Person:Mary Green (158)

Mary Green, Accused of Witchcraft

"July 30, 1692 Saturday Salem Town. Constable William Starling and three deputies transported Mary Green and Hannah Bromage from Haverhill to Salem for questioning, accompanied the whole way by Goody Green's husband. The four Salem magistrates questioned those two women and Mary Toothaker while William Murray took notes. The examination of Goody Green, wife of Haverhill weaver Peter Green and owned of a real or spectral pig, is lost. Apparently kin to Mary Bradbury, Mary Green had grown up in Hampton, New Hampshire, except for a year or more of her girlhood thirty years earlier, which she had spent in Charlestown and Lynn while various physicians and folk healers tried to mend her 'very dangerous sore leg." One healer diagnosed the malady as the King's Evil (scrofula), and Mary lost a five inch sliver of bone from that 'bad and desperate wound,' but did not, at least, die of infection."^[2] , pp. 215-16.

"August 2, 1692 Tuesday … Ipswich. Meanwhile, John Shepard of Rowley, formerly of Salem Village, broke his sister-in-law Mary Green out of Ipswich jail and put Constable William Baker to a shilling's expense finding and catching her."^[2], p. 223.

"August 23, 1692 Tuesday Ipswich. The almanacs predicted a clear, bright day and before it was over, Goody Mary Green escaped the Ipswich jail a second time, again aided by her brother-in-law John Shepard.^[2], p. 247.

"August 24, 1692 Wednesday Ipswich. Constable William Baker recaptured Goody Green after searching for her a night and a day, and once again returned her to Ipswich jail.^[2], p. 248.

"September 27, 1692 Tuesday Ipswich. … The court fined John Shepard of Rowley a stiff £30 plus costs for helping his sister-in-law Mary Green escape Ipswich jail, where she was being held on a witchcraft charge. He requested a reduction of the sum, for fines were supposed to be scaled to the payer's finances, and the justices altered it to £5 plus costs.^[2], p. 303.

"December 16, 1692 Friday Ipswich. Mary Green, though she had twice escaped, was released from Ipswich jail on a £200 bond offered by her husband, Peter Green, and James Sanders, both of Haverhill."^[2], p. 348.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 7 Henry Green, in Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939)
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   "… Mary (Green), m. in Haverh. 4 Nov. 1678 Peter Green who had 3 daus. by his 1st w. Elizabeth (Dustin) Kingsbury. 4 ch. rec. Haverh. 1679-1687. In 1660 Wm. Edmonds of Lynn sued her fa. for the cure of her leg at expense of £20 for 11 mos. time."

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} Roach, Marilynne K. The Salem Witch Trials : a day-by-day chronicle of a community under siege. (New York, New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002).