Kathy: What you state that book says is exactly what the TAG article I have by David Greene says. I gather that this article by David Greene is credited with straightening out very old confusion between Bridget Bishop and her husband, Edward Bishop Sr, and Edward Bishop's son, Edward Bishop Jr and his wife, SArah (Wildes) Bishop. It was Edward Jr with his wife who ran the tavern. But he also argues that there was a fourth Edward Bishop "sawyer". I am still going over David Greene's logic. Some of it isn't standing up. For instance, the notion that Edward Bishop the husband of Bridget OR Edward Bishop Sr had no dealings witht he Topsfield men, the notion that Bridget Bishop's or Edward Bishop Jr's and Sarah's character are incapatible with that of Edward Bishop Sr and his first wife Hannah. (Actually, Edward Bishop Sr and Hannah were at one point arrested and fined for stealing fruit or corn and a knife from a neighbor and then lying about it.) I am presently looking at the exact location of Edward Bishop Sr's house. (It was in Beverly in the Bass River near the Balch and Raymond homes, in an area that was sometimes called Salem, because the geography of the area changed so much over time, but precise location, what streets ran by it, name of the farm across the street, etc., matters.) Also, one piece of testimony at the witch trials that identified the name of Bridget's husband was the testimony of two men who had been hired by Bridget and her husband, Edward, to do some work in the cellar of a house she once owned, and claimed to have found poppets. The way I understand it, a third man who made claims about the poppets recanted his testimony. It is unreasonable to think the two workmen were confused as to the indentity of Bridget and her husband and did not recognize which was the correct Bishop in court. While one is inclined to think they lied, it is not impossible that they really found poppets with pins stuck in them in Bridget's old cellar; today people throw darts at peoples' pictures instead. Bridget did apparently dabble atleast in white magic and she was a rather cantankerous and irreverent woman. What do people think of the chances that the two workmen LIED about the name of Bridget's husband - perhaps to back up the entire chain of testimony that very much had Bridget confused with her daughter in law Sarah. Anyone know exactly where was the Cherry Street Farm? This group of villages changed so tremendously o9ver time that what was the huge Balch lands (adjacent to Edward Bishop Sr's land, I guess, since he bought the land from the Balches), today is a nicely kept house on two respectable town streets! In context it sounds like it was the tavern owned by Edward Jr that was across from this farm, but that is not clear. Edward Bishop is also the husband on record as one of two men who posted bail for Bridget Bishop formerly Oliver when she was accused of stealing brass, several years before the trial. Anyone know of more places where he is identified? The famous document ordering the arrest of Edward Bishop Jr of Salem Village and of Bridget Bishop the wife of Edward Bishop of Salem sawyer actually doesn't prove much because Edward Bishop Jr's wife's name is missing, it is not clear that Salem Village and Salem are not the same place or that Salem means Salem Town, and these people all had a complex occupations and more than one occupational title and their occupations and their titles, community appointments, et cetera, changed over time. Anyone know if Bridget Bishop and Edward Bishop and his wife Sarah were all arrested at the same time? This document seems to order the arrest of all three of them, and all three were jailed and tried, but I thought at different points in time. If they were named together and on adjacent lines of this document, then this supports the notion that they were blood relations, since groups of people charged together at the Salem witch trials were usually closely associated in some respect or other, most commonly by close kinship ties, and this largely governed who was targeted after who happened to have crossed or alienated Rev. Parris and the Putnams, and the small farmers of Salem Village. It would be useful, though, if someone would tell me waht a sawyer was. Yours, Dora Smith _______________________________________________________________ Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com