Martin, George (b. ABT 1618, d. 1686)

Source: (Death Field)
The Devil in the Shape of a Woman: Witchcraft in Colonial New England,
by Carol Karlsen, 1987.

Note: The Witches at Salem

1692

by Dick Eastman

CompuServe Genealogy Forum

~~~used with permission~~~

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In the long and bitter winter of 1691-1692, several young girls frequently gathered
at the parish house of Reverend Samuel Parris where they enjoyed the palmistry
and black magic of a black servant woman named Tituba. She and her husband,
John Indian, had been slaves who were bought by Rev. Parris while he was a
merchant in the West Indies.

These sessions apparently fired the imaginations of the girls, several of whom
later started performing nightmarish fits and telling tales of witchcraft and of being
possessed of evil spirits amongst them in Salem.

The primary instigators were Elizabeth Parris and Abigail Parris, daughters
of Rev. Parris, along with Ann Putnam, Elizabeth Hubbard, Mary Warren,
Mercy Lewis, Mary Walcott, Elizabeth Booth and Susan Sheldon. Ann
Putnam was 12 years old, the others were in their mid to late teens.

By the time the hysteria had subsided, many of their neighbors had paid the
ultimate price.

The following is a list of those hanged at Gallows Hill, Salem, Massachusetts
for witchcraft:

Name/Village or Town/Date

Bridget Bishop ---- Salem ---- June 10, 1692
Sarah Good ---- Salem Village (Danvers) ---- July 19, 1692
Susanna Martin ---- Amesbury ---- July 19, 1692
Elizabeth Howe ---- Ipswich ---- July 19, 1692
Rebecca Nurse (or Nourse) ---- Salem Village (Danvers) ---- July 19, 1692
Sarah Wildes ---- Topsfield ---- July 19, 1692
George Jacobs ---- Salem Village (Danvers) ---- Aug. 19, 1692
Martha Carrier ---- Andover ---- Aug. 19, 1692
Reverend George Burroughs ---- Wells, Maine ---- Aug. 19, 1692
John Proctor ---- Salem Village (Peabody) ---- Aug. 19, 1692
John Willard ---- Salem Village (Danvers) ---- Aug. 19, 1692
Martha Corey ---- Salem Village (Peabody) ---- Sep. 22, 1692
Mary Easty ---- Topsfield ---- Sep. 22, 1692
Alice Parker ---- Salem ---- Sep. 22, 1692
Mary Parker ---- Andover ---- Sep. 22, 1692
Ann Prudeater ---- Salem ---- Sep. 22, 1692
Wilmot Reed ---- Marblehead ---- Sep. 22, 1692
Margaret Scott ---- Rowley ---- Sep. 22, 1692
Samuel Wardwell ---- Andover ---- Sep. 22, 1692

Source: (Birth Field)
http://tagus.com/gen/everett

Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Page: Westford Births, p. 84

Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Page: Westford Deaths, p.303

Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Data:
Text: Littleton Town Records, p. 63.

Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Page: Westford Deaths, p.305

Occupation: Place: 31st President Of The Uni

Note: It seems the birth date is hard to read, either 1700 or 1703.

Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Page: Groton Vol. I, p. 188

Source: (Death)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Page: Westford Deaths, p.303

Occupation: Place: 38th President Of The Uni

Note: Came to Concord, about 1646, removed to Chelmsford in 1654.

Source: (Birth Field)
Deduced from death at age 82

Source: (Death Field)
Charlestown record

Note: JONAS PRESCOTT JR.

Jonas and Thankful lived in Forge Village,
which since 1730 has been included in Westford. He enlarged and
improved the works on Stony Brook, which his father had established,
by erecting additional forges for manufacturing iron from the ore,
as well as for other purposes. Upon the petition of himself and
others, a part of Groton, including Forge Village was in 1730 set off
from Groton to Westford. The water priviledge and work on Stony
Brook at Forge Billage have, ever since their purchase of the land
from Andrew, the Indian, been owned held and occupied by the Prescott
family. Jonas, Jr. was captain of militia, justice of the peace, as his
father had been before him, and represented the town in the General
Court in 1720. Source: PM, page 47.

Source: (Birth)
Title: Vital Records of Middlesex Co., MA to the end of the year 1849.
Publication: Search & Research Publishing. Wheat Ridge, CO. 1999
Media: Electronic

Page: Groton, Vol. I, p.188

Note: Captain. Came to Concord about 1646, removed to Chelmsford, Mass in 1654. Operated corn and saw
mills; he erected mills in the east part of Chelmsford where Lowell now is.
He was Commisssioner of the Court in 1667. He had 450 acres of land granted
to him 3 July 1656 and exclusive right to erect and run a sawmill, provided
he would sell boards at three shillings per 100; and another grant of 100
acres and the right to build a grist or corn mill, provided he would keep a
sufficient mill and miller.

Occupation: Place: Miller

Note: Died age 32 yr, 9m, 10 d.

Source: (Death Field)
Cambridge Vital Records Vol. 1

Note: Henry Adams was born in Barton St. Davids, Parish, Somersetshire, England where his family had lived for several generations. He was a maltster and, presumably, a husbandman like his father and grandfather before him. The earliest record of him is in 1604 when he was executor of his father's estate and the next in 1609 when he married Edith Squire. Only 2 other records have been found in which his name is mentioned: in 1609, when he was co-executor of the will of his brother John and an original parchment bond found in the Diocesan Registry showing that in 1614 he was living in Barton St. David. It contains the only known signature of Henry. At some time between 1614 and 1622 he moved to the adjacent parish of Kingweston where his youngest children were baptized, the last in 1629, and where he probably lived until his emigration in 1638.

Henry arrived in America on the ship "Mary & John" with his wife, 7 sons and 1 daughter, only son Jonathan did not make the voyage; he came later. At the same time as the Henry Adames immigrated, Henry's wife's sister, Margaret (Squire) Shepherd and her husband Thomas and their children also immigrated, joining a third Squire sister, Anne (Squire) (Purchase) Oliver, who had immigrated in 1633 with her then husband, Aquila Purchase.

Henry was one of the earliest settlers of Mt. Wollaston, incorporated in 1640 as Braintree, MA and included what is now Quincy, Braintree and Randolph, MA. He received a land grant of 40 acres for 10 people at "The Mount" 24 Feb. 1641 in a vote at Boston, of which Braintree was then a part. He settled on that land which became a part of Quincy in 1792. In October, 1645 thirty-two residents of Braintree petitioned the General Court regarding a grant of land and among the names were Henry Adams, Sr. and Jr., Thomas, Samuel, John and Christopher, the latter likely an error for Peter Adams. This accounts for all the sons except Jonathan, still in England, and Joseph and Edward who were still minors. Henry died 6 Oct. 1646 and was buried 8 October. The will and dated 1646 and was proved 8 June 1647. It mentions wife Edith and all but the 3 oldest children; a copy of the will is printed in the NEHGS "Register," Vol 7, page 35. The estate inventory, dated 8 June 1647 totaled 75 pounds, 13.

A monument was erected by his grave by his descendant, John Adams, second President of the United States which is inscribed as followed: "In memory of Henry Adams, who took his flight from the Dragon persecutors, in Devonshire England and alighted with eight sons near Mt. Wollaston. One of the sons returned to England and, after taking some time to explore the country, four removed to Medfield, and the neighboring towns, two to Chelmsford. One only, Joseph, who lies here at his left hand, remained here; where he was an original proprietor in the township of Braintree incorporated 1639." The President did not have the place of Henry's origin correct. John Quincy Adams, son of the 2nd President believed, unlike his father, that Henry was more likely from Braintree, England and that he came with Hooker to America in 1632.

Henry Adams was the ancestor of John Adams, a signer of the Declaration of American Independence, a member of the first Continental
Congress and second President of the United States; consequently, he was the ancestor of John Quincy Adams, the sixth
President of the United States. No other family has ever furnished a father and son to the office of President of this Republic.
Henry Adams was likewise the ancestor of Samuel Adams, Signer of the Declaration of Independence and member of the
first Continental Congress, who became the second Governor of Massachusetts after the Revolution. It is said that more
descendants of Henry Adams have been gradtuates of Harvard and Yale and other colleges than of any other man whoever
settled in America.

Source: (Birth)
Title: Warner-Harrington Ancestry
Media: Book

Source: (Death)
Title: NEHGR
Media: Other

Page: Vol 9, pg. 167.

Occupation: Place: Yeoman, Farmer & maltster

Note: Shot by Indians.

Alternate date of birth: 1604, per William Richard Cutter, New England Families Genealogical & Memorial, Third Series, Vol. III, (Orig. publ. NY, 1915; repr. by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1997), pg. 1418 and "The Genealogical History of Henry Adams of Braintree, MA."

Henry was likely the first town clerk of Braintree, MA, 1640. He removed to that part of Dedham which became Medford and was first town clerk there also. He was killed by Indians at his own door during King Philip's War. His wife was mortally wounded the same night, although she lived a day.

Source: (Birth)
Title: Warner-Harrington Ancestry
Media: Book

Data:
Text: F.C. Warner, 1949.

Source: (Death)
Title: A Genealogical History of Henry Adams of Braintree, MA
Media: Book

Note: Deacon.

Note: Came to Concord about 1646 with brothers Samuel and Thomas.

Source: (Birth)
Title: American Presidential Families
Media: Book

Data:
Text: Mosley, Charles, Compiler, "American Presidential Families," MacMillan
Publishing Company, New York, Maxwell MacMillan Canada, Toronto, 1993.

Source: (Death)
Title: American Presidential Families
Media: Book

Occupation: Place: Farmer/ Maltster

Note: Ensign Edward Adams.

Source: (Birth)
Title: American Presidential Families
Media: Book

Source: (Birth)
Title: American Presidential Families
Media: Book