Genealogy of Patty Rose
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| Notes for Benjamin HOLTON | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Benjamin Holton, s. Joseph and Sara, 14: 12m: 1657 Salem [ref 12] Benjamin, Sept. 17, 1689, a 33 y Salem [ref 12] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Benjamin, b. 4 Feb. 1658 [ref 20] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Benjamin Houlton; yeoman; born Feb. 14, 1657-8; married Sarah ___; died Sept. 17, 1689; she married, secondly, Capt. Benjamin Putnam; child: Benjamin. [ref 27:2-300] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Benjamin Holton birth 14 Dec* 1657 Salem Essex /s Joseph and Sara [ref 76] *12th month = Feb? Benjamin Holton death 17 Sep 1689 Salem Essex a 33y [ref 76] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
| Notes for Sarah, wife of Benjamin Holton | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Benjamin Putnam married Sarah Holton July 01, 1706 in Salem, Essex Co., MA [ref 23:0761210. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - this is probably the "Sarah Holton" who testified against Rebecca Nurse in the witch trial: The Deposition of Reluque of Benjamin Holton Deceased who testified and said that about this time three years my dear and loving husband Benjamin Holton Deceased: was as well as ever I knew him in my life: tell one Saturday morning Rebecca Nurse who now stands charged for witchcraft. came to our house and fell a railing at him because our pigs got into her field: though our pigs were sufficiently yoked and their fence was down in several places: yet all we could say to her could no ways pacified her: but she continued Railing and scolding agrat while together calling to her son Benj. Nurse to goes and get a gun and kill our pigs and let non of them goes out of the field: though my poor Husband gave her never amiss beholding word: and within a short time after this my poor Husband going out very early in the morning: as he was a coming. in again he was taken with a strange fit in the entry being struck blind and stricken down two or three times so that when he came to himself he told me he thought he should never have com into the house any more: and all summer after he continued in a languishing condition being much pained at his stomach and often struck blind: but about a fortnight before he dyed he was taken with strange and violent fits acting much like out poor bewitched parsons when we thought they would have dyed and the Doctor. that was with him could not find what his distemper was: and the day before he dyed he was very clearly but about midnight he was again most violently seized upon with violent fits tell the next night about midnight he departed this life by a cruel death Jurist in Curia (Reverse) Sarah Holton - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
| Last Modified 22 Jun 2004 | Created 4 Jan 2005 |