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TSrotes on tiie iFatnilff of "Bt Wlolt
names of those p''sented for smoaking in the street contra to law . . .
Baltazer de Woolfe, p^'sented by Will Marcum, constable for Mattabesick."
The second is as follows :
" Hartford Quart. Court Sept""' 5
Jennings :
Nicholas
: 61. The Inditement of Nicholas and Margret
Jennings, thou art here indited by the name of Nicholas Jen-
nings of Sea Brook for not haueing the feare of God before thine eyes ; thou hast
enterteined familiarity w"" Sathan the great enemy of God and mankind, and by his
help hast done works aboue the course of nature to y'' loss of y" liues of severall
p'sons and in p'ticuler y« wife of Reynold Marvin w"" y" child of Baalshar de Wolf,
w**" other sorceries, for w""" according to y" Law of God and y'' Established lawe of
this Comon Wealth thou deservest to die."
This child is spoken of as "bewitched to death."
Balthasar de Wolf is first mentioned by Mr. Savage, in his "Geneal-
ogical Dictionary," in 1664, when, as we have said, he was in Wethersfield,
Conn. He is first spoken of in Lyme records in 1668 ; at which time he
2,3)4 and his three sons, Edward,^ Simon ^ and Stephen, ^ joined with him as
members of the town train-band in a petition. The fact that the sons
were members of the train-band shows that they had reached the age
of sixteen years. The age of Edward appears by the dates on his tomb-
stone still existing in Lyme. He was therefore in 1668 about twenty-two,
and Simon and Stephen from twenty to sixteen, years of age. Balthasar
may be supposed to have been at the time about forty-five years old, in
full strength, and able to serve in the same military company with his sons.
This is the only formal record of the children of Balthasar De Wolf and
Alice his wife. From the records of the Lee and Griswold families we
learn that Mary^ De Wolf (born about 1656), who must have been a
daughter of Balthasar, married Thomas Lee, as his second wife, between
1677 and 1680; and that after his death she became, in 1705, the second
wife of the second Matthew Griswold of Lyme, taking with her to his
home her daughter Hannah^ Lee, who married Mr. Griswold's son,
afterwards known as Judge John Griswold, and became the mother of
Governor Matthew* Griswold.
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