Ben M. Angel notes: Parents are John Andrews (d. 1681 Farmington) and Mary Wadsworth (b. 1626 England), not John Andrews (1609-1668) and Grace Melburn (1617-1700).

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A Mary Barnes [first wife of Thomas Barnes, not the person whose page you are reading] was convicted and executed of Witchcraft in January-1662/1663 in Connecticut . . . The records at a Particular Court of Connecticut held 6 Jan 1662/63 indicted "Mary Barns of Farmingtown, CT" for witchcraft. A jury found her guilty and she was executed. She was one of the last people to be executed as a witch in Connecticut. Thomas Barnes had to pay the costs of keeping his wife in jail prior to her witchcraft trial..."and at the quarter court held in Hartford March 5th 1662/3 following allowance was made to Daniel Garret, the jail keeper, for keeping goodwife Barns three weeks, twenty-one shillings, besides her fees, which goodman Barns is to see discharged."

Sources for the above are:

1. The Ancestry of Fanny Barnes and her Husband Thomas Knight, Prestige Printers, 1989, p 26.
2. Farmington in Connecticut, 1652-1697, pg 63.
3. Witchcraft Trials of CT by R.G. Tomlinson, p 39.

Mary Andrus / Andrews, dau. of John & Mary Andrews of Farmington, married Thomas Barnes after his first wife was hanged as a witch. After Thomas' death, Mary Elizabeth Barnes (Andrews) remarried in 1682, to [Jacob] Bronson [see Genealogical History of John and Mary Andrews of Farmington, CT / 1640s]

Thomas Barnes' prenuptial agreement with his 2nd wife, Mary Andrus/Andrews, had provided for a comfortable maintenance for her and any children they might have, at his death.

1. Will of Jacob Bronson, dated 1708, Farmington, CT.
2. 'Bronson Families, Col. H.B. Enderton, 1969.
3. Family Group Sheet, M. Mahon.
4. Genealogy Record, E. McInnes, 1996.
5. Barnes and Related Families, Past and Present, R.C. Barnes, 1966
6. IGI, MF 0450472.
7. LDS, AFN, (H1G9-FH).