Individual Details
Alice
( - 1651)
Events
| Marriage | Abt 1641 | Henry Lake | |||
| Death | 1651 | Boston, MA |  |
Families
| Spouse | Henry Lake (1611 - 1673) |
| Child | Elizabeth Lake (1642 - 1709) |
| Child | Thomas Lake (1644 - ) |
| Child | David Lake (1646 - 1709) |
Notes
Death
The article “Witchcraft in the American Colonies” that appeared in the American Quarterly describes many cases of persecution of women and a few men claimed to be witches. In it, Mrs. H. Lake is listed as being tried as a witch in Dorchester, found guilty, and executed in Boston in 1650. Also, there is quoted a letter from Nathaniel Mather to Increase Mather, 31 Dec 1684, which gives a small detail about the case. ‘I have also received by way of London one of your books of Remarkable Providences. ... Why did you not put in the story of Mrs. Hibbens witchcrafts, & the discovery thereof, as also H. Lake’s wife, of Dorchester, whom, as I have heard, the devill drew in by appearing to her in the likenes, & acting the part of a child of hers then lately dead, on whom her heart was much set: as also another of a girl in Connecticut who was judged to dye a reall convert, tho she dyed ofr the same crime?’ From The Mather Papers, Massachusetts Historical Society, Collections, 4th ser., VIII (1868), 59-60. See also W. F. Poole, editor, Governor T. Hutchinson’s Witchcraft Delusion, p. 384, n5.About 1650 Alice was executed as a witch.