Elaine Lane deerlane2@earthlink.net EarthLink Revolves Around You. > [Original Message] > From: Elaine Lane <deerlane2@earthlink.net> > To: <disbrow@rootsweb.com> > Cc: SCOTT LATIMER <dryfly4me@juno.com>; TIM LATIMER <timlatimer@charter.net>; DAVID & KAREN GLOVER <DKSAGLOVER@aol.com>; BARBARA GLOVER <Bglover1852@aol.com>; TOM & KAREN GLOVER <kglover3924@charter.net> > Date: 3/21/2008 7:59:57 AM > Subject: Re: [DISBROW] Pardons for witches > > Thanks for the update - will be interested in the outcome. I don't know > what finally happened to my relative (Mercy (Holbridge) Nichols - wife of > Thomas Disbrow-Faifield, Connecticut) - convicted (1692) but not executed. > > > > [Original Message] > > From: Bertha May Hall <bmh@99main.com> > > To: <DISBROW-L@rootsweb.com> > > Date: 3/20/2008 9:05:46 PM > > Subject: [DISBROW] Pardons for witches > > > > Saw this tonight on WTNH, channel * in CT. www.wtnh.com > > Bertha Hall > > > > Legislature considers bill denouncing Connecticut witch hunts > > By ConnPolitics.tv Staff, on Mar 20, 2008 > > > > Hartford (AP) _ Centuries after the fact, state lawmakers are hoping to > bring justice to those judged during Connecticut's colonial witch trials. > > > > The Judiciary Committee is hearing testimony on a resolution that > denounces the trials as shocking and the result of community-wide hysteria > and fear. > > > > The resolution also states that those convicted and their ancestors > should be freed from the stigma of the witchcraft accusations. > > > > Connecticut's witch trials were held between 1647 and 1697. It's > estimated that about 10 women were executed, mostly by hanging. Others were > banished, fled the colony or indicted. One women was dropped into water to > see if she possessed evil spirits, but was later given a reprieve by the > General Assembly. > > > > Some men were also tried for witchcraft in Connecticut. > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DISBROW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DISBROW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message