Mary Walcott

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Walcott at the Salem Witch Trials

Mary Wolcott (July 5, 1675 – after 1719) was one of the witnesses at the Salem Witch Trials of Salem, Massachusetts in the years 1692 and 1693.

Life

She was the daughter of Captain Jonathan Wolcott (1639–1699), and his wife Mary Sibley (1644–1683), both of Salem, and was about seventeen years old when the allegations started in 1692. Her aunt, Mary Woodrow, the wife of Samuel Sibley (1657–1708), was the person who first showed Tituba and her husband John Indian 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 quotes in the The Annals of Salem (1849 edition) vol. 2, p. 476 [from the town records]:

March 11, 1692 – "Mary, the wife of Samuel Sibley, having been suspended from communion with the church there, for the advices she gave John [husband of Tituba] to make the above experiment, is restored on confession that her purpose was innocent."

At the trials, she was said to be calm, but subsequently critics have accused her of everything from compromise to actually being a witch who foiled her potential adversaries by distracting their attention away from herself onto innocent persons ^{[citation needed]}. She married Isaac Farrar on April 29, 1696. Isaac was the son of John Farrar of Woburn, Massachusetts. They had several children, and eventually moved to Townsend, Massachusetts. Mary Wolcott also married David Harwood in 1701 in Sutton, Massachusetts. They had nine children. ^[1]

Sources

Sidney Perley, The History of Salem Massachusetts (1924–1928, 3 volumes)
Essex Institute, Vital Records of Salem Massachusetts (1918–1927, 6 volumes)
Melindi Lutz Sanborn, Essex County Massachusetts Probate Records, 1630–1840 (1987, 2 volumes)
Ithamar B. Sawtelle, editor, History of the Town of Townsend, Middlesex County, Massachusetts ... 1676–1878 (1878)
Henry C. Hallowell, Vital Records of Townsend, Massachusetts (1992)
Ezra S. Stearns, editor, Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire (1908, vol. II) p. 591 [Family of Isaac Farrar]

References

↑ 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

External links

University of Virginia: Salem Witch Trials (includes former "Massachusetts Historical Society" link)

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Timeline People Cultural depictions

Magistrates and court officials	Jonathan Corwin Thomas Danforth Bartholomew Gedney John Hathorne Joseph Herrick George Herrick John Richards Nathaniel Saltonstall Samuel Sewall William Stoughton Waitstill Winthrop

Town physician	William Griggs

Clergy	John Hale Deodat Lawson Cotton Mather Increase Mather Nicholas Noyes Samuel Parris Samuel Willard

Politicians and public figures	William Phips Thomas Brattle Robert Calef

Accusers	Sarah Bibber John DeRich Elizabeth Hubbard John Indian Mercy Lewis Betty Parris Samuel Parris Ann Putnam, Jr. Thomas Putnam Susannah Sheldon Mary Walcott Abigail Williams

Accused	John Alden Edward Bishop Edward Bishop III Sarah Bishop Mary Black Mary Bradbury Martha Carrier Rachel Clinton Sarah Cloyce Rebecca Eames Mary Eastey Mary English Phillip English Thomas Farrar, Sr. Abigail Faulkner Dorothy Good Elizabeth Hart Dorcas Hoar William Hobbs Mary Lacy Sarah Morey Sarah Osborne Elizabeth Proctor John Proctor Sarah Proctor William Proctor Tituba Indian

Confessed and accused others	Tituba Abigail Hobbs Deliverance Hobbs Margaret Jacobs Mary Warren Ann Foster Mary Lacey Jr. Mary Lacey Sr. Sarah Churchwell

Executed	Bridget Bishop George Burroughs Martha Carrier Martha Corey Mary Eastey Sarah Good Elizabeth Howe George Jacobs, Sr. Susannah Martin Rebecca Nurse Alice Parker Mary Parker John Proctor Ann Pudeator Wilmot Redd Margaret Scott Samuel Wardwell Sarah Wildes John Willard

Died in prison	Lydia Dustin Ann Foster Sarah Osborne Roger Toothaker

Pressed to death	Giles Corey

Born in prison	John Proctor, III

Persondata
Name	Wolcott, Mary
Alternative names
Short description	American accused of witchcraft
Date of birth	1675
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Date of death
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