She laughed when the "afflicted girls" went into a fit and when asked why she did so, she responded, "Well I may at such folly." Family lore has this family originating in Alsace-Lorraine but records indicate they came from Bavaria. If more recent proof has been located, we'll need that proof to make changes to his parents. He died on 1 MAR 1667 at Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. ), Where by great hurt and dammage hath benne donne to the bodys of Said persons according to Compl't of Capt Jonathan Walcot & Serg't Thomas putnam in behalfe of their Majests this day Exhibited before us for themselfes and also for Severall of theire Neighbours and here of You are not to faile at your perills. 1 Page 64 ), That som years after that the s.d John pressy had givn his evidenc against the s'd susana martin shee the s'd martin came and took these deponents to do about it and reviled them with many foule words saying wee had took a fals oathe and sayd that we shoold never prosper [and that we shoold never prosper] for our so doing: [pbar ]ticulerly that we should never have but too cows: & that if we wear never so likly to have more yet we shoold never obtaine it, We do farther testify that from that time to this day we have never exeeded that nomber but somthing or other has prevented it tho never so likly (to obtaine it) tho thay had used all ordinary means for obtaining it by hiring cows of others that were not thayr owne this for twenty yeares space, John pressy made oathe to the truth of all that is above writtn at my house in salsbury the eleventh day of may Ano: Dom 1692 before me. Married Joan BARTRAM. Mary Walcot saith this woman hath hurt me a great many times. Asist, ( Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. Charges were dropped against Thomas Sargent; William Sargent, Jr.. wasfound guilty of accusing Susannah of " fornication and infanticide" and George was awarded (in what appears to be a public insult) the amount of "a white wampam peague (colonial currency) or the eighth part ofa penny damage" by the magistrates. The Multitude of Salem Witch Trials Descendants I know who swore her life away; and as God lives, I'd not condemn an Indian dog on word of them.". Susanna married George Martin and had 13 children. 1 Feb. ", Memorial by John Greenleaf Whittier, a Descendant, Susannah Martin House Marker, Amesbury, Massachusetts, Flyer for a book about the Witchcraft Trials, https://www.americanancestors.org/DB283/i/12963/70/0, https://www.americanancestors.org/DB1567/rd/21167/23/426828965, https://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofsa00sali/page/415/mode/1up/search/Martyn, https://archive.org/details/salemwitchcraftw02upha_0/page/268/mode/1up, https://archive.org/details/recordsfilesofqu04esse/page/129/mode/1up, https://archive.org/details/recordsfilesofqu04esse/page/184/mode/1up/search/Martyn, https://archive.org/details/recordsfilesofqu04esse/page/186/mode/1up, https://archive.org/details/recordsfilesofqu05esse/page/297/mode/1up, https://archive.org/details/salemwitchcraftw02upha_0/page/145/mode/1up, https://archive.org/details/wondersinvisibl04mathgoog/page/n175/mode/1up/search/Martin, http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/archives/ecca/large/ecca1171r.jpg, http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/archives/ecca/large/ecca1171v.jpg, The Salem Witchcraft Papers (SWP No. When Kimball offered the Martins three cows, but not two others which he particularly wanted to keep, "Martin himself was satisfied, but not the wife who threatened that if they would not part with one of the two cows, "she will never do you any more good". U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current Ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Find A Grave 1,60525::0, Category:Nominated Profiles Category: Salem_Witch_Trials Category:Accused_Witches_of_New_England, destination-flag = Flags_of_Colonial_America.gif. 1 Page 68 ), The next day shee being Let out & went away w'th the other catle (well & Lusty as far as wee coold desern) but came home at evening very ill having [Atter] under her eyes as bigg as wallnutts & dyed the same night, sworne at Salsbury the 20th day of may Ano 1692, Left John Allin made oathe to the truth of all that is above written Jun the 7th 1692, Jurat in Curia (On reverse side of paper) Jno. 1 Page 69 ). : Magistrate: "Well tell us your thoughts about them": Martin: "My thoughts are my own when they are in; but when they are out they are another's." Some sources say she was born in Buckinghamshire, some Romsey. Joseph Knight testified that around 20 October 1686, Susanna had picked up a dog running at her side and changed it into a "Kegg or halfe feirkin". Severall of the afflicted cryed out they [saw] her upon the beam. [23] The second popular alternative is that the families removed the bodies at night and buried them in secret locations. In alitl farther going ther did appear a blak pupy somw't biger then the first but as blak as a cole to his apprehension which came against him w'th such violenc as its quik mosions did exceed his motions of his ax do w't he coold & it flew at his belly & away & then at his throt & over his shoulder on way & go off & up att it againe another way and with such quiknes speed & violenc did it asalt him as if it woold tear out his throt or his belly agood while he was without fear but at last I felt my hart to sayle & sink under it that I thought my lif was going out & I recovered my self & gave a start up & ran to the fenc & caling upon god & Naming the name Jesus Christ & then it in visibly away my meaning as it ceased about but this deponent mad it not known to any body for fritting his wif, The next morning Edmond Eliat (as he told abrod and in his owne house) sayd that he going toward the hous of said martin to Look his oxen went in to Light his pipe & the s'd martins wif Asked him whear kembal was (s'd Eliat s'd abed with [with] his wif for ought he knew) (sayd shee) they say he was frited Last night) with w't sayd Eliat she sayd with pupyes Eliat replyed that he heard nothing of it and Asked whear shee heard it and shee sayd about the Towne w'ch story s'd Eliat having told it was all the Towne over when this deponent came home at night for he had been all day alone in the woods at work at his frames, John kembale made oath to the truth of all that is written on both sides of this paper may the 16th 1692, before me *Robt Pike .0000000.0 .