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Mary Walcott (July 5, 1675 – 1752) was one of the "afflicted" girls called as a witness at the
Salem witch trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirty people were found guilty, 19 of whom w ...
in early 1692-93.
Life
Born July 5, 1675, she was the daughter of Captain Jonathan Walcott (1639–1699), and his wife, Mary Sibley (or Sibly; 1644–1683), both of Salem, and was about seventeen years old when the allegations started in 1692. Her aunt, Mary (née Wolcott), the wife of Samuel Sibley (or Sibly; 1657–1708), was the person who first showed
Tituba
Tituba Indian was an enslaved woman who was one of the first to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials of 1692-1693. She was brought to colonial Massachusetts from Barbados by Samuel Parris, the minister of Salem Village. She w ...
and Tituba's husband
John Indian
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how to bake a "witch cake" to feed to a dog in order that she and her friends might ascertain exactly who it was that was afflicting them. Joseph B. Felt quoted in ''The Annals of Salem'' (1849 edition) vol. 2, p. 476
rom the town records
March 11, 1692, – "Mary, the wife of Samuel Sibley, having been suspended from communion with the church there, for the advice she gave John usband of Titubato make the above experiment, is restored on a confession that her purpose was innocent."
Marriage
Mary Walcott married Isaac Farrar, son of John Farrar of
Woburn, Massachusetts
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, on April 28, 1696. They had several children, and eventually moved to
Townsend, Massachusetts
Townsend is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 9,127 at the 2020 census.
History
Townsend was first settled by Europeans in 1676 in an area known by indigenous people of the area as Wistequassuck, an ...
. She married, secondly, to David Harwood in 1701 in
Sutton, Massachusetts
Sutton, officially the Town of Sutton, is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts. The population was 9,357 in the 2020 United States Census. Located in the Blackstone Valley, the town was designated as a Preserve America community in 2004.
...
. They had nine children:
# Mary Harwood, b. Abt. 1702.; d. Abt. 1753.
# Emma Harwood, b. Abt. 1705. (m. Ebenezer Macintyre, May 23, 1728).
# Hannah Harwood, b. Abt. 1706; (m. Ebenezer Twiss, Abt. 1752).
# David Harwood, b. Abt. 1708, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts; d. August 22, 1781, Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts; (m. Margaret Cox, March 13, 1730/31, Salem, Essex Cnty, Massachusetts).
# Elizabeth Harwood, b. Abt. 1711; d. Abt. 1738; (m. Benjamin Moulton, October 1734).
# Ezra Harwood, b. Abt. 1715.
# Alice Harwood, b. Abt. 1720, Salem, Massachusetts (m. Jonathan Nourse Jr., August 12, 1743).
# Absalom Harwood, b. Abt. 1723; (m. Anna Boyce, September 23, 1748).
# Solomon Harwood, b. Abt. 1725; (m. Abagail Phelps, December 20, 1748; m. Sarah Taylor December 4, 1752).
Later years
They moved to
Sutton
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about 1729, leaving most of their children living in Salem. David was a weaver by occupation. David died before 1744. Mary Walcott Harwood probably died before 1752.
[U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900]
Record Name: Mary Wolcott
Gender: Female
Birth Place: MA
Birth Year: 1675
Spouse Name: David Harwood
Marriage Year: 1701
Number Pages: 1
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References
External links
University of Virginia: Salem Witch Trials (includes former "Massachusetts Historical Society" link)
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1675 births
Year of death unknown
Accusers in witch trials
People of the Salem witch trials
People from Townsend, Massachusetts
Place of birth missing