This is being posted MAESSEX-L and SALEM-WITCH-L. I am a descendant of Rebecca (BLAKE) EAMES (b. abt 1640, Gloucester, Essex Co., MA; m. Robert EAMES abt 1660; d. 8 May 1721, Boxford, Essex Co., MA), convicted of witchcraft in Salem on 17 Sep 1692. Although sentenced to be hanged, she confessed, and was reprieved and released from prison in 1693. I seek to identify documents that specifically name her, her genealogy, her life before and after the witchcraft hysteria, and, of course, her involvement in the 1692 witchcraft outbreak. Following are sources I have identified to date. I would appreciate learning of any others. I will be glad to share what I have gathered to date, including my photos of her headstone and footstone. 1. The Salem Witchcraft Papers: Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692, 3 vols., ed. Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum (New York, 1977) I:279-285; III:986-987, 1018-1019, 1024 (also at http://etext.virginia.edu/salem/witchcraft/texts/) 2. The Devil in the Shape of a Woman--Witchcraft in Colonial New England, Carol F. Karlsen, New York, 1987, pp. 140-41 3. Witchcraft in Salem Village, by Winfield S. Nevins, pp. 28, 85, 231, 254-6 4. Essex County Archives, Salem-Witchcraft, Vol. 2, p. 25 5. Salem Possessed, The Social Origins of Witchcraft, Boyer & Nissenbaum, Cambridge, MA, 1974, pp. 12 (n. 28) & 215 6. Records of Salem Witchcraft, Woodward, New York, 1864, vol. II, pp. 143-146 7. A Guide to Cemeteries in Essex County, MA, Essex Society of Genealogists, p. 19. (Rebecca EAMES is buried in the West Boxford Burying Ground, now called Mount Vernon Cemetery.) 8. Cemetery Inscriptions Prior to 1800 from Boxford, MA, p. 12 (extracted from The Essex Antiquarian, 1900) --- Bruce C. Lyon LtCol, USMC (Ret) Database Manager, Lyon(s) Families Association The National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution Number 148842 Willington, CT [email protected]