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Mary Bassett

Female 1657 -


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  1. 1.  Mary Bassett was born 1657, Lynn, Massachusetts.

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    Imprisoned for Witchcraft on 23 May 1692 in Salem Massachusetts. The Governor
    of the Colony had appointed a Commission of Judges to hold a court trail.
    Fourteen women and five men were hanged on Gallow's Hill near Salem. In 1693,
    twent-one peresons were tried, and eighteen were acquitted and three condemned.
    The Governor ordered one hundred fifty persons liberated and the Witchcraft
    trials ended.

    Mary Bassett was mentioned in the will of her fater as Mary Ruck or Rich.
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    Reference:
    "Lilly Families in America", Charles Lilly, 1976, p 5.
    "Salem Possessed", Paul Boyer & Stephen Nissenbaum, 1974, p 182, 184.
    "The Devil Discovered", Enders A. Robinson, 1991, p 280, 290.

    Mary — Michael DeRich. [Group Sheet]