Before writing to David Greene, I re-read the correction. The first time, I missed a couple of things. Also, that correction was a bit hard to follow. I think I can paraphrase alot more clearly than it was originally written how the omission came about. The typist is the author of the correction. (You have to read carefully a few times to put that together, too.) Ill health aside, he explains that he had advised David Greene to shorten or omit a long section about the 17th century Edward Bishop's of Beverly which he originally included to help figure out who was Edward Bishop the Sawyer. Apparently, something of that sort was done. In the process, now I'm not clear on whether the typist or David Greene actually did the editing if the typist's ill health has something to do with it, the part about Edward Sr and Hannah Bishop both signing a 1692 petition for Rebecca Nurse got omitted, too. However, while the typist doesn't very specifically identify this petition, he does give an exact source for it: Salem Witchcraft Papers 2:592. I went to the on-line Salem Witchcraft Papers, found a petition for Rebecca Nurse in the papers on her case, and the names do include "Edward Beshop Sr" followed immediately by "Hanah Beshop". Also, there appears to have never been any date on the petition, and there may have been only one petition. I don't think this is the first I've heard about a petition and am a little surprised to find the Bishop's signatures on THE petition given how quiet they were in regard to the case otherwise, but most of the signatures are those of a LOT of Putnam's, and the Porters who were allied with them, so this probably is THE petition for Rebecca Nurse. The fact that the two Bishop signatures are nearly the only relatively obscure people who signed this petition and the only people from the Bass River who signed this petition does raise the rather interesting question of why they signed it, particularly as as nearly as I can tell they had no other involvement with the trials at all while Raymonds, Balches, Herrick's, in short, all of their immediate neighbors, were testifying like crazy - though of course they were testifying mostly against Sarah Bishop. Which would seem to make them poor choices for people who signed the petition? Or was Edward Bishop Sr mixed up in the politics of this in ways I have not yet heard? This is pretty persuasive evidence that Edward's wife Hannah was still alive and married to him and therefore Bridgette Bishop must have been married to someone else. I am interested in the report that someone else made to this list today, though, about the quality of the signatures. If she does find her copy of the petition, I would be interested in a zerox copy of them. (or scanned). If it turned out that Bridget Bishop never was married to Edward Bishop Sr, I would still be descended from Edward Jr's sister Hannah (who was married to my ancestor William Raymond by 1692 - I checked). I still even qualify for the Black Sheep Society. I also have all sorts of collateral connections, some close, to Elizabeth Balch (wife of an ancestor's sibling), John Willard (sibling or cousin of an ancestor), Cotton Mather and Rev. Noyes (son of an ancestor's brother) - and of course I'm a direct descendant of William Raymond Jr. I'm going to see if I can get the rest of that "long excursus on the Edward Bishop's of Salem and Beverly" though; there could be more information on both Edward Bishop Sr, and his family, and on the identity of Bridgette's husband. Yours, Dora ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com