Mary Green

Mary (Green) Green (1658 - ?) - Mary's maiden name was also Green, so perhaps she married a cousin.

Living in Haverhill with husband Peter Green, Mary was accused of witchcraft on 28 July 1692 for having afflicted Timothy Swan of Andover and Mary Walcott and Ann Putnam, Jr. of Salem Village. She doesn't appear to have ever been tried. She remained in prison until 16 December 1692 when she was released on a bond of £200.

Mary Greene was accused of witchcraft in the Salem Witch Trials
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Ancestral File Number: L60M-7T
Accused Witch

Zemke-3 20:06, 17 March 2014 (EDT)

Mary Green was accused of witchcraft in 1692 (note that below-referenced James Sanders is likely the same James Sanders whose son Avery will marry Mary Green’s daughter Abigail around 1700-1710 time frame.)

Peter Green petitioned for Restitution in 1710 & received payment in 1712.

Assume both Peter & Mary Green are still alive as of Sept 13, 1710 when Peter Green has petitioned for Restitution for Mary Green Documents available at this website, but I cannot enlarge image enough to decipher

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Greene-237

Mary Greene (abt. 1658 - aft. 1692)

Mary Greene aka Green

Born about 1658 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire

Daughter of Henry Green and Mary (Perkins) Green

Sister of Abraham Green, Abigail Green, Isaac (Greene) Green, Jacob Greene, Hannah (Green) Acye and Elizabeth (Green) Cass

Wife of Peter Green — married 4 Nov 1678 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts

Mother of Abigail (Green) Saunders and Peter Green

Died after 1692 at about age 34 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts

Greene-237 created 14 Sep 2010 | Last modified 3 Mar 2021

Biography

http://www.17thc.us/primarysources/accused.php?id=80&pg=3

Records of the Salem Witch-Hunt (2009) No. 908: Petition of Peter Green for Restitution for Mary Green • Sept. 13, 1710: Petition for Payment

Here is transcript:

post-1692, 994 (Account of Peter Green -- Case of Mary Green ) 17100915 September 15 -- 1710 an a Kount of Peter Green of havarell his caust and charge a rising by reason of his wife's being apprehended for wich craft in the eayer 92 which is as foloeth for a sisting tha constabell with my wife to salam and from thenc to ipswech 0-12-0 for a journey of myself and 1 man with me to give bond for my wife 01-4-0 and for riting the bond 00-2-0 and for preson charges 19 weacks 02-7-6 and upon her triall 01-2-6 and for my journe 4 days upon her triall 00-16-0 and I would pray youer honners to consider me as to her impresenment but that I desire to leave with youer honners to determen ( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 170 )

No. 959: Receipts for Sums Paid in Restitution • Feb. 19, 1712: Other

testimony from Martha Emerson against Mary Green available at: [1]

(Examination of Martha Emerson ) Martha Emerson was examined before Maj'r Gedney & other their 
Majest'es Justices in Salem July 23, 1692 . Martha Emerson you are here accused for afflicting of Mary Warin 
& Mary Lasey: by witchcraft: what say you: Answer: I never saw 
them. Richard Carrier: s'd he see her hurt them both yester day, 
but he had never seen her at the witch meeting: but Mary lasey 
sen'r s'd that she had seen both Martha Emerson & her mother at 
the witch meeting. Mary Warin & Mary Lacy fell down when s'd 
Martha Emerson looked on them: & Mary Lasy was presently well 
when s'd Emerson took her by the wrist: two more also fell down 
with her looking on them: but: she denyed that she knew anything 
of witchcraft. Mary Warin s'd: that s'd Emersons spectre told her: that: she had rid 
a man with an inchanted bridle: & Matthew Herriman: was called: 
to say whether he had bin ridden: so or no: who answered. that last 
Monday night: he was in a strange condision: and heard it rain 
& blow: as I thought: but in the morning there had bin no rain: but 
in the morning my tongue was sore & I could not speak till son two 
hours high: & Martha Emerson came to our house that morning: as 
soon as it was light for fire: Mary: Warin being in a long Dumb fitt; 
signified by holding up her hand that this Harriman was the man 
that she s'd Emerson s'd she had ridden: but Emerson s'd she knew 
nothing of it Emerson was told: that her father: had s'd: he had 
tought his Daughter Martha so that she had killed a witch: and: 
that was to take the afflicted persons water & put in in a glass or 
bottle: & sett it into an oven: Emerson owned she had [kept] a 
womans urin: in a glass. Emerson was asked: who hindred her 
from confessing she answered that her Aunt Carrier & good wife Green of Haverill: were before her: good wife Green: was angry 
with her: because she would not be lie her selfe for Green had 
Inticed her a fortnight: to afflict & she would not: she s'd Greens wife would have her be of: that number: she was asked what Num- 
ber : she s'd the number of Devils: she complaynd: that: Greens wife 
& her Aunt Carrier: took her by the throat: & that they would not 
lett her Confess. she s'd Greens wife had a pigg that use to follo 
her: but after ward she Denyed all. & s'd: what she had s'd was in 
hopes to have favour: & now she could not Deny god: that had keept 
her from that sin: & after s'd though he slay me I will trust in him. (Reverse) Mary Warran Owned before the Grand jury Jan'y 10th 
1692 that Martha Emerson had afflicted her severall times before 
& at this time when she was presant with us Attests

Robert Payne foreman: ( Suffolk Court Records Case No. 2708 Page 31 )

from The Salem witch trials: a day-by-day chronicle of a community under siege By Marilynne K. Roach

July 30, 1692 Saturday Salem Town

Constable William Starling and three deputies transported Mary Green and Hannah Bromage from Haverhill to Salem for questioning, accompanied the whole way by Goody Green’s husband.

The four Salem magistrates questioned these two women and Mary Toothaker while William Murray took notes. The examination of Goody Green, wife of Haverhill weaver Peter Green and owner of a real or spectral pig, is lost. Apparently kin to Mary Bradbury, Mary Green had grown up in Hampton, New Hampshire, except for a year or more of her girlhood thirty years earlier, which she had spent in Charlestown and Lynn while various physicians and folk healers tried to mend her “very dangerous sore leg.” One healer diagnosed the malady as the King’s Evil (scrofula), and Mary lost a five-inch sliver of bone from that “bad and desperate wound,” but did not, at least, die of infection.

Salem Witchcraft Papers

From The Salem witchcraft papers, original volumes edited by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum (1977) / revised, corrected, and augmented by Benjamin C. Ray and Tara S. Wood (2010)[2]

Mary Green (Recognizance for Mary Green ) Memorandum That on this Sixteenth Day of December Anno D[mbar ] one thousands Six hundred Ninety & two In the fourth Year of the Reigne of our Sovereigne Lord & Lady William & Mary by the Grace of God of England Scottland &c: King & Queen Defend'rs of the faith &c: Personally came and Appeared before me George Corwin High Sherriffe of the County of Essex of the Province of Massetuthetts Bay in New England Peter Green of Haverell in the County afores'd. Weavor and James Sanders of the said Towne Husbandman And Acknowledged themselves & Each of them to be indebted unto our s'd. Sovereigne Lord the King and Lady the Queen or the Surviver of them their Heires and Successo'rs: in the Summe of two hundred pounds to be Leaved on their goods and Chattles Lands & Tenements for the Use of our Sovereigne Lord and Lady the King & Queen or the Survivor of them if Default be made in the Performance of the Condition Underwritten Videllisett The Condition of the Above written Recognizance is Such That whereas Mary Green Wife of the above bounden Peter Greene of Haverell is Suspected and accused of Committing acts of Witchcrafts If therefore the said Mary Green aforesaid Shall & do make her Personall Appearance before the Justices of our Said Sovereigne Lord & Lady the King & Queen at the Next Court of Assize Oyer & Terminer Next Generall Goal Delivery to be held for or within the County of Essex afores'd: to answer w't: shall be objected ag't: her on their Maj'tes: behalfe Refering to the Witchcrafts & to do and Receive That by which said Court Shall be then & there Injoyned and not Depart without Licence then the above Recognizance to be void or Else to abide and Remane in full force and Virtue In Wittness whereof the abovenamed Persons Peter Green & James Sanders have hereunto sett their hand & seales this sixteenth Day of December in the Year of our Lord one Thousand six hundred Ninty & two and in the fourth year of their Maj'tes: Reigne:/ Witnesse

Thomas beadle
Daniel Lunt
Jno: Gyles
1692

Peter Green
James Sanders his Marke

( Mass. Archives Vol. 135 No. 72 )

Warrant for the Apprehension of Mary Green and Hannah Bromage [document damaged] of Essex or his dept or [document damaged]
tables in Haverhill
[Y]ou are in theire Majests names hereby
Required to apprehend and forthwith
or as soon as may be bring before us.
Mary. Green ye wife of peter Green of
Haverhill Weaver and Hanah Bromage
the wife of Edward Bromage of haverhil
husbandman who both stand Charged
on behalfe of theire Majests with haveing
Committed Sundry acts of Witchcraft on
the Bodys Timothy Swan of Mary Walcot Ann Putnam
& whereby great hurt hath benne
donne them, In order to theire, Ex=
=amination Relateing to the abovesd
premises faile not Dated Salem
July the 28th 1692 Bartho Gedney
John Hathorne
Jonathan Corwin
John Higginson
by vertue of this warrant I have S[eased ]
Hanah Bromage & mary green
Cons[table] Facsimile copy found in New France and New England by John Fiske, 1904.

“...eighteen pounds of iron for fetters, for making four pair of iron fetters and two pair of handcuffs, and putting them on the legs and hands of Goodwife Cloyse, Easty, Bromidg, and Green...(bill of expense)[3]

petition, 880-881 (Petition of Ten Prisoners at Ipswich) To: To the Honourable Governer and Councell and Generall Assembly now sitting at Boston The humble petition of us whose names are subscribed hereunto now prisoners at Ipswich humbly sheweth, that some of us have Lyen in the prison many monthes, and some of us many weekes, who are charged with witchcraft, and not being consciouse to our selves of any guilt of that nature lying upon our consciences; our earnest request is that seing the winter is soe far come on that it can not be exspected that we should be tryed during this winter season, that we may be released out of prison for the present upon Bayle to answer what we are charged with in the Spring. For we are not in this unwilling nor afrayed to abide the tryall before any Judicature apoynted in convenient season of any crime of that nature; we hope you will put on the bowells of compassion soe far as to concider of our suffering condicion in the present state we are in, being like to perish with cold in lying longer in prison in this cold season of the yeare, some of us being aged either about or nere four score some though younger yet being with Child, and one giving suck to a child not ten weekes old yet, and all of us weake and infirme at the best, and one fettered with irons this halfe yeare and all most distroyed with soe long an Imprisonment: Thus hoping you will grant us a releas at the present that we be not left to perish in this miserable condicion we shall alwayes pray & Widow Penny. Widow Vincent. Widow Princ[e] Goodwife Greene of Havarell, the wife of Hugh Roe of Cape Anne, Mehitabel Dowing. the wife of T[h] imothy Day , Goodwife Dicer of Piscataqua Hanah Brumidge of Havarell Rachel Hafield besides thre or foure men ( New York Public Library -- Manuscripts and Archives Division )

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.[4]
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
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.[5]
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.[6]

Sources

↑ The Salem Witchcraft Papers (Scholars' Lab, University of Virginia Library, 2018) SWP No. 047.
↑ The Salem Witchcraft Papers (Scholars' Lab, University of Virginia Library, 2018) SWP No. 064.
↑ "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 01, 1970. Accessed June 13, 2020. https://archive.org/details/salemwitchcraftw02upha_0/page/198/mode/....
↑ “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_i....
↑ https://www.mass.gov/doc/resolves-of-1957-chapter-145/download
↑ https://malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2001/Chapter122