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Facts and Events
| Name |
Rev. John Hale |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[2] |
3 Jun 1636 |
Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States |
| Graduation? |
1657 |
Cambridge, Middlesex County, MassachusettsHarvard College |
| Marriage |
15 Dec 1664 |
Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Rebecca Byles |
| Residence? |
Bet 1664 and 15 May 1700 |
Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Marriage |
31 Mar 1684 |
Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Sarah Noyes |
| Other? |
1697 |
Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Publishes "A Modest Enquiry into the Nature of Witchcraft", a critique of the 1692 trials that he had initially supported |
| Marriage |
8 Aug 1698 |
Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Elizabeth Somerby |
| Death[3] |
15 May 1700 |
Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United StatesJohn Hale House |
| Burial[4] |
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Abbott Street Burial Ground, Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Reference Number? |
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Q3181675? |
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
John Hale (June 3, 1636 – May 15, 1700) was the Puritan pastor of Beverly, Massachusetts, and took part in the Salem witch trials in 1692. He was one of the most prominent and influential ministers associated with the witch trials, being noted as having initially supported the trials and then changing his mind and publishing a critique of them.
His book, A Modest Enquiry Into the Nature of Witchcraft was published posthumously, two years after his death. The book provides an alternative Christian theory for what actually happened in Salem in 1692, with Hale theorizing that demons impersonated the accused and appeared in their forms to the afflicted. He most likely changed his views about those executed for "being witches" due to the fact that his own wife was accused as being a witch, though never prosecuted.
References
- John Hale (Beverly minister), in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
- ↑ Joslyn, Roger D. Vital Records of Charlestown, Massachusetts to the Year 1850. (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1984-1995)
1:4.
John, son of Robt. Hale & Jone his wife, b. 3 (4) 1636. [3 Jun 1636]
- ↑ Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts, to the End of Year 1849. (Topsfield, Massachusetts, 1906-07)
2:460.
Hale, John, Rev., [died] May 15, 1700, a. abt. 65 y. [A. 63 y. G.R.1]
[GR1=Ancient Burying Ground on Abbott St.]
- ↑ Roberts, Oliver Ayer. The history of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company: from its formation in 1637 and charter in 1638, to the present time : comprising the biographies of the distinguished civil, literary, religious, and military men of the colony, province, and commonwealth. (Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States: Alfred Mudge & Sons, 1895)
272.
Rev. John Hale, of Beverly, eldest child of Dea. Robert Hale, b. Charlestown 3 Jun 1636, graduated Harvard 1657, d. 15 May 1700, m. (1) 15 Dec 1664 Rebecca Byles of Salisbury, m. (2) 31 Mar 1684 Sarah Noyes, m. (3) 8 Aug 1698 Elizabeth (Somberby) Clark.
- Rev John Hale, in Find A Grave.
Inscription:
Here lyes ye [the] body of ye
Reverend Mr. John Hale
A pious & faithfull minister
of ye gospel & pastor of ye
First Gather'd Church of
Christ in this towne of
Beverly who rest'd from
his labours on ye 15th day
of May Anno Domini 1700
in ye 64th year of his age
- 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)
2:329-330.
JOHN, Beverly, eldest ch. of deac. of Charlestown, m. 15 Dec. 1664, Rebecca, d. not (as Coffin in Geneal. Reg. VI. 311, says) wid. of Henry Byley of Salisbury (wh. seems the more strange, as on p. 246 of the same Vol. he had noted truly that Byley's wid. m. John Hall, yet six lines after, makes her m. Rev. John Hale). This blunder, that arose from similar names would have been avoid. by that most dilig. antiquary, had he consider. the times of the two ms. as the wid. got her sec. h. when Hale was not five yrs. old. He had Rebecca, b. 28 Apr. 1666; and Robert, 3 Nov. 1668, H. C. 1686; was ord. 20 Sept. 1667, after preach. three yrs. to the new formed congr. His w. d. 13 Apr. 1683, and he m. 31 Mar. 1684, Sarah, d. of Rev. James Noyes, I presume, and had James, 14 Oct. 1685, H. C. 1703; Samuel, 13 Aug. 1687; Joanna, 15 June 1689; and John, 24 Dec. 1692. This w. d. 20 May 1695, and 8 Aug. 1698 he m. Elizabeth wid. of Nathaniel Clark, d. of Henry Somerby, who outliv. him He serv. as one of the chaplains in the Quixotic exped. equally brief and disastrous, of Sir William Phips, 1690, against Canada; ana in the outbreak of the diabol. witchcraft, 1692, was, of course, by his proximity to the chief incanta. much engaged. Most luckily, somebody of Wenham made charge of that crime upon his sec. w. then big with her last ch. and his eyes were opened to the monstrous delusion, as with great moderation and dignity is set forth in a tract published by him a few years after. See a valua. Memoir 3 Mass. Hist. Coll. VII. 255. He d. 15 May 1700. Of his ch. Robert was a promin. man, author, I think, of those verses on Nathaniel Mather, found at the end of Lib. IV. of his br.'s Magnalia; James was min. of Ashford; and Samuel, progenit. of a long line that has disting itself in N. Hampsh.
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