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  Mary Walcott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary Walcott (July 5, 1675 – after 1719) was one of the witnesses at the Salem Witch Trials of Salem, Massachusetts in the years 1692 and 1693.
She was the daughter of Captain Jonathan Walcott (1639-1699), and his wife Mary Sibley (1644-1683), both of Salem, and was about seventeen years old when the allegations started in 1692.
Her aunt, Mary Woodrow, the wife of Samuel Sibley (1657-1708), was the person who first showed Tituba and her husband John Indian how to bake a witch cake to feed to a dog in order that she and her friends might ascertain exactly who it was that was afflicting them.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_Walcott   (357 words)

  
 Relg.415_01. Profiles: Mary Walcott. By Kelly McCandlish
Walcott's mother died when she was young and her father, Joseph Walcott, Captain of the Salem Village militia, married Deliverance Putnam thus making him the brother-in-law of Thomas Putnam, one of the most powerful men in the village.
Mary Walcott was to sit placidly knitting through a Dionysiac frenzy on the part of her companions." During the examination of Sarah Cloyce, Mary Walcott was calm.
Mary Warren appeared in court with one stuck one in her throat, and Susannah Sheldon had four in her hand and even the quiet Mary Walcott had one pin in her arm.
jefferson.village.virginia.edu /salem/people/mwalcott.html   (524 words)

  
 Mary Vaux Walcott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (July 31, 1860 – August 22, 1940) was an artist and naturalist known for her watercolor paintings of wildflowers.
Walcott married the paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott, who was the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, in 1914.
Following the death of her husband in 1927, Walcott established the Charles Walcott Doolittle Medal in his honor.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_Vaux_Walcott   (309 words)

  
 William Walcott of Salem MA, 1630-c.1650   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Walcotts wife children and estate committed to Richard Inkersell hs father in law 27:10:1643 to be disposed of according to God and the said Wm.
His daughter, Mary, was one of the accusers in the Salem witchcraft trials, and Jonathan, himself, was a complainant in several of these cases; m.
Mary was one of the "afflicted girls" in the Salem witchcraft trials; m.
www.wolcottfamily.com /salem.html   (6014 words)

  
 Walcott, Mary Vaux, "Umbrella Tree"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
When her mother died when Mary was nineteen, she was left with the responsibility of looking after her two younger brothers and her father in the family home outside Philadelphia.
The family spent summers in the Canadian Rockies where Mary and her brothers studied mineralogy and recorded the flow of glaciers in drawings and photographs.
In 1913 Mary Vaux met Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927), then secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, while both were in the Canadian Rockies, she painting and hiking, he conducting geological research.
americanart.si.edu /images/1970/1970.355.57_1x.html   (331 words)

  
 Maggie Council di Pietra: Diamond Teeth Mary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Mary knew how to play an audience as well as tell a story, and the survivalist persona she had crafted was well-honed.
Mary moved her genre of focus from the blues to gospel music, which she claimed she had never sung before 1964.
Mary never had any children, so there were no close kin around during her later years.
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 MaryARoots's Home Page 8
Mary warrin ownid this har testimony one the oath which she hath taken before the grand Inquest this 9th of September 92
Bradbery is a wicth and that she has very often afflected and tormented me and the afformentioned persons by hir acts of wicthcraf for sense she has ben in prison she or hir Apperance has com to me and most greviously tormented me which if she were not a wicth she cold not doe.
{Torn} Ann putnam and I verily beleve that mistris mary Bradbery is a
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 Abigail, Betty Parris and Mary Walcott (Salem Witch Trials)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Simulating spasm, epilepsy and devilish possession, they convinced the jury that Proctor was a wizard and also accused one of the members of the jury to have been confused by the "Sirens of the Hell", spiritual beings which the girls invented (or were so mad and that they believed themselves to have seen).
Abigail, Betty Parris and Mary Walcott faked devilish possession and convinced the jury that Proctor was a wizard.
But Abigail, Betty Parris and Mary Walcott claimed that Proctor had sent the "Sirens of the Hell" to tempt the judges and accused a judge of being a wizard, too.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix3/abigailbettymary.htm   (1194 words)

  
 Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Biographical, 9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Mary was a witness against the vernerable Giles Corey, who was pressed to death under a pile of stones by the authority of the law after being condemned for witchcraft.
Mary (Dexter) Walcott was a lineal descendant of the Rev. Gregory Dexter, who came to Rhode Island as early as 1643 or 1644, and of his friend, Roger Williams.
Walcott still retains his professorship in Hamline University, but was given in 1917-18 a year's leave of absence to teach psychology and lecture on ethics at Tsing Hua College, at Peking, China.
www.rootsweb.com /~rigenweb/article119.html   (3628 words)

  
 Beauty in Service to Science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
In June 1888, Charles Walcott married his second wife (his first wife Lura Rust died of tuberculosis after only two years of marriage) Helena Stevens and their first child, Charles Doolittle Walcott Jr., was born a year later.
When Walcott traveled to the Canadian Rockies during the summer in search of fossils, often his wife Helena and their children would accompany him on his expeditions.
Walcott named one of the Burgess Shale animals Sidneyia, after his son Sidney, who discovered the first specimen.
www.si.edu /archives/techsvcs/walcott/family.htm   (179 words)

  
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Mary Ann GAGER At Morrisania, Westchester county, on Saturday, March 17, of marasmas, Mrs.
The friends and acquaintenances of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, on Sunday afternoon, at half-past one o'clock, from her late residence, 103 Cannon street.
The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from the residence of her parents, 48 Cherry street, on Sunday afternoon, at one o'clock.
www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com /Newspaper/NYHerald.html   (8542 words)

  
 Research of D. G. Weymouth
One charges that he afflicted Mary Walcott on April 11; a second that he afflicted Mercy Lewis on the same day, and the third that he afflicted Mary Warren on March 26.
One charges that she afflicted Mary Walcott, the other that she afflicted Mercy Lewis, the date of the offence alleged in each case being April 11.
Mary Warren said Giles Corey was hostile to her and afflicted her because he thought she caused John Procter to ask more for a piece of meadow than he was willing to give......Giles Corey was also before the court in 1678 in suspicion of having set fire to John Procter's house.
www.weymouthtech.com /Genealogy/ps03/ps03_357.htm   (1939 words)

  
 Rev
Mary Whiting (10) was born 22 Feb. 1713/14 and died 21 Nov. 1798, both in Dedham, Norfolk Co., MA.
Mary Ann Foster Pitcher (195) was born in 1808, of Seekonk, RI, died in 1852, and was buried in Swan Point Cem., Providence, RI.
CHILDREN OF MARY A. Almira Ellis Parmenter (218) was born in 1827 in MA, and died in 1893.
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 A Preliminary Examination of the People of the Salem Witchcraze   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Thomas' brother Edward, their brother-in-law Jonathan Walcott, and Walcott's daughter Mary who lived with Thomas Putnam, were also numbered among the accusers.
With Mary he had a son, Joseph, late in life and when old Thomas died he left what was remaining of his estate to Joseph and Mary.
Mary Walcott backed off a bit when Danforth questioned her directly if Elizabeth had ever harmed her.
www.bloodthirsty.com /salem.html   (8763 words)

  
 Sarah Bibber and the Salem Witch Trials
In an indictment against Mary Bradbury, Sarah appears to be a "victim" having been "tortured, afflicted, consumed, pined, wasted and tormented" by acts of Witchcraft by the said Mary Bradbury.
Under oath Sarah affirmed to the Jury of Inquest that she had seen Ann Pudeator "afflict Mary Warren, Mary Walcott and Ann Putnam" and "she together with Goodwife Parker did afflict the forenamed." Sarah claimed that Ann Pudeator afflicted her as well and she believed her to be a witch.
Mary was accused of the "detestable arts called witchcraft and sorceries" which she "maliciously and feloniously practiced and exercised in the town of Salem." Her case stated that she practiced and exercised "against one Sarah Vibber wife of John Vibber of Salem."
www.vibertfamily.com /sarahbibber.htm   (1888 words)

  
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Mary Morris Vaux received a set of watercolor paints at age eight and began experimenting with painting flowers.
After her mother's death when Mary was nineteen, she assumed the responsibility of looking after her two younger brothers and her father.
In 1913 she met Charles Doolittle Walcott, then secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, when he was conducting geological research.
americanart.si.edu /search/artist_bio.cfm?StartRow=1&ID=5197   (288 words)

  
 Walcotts of Shropshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
There were manors named Walcott in Norfolk and in Leicester and a village with that name in Lincolnshire, so medieval use of the name "de Walcott" does not necessarily mean that the persons so-called were members of the same family.
John Walcott, Jr., born 1619, was a child of Charles' second wife.
Charles' son, Edward, was father of John Minchin, 1700-1753, who took the name John Minchin Walcott, having married the daughter of his father's cousin, Catherine Walcot, below, and succeeding to the estates of her brother, John Walcott, in 1736.
www.wolcottfamily.com /shropshire.html   (3915 words)

  
 salvation20-SALEM WITCH TRIALS--investigative reports on WITCHCRAFT.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Mary Walcot, is this the man? He is like him, I cannot say it is he.
Mary Walcot & Susan: Sheldon & Eliz: Hubbard said again there was a man whispering in her ear, & said she should never confess.
Dorcas Hoar) The deposistion of mary walcott agged about 17 years who testifieth and saith I have been a long time afflected by a woman that tould me hir name was Hoar: but on the: 2 May 1692.
www.geocities.com /salvation20/salem_witches.html   (2996 words)

  
 The Witches Way Adopt a Witch Anne Pudeator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Elizabeth Hubbard, circle of accusing girls residing with Dr. William Griggs Lt. Joseph Neale, a constable of Salem Town Ann Putnam Jr., circle of accusing girls and wife of Thomas Putnam Jr.
Mary Walcott, circle of accusing girls and daughter of John Walcott Mary Warren, circle of accusing girls residing with John Proctor
Mary Warren: Accused Ann of biting, pinching, choaking, sticking pins into her and forcing her to sign the Devil's Book.
www.witchesway.net /links/adoptawitch/annepudeator.html   (787 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Mary Warin and others of ye afflicted were struck down into fitts and helped up out of their fitts by a touch of Abigl ffolkner hand : She was urged to confes ye truth for ye creddit of hir Town: her Couz.
The above named mary Walcott affirmed ye Grand inquest that ye above written Euidences is truth upon her oath 17 Sept. : 1692.
Mary Waren ownd upon her oath to ye grand Inquest that ye above written evidence is ye truth.
history.hanover.edu /texts/salem/afaulkner.html   (536 words)

  
 Chronology of Events Relating to the Salem Witchcraft Trial of 1692
February 25, 1692: Tituba, at the request of neighbor Mary Sibley, bakes a "witch cake" and feeds it to a dog.
Mary Warren reverses her statement made in early April and rejoins the accusers.
September 9, 1692: Martha Corey, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Dorcas Hoar and Mary Bradbury are pronounced guilty and sentenced to hang.
www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/ASAL_CH.HTM   (1359 words)

  
 Fremont Funeral Chapel
Marie was very active in building the Prairie View Church and wrote the prayer for the workers which was placed in the church.
Marie was born February 28th, 1917 north of Pekin, Iowa the daughter of Glen and Evalena Sauer Denny.
Marie was preceded in death by her parents; her husband Virgil; a brother Paul Ray Denny; two sisters, Vera Mae Hanna and Martha Elizebeth Moore, and a nephew, Larry Hanna.
www.fremontfuneralchapel.com /obituaries.html   (11480 words)

  
 Sarah Good Transcripts
W’m and Mary By the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland King and Queen defenders of the faith andca.
Joseph Herrick senr and Mary Herrick appeared before us the Jury for Inquest and did on the oath which they had taken own this their evidence to be the truth; the 28 of June 1692
Mary Walcott owned this her testimony to be the truth on her oath before the Jurors for Inquest this 28 of June 1692
home.apu.edu /~blamkin/sarah_good_transcripts.htm   (2178 words)

  
 Record Unit 7004 - Charles D. Walcott Collection, 1851-1940 and undated
Walcott was appointed Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution on January 31, 1907, and resigned from the USGS in April 1907.
Walcott, as one who met with Wilson, became actively involved in the organization of the Council by sitting on many of its committees, including one which planned for the present headquarters of the Council and the Academy.
Walcott, as Director of the United States Geological Survey and President of the Academy, was one of the incorporators and was elected to the Board of Trustees on May 27, 1901, and President of the Board on June 2, 1901.
www.si.edu /archives/archives/findingaids/faru7004.htm   (11213 words)

  
 McCook Daily Gazette: Story: Robert Evon Walcott
LINCOLN -- Robert Evon Walcott, 83, of Wauneta, died Wednesday (April 7, 2004) at the Madonna Rehab Center in Lincoln.
He was born Feb. 2, 1921, to Joshua and Grace (Scott) Walcott in Northeast Yuma County, Colorado.
He was preceded in death by his parents; son, John; grandson, Joshua Jones; half-sister, Gertrude Likens and husband, Cecil; and half-brother, Clarence Walcott.
www.mccookgazette.com /story/1066059.html   (240 words)

  
 Bowditch Team
April 19, 1692: Abigail Hobbs, Bridget Bishop, Giles Cory and Mary Warren are examined.
April 22, 1692: Mary Easty, another of Rebecca Nurse's sisters who defended her, is examined by Hathorne and Corwin.
September 22, 1692: Martha Cory, Margaret Scott, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Willmott Redd, Samuel Wardwell, and Mary Parker are hanged.
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 Special Collections Research Center - Syracuse University Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
During her early years, on family summer vacations to the Rockies, Mary Vaux developed into an accomplished amateur botanist, watercolorist, and mountaineer.
Her wildflower publication was to become "the Audubon of Botany," and a 10,000-ft. peak in Jasper Park was named for her.
After she married Dr. Charles D. Walcott, a noted geologist and Secretary of the Smithsonian, she accompanied him on his field trips.
libwww.syr.edu /information/spcollections/bkomonth/June2003   (192 words)

  
 Trial & Execution of Sarah Good
Joseph Herrick senior and Mary Herrick appeared before us the Jury for Inquest: and did on the oath which the had taken owned this their evidence to be the truth; the 28: of June 1692
The Deposition of Mary Walcott aged about 17 years who testified and said that since I have been afflicted I have often seen the Apparition of Sarah Good amongst the witches who has also afflicted me and urged me writ in her blood
Mary Walcott owned this her testimony to be the truth one her oath: before the Jurors for Inquest this 28.
www.the-night.net /witches/record.htm   (1677 words)

  
 Petitions relating to the trial of Rebecca Nurse for witchcraft
Joseph herrick senr and mary herrik appearid before us th Jury for Inquest: and did on the oath which the had taken owne this their evidense to be the truth; the 28: of June 1692
The testimony of Willam Batten aged 76 years or their abouts and william shaw aged about 50 years and Deborah his wife aged about 40 years, these all testifie and say that this day was a weeke agoe.
mary welcott ownid this har testimony to be the truth one har oath: before the Jurrars for Inqwest this 28.
www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/ASA_GOOD.HTM   (1627 words)

  
 Salem Witchcraft Trials Salem Massachusetts
Mary Beth Norton, who argued in her book In The Devil's Snare that any or all of the above explanations likely played an important role, but
Salem and the rest of New England, and particularly the north and northwest areas, were besieged by frequent Indian attacks, which created an atmosphere of fear that contributed greatly to the hysteria.
Mary Warren (was accused of witchcraft when she recanted and said the girls "did but dissemble", i.e.
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