McMillen, Persis W., Currents of Malice - Mary Towne Esty and Her Family in Salem Witchcraft, New Hampshire, 1990 states at page 371, "Bridge Bishop was selected from this list to be tried by the court on June 2nd, 1692. She had led a checkered life. She had been married first to a Goodman Wasslebee, and it was rumored that she had bewitched him to death. She then married Thomas Oliver. In 1679 Bridget Oliver was accused by John Ingersoll's negro of harassing him with apparitions. This, he said, significantly made it impossible for him to do his assigned chores. He blamed Bridget when his horse ran into a swamp, and he claimed that her shape came to him when he was in the hay house, and he was obliged to chase it away with a pitchfork. During Bridget Bishops second marriage, she was brought to court on charges of witchcraft. The records of that trial before the court of assistants do not exist,... Her choice of a third husband, Edward Bishop was unfortunate for Bridget. Before her marriage to him, Edward had been keeping an inn at Salem Village...."the Bishops were alllowing drunk and disorderly behavior at their establishment. Even on the Sabbath, the Bishop children and their servants engaged in 'lewd and uncivil carriages' to their neighbors...The Villagers were able to get the court to revoke Edward's license to operate the inn,...thereafter he moved his household and began to operate another inn, this time on the Ipswich Road which divided Salem Village from that part of Salem Town called then 'The Royal Side.' Soon after this move, Bridget Oliver became Bridget Bishop." And at p 272, "Sarah and Edward Bishop had lived in Topsfield until 1690 where they were members in full communion....They removed to Salem Village in that year....Like so many of the accused, they had close family ties with others of the accused. Sarah Bishop was the daughter of John Wilds by his first wife. His second wife, Sarah Wilds, was apprehended on the same day as her stepdaughter. Even more to the point, her husband, Edward Bishop, Jr. was the step-son of Bridget Bishop, soon to be the first of the accused to be hanged...." Cathy Brinkman