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Thomas Oliver (c. 1601 England—June 1679 Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay) was the second husband of Bridget Bishop, who on 10 June 1692 became the first victim of the Salem witch trials. He is a major link in the old and well-known theory that his widow, Bridget Bishop, was executed on trumped up charges because her in-laws were jealous of what she had inherited from him. Upham's History of the Salem Witchcraft Trials makes clear that her marriage to Thomas Oliver is a determining factor in the witchcraft prosecution of Bridget Oliver Bishop.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Thomas Oliver (husband of Bridget Bishop), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
- ↑ Anderson, Robert Charles. Bridget (Playfer) (Wasselbe) (Oliver) Bishop. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Oct 1989)
64:207.
Thomas Oliver himself, Bridget's second husband, was also from Norwich (John C. Hotten, Original Lists of Persons of Quality [New York 1874], p. 295). There is evidence that Thomas Oliver returned to Norwich for a few years, and it may be that he became acquainted with Bridget at that time, resulting in her immigration to New England after the death of her first husband (Savage 3:311; Records of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Mass. [salem 1911-75] 3:385).
- ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
3:311.
Oliver, Thomas, Salem, a calender, from Norwich, came, at the age of 36, in the Mary Ann of Yarmouth, 1637, with w. Mary, 34, two ch. Thomas, and John, and two serv. Thomas Doged, 30, and Mary Sape, 12. The w. had the faculty of speech to an unpleasant excess, had suffer. in Eng. for neglect of some custom of trifling import. in the solemnities of the ch. and was punish. here for siding with Roger Williams, in 1638, and for berating our elders, as late as 1646. See Felt, II. 457, 576, and Winthrop I. 281, 2. The h. as well as the state, seem to have suffer. for he was driven to go home in 1648 or 9, but came back in few yrs. He cont. to own est. in Eng. and here took sec. or third w. 26 July 1666, a wid. in Essex Inst. II. 300, call. Bridget Wasselbe, whose surname I take no responsib. for spell. By her he had Christian, b. 8 May 1667; and was in office 1670, as measurer of wood, and d. June 1679. Bridget O. of Salem, charged with witchcraft, 1680, was tho. commonly call. Bishop, with alias O. I think his wid. Prob. one was name of her f. one of her h. but it may be doubt. of both.
- ↑ Perley, Sidney. The History of Salem, Massachusetts. (Salem, Massachusetts: Sidney Perley, 1924-1928)
I:443.
Thomas Oliver, a calendar (paper maker?) from Norwich, England, in 1637, aged thirty-six, in the Mary Ann of Yarmouth, with his wife Mary, aged thirty-four and two children, Thomas and John. His wife was living in 1646. He returned to England in 1648 or 1649 and was living in his of home in Norwich in 1652, when he returned to Salem. He married, secondly, widow Bridget Wasselbe July 26, 1666; and died in 1679. She survived him. Children: 1. Thomas, born in England before 1637, probably settled in Fairfield before 1685; 2. John, born in England before 1637, living in 1679; probably had a daughter Ellinor who married ----- Jones, and lived in Nevis in 1693. 3. Christian, born May 8, 1667; married Elias (?) Mason before 1693; Mary, married Job Hilliard.
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