To those on the Disbrow Mailing list who have not heard of our "famous" ancestress Mercy Disbrow or her witchcraft trial in Fairfield, Connecticut in 1692 (the same year of the more famous Salem trials), I included a chapter devoted to her in my book, "Descendants of Thomas & Mercy (Holbridge) Disbrow", Part One.   I have forwarded a copy of that chapter to Bertha Hall in hopes it may at least point her to some of the references I used to compile the information.   Here is a list of those references:            REFERENCES FOR "MERCY DISBROW" Connecticut, Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, Vol. II, pp. 76-7 [Joan E. Ford] Jacobus, Donald L., History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. I, pp. 187,  343-4, 442, 721; Vol. II, pp. 299-302. Fairfield 1930-32 (repub. Baltimore 1976 & 1991) MacKenzie, Ruth, "Connecticut Justice And Mercy", article in Connecticut Bar Journal, Vol. 39,  (Dec. 1965), pp. 558-73 [Fairfield Hist. Soc. via Bernice Disbrow] Marcus, Ronald, Elizabeth Clawson... Thou Deservest To Dye, Stamford, CT 1976 [Virginia A. Marcus via Susann Davis] Sherman, Harriet A., "Disbrow Family History", unpub. ms. 1930 [Harriet A. Torrey] Stone, William L., articles from the New York Commercial Advertiser, 14 and 15 July 1820 [Ann  S. Disbro], and from the New York Spectator, 18 July 1820 [Joan E. Ford] Taylor, John M., The Witchcraft Delusion In Colonial Connecticut, 1647-1697, New York 1908.  [Fairfield Hist. Soc. via Bernice Disbrow] Tomlinson, R. G., Witchcraft Trials of Connecticut, Hartford 1978 Also photocopies of some of the original documents in the Wyllys Papers, obtained by Bernice Disbrow and furnished to me by her. Other materials: Cortesi, Lawrence, "Was Mercy Desborough In League With the Devil?", article in Connecticut, Oct. 1972, pp. 27, 46. [Susann Davis] --------------- "The Beautiful Witch of Fairfield", article in Cobblestone, Jan. 1981, pp. 16-19.    [Note: I did not use either of these articles by Cortesi for references in writing the chapter on Mercy Disbrow. Both are sensationalized accounts and contain much questionable material and some outright falsehoods. The former article is very condemning of Mercy.] There may be more material available now, but these were the sources I was aware of in 1992 when I compiled the book.   Mike Disbrow