Dimanche George

George: This was a local, French-speaking family of Natzwiller, before the arrival there of German-speaking miners and Swiss farmers. In 1621, Jehannon the wife of Dimanche George of Neuvillers confessed to witchcraft, probably under torture, saying that about 1612 she and other sorcerers used black powder to cause a plague in the village of Belmont. A branch of the family in Riangoutte (or Ringelspach), near Neuvillers, adopted the name of their residence. In 1623, Blaise Georges (BlaiE Georg) of Riangoutte is called in the same document BlarE Ringelspach vohn Neuweyller, and another document in the same year calls Dimanche Georges (Sontag son of Hans Georg) Sontag Ringelspach.

• http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cayf/Gockley.pdf , Page 73 - 74

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Document http://badonpierre.free.fr/salmpierre/tome2g.html

(from 5/15 December 1623)

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Sunday Ringelsbach, third witness

After being sufficiently informed about the scope of his oath and the punishment he would incur if he perjured himself, he made the following statement:

At the first question, the witness said his name was Sunday Jean Georges, being more than 60 years old, being a farmer and innkeeper by profession, and being alderman of justice and having a fortune of 600 guldens

In the 2nd question, the witness answers that he resides in Riangoutte

A 3 rd question, he answers yes to

the fourth question, the witness replies that he can not know it, but it may have belonged to his beloved master

On the 5th question, the witness states that, what he knows he will say

In the 6th question, the witness states that, two years after he got married, this took place about 40 years ago, he was appointed as alderman of justice; that the seigneurial steward of Saint Blaise la Roche presided over the proceedings, that the lawyer of Saint Blaise la Roche, who was named Nicolas Blaisatte, was also present, and that Jean, the provost of Blancherupt, was one of the judges.

He also knows that when the house of Rothau was built, those of Saint Blaise la Roche brought a lot of wood, which wood came from the forest of Sapenois or that of Raumenholz.

In the seventh question, the witness states that, what he said he personally saw...