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Facts and Events
| Name |
Phebe Wilde |
| Alt Name[1] |
Phebe Wildes |
| Gender |
Female |
| Birth[2] |
1653 |
Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Marriage |
24 Jul 1679 |
Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, USAto Timothy Day |
| Other[4] |
Sep 1692 |
Accused of witchcraft |
| Other[3] |
24 Sep 1692 |
Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United Statesreleased from prison after being accused of witchcraft |
| Death[1] |
8 Apr 1723 |
Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United Statesa. abt. 70 y. |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Day, in Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Gloucester, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts.: Essex Institute, 1917)
Deaths, p. 113.
"Phebe, w. Timothy, Apr. 8, 1723, a. abt. 70 y."
- ↑ Curtis, Ellwood Count. A genealogy of the Day family: the descendants of Anthony Day & Susannah Ring Matchett. (Cedar Falls, Iowa: Galactic Press, c2000)
p. 3, 2nd edition.
Timothy Day married Phebe Wildes, b. 1653, Topsfield, daughter of John Wildes and Priscilla Gould
- ↑ Babson, John J. Notes and Additions to the History of Gloucester: Second series. With an Appendix Containing Indexes to Parts I and II. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1974)
p. 72, Part II.
1692, Sept. 24 - "On bonds for their appearance, Mary, wife of Hugh Rowe, Phebe, wife of Timothy Day, and widow Rachel Vinsen, all of Gloucester, are released from Ipswich prison, having been confined there for witchcraft."
- ↑ Baker, Emerson W. Salem End The Diaspora That Followed the 1692 Witchcraft Crisis, in American Ancestors. (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 30-35, Fall 2014.
p. 32
Edward and Sarah (Wildes) Bishop and her stepmother, Sarah (Averill) Wildes, were arrested for witchcraft and imprisoned in April 1692. Three months later Wildes would be convicted and executed, and in September Sarah Bishop's sister, Phoebe (Wildes) Day, was also arrested.
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