Talk:Thomas Oliver (husband of Bridget Bishop)

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Thomas Oliver is the major link in the old and well known theory that Bridget Bishop was executed on trumped up charges because her second husband's family with his first wife wanted what she had inherited from him. Aside from her own assertion that she was not a witch and the MA Gen Ct's 2 times having passed legislation agreeing with her assertion and nullifying the judgment of 1692, and Upham's having clearly thought this scenario was true. There is a possibilty that the wife of one of the judges was related to the Olivers. However that the judge's wife's grandmother's? sirname was Oliver also be relevant here.

I have done quite a bit of editing here, and think it may be time to remove one or both of the tags.John5Russell3Finley 00:44, 29 July 2007 (UTC)