Sarah Towne

1639 - 1703  (64 years)

• Name	Sarah Towne
  Born	1639
  Christened	3 Sep 1639	, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England
  Gender	Female
  AFN	3G70-ZR
  Died	1703
  Person ID	I9271	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	12 Jan 2001

  
  

  Father	William Towne,   c. 18/18 Mar 1598/1599, St. Nicholas Church, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England ,   d. 24 Jun 1673, Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 74 years)
  Mother	Joanna (Jone) Blessing,   b. 1599, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England ,   d. 1682, Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 83 years)
  Married	25 Mar 1620	St. Nicholas, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England
  Family ID	F3392	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 1	Edmund Bridges, Jr.,   b. 1637, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts ,   d. 24 Jun 1682  (Age 45 years)
  Married	11 Jan 1660	, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England
  Children	1. Bridges   2. Bridges   3. Bridges   4. Bridges   5. Bridges
  Family ID	F3397	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family 2	Peter Cloyce,   b. Abt 1639,   d. 1708  (Age ~ 69 years)
  Married	Abt 1681
  Children	1. Cloyce   2. Cloyce   3. Cloyce
  Family ID	F3400	Group Sheet

  
  

• Notes

  On April 4, 1692 the conspiracy filed a complaint [No. 6] against Sarah Cloyce. On April 11 she was arrested. The examination was held in Salem Town before Thomas Danforth (the deputy governor), Isaac Addington (the secretary of the province), John Hathorne, Major Samuel Appleton, James Russell, Captain Samuel Sewall, and Jonathan Corwin. All of the last five were assistants to the governor; that is, they were members of the upper legislative chamber. Sarah Cloyce refused to confess, and in response to testimony by John Indian said, "Oh! You are a grievous liar." She was imprisoned at Salem, then Boston. On January 3, 1693 at the Superior Court of Judicature at Salem, the grand jury dismissed the charge against Sarah Cloyce. Peter Cloyce paid his wife's prison fees. Eventually they left Salem Village and settled in Marlborough. Afterwards they moved to neighboring Sudbury, Massachusetts. ---------- References: "Salem Possessed, The Social Origins of Witchcraft", 1974, Paul Boyer & Stephen Nissenbaum, p 190. "The Devil Discovered", 1991, Enders A. Robinson, p 274-275, 278.