 1615 - 1700 (85 years)
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| Name |
Mary Perkins |
| Born |
3 Sep 1615 |
Hillmorton, Warwick, England  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Died |
20 Dec 1700 |
Salisbury, MA |
| Person ID |
I632 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
1 Dec 2015 |
| Father |
John Perkins, b. 23 Dec 1583, Hillmorton, Warwick, England , d. Bef 26 Sep 1654, Ipswich, MA (Age < 70 years) |
| Mother |
Judith Gater, b. Abt 1588, England |
| Married |
9 Oct 1608 |
Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England |
| Family ID |
F197 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Thomas Bradbury, b. 28 Feb 1610/11, Wicken Bonat, Essex Co., England , d. 16 Mar 1694/95, Salisbury, MA (Age 84 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1636 |
| Children |
| | 1. Wymond Bradbury, b. 1 Feb 1636/37, d. 7 Apr 1699, Nevis, West Indies (Age 62 years) |
| | 2. Judith Bradbury, b. 2 Feb 1637/38 |
| | 3. Thomas Bradbury, b. 28 Nov 1640, d. Aft 1662 (Age > 23 years) |
| | 4. Mary Bradbury, b. 17 Jan 1641/42 |
| | 5. Jane Bradbury, b. 11 Mar 1644/45 |
| | 6. Jacob Bradbury, b. 17 Apr 1647, d. 12 Mar 1668/69, Barbados (Age 21 years) |
| | 7. William Bradbury, b. 15 Jul 1649, Salisbury, MA , d. 4 Dec 1678, ? (Age 29 years) |
| | 8. John Bradbury, b. 20 Feb 1649/50, d. 24 Nov 1678 (Age 28 years) |
| | 9. Elizabeth Bradbury, b. 7 Sep 1650 |
| | 10. Ann Bradbury, b. 16 Feb 1655/56, d. Aug 1659 (Age 3 years) |
| | 11. Jabez Bradbury, b. 27 Apr 1658, d. 28 Apr 1677 (Age 19 years) |
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| Last Modified |
1 Dec 2015 |
| Family ID |
F194 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Along with the normal difficulties of being a pioneer wife, raising eleven children and three grandchildren whose parents had died, Mary ran afoul of the "Witchcraft Delusion" in her later years. When she was about 80, she was standing at her door one day when a rider came by, and his horse stumbled. Although he was not unseated, he heard a half-witted boy cry out that Goodwife Bradbury had caused the problem and had the power of the Devil. Upon questioning, the boy said she had muttered strangely when the rider appeared, and when he was in front of her home, a blue boar ran out of the house and between the horse's legs. Then, she had recalled the boar and sent it to the back of the cabin. On this evidence, the cry of "Witch!" was heard. She was brought to trial with others who were accused. Her husband spoke eloquently in her defense, and over a hundred other neighbors also spoke on her behalf. Accounts vary, but it appears she was convicted, but not sentenced to death or any of the various trials of truth.
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