this is very interesting, please continue to post info. One question thou, does any of the court or other info you have state why she committed the murder of her 4 year old. Does she have any siblings? Also, could her parents have requested that all b.certs and other records be destroyed, because they where so popular (for the lack of a better word) in the community. very interested Teresa alberstadt (just trying to help) ----- Original Message ----- From: <mondragon@mail.utexas.edu> To: <GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 12:45 PM Subject: Final trial info, Alice MARTIN > Again from > http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-plymouth?specfile=/web/data/users/fe nnel > l/fennell.o2w&act=surround&offset=986625&tag=Women+in+Plymouth+Colony&query= tria > l > > *These sheweth, that on Jul the 22cond, 1648, wee, whosse names are > vnderwritten, were sworne by Mr Bradford, gouerner, to make inquiry of the > death of the child of Allis Bishop, the wife of Richard Bishope. > > Wee declare, yt coming into the house of the said Richard Bishope, wee saw > at the foot of a ladder wh leadeth into an vpper chamer, much blood; and > going vp all of vs into the chamber, wee found a woman child, of about > foure yeares of age, lying in her shifte vppon her left cheeke, with her > throat cut with diuers gashes crose wayes, the wind pipe cut and stuke into > the throat downward, > and a bloody knife lying by the side of the child, with wh knife all of vs > judg, and the said Allis hath confessed to fiue of vs at one time, yt shee > murdered the child with the said knife. > > JOHN HOWLAND, JAMES COLE, > > JAMES HURST, GYELLS RICKARD, > > ROBERT LEE, RICHARD SPARROW, > > JOHN SHAWE, THOMAS POPE, > > FRANCIS COOKE, FRANCIS BILLINGTON, > > JOHN COOKE, WILLIAM NELSON. > > Rachell, the wife of Joepth Ramsden, aged about 23 yeares, being examined, > saith that coming to the house of Richard Bishope vppon an erand, the wife > of the said Richard Bishope requested her to goe fetch her som buttermilke > at Goodwife Winslows, and gaue her a ketle for that purpose, and she went > and did it; and before shee wente,shee saw the child lyinge abed asleep, to > her best deserning, and the woman was as well as shee hath knowne her att > any time; but when shee came shee found her sad and dumpish; shee asked her > what blood was that shee saw at the ladders foot; shee pointed vnto the > chamber, and bid her looke, but shee perseiued shee had kiled her child, > and being afraid, shee refused, and ran and tould her father and mother. > Morouer, shee saith the reason yt moued her to thinke shee had kiled her > child was yt when shee saw the blood shee looked on the bedd, and the child > was not there. > > Taken vppon oath by mee, WILLIAM BRADFORD, > > The day and year aboue written. > > At a Court of Asistants holden at New Plymouth, the first of Aguste, 1648, > before Mr Bradford, Gouer, Mr Coliar, Captain Miles Standish, and Mr > William Thomas, gent, Assistants, the sd Allice, being examined, confessed > shee did comite the afforsaid murther, and is sory for it. > > October 4, 1648 (PCR 2:134) Att this Court, Allice Bishope, the wife of > Richard Bishope, of New Plymouth, was indited for felonius murther by her > comited, vppon Martha Clark, her owne child, the frute of her owne body. > > The names of the grand inquest that went of triall of the aforsaid bill of > inditmetn, weer these:-- > > John Dunham, Sen,John Barker, > > Isaake Weels, Josepth Colman, > > Mr Thomas Burne,John Allin, > > Robert Finny, Thomas Bordman, > > Henery Wood, James Bursell, > > Ephraim Hickes,Josepth Tory, > > James Walker, Micaell Blackwell, > > James Wyat, Daniell Cole. > > Loue Brewster, > > These found the bill a trew bill. > > The petty jurys names taht went vppon her tryall were these:-- > > Josias Winslow, Seni,Gyells Rickard, > > Thomas Shillingsworth,John Shaw, Sen, > > Anthony Snowe, Steuen Wood, > > Richard Sparrow,William Mericke, > > Gabriell Fallowell,William Brete, > > Joshua Prat, John Willis, > > Thes found the said Allice Bishope guilty of the said fellonius murthering > of Martha Clarke aforsaid; and so shee had the sentence of death pronounced > against her, viz, to bee taken from the place where shee was to the place > from whence she came, and thence to the place of execution, and ther to be > hanged by the necke vntell her body is dead, which acordingly was executed. > > > > ==== GEN-UNSOLVED-MYSTERIES Mailing List ==== > Please consider becoming a Rootsweb contributor. > > ============================== > Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > Brought to you by RootsWeb.com. > >