Qualifying Ancestors for Witch Society Members
Lineages for Joining Descendants of Colonial Witches Organization
Oct 9, 2009 Rosemary E. Bachelor
Listed below are some tragic colonial Americans falsely accused during the era of witchcraft hysteria.
Lineage Society for Descendants of Colonial Witches
The Associated Daughters of Early American Witches is dedicated to honoring dozens of colonial Americans wrongly accused of practicing witchcraft. It is also interested in contacting their descendants. Only women over age 16 are eligible.
Qualifying Ancestors for Membership
Documented lines of descent from those on this list, or from other colonial Americans proven to have been falsely accused of witchcraft, qualifies family researchers to apply for membership. The society can help genealogists document lines of descent from so-called colonial society witches.
List of Colonial Era Accused Witches
A-B: Elizabeth Ayers, William Ayers, Elizabeth Bailey, Mrs. George Baker, Abigail (Wheeler) Barker, Mary Barker, William Barker Sr., William Barker Jr., Mary Barnes, Margery Bassett, Sarah (Hood) Bassett, (female) Batchelor, Mrs. Nicholas Bayley, Nicholas Bayley, Alice (Young) Beamon, Winifred Benham, Winifred (King) Benham, Elizabeth Bennett, Bridget (Playfer) Bishop, Edward Bishop Jr., Sarah (Wildes) Bishop, Mary Black (negro slave), Elizabeth Blackleach, John Blackleach, (female) Bowden, Mary (Perkins) Bradbury, Dudley Bradstreet, John Bradstreet Jr., John Bradstreet, Mary (Tyler) Post Bridges, Mary Bridges, Sarah Bridges, Christopher Browne, William Browne, Hannah (Varnum) Tyler Brumidge, Sarah (Smith) Buckley, (female) Burr, Rev. George Burroughs, Ann (Holland) Bassett Burt, John Buxton, Anne Byrd and John Byrd.
C: Nell Cane, Elizabeth (Walker) Cary, Andrew Carrier, Martha (Allen) Carrier, Richard Carrier, Sarah Carrier, Thomas Carrier Jr., Joanne Carrington, John Carrington, Hannah Carroll, Bethiah (Pearson) Carter, Bethiah Carter, Alice Cartwrite, Elizabeth (Walker) Cary, Rebecca (Shelley) Chamberlain, Sarah Churchill, Mary (Johnson) Davis Clark, Elizabeth (Periment) Clawson, Rachel (Haffield) Clinton,
Goody Clover, Sarah (Towne) Bridges Cloyes, Eunice Cole, Sarah (Aslet) Cole, Sarah (Davis) Cole, (male) Collins, Jane (Greepe) Collins, Elizabeth Colson, Mary (Dustin) Colson, Giles Cory, Martha (Penoir) Rich Cory, John Cowman, Mary Cox, Edith Pride Crawford and Hugh Croshaw/Crotia.
D: Deliverance (Haseltine) Dane, male slave of Nathaniel Dane, Phoebe (Wildes) Day, Mary (Bassett) DeRich, Sarah Dibble, Elizabeth (Austin) Dicer, James Dike, Rebecca (Dolliver) Dike, Nicholas Disborough/Disbrow, Mercy (Holbridge) Disbrow, Ann (Higginson) Dolliver, Mehitabel (Brabrook) Downing, Joseph Draper, Elizabeth Dunkin, John Dunkin, John Durrant, Lydia Dustin, Sarah Dustin, Grace (Pratt) Dutch and Thomas Dyer.
E-F: Daniel Eames, Rebecca (Blake) Eames, Anna Edmunds, Hannah Edwards, Esther (Dutch) Elwell, Martha (Toothaker) Emerson, Joseph Emons, Mary (Hollingworth) English, Phillip English, Mary (Towne) Esty, (female) Evans, Agnes Evans, Thomas Farrar, Edward Farrington, Abigail (Dane) Faulkner, Abigail Faulkner, Dorothy Faulkner, Mary Fisher, John Floyd, Elizabeth Betts Fosdick, Ann Foster, Rebecca Fowler, Nicholas Frost, Eunice (Potter) Frye, James Fuller and Rachel (Brabrook) Fuller.
G: Elizabeth (Blanchard) Garlick, Margaret Gifford, Lydia Gilbert, (female) Gleason, Mary or Anne Glover, John Godfrey, Elizabeth Godman, Dorcas Good, Sarah (Solart) Poole Good, Katherine Grady, Mrs. Grant, William Graves, Mary (Green) Green, Nathaniel Greensmith, Rebecca Elsing Mudge Greensmith and Anna (Wolcott) Griswold.
H-I: Mary Hale, Sarah (Noyes) Hale, (male) Hales, Mary Hall, Ralph Hall, William Ham, William Harding, Thomas Hardy, Catherine Harrison, Elizabeth (Hutchinson) Hart, Hannah Harvey, Mary (Staples) Harvey, Candy (slave of Margaret Hawkes), Margaret Hawkes, Sarah Hawkes, Jane Hawkins, Anne (Bellingham) Hibbins, Dorcas (Galley) Hoar, Abigail Hobbs, Deliverance Hobbs, William Hobbs, Mary Holman, Winifred Holman, Mrs. Holmes, John Howard, Elizabeth (Jackson) Howe, Frances Hutchins, Anne (Marbury) Hutchinson, Mary Ingham and Mary (Leach) Ireson.
J-L: John Jackson Jr., John Jackson Sr., George Jacobs Jr., George Jacobs Sr., Margaret Jacobs, Rebecca (Andrews) Frost Jacobs, Jane James, Jane Jenkins, Margaret Jennings, Nicholas Jennings, Abigail Johnson, Elizabeth (Dane) Johnson, Elizabeth Johnson, Mary Johnson, Rebecca (Aslet) Johnson, Rebecca Johnson, Stephen Johnson, Hannah (Walford) Jones, Margaret Jones, Thomas Jones, Elizabeth Holly Kendall, Mrs. Roger Knapp, Mary (Foster) Lacy, Mary Lacy, Alice Lake, Mary Lee and Jane Lilly.
M-O: Mrs. Richard Manship, “Widow” Mercy Marshfield, Mary (Osgood) Marston, Susanna (North) Martin, Margaret Mattson, William Meaker, Sarah Merrick, Katherine Messenger, “Goodwife” Miller, Joan Mitchell, Phyllis Money, Sarah Morey/Morrell, Eleanor Morris, Elizabeth Morse, Mrs. Christopher Neal, Rebecca (Towne) Nurse, Mary Oliver, Sarah (Warren) Prince Osborne and Mary (Clement/s) Osgood.
P: Elizabeth (Carington) Paine, Catherine Palmer, Alice Parker, Mary (Ayer) Parker, Sarah Parker, Hugh Parsons, John Parsons, Mary (Bliss) Parsons, Mary (Lewis) Parsons, Samuel Passanauton (an Indian), Robert Pease, Sarah Pease, Joanna Brabrook Penny, Elizabeth Perkins, Hannah Post, Mary Post, Susannah Post, Caleb Powell, Mary (Boulter) Prescott, Margaret Prince, Benjamin Proctor, Elizabeth (Bassett) Proctor, John Proctor, Sarah Proctor, William Proctor and Ann Greenslade Pudeator.
R-S: Mary Randall, Margaret Read, Wilmot Reed, Sarah (Clark) Davis Rice/Rist, Elizabeth Richardson, Susanna Rootes, Abigail Rowe, Mary/Martha (Prince) Rowe, John Sadie Jr., Henry Salter, Nathaniel Saltonstall, Andrew Sanford, Mary Sanford, Elizabeth Scargen, Margaret (Stevenson) Scott, Elizabeth (Moody) Seager, Ann Farrar Sears, Bessie Sewell, Grace (White/Whitt) Sherwood, Henry Somers, Abigail Soames, Martha (Barrett) Sparks, Mary Staples, Alice Stephens, Ephraim Stevens and Alice Stratton.
T-V: Mary (Harrington) Taylor, (slave of Margaret Thatcher), Tituba (a slave), Job Tookey/Tuckey, Margaret Toothaker, Mary (Allen) Toothaker, Roger Toothaker, Isabella (Austin) Towle, Joanna (Blessing) Towle, Hannah (Horton) Hildreth Travally, Hannah Tyler, Joanna Tyler, Martha Tyler, Mary (Lovett) Tyler, Hezekiah Usher, Judith Varlet, Rachel (Varney) Cooke Langton Vinson and Sarah Vinson.
W-Y: James Wakeley, Jane Walford, Mercy Wardwell, Samuel Wardwell, Sarah (Hooper) Hawkes Wardwell, Mary Warren, Mary Watkins (a slave), Mary (Reeve) Webster, Thomas Wells, Judith White, Mary (Buckley) Whitridge, Sarah (Averill) Wildes, Ruth Wilford, John Willard, Robert Williams, Sarah (Lloyd) Wilson, Sarah Wilson, Barbara Wingborough, Edward Woo(d)land, Jane Wright, Mary Wright and Alice/Elsie Young.
Many family researchers are surprised to see so many men on the list of accused witches. That is one more reminder that the truth about these tragic victims is still being explored.
(See the companion article on the Associated Daughters of Early American Witches.)
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