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The seventh child, and fourth surviving son, of the third generation of
24 the family in New England, of the elder branch, was Smmiel,^ born in
1656;, who married, in 1678, Judith daughter of Samuel Appleton of
Ipswich, Mass.; and died in 1695.
25 A younger brother of the last named Samuel was Josiah,^ born in
1658 ;
who
married : first, in 1685-86, Penelope daughter of Capt. George
Corwin of Salem, Mass., " ' of the ancient knightly family of the Curwens,' "
says Camden, " ' descended from Gospatrick Earl of Northumberland,'
and granddaughter of Governor Edward Winslow ;
and,
secondly, in 1694,
Mary daughter of John Freke Esq. of Boston, Mass. He settled himself
in Salem, and was engaged in mercantile business there; but "in 1722
. . . was
appointed a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, in which
office he continued until his death" in 1729. We make the following
extract from a letter of his to his brother Henry, as illustrative of the pre-
vailing sentiment of the times of the Salem witchcraft
" '.
:
" ' Salem, July 25, 1692.' "
. . but the unheard of Calamety of the Witch Craft Continues, and further
discoveryes made, the 6 have already been Executed. Since w'^'^ (about 11 weeks
since) 5 more, of Andover, viz' G[oodwi]fe fforster, her Daughter Laury, and her
Daughter of the 3'' general', a Comely Ingeinous young woeman of about 17 years
old, and 2 Brothers, one about 19 Years old and the other neere 16, Sirnamed Car-
riers, boath likely, Ingenious, m'anly and hardey Young men. Yet all these following,
and about Seaven before have Confest, and made a wonderfull Relation of there
Compacts and pranks w" the Devell. Soe we have yet, here, at Ipswich and Boston,
about 60 accused persons in Goale, of which 12 are Confessors, and of them good
Mr. Higginson's daughter is one, who has long been melancholy and Seemed Crazed.
It appears that y° Devell has not (as formerly) Gained a fiew discontented and
Revengefull persons, but was making a CoUony to set up his kingd" by force of
Armes. .
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"
The third generation of the family in New England was also repre-
sented by the children of George (13) Wolcott. But all that is called for
respecting them and their posterity, in this brief abstract, may be found in
177
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