Ancestry of
Sarah (Towne) Cloyce

Accused of Witchcraft, Salem 1692

Sarah Towne

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• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • William Towne 
  • Mother:
  • Joanna Blessing   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1640 
  • Birth Location:
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  • Christening Date:
  • 3 Sep 1648 
  • Christening Location:
  • Salem, Essex, Massachusetts 
  • Death Date:
  • BY 1703 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Middlesex County, Massachusetts 
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  • Notes: 

  • Sarah Towne was accused of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials in 1692 but escaped execution.

• Marriages for Sarah Towne

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  • Spouse:
  • Edmund Bridges Jr.
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Jan 1659/1660
  • Marriage Location:
  • Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts

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  • Spouse:
  • Peter Cloyse
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1681

• Sources for Sarah Towne

  • ¹ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, OCT 1930, Vol. 84, Page 404.
  • ² Anderson, Robert Charles and others, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635, Vol. I, A-B, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (1999), 391.
  • ³ Barton, William E., The Life of Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross, Vol. 1, Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company (1922), 12.
  • ⁴ Davis, Walter Goodwin, The Ancestry of Dudley Wildes, Portland, ME: Anthoensen Press (1959), 114, [Christening].
  • ⁵ Davis, Walter Goodwin, The Ancestry of Dudley Wildes, Portland, ME: Anthoensen Press (1959), 114, [Death].
  • ⁶ Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Colonel John Harrington Stevens and his Wife Frances Helen Miller, Vol. 1, Concord, New Hampshire: Privately Printed at The Rumford Press (1948), 166-167.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 213.