This Day in History     On August 19 1692     Five women and a clergyman were executed after being convicted of witchcraft in Salem, MA. Reminds me that Susanna Martin - Colby family connections, was executed one month previous. On Tuesday, July 19, 1692 Susanna Martin, Sarah Good, Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Wilde, and Elizabeth Howe were taken from their cells, put into a cart and driven up the rocky road to Gallows Hill. While Rebecca Nurse prayed, Rev. Nicholas Noyes exhorted Sarah Good to confess saying, "You are a witch, and you know you are a witch." She replied, calling him a liar and saying that she was no more a witch than he was a wizard and...if you take away my life, God will give you blood to drink." Tradition says that Rev. Noyes died of an internal hemorrhage, bleeding profusely from the mouth. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nwa/sm.html Bob Colby  

bob, part of susanna's testimony is also on-line...think a salem site...when they showed the girls having fits in front of her and said---what say you ?...she answered --"what shall i say of such folly ?" so much for wit in ol' salem... marilyn On 19-Aug-09, at 9:52 AM, RC Colby wrote: > This Day in History > > On August 19 > 1692 Five women and a clergyman were executed after being > convicted of witchcraft in Salem, MA. > > Reminds me that Susanna Martin - Colby family connections, was > executed one month previous. > > > On Tuesday, July 19, 1692 Susanna Martin, Sarah Good, Rebecca Nurse, > Sarah Wilde, and Elizabeth Howe were taken from their cells, put > into a > cart and driven up the rocky road to Gallows Hill. While Rebecca Nurse > prayed, Rev. Nicholas Noyes exhorted Sarah Good to confess saying, > "You > are a witch, and you know you are a witch." She replied, calling him a > liar and saying that she was no more a witch than he was a wizard > and...if you take away my life, God will give you blood to drink." > Tradition says that Rev. Noyes died of an internal hemorrhage, > bleeding > profusely from the mouth. > > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nwa/sm.html > > Bob Colby > > > > > > > ============================= > Colby list archives: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/COLBY/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COLBY-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message