Leslie: Canaries? And I thought my Rice group ancestors were strangely feathered birds! (ROFL) How are you related to the Raymonds? I am descended from Paul Raymond married Tabitha Balch, their son William married Mercy Davis. Yours, Dora > My ancestors were among them. Mine were too. Susannah Martin married my ancestor George Martin and raised his daughter Hannah Martin ("the witch's daughter") from a toddler after his first wife died so my ancestors were most certainly affected. In addition, the Gould family were cousins to my ancestors. (John Gould was accused as a traitor by his bro-in-law John Wildes and hung; later Wildes' second wife Sarah was hung along w/ Susannah Martin probably as revenge). There is also Amesbury/Salisbury/Newbury continuing to intermarry with other Salem area descendants ( much later in the migration including apparently the Raymonds who unfortunately sang like canaries at the trials) until my ggrandfather's generation finally ending in Whittier CA (Greenleaf Whittier whom the town was named after is a cousin also descended from "the witch's daughter" ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com