I have found further evidence that Samuel Disbrowe was involved, through close proxies, in the trial of Mercy Disbrow for witchcraft in 1692. While Samuel himself died in 1690, he nevertheless was well-acquainted with the fathers of two prominent men who reported to the magistrates during Mercy's trial. These two prominent men were the Rev. Joseph Eliot and the Rev. Timothy Woodbridge. They emphatically recommended that she not be convicted due to faulty evidence (document dated October 17, 1692). This document would later provide justification for her reprieve eventually after her October 28 conviction. Rev. Joseph Eliot was the son of the famous Rev. John Eliot (known as the "apostle to the Indians" and Samuel's friend of some close acqauintance via the Rev. Henry Whitfield, Samuel's first father-in-law). Rev. Eliot's son, Joseph, himself had long been the pastor at Samuel's own Guilford, CT by 1692. Guilford is where Samuel Disbrowe was a founding proprietor and wealthy first settler until 1651. Rev. Timothy Woodbridge was the son of Rev. John Woodbridge, who himself is known to have traveled often to England and therefore, undoubtedly, must be the exact same "John Woodbridge" who signed Samuel's will, dated 20 September 1680. His signature appears there with three others, including John Allin, John Cole (by his mark), and Sarah Berriff. Thomas Cole is also noted in Samuel's will as "my old, diligent servant;" a Thomas Allin is also noted there as selling property to Samuel as well. Cole and Allyn/Allin surnames appear regularly on records of early Hartford, CT, of course, along with the Butlers at that place too (perhaps as related to the Butler/Pennoyer in-laws of Samuel, via Rose Hobson Pennoyer Disbrowe who are known to have been at Greenwich and Westchester Co). Considering the several mentionings of New England in the related Pennoyer wills of the brothers William and Samuel Pennoyer (Rose's first husband), it can hardly be surprising that the "John Woodbridge" who signed Samuel's will as a witness should also be that Rev. John Woodbridge, father to Timothy, who is frequently in the early records of CT Colony too. This CT Woodbridge family line is full of preachers, with several successive generations in the pastorate. One of these even graduated from my own Williams College very early in the 19th century. Their family genealogy (apocryphal or not) has claimed nine successive generations of pastors down to the Rev. John Woodbridge, apparently. I have found from Manwaring's "Digest of Early CT Probate Records" that many early CT wills have been witnessed by these Woodbridge pastors, not surprisingly. Those records also do not indicate the formal title of "Rev." when they signed as witnesses, either by Rev. Timothy Woodbridge or his father, just as no "Rev." title also appears among the witnesses from the abstract of Samuel's will either (unfortunately for our being a bit better certain of this John Woodbridge). All of several records I have consulted, including Savage, clearly indicate that John Woodbridge was the father of Rev. Timothy Woodbridge who was born in England. Timothy and the Rev. Joseph Eliot were especially important in the witch trial of my Mercy Disbrow since they wrote a ringing indictment of the evidence given at her trial on October 17and therefore paved the way for her later reprieve after her convixction on October 28. In this way, we can say that Samuel's friends, therefore, were especially instrumental in Mercy's reprieve from her conviction for witchcraft. It looks ever more like we have no choice now but to accept that Thomas of Eltisley is also our Thomas Disbrow of Compo.. All the many facts, so far available, unmistakably point ONLY to a very close relationship between the Thomas of Mercy's witch trial and Samuel Disbrowe. They are clearly the brothers of Eltisley manor, just as records indicate that Samuel had such a brother named Thomas, born in 1625. I would also point out here that the passenger list of the CROWN MALLIGOE showing a "Thomas Desborow" on it, not only includes very MANY familiar Fairfield, CT (& area) surnames, as I have already demonstrated (eg: Butler, Barlow, Golding, Squire, Read). But there is yet another surname on that list which is very provocative too, given the history of the English civil wars and Puritan Revolution, with, undoubtedly, Thomas himself perhaps playing some part in that (yet to be discovered in the dusty, endlessly voluminous records of that era in England). One of Major General John Disbrowe's close colleagues throughout that period was another of those famous Major Generals: Thomas HARRISON (who was bloddily executed upon the Restoration of Charles II). Is it, therefore, only just a coincidence that one "Ann Harrison" appears on the 1677 passenger list of the CROWN MALLIGOE with our Thomas Desborow also?