Article 41450 of soc.roots: Newsgroups: soc.roots Path: news.kth.se!aun.uninett.no!trane.uninett.no!sunic!EU.net!uunet!world!dchaffee From: dchaffee@world.std.com (Don M Chaffee) Subject: Re: Witches in Salem Message-ID: Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA References: <940306075430.413e@ZIAVMS.ENMU.EDU> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 1994 04:10:05 GMT Lines: 40 Eric PAGE writes: >Yesterday while doing some research, I came across an article in the >"A Genealogical Dictionary of First Settlers of New England, showing >Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of >Farmer's Register" Vol III by James Savage, (C) 1965, which provided me >with information that one of my ancestors was an accused witch. Later, I >found a copy of a letter from Thomas Brattle (1692) written to an >unknown English clergyman, in which he talks about what is happening in >Salem at that time. In this letter he mentiones my ancestor by name. >After doing a little more research (and finding nothing), I figured to >check the Britannica for information about witches in Salem. Found some >good stuff, but not what I was looking for. However, I did find a >referance to a book called "Narraties of the Witchcraft Cases 1648-1706" >by Norman Cohn. This book is supposed to contain the Narratives of all >of the witchcraft trials (150 of them). Would like to see if someone >might be able to point me in the right direction in trying to locate >a copy of this book so that I can get a copy of the Narrative on my >ancestor, or if someone would make a copy of the Narrative on my >ancestor along with the title page of the book and send it to me via >USnail. I will gladly pay copying and postage fees. >The name of my ancestor is Mary Osgood, aka. Capt Osgood's wife. Eric: Your Mary Osgood was Mary Clement Osgood. She was imprisoned for about 4 months and was subsequently acquitted of witchcraft charges. One of the best accounts of the trials and related stuff is Enders A. Robinson's _Salem Witchcraft_, pub. by Heritage Books (1992). HB's address is 1540E Pointer Ridge Place, Bowie, MD 20716. If you're a descendant of MCO, then, like me, you are also a distant cousin of a famous descendant of Mary's father Robert. Despite the spelling difference, Robt. Clement is a proved ancestor of Samuel Clemence, aka Mark Twain. Don Chaffee dchaffee@world.std.com Article 3495 of soc.genealogy.misc: Path: news.kth.se!sunic!news.funet.fi!news.csc.fi!news.eunet.fi!EU.net!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.duke.edu!cgc.botany.duke.edu!user From: chlamy@acpub.duke.edu (Elizabeth Harris) Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.misc Subject: Re: Q: How do I find genealogy of famous people? Followup-To: soc.genealogy.misc Date: 16 Feb 1995 17:49:39 GMT Organization: Duke University Lines: 31 Distribution: world Message-ID: References: <3hobkj$eup@insosf1.infonet.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: cgc.botany.duke.edu > In article <3hobkj$eup@insosf1.infonet.net>, wardj@squared.com (Joe Ward) > wrote: > > > In general, are there Internet resources that list the genealogy of > > well known people? > > > > Specifically, rumor has it one of my ancestors was a cousin of Mark Twain's. > > Anybody know where I can access Twain's genealogy, hopefully > > electronically! > to which Tom Camfield replied, > Keep in mind that you are looking for the family of Samuel Langhorne > Clemens, 1835-1910. > You might start with World Book Encyclopedia (under Mark Twain), which will > tell you where he was born, give you details of his life, details about his > wife, his children. . . > It would be foolishly wasted effort for someone to spend the time required > to type all this up for transmission to you via computer. On the other hand, as happened in this case, he just might find someone who already had it on computer and could transmit it to him by e-mail. Samuel Langhorne CLEMENS' father's sister, Elizabeth CLEMENS, married John Nichols POLLARD, the brother of one of my ancestors. I happened to run across the Clemens genealogy sometime back, and entered it into my database. Generating a three-generation output from Reunion and sending it Joe by e-mail took all of about 3 minutes, hardly a foolishly wasted effort at all. Never underestimate the power of the Internet! Elizabeth Harris chlamy@acpub.duke.edu