DANIEL, Sudbury, or Marlborough, m. Hannah, d. of Peter Cloyes, had Daniel, b. 17 Aug. 1687; Ebenezer, 3 Mar. 1693; John, 16 May 1695; James, 2 Apr. 1697; Nathaniel, 10 Aug. 1699; Jonathan, 16 Aug. 1701; and Peter, 25 Nov. 1704; rem. to Oxford. In the doleful witchr. trials, 1692, he gave evid. with more sense than most.
↑ "The testimony of Daniel Elet, aged 27 years of thereabouts, who testifieth and saith that, I being at the house of Lieutenant Ingason's [Ingersoll's] on the 28th of March in the year 1692, there being present one of the afflicted persons which cried out and said, there's Goody Proctor, William Raiment being there present told the girl he believed she lied, for he saw nothing. Then Goody Ingerson told the girl she told a lie, for there was nothing. Then the girl said that she did it for sport, they must have some sport."
