Individual Details
Mary Perkins
(Bef 3 Sep 1615 - 20 Dec 1700)
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==Biography==
[[Category:Hillmorton, Warwickshire]]
[[Category:Saint John The Baptist Church, Hillmorton, Warwickshire]]
[[Category:Bristol]]
[[Category:Lyon, sailed 1 Dec 1630]]
[[Category:Nantucket, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Boston, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Ipswich, Massachusetts]]
[[Category: Salem_Witch_Trials]]
[[Category:Accused_Witches_of_New_England]]
[[Category:Salisbury, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Amesbury, Massachusetts]]
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[[Perkins-125|Mary Perkins]] was born on 03 Sept 1916 and christened on 15 Sept 1616 at Saint John The Baptist Church, Hillmorton, England. She was the daughter of [[Perkins-122|John Perkins]] Sr and [[Gater-32|Judith Gater]]. Together with her family Mary went to Bristol, Bristol County, England where they sailed for British America on 01 Dec 1630 aboard the Lyon, William Pierce-master. They arrived in Nantucket, Massachusetts on 5 Feb 1631 and went from there to Boston where the family stayed for about 2 years when they moved to Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts. "Ancestors of Charles Brush Perkins and Maurice Perkins" by Charles Brush Perkins, (c) 1977 Charles Brush Perkins. Printed by Gateway Press Inc, Baltimore, Maryland 1906.
Mary (Perkins) Bradbury Documented on Sept. 9th 1692 in the witchcraft trials. was tried for Witchcraft in 1692 in Salisbury, Essex County Massachusetts and was ably & courageously defended by Maj. Robert Pike. She was convicted but not executed. The papers pertaining to the case are of deep interest, and show the high estimation in which she was held." Mary was the wife of Capt. Thomas Bradbury, a prominent citizen of Salisbury.":
Cutter in his "Historic Homes" gives the following:
"Mrs. Bradbury in her old age was tried for witchcraft and convicted July 28, 1692. The evidence in her defense is a fine testimonial to a worthy life. Her husband's testimony was: "We have been married fifty-five years, and she has been a loving and faithful wife unto me unto this day. She hath been wonderful laborious, diligent and industrious in her place and employment about the bringing up of our family which have been eleven children and four grandchildren. She was both prudent and provident, of a cheerful spirit, liberal and charitable. She being now very aged and weak, and grieved under afflictions, may not be able to speak much for herself, not being so free of speech as some others might be. I hope her life and conversation among her neighbors has been such as gives a better or more real testimony than can be expressed by words." One hundred and eighteen of her friends signed a statement commending her good character: "she was a lover of the ministry in all appearance, and a diligent attender upon God's holy ordinances, being of a courteous and peaceable disposition and carriage, neither did any of us (some of whom have lived in the town with her above fifty years) ever hear or know that she had any difference or falling out with any of her neighbors, man woman or child, but was always ready to do for them what lay in her power, night and day, though with hazard of her health and other danger."Cutter, ''Historic Homes and Places . . .''
Rev. James Allen, her pastor, said: "I having lived nine years at Salisbury, in the work of the ministry and now four years in the office of pastor, to my best notice and observation of Mrs. Bradbury, she hath lived according to the rules of the Gospel amongst us; was a constant attender upon the ministry of the word, and all the ordinances of the gospel full of works of charity and mercy to the sick and poor; neither have I seen or heard anything of her unbecoming the profession of the gospel." The evidence against her was as scant as it was nonsensical. Mrs. Bradbury was defended by Major Robert Pike. She was convicted with four others who were hanged in September, 1692. Mrs. Bradbury's execution was postponed, why we know not, but the delusion passed and her life was spared."
=== Birth ===
: Date: BEF 15 SEP 1615
: Place: Hillmorton, County Warwick, England
=== Christening ===
: Date: September 15, 1616: Place: Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England [http://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Hillmorton_Parish_Registers-1 Entry in Hillmorton Parish Register]
=== Event ===
: Type: Arrival
: Date: 1631: Place: Boston, Massachusetts[http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=pili354&h=726187&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt US and Canada Passenger and Immigration Lists, 1500's - 1900's]
=== Marriage ===
: Date: MAY 1636: Place: Salisbury, Essex, MAYates, ''US & International Marriage Records''
: Husband: [[Bradbury-44|Thomas Bradbury]]
: Wife: [[Perkins-125|Mary Perkins]]
: Children:
:: [[Bradbury-50|Wymond Bradbury]]
::[[Bradbury-36|Judith Bradbury]]
::[[Bradbury-43|Thomas Bradbury]]
::[[Bradbury-37|Mary Bradbury]]
::[[Bradbury-34|Jane Bradbury]]
::[[Bradbury-33|Jacob Bradbury]]
::[[Bradbury-45|William Bradbury]]
=== Death ===
: Date: 20 DEC 1700
: Place: Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts:Burial: [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=38426363 Bartlett Cemetery][http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=38426363 Find A Grave Memorial# 38426363]:Place: Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts''Massachusetts Town and Vital Records''
== Sources ==*Ancestry.com. ''New England, Salem Witches and Others Tried for Witchcraft, 1647-1697'' [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.
*Ancestry.com. ''Web: Massachusetts, Find A Grave Index, 1607-2012'' [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=38426363 Memorial# 38426363]
*Cutter, William Richard. ''Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex COunty Massachusetts.'' New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1968. p. 613
*Davis, Walter Goodwin. ''Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis.'' Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1996.
*Filby, P. William, ed. ''Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s.'' Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA: Gale Research, 2012.
*Little, Thomas George. ''Genealogical and Family History of the State of Main.'' Lewis HIstorical Publishing Company, 1909.
*Lowell, Delmar Rial. ''The Historic Genealogy of the Lowells of America from 1639 to 1899.'' Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle COmpany, Printers, 1899.
*Perkins, Thomas Allen, comp. ''Jacob Perkins of Wells, Maine and His Descendants 1583 - 1936.'' Haverhill, Massachusetts; Record Publishing Company, 1947.
*The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. ''The Whitgift-Bradbury Family, Mary Perkins, Daughter of John and Judith Perkins of Ipswich.'' Boston, Massachusetts: The New England Historic Genealogical Society. Vol. 23, 1869.
*Threlfall, John Brooks. ''The Ancestry of Thomas Bradbury and his wife Mary (Perkins) Bradbury of Salisbury, Massachusetts.'' Published by the author, 1988.
*Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. ''Massachusetts Vital and Town Records.'' Provo, Utah: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
*Warwickshire County Record Office. ''Hillmorton, Warwickshire Parish Register.'' Warwick, England; Warwickshire Anglican Registers.
*Yates Publishing. ''U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900'' [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2004.
* Kirk, Marshall K. "A Probable Royal Descent for Thomas Bradbury of Salisbury, Massachusetts." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Jan. 2007:27-36
*Banks: [[Banks-751|Banks, Charles Edward]]. ''[[Space:History of York, Maine|History of York, Maine]]'', Reprint of the 1931-35 by Baltimore, Regional Pub. Co., 1967. [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015014575123;view=1up;seq=9 Volume 1 On Hathitrust.com], [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015014575131;view=1up;seq=9 Volume 2 On Hathitrust.com]
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:WikiTree profile Perkins-1870 created through the import of Ancestors 2011.GED on Aug 20, 2011 by [[Romanski-1 | William Romanski]].
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[[Category:Perkins_Name_Study]]
[[Category:Hillmorton, Warwickshire]]
[[Category:Saint John The Baptist Church, Hillmorton, Warwickshire]]
[[Category:Bristol]]
[[Category:Lyon, sailed 1 Dec 1630]]
[[Category:Boston, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Ipswich, Massachusetts]]
[[Category: Salem_Witch_Trials]]
[[Category:Accused_Witches_of_New_England]]
[[Category:Salisbury, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Amesbury, Massachusetts]]
==Biography==
=== Origins and Baptism ===Mary Perkins, daughter of [[Perkins-122|John Perkins]] Sr. and [[Gater-32|Judith Gater]],''Early New England Families, 1641-1700''. (Original Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013. By Alicia Crane Williams, Lead Genealogist.) Access online at [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB501/i/14126/1/0 AmericanAncestors.org] with NEHGS membership. Profile of John Perkins, page 1. was baptized on 3 Sept 1615 in Hillmorton, Warwickshire, EnglandDavis, Walter Goodwin, ''The Ancestry of Dudley Wildes, 1759-1820, of Topsfield, Massachusetts.'' Accessed online at [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89061707337;view=1up;seq=107 Hathitrust]. Page 87-89. at Saint John the Baptist Church.[http://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Hillmorton_Parish_Registers-1 Hillmorton Parish Register] - Baptisms, 1611-1616, 15th line, 1615.
=== Immigration to America ===Mary Perkins of Hillmorton, Warwickshire is listed as a passenger aboard the "Lyon", along with: Mr. John Perkins and Mrs. Judith Perkins, John Perkins Jr., Elizabeth Perkins, Thomas Perkins and Jacob Perkins. The "Lyon", William Pierce, Master, departed from Bristol, England December 1, 1630 with 'about twenty passengers and two hundred tons of goods.' This was the same ship that brought the Rev. Roger and Mrs. Mary Williams to America, along with the John Throckmorton and Edmond Once families and William Parke.Banks, Charles Edward, "[http://www.amazon.com/Commonwealth-Emigration-Passengers-Settlement-Massachusetts/dp/0806300183 The Planters of the Commonwealth]: A Study of the Emigrants and Emigration in Colonial Times, 1620-1640." Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Copyright 1930, 2006. Page 92-93: Passengers on the Lyon. The passage was stormy and lasted 67 days. They arrived at Nantasket on February 5, 1631 and on the 6th anchored in Boston.Ferris, Mary Walton, ‘’Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes’’. Accessed online at [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066183567;view=1up;seq=10 HathiTrust]. Vol. 1, page 484, 486. Perkins, George Augustus, ‘’The Family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Massachusetts’’. (Salem, MA: G.A. Perkins, 1889), accessed at [https://archive.org/stream/familyofjohnperk00perkuoft?ref=ol#page/1/mode/1up Archive.org]. Pages 1-7. The family settled first at Boston and removed to Ipswich in 1633.Anderson, Robert Charles, [https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/great-migration-begins-immigrants-to-ne-1620-1633-vols-i-iii/image?pageName=1432&volumeId=12107 ''The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633'']. Boston: NEHGS, 1996-2011. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010). Vol. 3, page 1432.
=== Marriage and Children===Mary Perkins married [[Bradbury-44|Thomas Bradbury]]NEHGR, "Some Notices of the Family Perkins in America." ''The New England Historical and Genealogical Register''. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: [https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/vital-records-from-the-nehgs-register/image?pageName=213&volumeId=21074 AmericanAncestors.org], NEHGS, 2001-2018). Vol. 10 (Jul 1856) p.213. by 1637 (their eldest child was born in Salisbury in Apr 1637), probably in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Mary and Thomas had eleven children, as follows:
*[[Bradbury-50|Wymond]], b.1 Apr 1637, m. Sarah Pike;
*[[Bradbury-13|Judith]], b. 2 Oct 1638, m. Caleb Moody;
*[[Bradbury-43|Thomas]], b. 28 Jan 1640/1, d. unmarried;
*[[Bradbury-137|Mary]], b.17 Mar 1642/3, m. John Stanyan;
*[[Bradbury-34|Jane]], b.11 May 1645, m. Henry True;
*[[Bradbury-33|Jacob]], b.17 Jun 1647, d.12 Mar 1669 in Barbados;*[[Bradbury-45|William]], b.15 Sep 1649, m. Rebecca (Wheelwright) Maverick;
*[[Bradbury-144|Elizabeth]], b. 7 Nov 1651, m. John Buss;
*[[Bradbury-151|John]], b. 20 Apr 1654, d.24 Nov 1678, unm.;
*[[Bradbury-120|Ann]], b.16 Apr 1656, d.1659;
*[[Bradbury-128|Jabez]], b.27 Jun 1658, d.28 Apr 1677.
=== Accused of Witchcraft ===
}Mary (Perkins) Bradbury was tried for witchcraft in July 1692. She was defended by Major Robert Pike. Accounts of her case tell of the high esteem in which she was held:
Her husband's testimony was as follows:
One hundred and eighteen of her friends signed a statement commending her good character:
Rev. James Allen, her pastor, said:
"The evidence against her was as scant as it was nonsensical. She was convicted with four others who were hanged in September, 1692. Mrs. Bradbury's execution was postponed, why we know not, but the delusion passed and her life was spared."
=== Death ===Mary Bradbury died on 20 Dec 1700 in Salisbury, Essex County, MassachusettsAnderson, Robert Charles, ''The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635''. Boston: NEHGS, 1996-2011. (Online database: [https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2496/42521_b158312-00475/11319 Ancestry.com], Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.). Vol. 1, page 379.''[http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Ipswich/Images/Ipswich_B402.shtml Early Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts], from 1600 to 1850''. Online database of MA Vital Records Project. ''Deaths'' p.350 "Bradbury, Marey, wid. Capt. Tho[mas], Dec. 20, 1700. N. CT. BK." and was buried at Salisbury Colonial Buying Ground.[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38426363 Find A Grave], database and images: accessed 14 Aug 2018, Mary Perkins Bradbury (3 Sep 1615–20 Dec 1700), Memorial #38426363, citing Salisbury Colonial Burying Ground, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA. Photo of headstone has wrong dates.
Mary died testate, her will was dated 17 Feb 1695/6 (see attached), with probate opened on 16 Jan 1701, Probate case #2999."Essex, Massachusetts Probate Records, 1648-1840." Ancestry.com, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 1997, Provo, UT, USA: probate 16 Jan 1701.
'''Massachusetts Remediation'''
# 17 October 1710, '''Convictions Reversed''', The General Court of Massachusetts Bay, An act, ''the several convictions, judgments, and attainders be, and hereby are, reversed, and declared to be null and void.'' “Salem Witchcraft : with an Account of Salem Village, and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects : Upham, Charles Wentworth, 1802-1875, Author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming.” Internet Archive, January 1, 1970. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17845/17845-h/salem2-htm.html#Page_ii.480.# 17 Dec 1711, '''Compensation to Survivors''', Governor Dudley, GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY, approved compensation ''to such persons as are living, and to those that legally represent them that are dead'' ['''For Mary Bradbury, £20''']# 28 Aug 1957, '''No Disgrace to Descendants''', General Court of Massachusetts, ''...such proceedings, were and are shocking, and the result of a wave of popular hysterical fear of the Devil in the community, and further declares that, as all the laws under which said proceedings...have been long since abandoned and superseded by our more civilized laws, no disgrace or cause for distress attaches to the said descendants or any of them by reason of said proceedings.''https://www.mass.gov/doc/resolves-of-1957-chapter-145/download# 31 Oct 2001, '''Additional Victims Included''', Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives in General Court, AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE WITCHCRAFT TRIAL OF 1692, ''chapter 145 is hereby further amended by adding Bridget Bishop, Susannah Martin, Alice Parker, Margaret Scott and Wilmot Redd.''https://malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2001/Chapter122
== Sources ==
See Also:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Bradbury
* https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38426363/mary-bradbury* [http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/n16.html The Salem Witchcraft Papers (SWP No. 016) Mary Bradbury]*Ancestry.com. ''New England, Salem Witches and Others Tried for Witchcraft, 1647-1697.'' [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Accused 1692.*Ancestry.com. "[http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=pili354&h=726187&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt US and Canada Passenger and Immigration Lists, 1500's - 1900's]." Arrival 1631 at Boston MA.*Banks, Charles Edward. ''History of York, Maine''. Reprint of 1931-35 by Baltimore, Regional Pub. Co., 1967. Accessed on HathiTrust [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015014575123;view=1up;seq=9 Volume 1], [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015014575131;view=1up;seq=9 Volume 2].*Davis, Walter Goodwin. ''Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis.'' Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1996.*Filby, P. William, ed. ''Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s.'' Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA: Gale Research, 2012.*Kirk, Marshall K., "A Probable Royal Descent for Thomas Bradbury of Salisbury, Massachusetts." ''The New England Historical and Genealogical Register''. Vol. 27 (Jan 2007) p.36.*Little, Thomas George. ''Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine.'' Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1909.*Lowell, Delmar Rial. ''The Historic Genealogy of the Lowells of America from 1639 to 1899.'' Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, 1899.*The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. ''The Whitgift-Bradbury Family, Mary Perkins, Daughter of John and Judith Perkins of Ipswich.'' Boston, Massachusetts: The New England Historic Genealogical Society. Vol. 23, 1869.*Perkins, Thomas Allen, comp. ''Jacob Perkins of Wells, Maine and His Descendants 1583 - 1936.'' Haverhill, Massachusetts; Record Publishing Company, 1947.* “The Witchcraft Trial of Mary Perkins Bradbury.” GenealogyMagazine.com. Accessed April 11, 2020. https://www.genealogymagazine.com/witchcraft-trial/.*Threlfall, John Brooks. ''The Ancestry of Thomas Bradbury and his wife Mary (Perkins) Bradbury of Salisbury, Massachusetts.'' Published by the author, 1988.*Warwickshire County Record Office. ''Hillmorton, Warwickshire Parish Register.'' Warwick, England; Warwickshire Anglican Registers.*Yates Publishing. ''U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900.'' [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2004: May 1636 at Salisbury MA.
== Acknowledgments ==Click the Changes tab to see edits to this profile. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this profile.
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==Biography==
[[Category:Hillmorton, Warwickshire]]
[[Category:Saint John The Baptist Church, Hillmorton, Warwickshire]]
[[Category:Bristol]]
[[Category:Lyon, sailed 1 Dec 1630]]
[[Category:Nantucket, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Boston, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Ipswich, Massachusetts]]
[[Category: Salem_Witch_Trials]]
[[Category:Accused_Witches_of_New_England]]
[[Category:Salisbury, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Amesbury, Massachusetts]]
}
[[Perkins-125|Mary Perkins]] was born on 03 Sept 1916 and christened on 15 Sept 1616 at Saint John The Baptist Church, Hillmorton, England. She was the daughter of [[Perkins-122|John Perkins]] Sr and [[Gater-32|Judith Gater]]. Together with her family Mary went to Bristol, Bristol County, England where they sailed for British America on 01 Dec 1630 aboard the Lyon, William Pierce-master. They arrived in Nantucket, Massachusetts on 5 Feb 1631 and went from there to Boston where the family stayed for about 2 years when they moved to Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts. "Ancestors of Charles Brush Perkins and Maurice Perkins" by Charles Brush Perkins, (c) 1977 Charles Brush Perkins. Printed by Gateway Press Inc, Baltimore, Maryland 1906.
Mary (Perkins) Bradbury Documented on Sept. 9th 1692 in the witchcraft trials. was tried for Witchcraft in 1692 in Salisbury, Essex County Massachusetts and was ably & courageously defended by Maj. Robert Pike. She was convicted but not executed. The papers pertaining to the case are of deep interest, and show the high estimation in which she was held." Mary was the wife of Capt. Thomas Bradbury, a prominent citizen of Salisbury.":
Cutter in his "Historic Homes" gives the following:
"Mrs. Bradbury in her old age was tried for witchcraft and convicted July 28, 1692. The evidence in her defense is a fine testimonial to a worthy life. Her husband's testimony was: "We have been married fifty-five years, and she has been a loving and faithful wife unto me unto this day. She hath been wonderful laborious, diligent and industrious in her place and employment about the bringing up of our family which have been eleven children and four grandchildren. She was both prudent and provident, of a cheerful spirit, liberal and charitable. She being now very aged and weak, and grieved under afflictions, may not be able to speak much for herself, not being so free of speech as some others might be. I hope her life and conversation among her neighbors has been such as gives a better or more real testimony than can be expressed by words." One hundred and eighteen of her friends signed a statement commending her good character: "she was a lover of the ministry in all appearance, and a diligent attender upon God's holy ordinances, being of a courteous and peaceable disposition and carriage, neither did any of us (some of whom have lived in the town with her above fifty years) ever hear or know that she had any difference or falling out with any of her neighbors, man woman or child, but was always ready to do for them what lay in her power, night and day, though with hazard of her health and other danger."Cutter, ''Historic Homes and Places . . .''
Rev. James Allen, her pastor, said: "I having lived nine years at Salisbury, in the work of the ministry and now four years in the office of pastor, to my best notice and observation of Mrs. Bradbury, she hath lived according to the rules of the Gospel amongst us; was a constant attender upon the ministry of the word, and all the ordinances of the gospel full of works of charity and mercy to the sick and poor; neither have I seen or heard anything of her unbecoming the profession of the gospel." The evidence against her was as scant as it was nonsensical. Mrs. Bradbury was defended by Major Robert Pike. She was convicted with four others who were hanged in September, 1692. Mrs. Bradbury's execution was postponed, why we know not, but the delusion passed and her life was spared."
=== Birth ===
: Date: BEF 15 SEP 1615
: Place: Hillmorton, County Warwick, England
=== Christening ===
: Date: September 15, 1616: Place: Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England [http://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Hillmorton_Parish_Registers-1 Entry in Hillmorton Parish Register]
=== Event ===
: Type: Arrival
: Date: 1631: Place: Boston, Massachusetts[http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=pili354&h=726187&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt US and Canada Passenger and Immigration Lists, 1500's - 1900's]
=== Marriage ===
: Date: MAY 1636: Place: Salisbury, Essex, MAYates, ''US & International Marriage Records''
: Husband: [[Bradbury-44|Thomas Bradbury]]
: Wife: [[Perkins-125|Mary Perkins]]
: Children:
:: [[Bradbury-50|Wymond Bradbury]]
::[[Bradbury-36|Judith Bradbury]]
::[[Bradbury-43|Thomas Bradbury]]
::[[Bradbury-37|Mary Bradbury]]
::[[Bradbury-34|Jane Bradbury]]
::[[Bradbury-33|Jacob Bradbury]]
::[[Bradbury-45|William Bradbury]]
=== Death ===
: Date: 20 DEC 1700
: Place: Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts:Burial: [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=38426363 Bartlett Cemetery][http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=38426363 Find A Grave Memorial# 38426363]:Place: Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts''Massachusetts Town and Vital Records''
== Sources ==*Ancestry.com. ''New England, Salem Witches and Others Tried for Witchcraft, 1647-1697'' [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.
*Ancestry.com. ''Web: Massachusetts, Find A Grave Index, 1607-2012'' [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=38426363 Memorial# 38426363]
*Cutter, William Richard. ''Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex COunty Massachusetts.'' New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1968. p. 613
*Davis, Walter Goodwin. ''Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis.'' Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. 1996.
*Filby, P. William, ed. ''Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s.'' Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA: Gale Research, 2012.
*Little, Thomas George. ''Genealogical and Family History of the State of Main.'' Lewis HIstorical Publishing Company, 1909.
*Lowell, Delmar Rial. ''The Historic Genealogy of the Lowells of America from 1639 to 1899.'' Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle COmpany, Printers, 1899.
*Perkins, Thomas Allen, comp. ''Jacob Perkins of Wells, Maine and His Descendants 1583 - 1936.'' Haverhill, Massachusetts; Record Publishing Company, 1947.
*The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. ''The Whitgift-Bradbury Family, Mary Perkins, Daughter of John and Judith Perkins of Ipswich.'' Boston, Massachusetts: The New England Historic Genealogical Society. Vol. 23, 1869.
*Threlfall, John Brooks. ''The Ancestry of Thomas Bradbury and his wife Mary (Perkins) Bradbury of Salisbury, Massachusetts.'' Published by the author, 1988.
*Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. ''Massachusetts Vital and Town Records.'' Provo, Utah: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
*Warwickshire County Record Office. ''Hillmorton, Warwickshire Parish Register.'' Warwick, England; Warwickshire Anglican Registers.
*Yates Publishing. ''U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900'' [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2004.
* Kirk, Marshall K. "A Probable Royal Descent for Thomas Bradbury of Salisbury, Massachusetts." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Jan. 2007:27-36
*Banks: [[Banks-751|Banks, Charles Edward]]. ''[[Space:History of York, Maine|History of York, Maine]]'', Reprint of the 1931-35 by Baltimore, Regional Pub. Co., 1967. [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015014575123;view=1up;seq=9 Volume 1 On Hathitrust.com], [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015014575131;view=1up;seq=9 Volume 2 On Hathitrust.com]
=== Acknowledgments ===:This person was created through the import of Earls Family Tree Backup-1_2011-03-08.ged on 09 March 2011.
:WikiTree profile Perkins-1618 created through the import of Ancestors of PBHowe.ged on Jun 6, 2011 by [[Howe-1046 | Buck Howe]].
:WikiTree profile Perkins-1452 created through the import of Lent_Vise_2011-05-11aa.ged on May 26, 2011 by [[Sypniewski-1 | Bryan Sypniewski]].
:WikiTree profile Perkins-1870 created through the import of Ancestors 2011.GED on Aug 20, 2011 by [[Romanski-1 | William Romanski]].
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[[Category:Perkins_Name_Study]]
[[Category:Hillmorton, Warwickshire]]
[[Category:Saint John The Baptist Church, Hillmorton, Warwickshire]]
[[Category:Bristol]]
[[Category:Lyon, sailed 1 Dec 1630]]
[[Category:Boston, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Ipswich, Massachusetts]]
[[Category: Salem_Witch_Trials]]
[[Category:Accused_Witches_of_New_England]]
[[Category:Salisbury, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Amesbury, Massachusetts]]
==Biography==
=== Origins and Baptism ===Mary Perkins, daughter of [[Perkins-122|John Perkins]] Sr. and [[Gater-32|Judith Gater]],''Early New England Families, 1641-1700''. (Original Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2013. By Alicia Crane Williams, Lead Genealogist.) Access online at [https://www.americanancestors.org/DB501/i/14126/1/0 AmericanAncestors.org] with NEHGS membership. Profile of John Perkins, page 1. was baptized on 3 Sept 1615 in Hillmorton, Warwickshire, EnglandDavis, Walter Goodwin, ''The Ancestry of Dudley Wildes, 1759-1820, of Topsfield, Massachusetts.'' Accessed online at [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89061707337;view=1up;seq=107 Hathitrust]. Page 87-89. at Saint John the Baptist Church.[http://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Hillmorton_Parish_Registers-1 Hillmorton Parish Register] - Baptisms, 1611-1616, 15th line, 1615.
=== Immigration to America ===Mary Perkins of Hillmorton, Warwickshire is listed as a passenger aboard the "Lyon", along with: Mr. John Perkins and Mrs. Judith Perkins, John Perkins Jr., Elizabeth Perkins, Thomas Perkins and Jacob Perkins. The "Lyon", William Pierce, Master, departed from Bristol, England December 1, 1630 with 'about twenty passengers and two hundred tons of goods.' This was the same ship that brought the Rev. Roger and Mrs. Mary Williams to America, along with the John Throckmorton and Edmond Once families and William Parke.Banks, Charles Edward, "[http://www.amazon.com/Commonwealth-Emigration-Passengers-Settlement-Massachusetts/dp/0806300183 The Planters of the Commonwealth]: A Study of the Emigrants and Emigration in Colonial Times, 1620-1640." Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Copyright 1930, 2006. Page 92-93: Passengers on the Lyon. The passage was stormy and lasted 67 days. They arrived at Nantasket on February 5, 1631 and on the 6th anchored in Boston.Ferris, Mary Walton, ‘’Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines: A Memorial Volume Containing the American Ancestry of Rufus R. Dawes’’. Accessed online at [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89066183567;view=1up;seq=10 HathiTrust]. Vol. 1, page 484, 486. Perkins, George Augustus, ‘’The Family of John Perkins of Ipswich, Massachusetts’’. (Salem, MA: G.A. Perkins, 1889), accessed at [https://archive.org/stream/familyofjohnperk00perkuoft?ref=ol#page/1/mode/1up Archive.org]. Pages 1-7. The family settled first at Boston and removed to Ipswich in 1633.Anderson, Robert Charles, [https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/great-migration-begins-immigrants-to-ne-1620-1633-vols-i-iii/image?pageName=1432&volumeId=12107 ''The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633'']. Boston: NEHGS, 1996-2011. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010). Vol. 3, page 1432.
=== Marriage and Children===Mary Perkins married [[Bradbury-44|Thomas Bradbury]]NEHGR, "Some Notices of the Family Perkins in America." ''The New England Historical and Genealogical Register''. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: [https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/vital-records-from-the-nehgs-register/image?pageName=213&volumeId=21074 AmericanAncestors.org], NEHGS, 2001-2018). Vol. 10 (Jul 1856) p.213. by 1637 (their eldest child was born in Salisbury in Apr 1637), probably in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Mary and Thomas had eleven children, as follows:
*[[Bradbury-50|Wymond]], b.1 Apr 1637, m. Sarah Pike;
*[[Bradbury-13|Judith]], b. 2 Oct 1638, m. Caleb Moody;
*[[Bradbury-43|Thomas]], b. 28 Jan 1640/1, d. unmarried;
*[[Bradbury-137|Mary]], b.17 Mar 1642/3, m. John Stanyan;
*[[Bradbury-34|Jane]], b.11 May 1645, m. Henry True;
*[[Bradbury-33|Jacob]], b.17 Jun 1647, d.12 Mar 1669 in Barbados;*[[Bradbury-45|William]], b.15 Sep 1649, m. Rebecca (Wheelwright) Maverick;
*[[Bradbury-144|Elizabeth]], b. 7 Nov 1651, m. John Buss;
*[[Bradbury-151|John]], b. 20 Apr 1654, d.24 Nov 1678, unm.;
*[[Bradbury-120|Ann]], b.16 Apr 1656, d.1659;
*[[Bradbury-128|Jabez]], b.27 Jun 1658, d.28 Apr 1677.
=== Accused of Witchcraft ===
}Mary (Perkins) Bradbury was tried for witchcraft in July 1692. She was defended by Major Robert Pike. Accounts of her case tell of the high esteem in which she was held:
Her husband's testimony was as follows:
"We have been married fifty-five years, and she has been a loving and faithful wife unto me unto this day. She hath been wonderful laborious, diligent and industrious in her place and employment about the bringing up of our family which have been eleven children and four grandchildren. She was both prudent and provident, of a cheerful spirit, liberal and charitable. She being now very aged and weak, and grieved under afflictions, may not be able to speak much for herself, not being so free of speech as some others might be. I hope her life and conversation among her neighbors has been such as gives a better or more real testimony than can be expressed by words."
One hundred and eighteen of her friends signed a statement commending her good character:
She was a lover of the ministry in all appearance, and a diligent attender upon God's holy ordinances, being of a courteous and peaceable disposition and carriage, neither did any of us (some of whom have lived in the town with her above fifty years) ever hear or know that she had any difference or falling out with any of her neighbors, man woman or child, but was always ready to do for them what lay in her power, night and day, though with hazard of her health and other danger.Cutter, William Richard. ''Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County Massachusetts.'' New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1908. Access online at [https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=UfIffx05f0QC&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA613 GoogleBooks]. Vol. 2, p.613.
Rev. James Allen, her pastor, said:
I, having lived nine years at Salisbury in the work of the ministry, and now four years in the office of pastor, to my best notice and observation of Mrs. Bradbury, she hath lived according to the rules of the gospel amongst us; was a constant attender upon the ministry of the word, and all the ordinances of the gospel; full of works of charity and mercy to the sick and poor; neither have I seen or heard anything of her unbecoming the profession of the gospel.Lapham, William Berry, "Bradbury Memorial. Records of Some of the Descendants of Thomas Bradbury, of Agamenticus (York) in 1634, and of Salisbury, Mass. in 1638." Portland ME: Brown, Thurston, 1890. Access online at [https://archive.org/stream/bradburymemorial00laph#page/62 Archive.org]. Pages 63-66.
"The evidence against her was as scant as it was nonsensical. She was convicted with four others who were hanged in September, 1692. Mrs. Bradbury's execution was postponed, why we know not, but the delusion passed and her life was spared."
=== Death ===Mary Bradbury died on 20 Dec 1700 in Salisbury, Essex County, MassachusettsAnderson, Robert Charles, ''The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635''. Boston: NEHGS, 1996-2011. (Online database: [https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2496/42521_b158312-00475/11319 Ancestry.com], Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.). Vol. 1, page 379.''[http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Ipswich/Images/Ipswich_B402.shtml Early Vital Records of Salisbury, Massachusetts], from 1600 to 1850''. Online database of MA Vital Records Project. ''Deaths'' p.350 "Bradbury, Marey, wid. Capt. Tho[mas], Dec. 20, 1700. N. CT. BK." and was buried at Salisbury Colonial Buying Ground.[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38426363 Find A Grave], database and images: accessed 14 Aug 2018, Mary Perkins Bradbury (3 Sep 1615–20 Dec 1700), Memorial #38426363, citing Salisbury Colonial Burying Ground, Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA. Photo of headstone has wrong dates.
Mary died testate, her will was dated 17 Feb 1695/6 (see attached), with probate opened on 16 Jan 1701, Probate case #2999."Essex, Massachusetts Probate Records, 1648-1840." Ancestry.com, Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 1997, Provo, UT, USA: probate 16 Jan 1701.
'''Massachusetts Remediation'''
# 17 October 1710, '''Convictions Reversed''', The General Court of Massachusetts Bay, An act, ''the several convictions, judgments, and attainders be, and hereby are, reversed, and declared to be null and void.'' “Salem Witchcraft : with an Account of Salem Village, and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects : Upham, Charles Wentworth, 1802-1875, Author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming.” Internet Archive, January 1, 1970. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17845/17845-h/salem2-htm.html#Page_ii.480.# 17 Dec 1711, '''Compensation to Survivors''', Governor Dudley, GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY, approved compensation ''to such persons as are living, and to those that legally represent them that are dead'' ['''For Mary Bradbury, £20''']# 28 Aug 1957, '''No Disgrace to Descendants''', General Court of Massachusetts, ''...such proceedings, were and are shocking, and the result of a wave of popular hysterical fear of the Devil in the community, and further declares that, as all the laws under which said proceedings...have been long since abandoned and superseded by our more civilized laws, no disgrace or cause for distress attaches to the said descendants or any of them by reason of said proceedings.''https://www.mass.gov/doc/resolves-of-1957-chapter-145/download# 31 Oct 2001, '''Additional Victims Included''', Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives in General Court, AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE WITCHCRAFT TRIAL OF 1692, ''chapter 145 is hereby further amended by adding Bridget Bishop, Susannah Martin, Alice Parker, Margaret Scott and Wilmot Redd.''https://malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2001/Chapter122
== Sources ==
See Also:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Bradbury
* https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38426363/mary-bradbury* [http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/n16.html The Salem Witchcraft Papers (SWP No. 016) Mary Bradbury]*Ancestry.com. ''New England, Salem Witches and Others Tried for Witchcraft, 1647-1697.'' [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Accused 1692.*Ancestry.com. "[http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=pili354&h=726187&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt US and Canada Passenger and Immigration Lists, 1500's - 1900's]." Arrival 1631 at Boston MA.*Banks, Charles Edward. ''History of York, Maine''. Reprint of 1931-35 by Baltimore, Regional Pub. Co., 1967. Accessed on HathiTrust [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015014575123;view=1up;seq=9 Volume 1], [https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015014575131;view=1up;seq=9 Volume 2].*Davis, Walter Goodwin. ''Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis.'' Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1996.*Filby, P. William, ed. ''Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s.'' Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA: Gale Research, 2012.*Kirk, Marshall K., "A Probable Royal Descent for Thomas Bradbury of Salisbury, Massachusetts." ''The New England Historical and Genealogical Register''. Vol. 27 (Jan 2007) p.36.*Little, Thomas George. ''Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine.'' Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1909.*Lowell, Delmar Rial. ''The Historic Genealogy of the Lowells of America from 1639 to 1899.'' Rutland, Vermont: The Tuttle Company, 1899.*The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. ''The Whitgift-Bradbury Family, Mary Perkins, Daughter of John and Judith Perkins of Ipswich.'' Boston, Massachusetts: The New England Historic Genealogical Society. Vol. 23, 1869.*Perkins, Thomas Allen, comp. ''Jacob Perkins of Wells, Maine and His Descendants 1583 - 1936.'' Haverhill, Massachusetts; Record Publishing Company, 1947.* “The Witchcraft Trial of Mary Perkins Bradbury.” GenealogyMagazine.com. Accessed April 11, 2020. https://www.genealogymagazine.com/witchcraft-trial/.*Threlfall, John Brooks. ''The Ancestry of Thomas Bradbury and his wife Mary (Perkins) Bradbury of Salisbury, Massachusetts.'' Published by the author, 1988.*Warwickshire County Record Office. ''Hillmorton, Warwickshire Parish Register.'' Warwick, England; Warwickshire Anglican Registers.*Yates Publishing. ''U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900.'' [database on-line]. Provo, Utah, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2004: May 1636 at Salisbury MA.
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Events
| Birth | Bef 3 Sep 1615 | Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England | |||
| Birth | 3 Sep 1616 | Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England, UK | |||
| Death | 20 Dec 1700 | Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, British America | |||
| Death | 20 Dec 1700 | Salisbury, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay | |||
| Reference No | 388401 | ||||
| Reference No | 404389 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Father | Sgt John Perkins Sr (1583 - 1654) |
| Mother | Judith Gater (1588 - 1654) |
| Sibling | Deacon Thomas Perkins (1622 - 1686) |
| Sibling | Sgt. John Perkins Jr (1609 - 1686) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Perkins (1611 - 1670) |
| Sibling | Anne Perkins (1617 - 1630) |
| Sibling | Sergeant Jacob Perkins (1624 - 1700) |
| Sibling | Lydia Perkins (1632 - 1672) |