BROWN, William
1622 - 1706 (83 years)Set As Default Person
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Name BROWN, William [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] Birth 24 Dec 1622 Salisbury, Wiltshire, England [3, 7, 8, 9] Gender Male Arrival 1649 Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA [2] Differentiator Testified against Susannah Martin who was tried and executed for witchcraft; Salem witch trials cast of characters Misc Wife was mentally ill, afflicted about 1660 Public Service Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Selectman & Constable Witch Trials Connection 1692 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Testified against Susannah Martin who was tried and executed for witchcraft; Salem witch trials cast of characters Occupation Weaver and Farmer Residence England [4] Residence Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Lived on Brown's Hill Death 24 Aug 1706 Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA [3, 6, 7, 9, 10] Patriarch & Matriarch BROWN, George, b. 19 May 1592, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d. 8 Nov 1633, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England (Age 41 years) (Father)
HIBBERT, Christiana, b. 1592, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d. 28 Dec 1641, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 49 years) (Mother)Person ID I2244 My Genealogy Last Modified 15 Jul 2024
Father BROWN, George, b. 19 May 1592, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d. 8 Nov 1633, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England (Age 41 years) Relationship natural Mother HIBBERT, Christiana, b. 1592, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d. 28 Dec 1641, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 49 years) Relationship natural Marriage 30 Sep 1611 Salisbury, Wiltshire, England Family ID F686 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family MURFORD, Elizabeth, b. 1620, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d. 1692, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 72 years) Marriage 25 Jun 1645 Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA [1, 3, 5, 9] Children 1. BROWN, Mary, b. 17 Jun 1647, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 13 Aug 1696, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 49 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] ▻ HOYT, Thomas m. 17 Dec 16672. BROWN, William, b. 24 Feb 1649, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 11 Nov 1669, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 20 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 3. BROWN, Sarah, b. 12 Apr 1658, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 1730, Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA (Age 71 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 4. BROWN, Elizabeth, b. 6 Aug 1656, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 3 Aug 1679, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 22 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 5. BROWN, Ephraim, b. 24 Jun 1650, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 7 Jun 1693, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 42 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 6. BROWN, Martha, b. 5 Jun 1654, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 1674, USA (Age 19 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 7. BROWN, Elizabeth, b. 1644, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA d. 17 Mar 1727, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA (Age 83 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 8. BROWN, Martha, b. 5 Jul 1654, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 10 Mar 1717, Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 62 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] Photos Family ID F685 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 15 Jul 2024
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Notes - Deposition against Susannah Martin 11 May 1692
The deposition of William Brown of Salisbury, aged seventy years, who, testifying, saith: That about one or two and thirty years ago Elizabeth, his wife, being a very rational woman and sober, and one that feared God, as was well known to all that knew her, and as prudently careful in her family, which woman going upon a time from her own house towards the mill in Salisbury, did there meet with Susanna Martin, the then wife of George Martin of Amesbury. Just as they came together the said Susanna Martin vanished away out of her sight, which put the said Elizabeth into a great fright; after which time the said Martin did many times appear to her at her house, and did much trouble her in many of her occasions; and this continued until about February following, and then, when she did come, it was as birds pecking her legs or pricking her with the motion of their wings; and then it would rise up into her stomach, with pricking pain, as nails and pins; of which she did bitterly complain, and cry out like a woman in travail; and after that it would rise up to her throat in a bunch like a pullet’s egg, and then she would turn back her head an say, ‘Witch, ye sha’nt choke me.’
In the times of this extremity the church appointed a day of humiliation, to seek God on her behalf, and thereupon her trouble ceased, and she saw goodwife Martin no more for a considerable time, for which the church, instead, of a day of humiliation, gave thanks for her deliverance. She came to meeting and went about her business as before. This continued ‘till April following, at which time the summonses were sent to the said Elizabeth Brown and goodwife Osgood by the court to give their evidences concerning the said Martin; and they did, before the grand jury, give a full account.
After which time the said Elizabeth told this deponent that, as she was milking her cow, the said Susanna Martin came behind her and told her that she would make her the miserablest creature for defaming her name at the court, and wept grievously as she told it to this deponent. About two months after this deponent came home from Hampton, and his said wife would not own him, but said they were divorced, and asked him whether he did not meet with one Mrs. Bent of Albury, in England, by whom he was divorced. And from that time to this very day she has been under a strange kind of distemper and frenzy, incapable of any rational action, though strong and healthy of body.
He further testifyeth that when she came into that condition this deponent [got] Doctors Fuller and Crosby to come to her for her release, but they did both say that her distemper was supernatural, no sickness of body, but that some evil person had bewitched her.
Sworn the eleventh day of May Anno Domini 1692, before me, Robert Pike, Assistant.
- Deposition against Susannah Martin 11 May 1692
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