/04, in Groton, Massachusetts."
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Painting of two alleged witches being tried in Salem, Massachusetts as part of the infamous witchhunts. Oil on canvas board en grisaille.
Date 1892
Source Brandywine River Museum of Art, Accession number: 2007.9
Author
Howard Pyle (1853–1911) wikidata:Q525713 s:en:Author:Howard Pyle q:en:Howard Pyle
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Mary Walcott at the Salem witch trials
John Whetton Ehninger - "Giles Corey of the Salem Farms" (1868), in The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth
Mary Walcott (July 5, 1675 – c. 1752) was one of the "afflicted" girls called as a witness at the Salem witch trials in early 1692-93.
Life
Born July 5, 1675, she was the… |
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List of people executed for witchcraft
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"List of witches" redirects here. For witches in fiction, see List of fictional witches.
Three people lie on a large fire, watched by several men.
Artistic depiction of the execution by burning of three alleged witches in Baden, Switzerland in 1585
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17 Sep 1692 |
Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA |
| witchcraft.Both mother and daughter were found guilty, and both were sentenced to execution. Though there were several others who were also tried that day and their executions carried out on September 22, 1692, the Foster women were not among them. All three were imprisoned. Mary Lacey, Jr. was released on bond in October 1692 and later found not guilty. Mary Foster Lacey, Sr. would be released in 1693 after the trials were discredited and ended. But, for Ann Alcock Foster, it was too late. After spending 21 weeks in prison, she died there on December 3, 1692. Mary Foster Lacey, Sr. would continue to live in Andover until her death on June 18, 1707. |
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The Lovejoy genealogy with biographies and history, 1460-1930
by Lovejoy, Clarence E. (Clarence Earle), 1894-1974
Publication date 1930
The examination of Ann Foster, 1692
July 21, 1692
Salem , MA
This is a transcript of the examination and confession of Ann Foster and her daughter, Mary Lacey and her daughter, Mary Lacey Jr. as originally transcribed in Abbott's History and reproduced in The Lovejoy Genealogy by Clarence Earle Lovejoy, pub 1930. The wife of their accuser, Joseph Ballard is mentioned in the last question on the bottom of p 40. It is true as stated at the end of this passage that none of the three women were executed, but Ann Foster, the mother of Mary Lacey Sr. was in her 80's when imprisoned in Salem in 1692, did not survive the winter and died in Salem jail.
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40 THE LOVEJOY GENEALOGY
... mitted were women of good character, and among the most respectable in Andover. The following is the examination and confession of Ann Foster, her daughter, Mary Lacey, and her granddaughter, Mary Lacey, Jr., on July 21, 1692, before Major Gidney, Mr. Hawthorne, Mr. Corwin and Captain Higginson. Ann Foster is an ancestor of many Lovejoys, she having been a grandmother of the wife of Ebenezer (13), a great grandmother of the wife of Hezekiah Lovejoy (29) and a great great grandmother of Captain Abiel Lovejoy (96).
The following testimony appears on pages 154 to 157 of Abbot's History:
QUESTION--Goodly Foster! You remember we have three times spoken with you, and I will now remember what you are referred to us? You have been exposed in very great danger, and you have been left to your own heart to deny; but it seems that God will give you more favor than others, inasmuch as you relen. But your daughter here hath confessed some things that you know of. Your answer?
ANSWER--I did not know it.
QUESTION--Did you know your daughter was to be engaged?
ANSWER--I cannot tell, nor have I any knowledge of it at all.
QUESTION--Did you see your daughter at the meeting? ANSWER--Yes.
QUESTION--Your daughter said she was at the witches' meeting, and that you yourself stood by her and saw her there at that meeting; and you said so also, give me relation from the beginning until now?
ANSWER--I know none of their names that were there, but only Goody Carrier. Goody Carrier, did you know her face?
ANSWER--I cannot tell.
QUESTION--Were there two or more in the field at the same time?
ANSWER--I cannot remember no more. Mary Warren, one of the afflicted, said that Goody Carrier's shape told her, that Goody Foster had made her daughter a witch. Goody Carrier said she knew nothing about that meeting. ANSWER--No, and I know no more of my daughter's being a witch, than what day I shall die upon.
QUESTION--Are you willing your daughter should make a full and free confession? ANSWER--Yes.
QUESTION--Are you willing to do so too? ANSWER--Yes.
QUESTION--You cannot expect peace of conscience without a free confession.
ANSWER--If I knew anything more I would speak it to the utmost.--(Goody Lacey, the daughter called Mary Lacey, and her mother, Mary Lacey.) We have no Christ and the devil hath got hold of us. How shall I get rid of this evil one? I desire God to break my rocky heart, that I may get the victory this time. Goody Lacey, did you not fear you cannot get rid of this snare; your heart and mouth is not open.
ANSWER--I did not see the devil, I was praying to the Lord.
QUESTION--What Lord? ANSWER--To God.
QUESTION--To whom do witches pray to? ANSWER--I cannot tell, the Lord help me.
QUESTION--Do you remember any discourse with your mother when falling? ANSWER--No, I think I had not a word.
QUESTION--Who rid foremost on that stick to the village?
ANSWER--I suppose my mother. Goody Foster said, that Goody Carrier was foremost.
QUESTION--Goody Lacey was many years ago since they were baptized?
ANSWER--Three or four years ago, I suppose.
QUESTION--Who baptized them? ANSWER--The minister.
QUESTION--How did he do it?
ANSWER--He dipped their heads in the water, saying they were his, and that he had put them into the water.
QUESTION--Where was this? ANSWER--In the church.
QUESTION--How many were baptized that day? ANSWER--Some of the chief; I think there were six baptized. ANSWER--I thin they were of the higher powers.--(Mary Lacey, the grand- daughter of Goody Lacey,) I think they fell into a violent fit. QUESTION--How dare you come in here, and bring the devil with you, to afflict these poor creatures?--(Lacey laid her hand on Warren's arm, and she recover'd.)
QUESTION--You are here accused of practising witchcraft upon Goody Ballard; which way do you do it?
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ANSWER--I cannot tell. Where is my mother that made me a witch, and I knew it not?
QUESTION--Can you look upon that maid, Mary Warren, and not hurt her? Look upon her in a friendly way. (She, trying to do so, struck her down with her eyes.)
QUESTION--Do you acknowledge now you are a witch? ANSWER--Yes.
QUESTION--How long have you been a witch? ANSWER--I cannot tell.
QUESTION--Did the devil appear to you? ANSWER--Yes.
QUESTION--In what shape? ANSWER--In the shape of a horse.
QUESTION--Did you ever say you?
ANSWER--He bid me not be afraid of anything, and he would not bring me out; but has proved a liar from the beginning.
ANSWER--I know not, above a week.
QUESTION--Did you set your hand to the book? ANSWER--No.
QUESTION--Did he bid you worship him?
ANSWER--He bid me worship persons.--(You are now in the way to obtain mercy, if you will confess and repent. She said, the Lord help me!)
ANSWER--Yes.
QUESTION--Do you not you desire to be saved by Christ?
ANSWER--I know not, I know not, I know not, I know in this matter.-- (She then proceeded: I was in bed, and the devil came to me, and bid me obey him and do his bidding, and he would not bring me out.)
QUESTION--But how long ago? ANSWER--It was more than a year.
QUESTION--Was it more than a month? ANSWER--Yes.
QUESTION--How long was you gone from your father, when you ran away? ANSWER--Two days.
QUESTION--When had you your food? ANSWER--At Marion Stone's.
QUESTION--Did the devil appear to you then, when you was abroad?
ANSWER--Yes, he bid me obey him, and he took my mind as not to obey my parents.
QUESTION--Who did the devil bid you affix?
ANSWER--Timothy Swan. Richard Carrier comes often a-nights and has me to affix.
QUESTION--Where do ye go? ANSWER--I know not, sometimes.
QUESTION--How many of you were there at a time?
ANSWER--Richard Carrier and his mother, and my mother and grandmother.-- (Upmore, the minister, and so on,) Goody Lacey, the mother, owned this last particularly.
QUESTION--How many more witches were there in Andover?
ANSWER--I know no more, but Richard Carrier
Carrier at first, denied all, but was followed until he was brought to accuse his mother, much in the same manner with Foster's daughter and granddaughter. Ann Foster was convicted but not executed, probably because of her confession, although during the witchcraft delusion nineteen persons in the vicinity were hanged and one pressed to death.
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Painting of two alleged witches being tried in Salem, Massachusetts as part of the infamous witchhunts. Oil on canvas board en grisaille.
Date 1892
Source Brandywine River Museum of Art, Accession number: 2007.9
Author
Howard Pyle (1853–1911) wikidata:Q525713 s:en:Author:Howard Pyle q:en:Howard Pyle
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Mary Walcott at the Salem witch trials
John Whetton Ehninger - "Giles Corey of the Salem Farms" (1868), in The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth
Mary Walcott (July 5, 1675 – c. 1752) was one of the "afflicted" girls called as a witness at the Salem witch trials in early 1692-93.
Life
Born July 5, 1675, she was the… |
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List of people executed for witchcraft
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"List of witches" redirects here. For witches in fiction, see List of fictional witches.
Three people lie on a large fire, watched by several men.
Artistic depiction of the execution by burning of three alleged witches in Baden, Switzerland in 1585
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History of the town of Conesus, Livingston Co., N.Y.
by Boyd, William Philip, 1849- [from old catalog]
Publication 1887
Topics
Conesus, N.Y. -- History. [from old catalog], Conesus, N.Y. -- Genealogy. [from old catalog]
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Conesus, N.Y., Boyd's job printing establishment
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· Gallows Hill - Salem, Massachusetts
Near the base of this hill (Proctor's Ledge) 19 people accused of witchcraft were hung in 1692 during the Salem witch trial hysteria.
In depth posts soon to follow if you are interested
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| Death |
13 Jul 1744 |
Chelmsford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA |
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I114035 |
WETZEL-SPRING |
1674 - 1744 (70 years)
