Mary Perkins

(probably August 1615 - 1700)
Mary Perkins|b. probably August 1615\nd. 1700|p2018.htm|John Perkins|b. probably December 1583\nd. ca Aug 1654|p1302.htm|Judith Gater|b. probably March 1587/1588|p2012.htm|Henry Perkins|b. s 1555|p2172.htm|Elizabeth Sawbridge|b. s 1560|p2173.htm|Michael Gater|b. s 1560|p2013.htm|Isabel Bayley|b. s 1565|p2014.htm|

Nine-greats-grandaunt of Darrell Allen Martin.
Mary was born in Hillmorton Parish, Warwickshire, England, probably August 1615.1 She was the daughter of John Perkins and Judith Gater. She was baptized in Hillmorton Parish, Warks., Eng., on 3 September 1615.2 She married Thomas Bradbury circa 1635.3 She was among those accused of witchcraft during the Salem madness of 1692 and, in spite of testimony in her favor by her husband, two ministers, and over one hundred of her neighbors, was condemned. By the efforts of her friends the execution was delayed, and she was eventually discharged. Mary died in 1700 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.

Family: Mary Perkins and Thomas Bradbury

Cited documentation

  1. [S100] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, 3 vols. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), vol III, pg. 1432, from her baptism.
  2. [S100] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, vol III, pg. 1432, John Perkins' "Children: (i-vi baptized Hillmorton, Warwickshire" quoting Walter Godwin Davis' "Ancestry of Dudley Wildes" pgs. 89-90) "iii. Mary, bp. 3 September 1615."
  3. [S100] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, vol III, pg. 1432, "Mary ... m. by 1637 Thomas Bradbury (eldest child b. Salisbury 1 April 1637)."
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