> See <A > HREF="http://members.aol.com/WARLOCK92/">http://members.aol.com/WARLOCK92/</A> > > Thanks. I'm in the midst of trying to sort out the relationships of the Salem area families in my line (Goulds, Osgoods, Wildes, Jones, Martin, Baker, Raymond, Hoag etc.) so your website is very useful, definitely a keeper. You mention in yr website that the accusing families used their children as witnesses. Used is the right word for it. I'm thinking of the Goodwin girls Martha and Sarah who were very young children when they were used as evidence of possession by the accused "witches." Martha in particular had to go live with Cotton Mather for a time so he could study her case and I presume exorcise the witchcraft that she was supposedly afflicted by. But I surmise that they grew up to repudiate their innocent involvement because they both married the Hoag boys, Joseph and Jonathan, who like their father John Hoag (according to the Journal of Joseph Hoag John supposedly was an assize court judge at the time of the witch persecutions who lost his position because he opposed the persecution) and their grandfather John Emery (though he was a very well to do maker of fine furniture and a founding father of Newbury MA he was hauled into court on charges of giving hospitality in his home to Quakers though he was not one himself) were thorns in the side of the Puritan establishment. Joseph and Jonathan and their wives and their brother Benjamin my ancestor converted to the Society of Friends and their children began a migration pattern, intermarrying with other descendants of Salem area families even after the witch trials were a suppressed memory, my branch ending up (surprise, surprise) in c. 1900 in Whittier CA founded by Quakers and named for the poet who was descended from Susannah Martin and author of the poem "The Witch's Daughter." Here is a quote from the Journal of Tristram Coffin about the Hoag boys: > In 1704, > Judge Sewall thus writes. 'I told Mr. [Nicholas] Noyes of Salem of ye > quaker meeting at Samuel Sayers and of ye profaneness of ye young Hoags > professing that heresy.' These 'young Hoags,' were all sons of John Hoag, > and resided in the west parish of Newbury." Noyes and Sewall were two of the most rabid witch hunters. Sewall was a hangin' judge if I'm not mistaken. Leslie