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    1. [SALEM-WITCH-L] Name index to Enders Robinson's book is not complete
    2. Helen Graves
    3. For those of you who have copies of or who have looked at the book "Salem Witchcraft and Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables" by Enders A. Robinson, I would like to caution you that I have found that the INDEX OF NAMES in the back of the book is not complete. I discovered this when I looked in the index for the surname GREENSLADE and it was not there nor was the name Josiah BRIDGES. Yet, on pg 304 there is a pedigree chart which shows that Josiah Bridges was the son of Edmund Bridges, Sr. and that Josiah Bridges' second wife was Ruth GREENSLADE; the chart then shows that Ruth was the daughter of Ann GREENSLADE PUDEATOR. (Ann Pudeator was accused and then hung in Sept 1692). Josiah Bridges and his wife Ruth Greenslade are also mentioned in the text on page 304. Edmund Bridges, Sr., is not in the index, yet he is mentioned several times in the text and appears in the chart. Recently I decided to work on Josiah Bridges and his wife Ruth Greenslade. I went to pages listed for Edmund Bridges, Jr. (Josiah's brother) and for Ruth's mother Ann Pudeator and that's where I found the chart and mentions of Josiah and his wife Ruth. Otherwise, I would have missed this. This book does contain much genealogical data on the accusers and the accused, Sheriff Corwin, the magistrates, the Mather family, Lt. Gov. Stoughton, Gov. Phipps, and others, so I encourage anyone who is researching the witchcraft trials to read it, but not to rely 100% on the index of names in the back as you may miss something. -- Helen Greenslit Graves

    11/02/2002 09:28:16