-----Original Message----- From: Amy Bond Simpson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, June 27, 1999 12:42 PM Subject: Fw Giles Corey/ Jacob GOODELL > > >>According to the book A GENEALOGY OF THE DESCENDANTS OF ROBERT GOODALE/ >>GOODELL OF SALEM, MASS: >> >>Jacob GOODELL, son of Robert and Catherine(KILHAM) GOODELL was born at >>Salem, Mass,. November 9, 1641, and died unmarried November 1675 >> >>" About the last of November 1675, Mrs. Mary COREY testified that >Elizabeth, >>wife of Zechariah GOODELL, told her that the latter's brother, Jacob, had >>been to Zechariah's house and got into the cellar, and took some apples. >>Zechariah was then coming in with a log of wood, and laying it down, he >took >>a stick and 'pade him to som purpos'. About ten days later, Giles Corey >>unreasonably beat Jacob with a stick about an inch in diameter, nearly an >>hundred blows in the presence of Elisha KEBEE, who told Corey that he would >>knock him down if 'he did not forbear'. About ten days earlier Corey went >>to the house of Zechariah and told him that his brother Jacob had had a >>fall. He was afraid that he had broken his arm, and desired him to take >>Jacob to Mrs. MOLE's in the town. Jacob was then about thirty-four years of >>age and up to then he had been lusty. Now, Jacob went 'very Ravel' and >>stooping, and he was very pale and his eyes very sunken. Thereupon >>Zechariah went to Corey's house and saw Jacob who was there, The roads >were >>very slippery and Corey said that his horse was not caulked, and so he >could >>not go with him. Jacob went so badly, Zechariah asked him if he had any >>other hurt than his arm, but he would not tell. Zechariah then requested >>that some one might go with them, for he would not go alone with him. >>Whereupon Goody Corey went with them. Jacob died a few days later and an >>inquest was held. The jury reported, 'We find several wrongs that he hath >>had on his body as upon his left arm and upon reins of his back in color >>differing from the other parts of his body we caused an incision to be >made, >>much bruished and run with a jelly and the skin broke upon the outside of >>each buttock.' For this offence Corey was fined." >> >> >>The above is typed exactly as given in the book. In re-reading I have come >>to the conclusion that the phrase "About ten days earlier" is in >>relationship to the timing of the inquest. >> >>Zechariah is my direct ancestor, also. >>I'd be glad to exchange data with others. >> >>Amy >>[email protected] >> >> >> > >