Re: John and Martha RICH of Salem/ Reading, MA
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Re: John and Martha RICH of Salem/ Reading, MA
Richard Rich 4/22/10
Hi Richard...It's a "small witch world" !!On page 333 of Enders A. Robinson's "Salem Witchcraft and Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables" is a chart of William Bassett, Sr's family: Hannah, who married John Lilly, William,jr.,who married Sarah Hood, our Mary, my Elizabeth (condemned)who married my John Proctor (hanged), and Sarah who married Thomas ELWELL, a family of the first "Who Do You Think You Are" TV program.My husband's ancestor, George Jacobs, is the subject of a painting of his witch trial which hangs in a museum in Salem, MA.Isn't it strange to be a part of a story that we learned about in school ?Thanks so much for your answer and you and my hubby are very, very distant cousins !!Jean Kimball