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     Richard Meriam was born circa 1485 at Goudhurst, Kent, England. He died in 1548.

     Stephen Meriam was born circa 1464 at Goudhurst, Kent, England. He died in 1506 at Goudhurst, Kent, England.

     (?) Juliane was born circa 1463 at Goudhurst, Kent, England.

     Wiliam Meriam was born circa 1431 at Boughton Monchelsea, Kent, England. He died circa 1478.

     (?) Benedicta was born circa 1435 at Boughton Monchelsea, Kent, England.

     John Goldstone was born in 1574 at Tonbridge, Kent, England. He died on 12 March 1670/71 at Concord, Middlesex, MA, USA.

     Frances Jefferie was born circa 1575 at Pembury, Kent, England.

     John Jefferie was born circa 1552 at Pembury, Kent, England.

     (?) Jane was born circa 1554 at Pembury, Kent, England.

     Deborah Nutting died BET. 1728 - 1729. Her married name was Taylor. She was born. She married Jacob Taylor, son of William Taylor and Mary Merriam, on 29 November 1687 at Concord, Middlesex, MA, USA.

     John Nutting John Nutting was born about 1620-25 in England, and died at Groton, Mass., March 13, 1676. He married Sarah Eggleston, daughter of Stephen and Jane Eggleston, at Woburn, Mass., August 28, 1650. The dates of Sarah's birth and death are not known. There is said to be among the Winthrop papers, a copyhold deed to 'JOhn Nutton (Nutting) a lifelong tenant of one moiety of the lands of Groton Manor,' given at the time when John Winthrop - later the governor of Massachusetts - succeeded his father, Adam Winthrop, Esq., as lord of the manor of Groton, in Suffolk, England. The date of the deed is 1618. The grantee is called John Nutton, Senior. This implies a John Nutting Jr., living in 1618, and of age. It is said that his house was a fortified garrison, to which the people might go in times of danger from the Indians. Groton was on the frontier at that time, and such danger was real. The house was perhaps built like a blockhouse, with projecting upper story, loopholes in the walls for musketry, and a stockade about it. John Nutting would be obliged to defend the house in case of attack. It was this obligation that led to his death. The Indian war known as King Phillip's War, began in the early spring of 1676, after long preliminary warnings. Trouble began at Groton, March 2, 1676. On March 13 a force of four hundred Indians attacked Groton by stealth, as was their habit. Nutting's house and others were captured and John Nutting was shot to death in its defense. It is said that his head was severed and put upon a pole. The women and children escaped safetly to Parker's house, not far away. Nutting's wife and children escaped with the others loter to the safer settlements. The eldest son was married at this time and cared for his own. He and his brother James returned to Groton. Mrs. Nutting probably went to Woburn where her mother was living. Her mother, Mrs. Jane Cole, widow of Stephen Eggleston, married (2) James Briton, and married (3) Isaac Cole, died at Woburn, March 10, 1687. Her sister Ruth, wife of Samuel Blodgett, may have lived at the same place. Source: Supplement II to Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors, pages 17-18. He was born between 1620 and 1625 at Kent, England. He married Sarah Elizabeth Eggleston, daughter of Stephen Eggleston and Elizabeth Jane Bennett, on 28 August 1650 at Woburn, Middlesex, MA, USA. John Nutting was freeman on 30 May 1660. Unrecognized GEDCOM data: Unknown GEDCOM tag: _FA3
Selectman in 1663. Unrecognized GEDCOM data: Unknown GEDCOM tag: _FA4
Selectman in 1667. Unrecognized GEDCOM data: Constable in 1668. Unrecognized GEDCOM data: Unknown GEDCOM tag: _FA5
Selectman in 1669. Unrecognized GEDCOM data: fence viewer in 1673. Unrecognized GEDCOM data: Unknown GEDCOM tag: _FA8
Surveyor of Highways in 1673. He died on 13 March 1675/76 at Groton, Middlesex, MA, USA.

     Sarah Elizabeth Eggleston was she went to live with her sister Ruth after John's death. Her married name was Nutting. She was born between 1628 and 1630 at Biddenden, Kent, England. She married John Nutting, son of John Nutting and Elizabeth Rawlings, on 28 August 1650 at Woburn, Middlesex, MA, USA. Sarah Elizabeth Eggleston died on 10 March 1686/87.

     John Nutting was born in 1590 at Erwarton, Suffolk, Suffolk, England. He married Elizabeth Rawlings on 28 August 1650 at Woburn, Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, England. John Nutting died on 13 March 1675/76 at Groton, Middlesex, MA, USA.

     Elizabeth Rawlings was born at England. Her married name was Nutting. She married John Nutting on 28 August 1650 at Woburn, Bedfordshire, Bedfordshire, England.

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Stephen died at sea aboard the 'Castle.' Stephen Eggleston was born on 17 January 1607/8 at Biddenden, Kent, England. He married Elizabeth Jane Bennett on 30 November 1628 at Biddenden, Kent, England. Stephen Eggleston died in 1638. Crossing the Ocean.

     Elizabeth Jane Bennett was buried at Fairfield, Fairfield, CT, USA. Her married name was Eggleston. She was born in 1602 at Biddenden, Kent, England. She married Stephen Eggleston, son of Stephen Iggulden and Sarah Haffenden, on 30 November 1628 at Biddenden, Kent, England. Elizabeth Jane Bennett died on 10 March 1686/87 at Roxbury, Suffolk, MA, USA.

     Stephen Iggulden was born on 5 April 1582 at England. He was baptized on 16 April 1582 at Biddenden, Kent, England. He married Sarah Haffenden, daughter of Robart Haffenden, on 13 January 1605/6 at Tenterden, Kent, England. Stephen Iggulden died in November 1624 at Biddenden, Kent, England, at age 42.

     Her married name was Iggulden. Sarah Haffenden was christened on 10 February 1587/88. She was born on 10 February 1587/88 at Tenterden, Kent, England. She married Stephen Iggulden, son of Stephen Iggleden and (?) Joane, on 13 January 1605/6 at Tenterden, Kent, England.

     Stephen Iggleden was. Clotheir. He The Will of STEPHEN IGGLDEDN Proved 22 April 1606 The Will of STEPHEN IGGLDEDN of the parish of Biddenden in the Countie of Kent, “Clotheir,” 18 Fecruary 1605. My body to be buried in the church or churchyard of Biddenden. To the poor of the parish of Biddenden. To wife Dennice the use of the new building adjoined to “my Mansion housery,” the new kitchen the the loft over it the the garret and the garret over the parlor, with three butteries and loft over them, with free liberty into and out of all the said room and also into the Har---feild, and the use of my oven and furnace during the time of her widowhood. Also an annuity of L4, whereof 4 marks are due unto her by virtue of a jointure which I made with her before her marriage unto me, to be paid at the four usual feasts of the year out of the profits of my land withjoining to my said Mansion House where I now dwell. If the said sum is not paid, my wife to enter into the said land until the sum be fully satisfied. also I give unto my wife L25, household furniture, etc. To son James L20 at twenty-one, if he shall make a sufficient release of one house and the land thereto belonging, to William Cliffe, according to an indenture made between me and the said William Cliffe, and he refuse, then this request said to be void. To son Richard L100 at twenty-one. To daughter Marggret. This is my last will and and testament concerning my lands and tenements. To son John and his heirs forever all my lands and tenements now in my tenure and occupation, and which I lately purchased of John Moyse and Symon Moyse, provided that he pay out of them to Dennice, my wife, L8 yearly toward the education and bringing up of my daughters Dennice and Margarett until they come to the age of sixteen years, and afterward 80s. yearly until they come to the age of twenty years, if they live so long unmarried, with penalty for non-payment. Son Stephen to serve in case of my wife Dennice’s decease. Son John to pay to my daughter Dennice L80 at her age of twenty years of day of marriage. If the said sum be unpaid for three months after it becomes due, she to have forever three pieces of land containing seven acres, which lie furthest from my mansion house, abutting and adjoining to the King’s highway towards the north, to the lands of Francis Fowle towards teh south, to the lands of Robert Moyse and me Stephen Iggleden before given to John leden towards the east. Similar provision for daughter Margaret at her age of twenty years of day of marriage. If the said sum be unpaid for threemonths after it be due, my daughter Margaret to have forever two peices of land containing seven acres, one called the Maxenfelid and the other the Middlefeild, lying together abutting to the lands of Robert Moyse and other the lands of the said Stephen Iggleden before willied to his son John towards the east, and to the lands of the said Stephen Iggleden before willed to his son Jon on the north and west, and to the lands of Francis Foule towards the south. To sonStephen Iggleden all those my houses and buildings with all the lands thereto belonging which I lately purchased of Stephen Bateman, lying in the parish of Biddenden and Tenterden, to him and his heirs foever, provided that he pay our of the lands L5 yearly to Dennice, my wife, toward the education and bringing up of my son Joseph Iggleden until he come o the age of fourteen years, and afterward L3 yearly until he come to the age of eighteen, with penalty, etc., and provision for sonJohn serving in case of wife’s decease. Son Stephen to pay L100 to my son Joseph at the age of twenty-one, and if it be unpaid for three months after it be due, the lands in the parish of Tenterdenm being parcell of the lands before willed to my son Stephen. If Dennice my wife be with child, whether man child or woman child, my executors to pay L5 a year towards its education and bringing up until it accomplish the age of fifteen years, etc. All the resideue of my good and chattels to my sons John and Stephen, whom I make sole executors. [signed] Stephen Iggleden. Witnesses: Josias Seyliard, John Iggleden, James Prichard, scrivener, the marke of Stephen Osmore. Proved [22 April 1606. Probate Act Book] by John and Stephen Iggleden, executors named. Inventory L676 15s. 2d. Sentence for the confirmation of the will was given 17 June 1606. (Consistory of Canterbury, vol. 39, fo. 343.). He married (?) Joane at Kent, England. Stephen Iggleden was born circa October 1552 at Biddenden, Kent, England. He was christened on 19 October 1552 at Biddenden, Kent, England. He died before 18 February 1604/5 at Biddenden, Kent, England. He was buried on 21 February 1604/5 at Biddenden, Kent, England. He left a will on 22 April 1606. Proved.

     (?) Joane married Stephen Iggleden, son of William Iddenden and Lettice Stacy, at Kent, England. (?) Joane died at Biddenden, Kent, England. Her married name was (?) Iggleden. She was born at Kent, England.

     William Iddenden was born in 1510 at Biddenden, Kent, England. He married Lettice Stacy circa 1550 at Biddenden, Kent, England. William Iddenden died in 1557 at Biddenden, Kent, England. He was buried on 28 April 1557 at Biddenden, Kent, England. He left a will on 29 April 1557. Will made.

     Her married name was Iddenden. Lettice Stacy was born circa 1515 at Biddenden, Kent, England. She married William Iddenden, son of John Iggleden, circa 1550 at Biddenden, Kent, England. Lettice Stacy died in 1625 at Biddenden, Kent, England. She was buried on 16 May 1625 at Biddenden, Kent, England.

     John Iggleden was born circa 1480 at Biddenden, Kent, England.

     Robart Haffenden was born in 1554 at England. He was christened on 8 April 1554. He married an unknown person circa 1583 at Tenterden, Kent, England.

     Robart Haffinden was born in 1520 at England. He married Margaret Crottall on 12 May 1544 at Tenterden, Kent, England.

     Her married name was Haffinden. Margaret Crottall was born circa 1524 at Tenterden, Kent, England. She married Robart Haffinden on 12 May 1544 at Tenterden, Kent, England.

     John Iggleden he Will of John Egolynden of Bedynden Proved 10 March 1511-12 The will of John Egolynden the Elder, of Bedynden, 18 January 1511. to be buried in the churchyard of Bedynden. To the high altat there, etc. To every godchild 6d. To the high alters of Halden and Smerden. A bushel of wheat to be made into penny loaves and distributed to the poor people Biddenden in the churchyard on Good Friday every year for twenty years. To the brotherhood priest of Bidynden 6s, 8d. a year for life. To the church of Biddenden. To son John, if he will be a priest, L10 to pray for my soul, etc. And if he will be no priest, then the L10 to another priest to pray, etc. To wife Alice half of household goods, and the other half to son Richard. The residue [ sic ] of all goods to son Richard, whom I make sole executor. Stephen Pell, clerk of Smerden, overseer, and to him 3s. 4d. Witnesses: John Hilles, Walter Bryganden, Gylberd Stedman, and Thomas Ponett. I make John Lechynden, John Elsy, Walter Brykynden of Biddenden, and Richard Morelyne of Benynden my foefees. My wife to have either her jointure or else her dwelling in my messuage where I dwell, the 'soler' on the 'doyce' side with the Chamber under, sufficient fuel and fire, the little garden at the head of the soler and another little garden at longtown pett, and her easement in kitchen and brew house, also one third of my son Richard Egolynden's fruit, during her 'wedewoth', and an annuity of 20s. paid by my son Richard during her widowhood, etc. Son Richard to occupy and take the profits of the said messuage that I dwell in and the lands called 'Smersole soo home' [ sic ] until he come to age of twenty-one, paying the charges before rehearsed, and when he come to said age my foefees to deliver said lands and tenements to him and his heirs forever. He also to have all my outlands and tenements which I have not willed, paying to John Egolynden my son L30, L5 a year for six years out of my outlands, that is 28 acres bought of Vincent Munne, land called Goreland, Morehams, and Biddennen Meed and luetham. if said Richard refuse to pay the said L30, then John to have the said out lands. For twenty years L5 a year shall be levied out of the land call leuttham to priests clerks and poor people to keep an obit in the church of Bedynden. Proved 10 March 1551-12 by the executor named. (Archdeaconary of Canterbury, vol.11, fo.7.). He was Called 'the elder.' He was born in 1450 at Biddenden, Kent, England. He died in 1511. He left a will between 10 March 1511 and 1512. .

     Richard Iddenden was born in 1420. He died in 1475 at Biddenden, Kent, England.

     (?) Alicia The Will of Alicia Igolynden, Proved 9 May 1475 The Will of Alicia Igolynden, late wife of Richard Igolynden of Bydenden in the County of Kent, dated at Bydenden, April 1475. My body to be buried in the churchyard of Bydenden. To the high altar of the church of Bydenden for my tythes and oblations forgotten, 8d. To every brotherhood light of which I am a sister, 2d. To son Thomas Igolynden. To Lore Gesse. To daughter Agnes Igolynden a large iron pot on condition that she pay to Thomas her brother 6s. 8d. To daughter Juliane all my money and a cow which is in the hands of Robert lanys, etc. To Thomasine Hardy. To son Thomas. Toward the expenses of my burial 13s 4d. To my days mind 13s. 4d. To son John. The residue to daughter Agnes, and of this my will I make Adam Pellond and John Igolynden my executors. I make John lechynden and William Gebon my feofees of eight crofts of landand woods containing nine acres in Bedynden on the den of Beckynden , they to legally deliver them to my son John Igolynden on condition that he pay all my legacies following: to a priest to celebrate mass in the church of Bydenden for one year, 30s.4d., to the footway in rouchfield two cartloads of stone, to Juliane my daughter 20d., to the Northrodeloft in the said church 16d., and to every one of my godsons and goddaughters 4d. Proved 9 May 1475 by John Igolynden , one of the executors named, with power reserved for the other executor. (Archdeaconry Court of Canterbury, vol.2, fo.17, translated from the Latin.). She died in 1475. She left a will on 9 May 1475 at Biddenden, Kent, England. .

     George Jacobs was born on 29 September 1677 at Wells, York, ME, USA. He married Hannah Thomas Cousins, daughter of Thomas Cousins and Hannah Ward, on 26 December 1701 at Wells, York, ME, USA. George Jacobs died on 21 February 1749/50 at Wells, York, ME, USA, at age 72.

     George Jacobs George and his wife Rebecca were accused of witchcraft, but George fled before he could be arrested. He and his brother-in-law, Daniel Andrews stayed away until the hysteria was over. Where they were has not been established, but the later connection with Wells, Me is suggestive. He was born in 1649. He married Rebecca Andrews, daughter of Thomas Andrews and (?) Rebecca, on 9 February 1673/74 at Salem, Essex, MA, USA. George Jacobs died after 1717 at Salem, Essex, MA, USA.

     Rebecca Andrews Rebecca was arrested for withchcraft on May 14, 1692. 'The officer perswaded her out of the House, telling her she should speedily return, the children ran a great way after her crying.' She was to remain in prison for ten months, her four young children (daughter Margaret was already in prision) were taken in by neighbors. Her mother, in a petition to the court, calls her '-- - a Woman craz'd, distracted, and broken in her mind, and that she has been so theses twelve years and upward.' Rebecca apparently blamed herself for the death of a child, possibly her little daughter Mary. Daughter Margaret writes of her in a letter to her father '- - My poor mother, poor woman, is very crazy and remembers her kind love to you and to uncle - -' Rebecca was eventually released and was living when her husband, George died in early 1717-18. George was also accused of witchcraft, but fled before he could be arrested. He and his brother-in-law, Daniel Andrews stayed away until the hysteria was over. Where they were has not been established, but the later connection with Wells, Me is suggestive. Her married name was Jacobs. She was born on 18 April 1646 at Watertown, Middlesex, MA, USA. She married George Jacobs, son of George Jacobs and Mary (?), on 9 February 1673/74 at Salem, Essex, MA, USA. Rebecca Andrews died after 1717.

     George Jacobs George Jacobs was born about 1617, probably in England and was farming near Salem, Mass by the 1640's. He came to Salem in or before 1674 and settled in the portion of the town which is now Danvers, northwesterly of Great Cove. He and his wife attended church infrequently, and he was known for his 'salty tongue' and quick temper. He was in court in 1677 for striking a man while in a rage. He, his son George Jr, George Jr's wife Rebecca and their daughter Margaret, were accused of witchcraft.George was accused of practicing witchcraft by his own granddaughter, Margaret. George Sr was tried and examined May 10th 1692. The accusing girls were present in full force. His examination was as follows: Jacobs: I am as innocent as the child born tonight. I have lived thirty-three years here in Salem. Court: What then? Jacobs: If you can prove that I am guilty I will lie under it. Sarah: Last night I was afflicted at Deacon Ingersoll's and Mary Walcott said it was a man with two staves. It was my master... Jacobs: Pray so not accuse me. I am as clear as your worships. You must right judgements. Court: What book did he bring you, Sarah? Sarah: The same book that the other woman brought. Jacobs: The devil can go in any shape. Court: Did he not appear on the other side of the river and hurt you? Did not you see him? Sarah: Yes he did. Court: Look there, she accuseth you to your face, she chargeth you that you hurt her twice. Is it not true? What would you have me say? I never wronged no man in word or deed. Court: Here are three evidences. Jacobs: You tax me for a wizard. You may as well tax me for a buzzard. I have done no harm. Court: Is it not harm to afflict these? Jacobs: I never did it. Court: But how comes it to be in your appearance? Jacobs: The devil can take any license. Court: Not without their consent. Jacobs: Please your worships, it is untrue, I never showed the book. I am silly about these things as the child born last night. Court: That is your saying. You argue you have lived so long, but what then, Cain might live so long before he killed Abel and you might live long before the devil had so prevailed on you. Jacobs: Christ hath suffered three times for me... Court: What three times? He suffered the cross and gal... Sarah: You had as good confess if you are guilty. Jacobs: Have you heard that I have any witchcraft? Sarah: I know that you lead a wicked life. Jacobs: Let her make it out. Court: Doth he ever pray in his family? Jacobs: Not unless by himself. Court: Why do you not pray in your family? Jacobs: I cannot read. Court: Well you may pray for all that. Can you say the Lord's prayer? Let us hear you. Record; (He might [missed] in several parts of it and could not repeat it right after many trials.) Court: Sarah Churchill, when you wrote in the book you showed your master's name you said. Sarah: Yes sir. Jacobs: Well, burn me or hang me I will stand in the truth of Christ. I know nothing of it. Sarah Churchill gave positive evidence against Mr. Jacobs, and subsequently Sarah Ingersoll deposed that Sarah Churchill came to her, crying and wringing her hands, seemingly much troubled in spirit. She asked her what the matter was. She answered that she had undone herself. Miss Ingersoll asked what was it about, and she answered, that it was in belying herself and others in sayingthat she believed that she had set her hand to the book. She answered, and said, 'No, no, no; I never did.' She was asked then what made her say she did. She answered that it was because they threatened her, and told her they would put her into the dungeon along ,with Mr. Burroughs, and thus at several times she followed Miss Ingersoll, telling her that she had undone herself. Miss Ingersoll asked her why she did not deny she wrote it, and she said it was because she had stood so long in it that now she did not dare to. She said, also, that if she told Mr. Noyes but once she had set her hand to the book, he would believe her, but if she told the truth and said she had not set her hand to the book a hundred times he would not believe her. May 14th, warrants were issued for the arrest of George Jacobs, Jr., and his wife Rebecca. Mr. Jacobs escaped, but his wife was arrested, and as she was taken away by the officers, her four little children followed her, but they could not go far, as the youngest was but two years old. They were left behind, and were cared for by neighbors. She was kept in irons eight months, then indicted, and set to trial Jan. 3, 1692/93, being promptly acquitted. Many features of the witchcraft regime equaled in cruelty and a spirit ofpersecution similar to that shown to the Quakers. Burroughs, Procter, George Jacobs, Sr., Willard and Carrier, were executed on Friday, August 19th. A procession formed at the jail on St. Peter's Street on that day, and with the victims in a cart, proceeded to the place of the former hangings. All of them protested their innocence; but Cotton Mather, who was there told them that they all died by a righteous sentence. When Mr.Burroughs was upon the ladder, he made a statement of his innocence so solemnly and seriously that the people, who were present in large numbers, admired him for it; and it seemed to some that the spectators would hinder the execution. He closed his prayer by repeating the Lord's prayer so composedly and fervently that it was very affecting and drew tears from many. The accusers, who were there to see the culmination of their work, said .that the 'black man' stood and dictated to him. It seemed to make no difference whether the accused could repeat the Lord's prayer or not, to them it was evidence of guilt of witchcraft either way, as they pleased. As soon as the hangings ceased, Cotton Mather, who was on horseback, spoke to the people,and declared that Mr. Burroughs was not an ordained minister and that Devil was often transformed into an angel of light. This somewhat appeased the people. When Mr. Burroughs was cut down, he was dragged by the halter to a hole or grave between the rocks, about two feet deep, his shirt and breeches being pulled off, and an old pair of trousers of one of the other men who was executed, put on. He was put into the hole with the bodies of Willard and Mrs. Carrier. One of his hands and his chin and a foot of one of the others were left uncovered. After dark, Mr. Buffum went to the crevice and covered the exposed parts of their bodies. Some of the bodies of the executed were carried away, at least, that is true of the Salem victims. Under the ridge where the execution occurred was the North River, between which and the ridge was the ancient highway. It was easy to pass the bodies to a boat in the stream, and from 'thence up North and Danvers rivers to the Great Cove, near George Jacob's home, up North River to John Procter's home, and up North, Danvers, and Crane rivers to the home of Mrs. Nurse. Those bodies which had not been taken away were buried near the line of the fence, northwesterly from the crevice. About 1750, some locust trees were set out to mark the place of their burial. One tree stood in the crevice and another about forty feet northwesterly on the line of the present fence. About 1850, the crevice as cleared of the loam and dirt within it by scraping it down to improve the garden of Mr. Stephens. The writer has a piece of the stump of one of tile trees which were dug up at that time. Margaret Jacobs, daughter of George Jr., and Rebecca Jacobs also testified against her grandfather, and the day following his execution, she wrote from Salem jail a letter to her father, as follows: Honored father--After my humble duty remembered to you, hoping in the Lord of your good health, as blessed be God I enjoy, though in abundance of affliction being close confined here in a loathsome dungeon, the Lord look down in mercy upon me, not knowing how soon I shall be put to death, by means of the afflicted persons. My grandfather having suffered already and all his estate seized for the king. The reason of my confinement is this, I having, through the magistrates threatenings, and my own vile and wretched heart, confessed several things contrary to my own conscience and knowledge, though to the wounding of my own soul, the Lord pardon me for it. But O, the terrors of a wounded conscience, who can bear ? But blessed be the Lord, he would not let me go on in my sins, but in mercy, I hope, to my soul, would not suffer me to keep it in any longer, but t was forced to confess the truth of all before the magistrates who would not believe me, but 'tis their pleasure to put me here, and God knows how soon I shall be put to death. Dear father, let me beg your prayers to the Lord on my behalf, and send me a joyful and happy meeting in Heaven. My mother, poor woman, is very crazy, and remembers her kind love to you and to uncle, viz. d--A--, so leaving you to the protection of the Lord, I rest your dutiful daughter. MARGARET JACOBS From the dungeon in Salem prison, Aug. 20, 1692 Margaret Jacobs was then only sixteen. At the next session of the court, she confessed that she had done wrong, as follows: 'The Lord above knows I know nothing in the least measure, how or who afflicted them, they told me without doubt I did,or else they would not fall down at me, they told me if I would not confess I should be put down into the dungeon and would be hanged, but if I would confess I should have my life. The which did so affright me with my own vile heart, to save my life made me make the like confession I did, which confession, may it please the honored court is altogether false and untrue . . . Whatever I said was altogether false against my grandfather and Mr. Burroughs, which I did to save my life and to have my liberty, but the Lord, charging it to my conscience, made me in so much horror that I could not contain myself before I had denied the confession; which I did, though I saw nothing but death before me, choosing rather death with a quiet conscience than to live in such horror, which I could not suffer. Whereupon my denying my confession I was committed to close prison.' When she was brought to trial, she was troubled with 'a disorder in her head,' and her case was continued. She remained in confinement after the jail delivery because she could not pay the fees and charges of the jailer. One hundred and twenty-five persons were accused in all. In 1703, the general court repaid to the heirs of persons executed and condemned and not executed the pecuniary damages they severally sustained. In Salem, on account of George Jacobs, seventy-nine pounds, George Burroughs, fifty pounds, Giles Corey and his wife, twenty-one pounds, Rebecca Nurse, twenty-five pounds, John Willard, twenty pounds, Sarah Good, thirty pounds, John Procter and his wife, one hundred and fifty pounds. Some six hundred pounds were thus paid out to the estates of the several persons. Several of the executed were members of the church, and were excommunicated as they were about to suffer. This made the executions doubly terrible, as many believed that the church membership was almost the very key to heaven. Of the after life of the accusing girls, nothing is known. Ann Putnam is said to have died in 1716, at the age of thirty-seven. They seemed to have vanished. George and four others met their ends on Gallows Hill two weeks later. His last words were 'I am falsely accused. I never did it.' In 1693 George's widow, Mary married a man who had been widowed by the witch trials, and in 1711 the General COurt of Mass made reparations of 79 pounds to the heirs of George Jacobs. George's family buried his body on his farm, and some of his descendants, still living on the site, unearthed his remains in 1864, and found a tall arthritic toothless skeleton. His remains were taken to Salem in 1992, and reburied as part of the ceremony marking the 300th anniversary of the trials. He was born in 1620. He married Mary (?) on 12 January 1672/73 at Salem, Essex, MA, USA. George Jacobs died on 19 August 1692 at Salem, Essex, MA, USA. Executed during Salem Witch Trials.

     Her married name was (?) Jacobs. Mary (?) married George Jacobs on 12 January 1672/73 at Salem, Essex, MA, USA.

     Hannah Thomas Cousins was born in 1680. She married George Jacobs, son of George Jacobs and Rebecca Andrews, on 26 December 1701 at Wells, York, ME, USA. As of 26 December 1701,her married name was (?).

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Saw action at Black Point in 1675. Thomas Cousins was Type: Fact1
living in Wells as early as 1666. He 'The first of that name in Wells, Maine.' Witnessed a deed for Morgan Howell, 1666, doubtless lived in his boyhood with his sister Barrett (Elizabeth Cousins) a neighbor of the Bowles family, where Howell made his home. Served in Phillip's War and was accused (and acquitted) of perjury for his evidence at Scottow's trial for not sending aid from the Black Point garrison to hard pressed soldiers. Wells granted him 100 acres in 1684. Grand jury 1708.Presumably he and his wife, name unknown, were killed in the attack on Wells in 1690. (Noyes, et al., p. 165) Thomas Cousins [probable son of Isaac] was born about the year1649.We find him as a young man of seventeen living in Wells, in the Province of Maine, with his Barrett kinsmen in 1666, when he witnessed a deed of land at Cape Porpoise purchased by Ensign [later Lieutenant]John Barrett from Morgan Howell. [York Deeds II: 81] He took the oath of fidelity on July 7, 1670. He saw service in the local actions during King Philip's War, and his deposition in regard to the fight which took place near Black Point in 1675 is preserved in the evidence in the case against Capt. Scottow: 'The deposition of Thomas Cousens aged about30 yeares makes oath that being with Capt Winckoll when he was ingaged with the Indians neere Blackepointe, and faire within sight of the garrison, Capt Winckol sent two men to Mr Scottow for some releife,being then likely to have bene over throwne, by the enimy, but the said Scottow would not send any help to us, he had at that time upward of forty men in his garrison, but from Mr Foxwels garrison, which was as farr from us as Mr. Scottows garrison was, we had five men which did us a great pleasure, and they left but two men in the garrison, which if we had releife from Mr. Scottows garrison, in an ordinary way with gods blessing, we might have given the enimye a great overthrow, and after the fight was over, this deponent went to Mr Scottows garrison, and heard Souldiers generally say, that they see Capt Winckoll ingaged with the enimy, and would have gone to have releived them, but Mr Scottow wouldnot suffer them, but charged them to Keepe the garrison,and further this deponent saith that it was generally reported at Blackpoint, that in theire great distress they could have no help from Mr Scottows garrison,he being the comander thereof, and further saith not. Taken upon Oath the 16th January 1679 before me Samll. Wheelwright Comissr.' [York Deeds XI: 4] This testimony resulted in a summons before the County Court to answer a charge of 'suspicion of perjury,' brought at the instigation o fCaptainScottow. He was acquitted of this charge, but convicted of 'presumtuous and reproachfull expressions' against the Captain,doubtless for the purpose of satisfying that important personage [Early Records of Maine,Maine Historical Society Copy, Vol. III, p.399; Vol. IV, p. 76. ] whose conduct during the critical days of 1675and 1676 was subject to severe criticism. In 1684 Thomas Cousins had a grant of land from the town of Wells,comprising one hundred acres west of the river which forms the present boundary between Wells and Kennebunk and southeast of the post-road. All of the settlers on this side of Wells were driven out by the Indians in 1690, the Storer Garrison, over three miles to the south,being the most northerly place that was held against them. It is entirely probable that Thomas Cousins and his wife, whose name is unknown, lost their lives during these troublous times. Their children were in possession of the farm in 1717. [Thomas Cousins of Portsmouth,N.H., whose wife Elizabeth (Cranch) shared in the division of the estate of her great-grandfather, Robert Mussell, in 1718 (N. H.Probate I: 62), was of no known connection with the Cousins family of Wells.] (The Ancestry of Lydia Harmon, p. 50)

Sources: 1.Abbrev: D. B. Robinson's Genealogy Page Title: D. B. Robinson's Genealogy Page RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project web sitehttp://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=harus pex&id=I19776 Author: D. B. (David) Robinson 2.Abbrev: Harmon, Lydia Ancestry Title: The Ancestry of Lydia Harmon 1755-1836 Author: Walter Goodwin Davis Text: Page: p. 50. He was born circa 1649 at Rowley, Essex, MA, USA. He lived in 1666 at Wells, York, ME, USA. He married Hannah Ward circa 1675 at Wells, York, ME, USA. Unrecognized GEDCOM data: Unknown GEDCOM tag: _MILT
King Philip's War in 1675. Thomas Cousins died circa 1690 at Wells, York, ME, USA. Died in an Indian attack. He died on 18 May 1690 at Wells, York, ME, USA.

     Isaac Cousins was. Gunsmith and locksmith. He ISAAC COUSINS, born about the year 1613, [he deposed in 1673 that he was sixty years of age] an expert gunsmith and locksmith, was living in Rowley, Massachusetts Bay in 1647,when it was recorded that Samuel Fogg was apprenticed to him. [Ipswich Quarterly Court, 30: 1: 1647]His ability at his trade is several times commended and he seems to have been a man of education, writing a firm clear hand, an accomplishment which his wife, Elizabeth Cousins, shared,but awandering spirit and a fatal propensity for litigation makes the sum of his career in New England a sad record of continuous failure. Cousins was offered inducements to settle in New London, Connecticut,in1651, [Savage] but he remained in Rowley until the following year when he sold his land, house and shop to John Pickard and removed to Haverhill.The court records at this period give evidence of his uniform ill-luck at horse-trading. He participated in the divisions of land in Haverhill in1652 and 1653, but he soon transferred his business to Ipswich, remained there a short period, and in the autumn of 1656, after selling his Ipswich house and shop he continued his migrations to Boston. At this point his wife, Elizabeth Cousins, died, on October 14, 1656 .In the succeeding year he married Ann Hunt 'formerly wife of John Edwards' in Boston, and disposed of his Haverhill real estate. [Essex Deeds 1: 108] He left several law suits behind him in the Ipswich court, figuring both as plaintiff and defendant, in one of which he issued by the town for bringing in an old woman and leaving without providing for her. [Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, II: 26] On December 16, 1659 Cousins was 'received as a tradesman'atPortsmouth, New Hampshire, where John Webster sold him an acre of land at Great Island in 1661. How long this venture lasted is not determined, but he was again in Boston in 1668. For the next ten years his name appears only occasionally in the records. His wife Ann had apparently died before 1660, when the name of the mother of his daughter Rebecca is given in the birth record as Rebecca Cousins. This may be a clerical error, however. In 1677 he had again married, this wife being named Martha(Stanbury)Priest. In 1678, when he was quite advanced in age, he seems to have become identified with the proprietors of North Yarmouth in Maine, and during that year he witnessed for them several deeds executed in Boston.This connection led to a further attempt to better his fortunes in anew community, and in 1681 the committee of that town was directed to layout a tract of land to him 'hee or his sonn Ingaging to come &dwellyr, & to accomodate the inhabitants by ye work of his Trade.'[YorkDeeds IV: 41] Continued Indian hostilities, however, robbed this plan of fulfillment. During his latter years Isaac Cousins fell into real poverty. In1691he was warned out of Dorchester 'having a long time bin an inhabitant of Boston and now being aged.' In 1696, in seeking to enter a law-suit without fees, he states that he is 'an ancient inhabitant of this country... fallen much into decay and waxen soe poore' etc. [SupremeJudicialCourt of Massachusetts, 4336] This suit was against Richard Priest of Boston for withholding household goods which 'were in the house where the plaintiff and Martha his late wife lived next the millbridge on the northside thereof.' Finally, in the record of his death, on July 23, 1702, we find the old man, eighty-nine years of age, a town charge. [Copeland ms.,City Clerk's office, Boston] There is no documentary evidence available to prove that the first four names given in the following list [Elizabeth, Thomas, Isaac, andAbraham] are those of children of Isaac Cousins. There is strong circumstantial evidence, however, that the bearers were sister and brothers, and in seeking to prove their parentage the theory that their father and mother were Isaac and Elizabeth Cousins seemed most plausible,the supposition being that after the death of their mother they were placed in the care of relatives in Charlestown and Wells.[Mr. John Cousins of Westgustego (North Yarmouth) has been suggested as the father of Thomas and Isaac Cousins of Wells. Conclusive evidence against this theory is the fact that Mr. Cousins gave his estate to Mrs. Mary Saywardof York by deed in 1679. (York Deeds VIII:233.)] (The Ancestry of LydiaHarmon, pp. 47-48). He was born circa 1613 at Marlborough, Wiltshire, Wiltshire, England. He lived in 1647 at Rowley, Essex, MA, USA. He lived in 1652 at Haverhill, Essex, MA, USA. He lived in 1656 at Ipswich, Essex, MA, USA. He lived in 1659 at Portsmouth, Rockingham, NH, USA. He died on 23 July 1702 at Boston, Suffolk, MA, USA.

     Elizabeth (?) was born circa 1625 at England. She died on 14 October 1656 at Boston, Suffolk, MA, USA.

     John Goodale was born circa 1715 at Wells, York, ME, USA. He married Elizabeth Littlefield on 4 December 1740 at Wells, York, ME, USA. John Goodale died between 7 January 1771 and 8 April 1771 at Wells, York, ME, USA.

     Elizabeth Littlefield was born circa 1720 at Wells, York, ME, USA. She married John Goodale, son of Zachariah Goodale and Elizabeth Cousins, on 4 December 1740 at Wells, York, ME, USA. As of 4 December 1740,her married name was Goodale. Elizabeth Littlefield died after 1762 at Wells, York, ME, USA.

     Zachariah Goodale was born on 15 May 1675 at Salem, Essex, MA, USA. He married Elizabeth Cousins, daughter of Thomas Cousins and Hannah Ward, on 22 May 1700 at Wells, York, ME, USA. Zachariah Goodale died after 07/__/1749 at Wells, York, ME, USA.

     Elizabeth Cousins was born circa 1680; probably Wells, York, ME. She married Zachariah Goodale, son of Isaac Goodale and Patience Cook, on 22 May 1700 at Wells, York, ME, USA. As of 22 May 1700,her married name was Goodale. Elizabeth Cousins died before 27 July 1747 at Wells, York, ME, USA.

     Isaac Goodale was born in 1634 at England. He married Patience Cook, daughter of John Cook and Mary Root, on 25 February 1668 or 1669 at Salem, Essex, MA, USA. Isaac Goodale died on 27 October 1679 at Salem, Essex, MA, USA.

      As of 2/25/1688-69,her married name was Goodale. Patience Cook was born circa 1638. She married Isaac Goodale, son of Robert Goodale and Catherine Kilham, on 25 February 1668 or 1669 at Salem, Essex, MA, USA. Patience Cook died after 1708 at Salem, Essex, MA, USA.

     Robert Goodale died before 10/12/1682 and jun 168 at Salem, Essex, MA, USA. He was born before 16 August 1601 at Dennington, Suffolk, Suffolk, England. He married Catherine Kilham, daughter of Henry Kilham and Alice Goodale, before 1630.

     Catherine Kilham was born circa 1606 at England. She married Robert Goodale, son of Robert Goodale and Joan Artys, before 1630. As of before 1630,her married name was Goodale. Catherine Kilham died in 1645 at Salem, Essex, MA, USA.

     Henry Kilham was born before 10 August 1558 at Bury St, Edmunds, Suffolk, Suffolk, England. He married Alice Goodale, daughter of John Goodale and Elizabeth (?), on 12 August 1582 at Dennington, Suffolk, Suffolk, England.