Samuel Endicott and allied Lines

Samuel Endicott, (1763-1828) Frontispiece From a silhouette

                       

Birthplace of Mrs. Samuel Endicott, nee Elizabeth Putnam, Danvers, Mass

             

Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Endicott (1816-1841), 359 Essex Street, Salem, Mass

      

Mrs. Samuel Endicott, nee Elizabeth Putnam (1764-1841)

                   

     Augustus Perry (1809-1871

                                              

Mrs. Augustus Perry, nee Elizabeth Endicott (1797-1866)

                                

Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Augustus Perry (1840-1871), 29 Warren Street, Salem, Mass

Francis Peabody, Esc (1801-1867)miniature painted in Paris in 1822 by Laine y fils

          

Mrs. Francis Peabody, nee Martha Endicott (1799-1891) miniature by Miss Sarah Goodrich

   "Kernwood," the Country Residence of Francis Peabody, (1844-1871), Salem, Mass

    

Residence of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Peabody (1839- 1 874), 134 Essex Street, Salem, Mass. Taken down in 1908

Banqueting Hall in the Residence of Francis Peabody, Esq 134 Essex Street, Salem, Mass. Built in 1850

   William Putnam Endicott (1803-1888)

                                     

Mrs. William Putnam Endicott, nee Harriet French (1801-1886)

                          

Mrs. William Putnam Endicott, nee Mary Crowninshield (1804-1838),   and son Wllliam Crowninshield Endicott (1826-1900)

             

Country Residence of Mr. and Mrs. William Putnam Endicott (1856-1879), Milford, N. H 

George Peabody, (1807-1 892) From a miniature painted by Henry Inman in 1824 

Mrs. George Peabody, nee Clarissa Endicott (1807-1892) miniature painted in Italy in 1833

Country Residence of Mr. and Mrs. George Peabody (1854-1892), The Farm, Danvers, Mass

Sun Dial owned by Governor Endicott Made by Boyer of London in 1630.

Sword owned by Governor Endicott with which he is said to have cut the cross from the King's colors in 1634 See my link to story Captain Richard Davenport and Elizabeth Hathorne - Salem Witch House

           Governor Endicott Peabody 1964 From Archives and Special Collections

                         Reverend Endicott Peabody (May 30, 1857 – November 17, 1944)

Endicott family papers 
The History of the Endicott - Sanford Family
Puritan Hair - Massachusetts
Cutting Family Line of Boston
At Odds: My Puritan and Quaker Heritage
Early Opposition to Arbitrary Government Sanborn Family
Mary Fisher and Anne Austin
Margaret Jones: First Person Executed for Witchcraft in Massachusetts
The Jacobs Family & Salem Witch Trials 1692
Mary Perkins Bradbury - Salem Witch Escapee
The Lace Makers of Ipswich & the Caldwell Connection
Emerson Baker A Storm of witchcraft
Jack Dempsey Merrymount

Laurie Cabot defends her Right to Pagan Practice using J F Kennedy

From the Archives Modern Witches Stir Ancient Fears
November 16, 1974 Springfield Union

 

The Devil went down to Newbury

Newburyport News Witches were among us before 1692 by Melissa Berry

               

                                “Cotton Mather came galloping down

                                           All the way to Newbury town

                                 With his eyes agog and his ears set wide,

                                  And his marvellous inkhorn at his side;

                                       ... And the tales he heard and the notes he took

                                   Behold! Are they not in this Wonder-Book?”

                                                                           — John Greenleaf Whittier

Old Newbury had its share of spectral sensation way before 1692. The “unseen fury” of the Morse home held hostage by an evil presence is colorfully told by Cotton Mather, and court records reveal a herdsman shacking up at the Spencer-Peirce Farm who had “familiarity with the devil,” bewitching the entire countryside: cattle and citizens.

In 1679 the Morse home was the center of a rogue evil possession cooked up by grandson John Stiles whose “juvenile imposture” was “universally received as proof Satan resided there.” Stiles’ hoax “lithobolia attacks” are well documented by Emerson Baker in “The Devil of Great Island: Witchcraft and Conflict in Early New England.”

The little scamp Stiles never did ‘fess up. Poor Caleb Powell, the only one not drinking the Kool-Aid in the matter, knew it was the little whippersnapper, and Coffin’s history calls it a “tragic-comedy” when his well-intentioned intervention turns into a witchcraft conviction. Powell was acquitted by spring; however, Goody Morse was brought up on charges for possessing her home and grandson. She managed to get out alive, but not without a grueling year of trials and jail time.

Another naughty knave coasted into town weaving an abominable web that no one could untangle. John Godfrey, wicked warlock of Essex County, supposedly “accompanied by an evil Spirit,” and “being instigated by the devil,” had “made much hurt & mischief by several acts of witchcraft to the bodies & goods of several persons as by several evidences may appear contrary to the peace” (court records). If truth be told, Godfrey was no more of a black arts augurer than Morse was a witch, but Essex County residents wanted him to get the rope.

Godfrey arrived on the ship Mary and John with John Spencer to work the farm in Newbury herding cattle. Spencer locked horns with the local Puritan posse and returned to England, leaving the estate to his nephew, John Spencer. Godfrey stayed on and mastered a position as local herdsman. However, his deviant lifestyle was more wolf than shepherd.

Godfrey’s plebeian nature (cursing, drunkenness, tobacco smoking, traveling on Sabbath, slander) was constantly landing him in front of the magistrates who administered heavy fines and public humiliation, one sentence ordering him to stand “upon pillory with inscription written in Capital letters upon a paper: for suborning witnesses.”

Godfrey had a side profession selling and deeding properties. His methods for collecting were anything but orthodox. He had filed 100-plus laws suits and counter-suits over property, goods and services. He won more than he lost, ticking off the community and earning a reputation as a bullying loan shark. Fed up with “the devilish rogue,” the town folk cried witchery on him.

The Spencer farm would be the subject of his witch convictions (1669) when William Osgood, a carpenter, was hired by Spencer to build a barn. Godfrey had words with Osgood and years later he bought land from him. Both transactions were not harmonious; and after 20 years of bad blood and Osgood’s relatives and friends getting the screws from Godfrey, they all came together to testify in a series of court appearances.

Godfrey became an infamous “perennial witchcraft suspect” often found “suspiciously guilty” but not “legally guilty” and was released with a verbal warning to discontinue his “blasphemous” way of life. He always returned to the nest of his accusers and almost immediately resorted back into his cheeky lifestyle and no one got free from his tyrant web. He did visit the gallows and was sentenced to stand with a halter about his neck followed with a whipping, but that was for setting fire to a home he had tried to foreclose on.

Baker points out that these earlier cases “demonstrated that witches could be held accountable for a wide range of evil deeds, not just unleashing their specters to harm people.” Furthermore, Baker adds, “the fact that all these earlier cases were convicted but spared shows just how reluctant the government of Massachusetts had become, by the 1680s, to execute a witch. These facts make the cases a most interesting contrast with the trial and execution of so many witches in Salem a decade later.”

Thanks Emerson Baker, www.salemstate.edu/~ebaker. And look for “A Storm of Witchcraft: The Trials of Salem and a Nation” in 2014.