Sarah
TOWNE
(b.
11 January 1637
,
Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony
d.
,
Framingham, Massachusetts, USA
)
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Sarah TOWNE was born 11 January 1637 in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Sarah TOWNE was the child of William TOWNE and Joanna BLESSINGSpouses:
Edmund Bridges (1636 - 1682)
Peter Clayes (1639 - 1708)
"Sarah Towne, wife of Peter Clayes, was wrongly accused of witchcraft at Salem in 1692, and imprisoned. She escaped execution and moved to Danforth's Farms (incorporated in 1700 as Framingham). Her sisters, Rebecca Towne Nurse and Mary Towne Estey, were wrongly convicted of witchcraft, and were hanged."
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1637 Birth 11 January 1637
Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1692 - Indictment
Essex in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England ss/ / Anno RR's & Reginae Gulielmi & Mariae Angliae &c Quarto Annoq'e Domini 1692
The Jurors for our Sover' Lord and Lady the King & Queen doe present that Sarah Cloyce Wife of Peter Cloyce of Salem -- In the County of Essex Husbandman -- In & upon the Ninth Day of the Inst September -- In the yeare aforesaid and Divers other Days and times as well before as after Certaine Detestable arts called Witch-craft and Sorceries Wickedly Mallitiously and felloniously hath used practised and Exercised At and in the Towne of Salem in the County of Essex -- aforesaid in upon and against one Rebeckah Towne of Topsfeild in the County of Essex aforesaid Single Woman -- by which said Wicked Acts the said Rebeckah Towne the Day & yeare -- aforesaid and divers other Days and times both before and after was and is Tortured Aflicted Consumed Pined Wasted and Tormented, and also for sundry other acts of Witchcraft by the said Sarah Cloyce -- ...Read MORE...
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Essex in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England ss/ / Anno RR's & Reginae Gulielmi & Mariae Angliae &c Quarto Annoq'e Domini 1692
The Jurors for our Sover' Lord and Lady the King & Queen doe present that Sarah Cloyce Wife of Peter Cloyce of Salem -- In the County of Essex Husbandman -- In & upon the Ninth Day of the Inst September -- In the yeare aforesaid and Divers other Days and times as well before as after Certaine Detestable arts called Witch-craft and Sorceries Wickedly Mallitiously and felloniously hath used practised and Exercised At and in the Towne of Salem in the County of Essex -- aforesaid in upon and against one Rebeckah Towne of Topsfeild in the County of Essex aforesaid Single Woman -- by which said Wicked Acts the said Rebeckah Towne the Day & yeare -- aforesaid and divers other Days and times both before and after was and is Tortured Aflicted Consumed Pined Wasted and Tormented, and also for sundry other acts of Witchcraft by the said Sarah Cloyce -- ...Read MORE...
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