Thomas Hall, stepfather

Puritan Family Government in Colonial Connecticut, 1672-1725
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Thomas Rood was clearly not the only Puritan man in Connecticut to commit incest. Indeed, thirty years later his son George married a woman named Hannah Bush who was pregnant with her step-father Thomas Hall’s child. Despite Hall’s denials and his accusation that Hannah’s mother Susannah confessed under the influence of witchcraft, the Court of Assistants found Hall guilty of incest and Susannah guilty of being an accessory to the crime. In contrast to Thomas Rood, neither was hanged. Instead, the court sentenced them to stand for an hour on the gallows with nooses round their necks and to wear a letter “I” sewn on their clothing for the rest of their lives. In another case involving a father and daughter in 1725, the father also received a sentence that included a whipping and the wearing of the “I” as punishment, but his daughter Sarah Perkins successfully pled for a commutation of her sentence.