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- Called an ecclesiastical council to investigate the handling of the witch
trials of 1692.
Will dated 3 March 1714-15, probated 25 April 1715; by it he gives to his son
John all his lands and common rights in Groton (where his brother had settled),
who is to pay Mary, widow of John Smith, 5 pounds. All the rest of his estate
is to fall to sons Cornelius and Jonathan who are to pay certain legacies to
his three daughters, Mary, Elizabeth and Sarah.
To Jonathan he gives enough to his share in the "Iron Works" to give each of
his sons equal shares, witnessed by David Judd, John Presten, and Jonathan
Putnman. In May following, the widow Mary relinquishes all right to dower and
her sons Cornelius and Jonathan agree to support her. The old house was still
standing in 1892.
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References:
"Salem Possessed, The Social Origins of Witchcraft", 1974, Paul Boyer & Stephen
Nissenbaum, p 70.
"The Devil in Massachusetts", 1989, Marion L. Starkey, p 251
"A Genealogy of the Nurse Family for Five Generations", 1892, John D. Ames, p
100, 101.
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