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The Lovejoy genealogy with biographies and history, 1460-1930

by Lovejoy, Clarence E. (Clarence Earle), 1894-1974
Publication date 1930
Topics Lovejoy family
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The Lovejoy genealogy with biographies and history, 1460-1930
by Lovejoy, Clarence E. (Clarence Earle), 1894-1974
Publication 1930

The examination of Ann Foster, 1692
July 21, 1692
Salem , MA

This is a transcript of the examination and confession of Ann Foster and her daughter, Mary Lacey and her daughter, Mary Lacey Jr. as originally transcribed in Abbott's History and reproduced in The Lovejoy Genealogy by Clarence Earle Lovejoy, pub 1930. The wife of their accuser, Joseph Ballard is mentioned in the last question on the bottom of p 40. It is true as stated at the end of this passage that none of the three women were executed, but Ann Foster, the mother of Mary Lacey Sr. was in her 80's when imprisoned in Salem in 1692, did not survive the winter and died in Salem jail.

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p 40 THE LOVEJOY GENEALOGY
... mitted were women of good character, and among the most respectable in Andover. The following is the examination and confession of Ann Foster, her daughter, Mary Lacey, and her granddaughter, Mary Lacey, Jr., on July 21, 1692, before Major Gidney, Mr. Hawthorne, Mr. Corwin and Captain Higginson. Ann Foster is an ancestor of many Lovejoys, she having been a grandmother of the wife of Ebenezer (13), a great grandmother of the wife of Hezekiah Lovejoy (29) and a great great grandmother of Captain Abiel Lovejoy (96).
The following testimony appears on pages 154 to 157 of Abbot's History:
QUESTION--Goodly Foster! You remember we have three times spoken with you, and I will now remember what you are referred to us? You have been exposed in very great danger, and you have been left to your own heart to deny; but it seems that God will give you more favor than others, inasmuch as you relen. But your daughter here hath confessed some things that you know of. Your answer?
ANSWER--I did not know it.
QUESTION--Did you know your daughter was to be engaged?
ANSWER--I cannot tell, nor have I any knowledge of it at all.
QUESTION--Did you see your daughter at the meeting? ANSWER--Yes.
QUESTION--Your daughter said she was at the witches' meeting, and that you yourself stood by her and saw her there at that meeting; and you said so also, give me relation from the beginning until now?
ANSWER--I know none of their names that were there, but only Goody Carrier. Goody Carrier, did you know her face?
ANSWER--I cannot tell.
QUESTION--Were there two or more in the field at the same time?
ANSWER--I cannot remember no more. Mary Warren, one of the afflicted, said that Goody Carrier's shape told her, that Goody Foster had made her daughter a witch. Goody Carrier said she knew nothing about that meeting. ANSWER--No, and I know no more of my daughter's being a witch, than what day I shall die upon.
QUESTION--Are you willing your daughter should make a full and free confession? ANSWER--Yes.
QUESTION--Are you willing to do so too? ANSWER--Yes.
QUESTION--You cannot expect peace of conscience without a free confession.
ANSWER--If I knew anything more I would speak it to the utmost.--(Goody Lacey, the daughter called Mary Lacey, and her mother, Mary Lacey.) We have no Christ and the devil hath got hold of us. How shall I get rid of this evil one? I desire God to break my rocky heart, that I may get the victory this time. Goody Lacey, did you not fear you cannot get rid of this snare; your heart and mouth is not open.
ANSWER--I did not see the devil, I was praying to the Lord.
QUESTION--What Lord? ANSWER--To God.
QUESTION--To whom do witches pray to? ANSWER--I cannot tell, the Lord help me.
QUESTION--Do you remember any discourse with your mother when falling? ANSWER--No, I think I had not a word.
QUESTION--Who rid foremost on that stick to the village?
ANSWER--I suppose my mother. Goody Foster said, that Goody Carrier was foremost.
QUESTION--Goody Lacey was many years ago since they were baptized?
ANSWER--Three or four years ago, I suppose.
QUESTION--Who baptized them? ANSWER--The minister.
QUESTION--How did he do it?
ANSWER--He dipped their heads in the water, saying they were his, and that he had put them into the water.
QUESTION--Where was this? ANSWER--In the church.
QUESTION--How many were baptized that day? ANSWER--Some of the chief; I think there were six baptized. ANSWER--I thin they were of the higher powers.--(Mary Lacey, the grand- daughter of Goody Lacey,) I think they fell into a violent fit. QUESTION--How dare you come in here, and bring the devil with you, to afflict these poor creatures?--(Lacey laid her hand on Warren's arm, and she recover'd.)
QUESTION--You are here accused of practising witchcraft upon Goody Ballard; which way do you do it?

THE LOVEJOY GENEALOGY p 41
ANSWER--I cannot tell. Where is my mother that made me a witch, and I knew it not?
QUESTION--Can you look upon that maid, Mary Warren, and not hurt her? Look upon her in a friendly way. (She, trying to do so, struck her down with her eyes.)
QUESTION--Do you acknowledge now you are a witch? ANSWER--Yes.
QUESTION--How long have you been a witch? ANSWER--I cannot tell.
QUESTION--Did the devil appear to you? ANSWER--Yes.
QUESTION--In what shape? ANSWER--In the shape of a horse.
QUESTION--Did you ever say you?
ANSWER--He bid me not be afraid of anything, and he would not bring me out; but has proved a liar from the beginning.
ANSWER--I know not, above a week.
QUESTION--Did you set your hand to the book? ANSWER--No.
QUESTION--Did he bid you worship him?
ANSWER--He bid me worship persons.--(You are now in the way to obtain mercy, if you will confess and repent. She said, the Lord help me!)
ANSWER--Yes.
QUESTION--Do you not you desire to be saved by Christ?
ANSWER--I know not, I know not, I know not, I know in this matter.-- (She then proceeded: I was in bed, and the devil came to me, and bid me obey him and do his bidding, and he would not bring me out.)
QUESTION--But how long ago? ANSWER--It was more than a year.
QUESTION--Was it more than a month? ANSWER--Yes.
QUESTION--How long was you gone from your father, when you ran away? ANSWER--Two days.
QUESTION--When had you your food? ANSWER--At Marion Stone's.
QUESTION--Did the devil appear to you then, when you was abroad?
ANSWER--Yes, he bid me obey him, and he took my mind as not to obey my parents.
QUESTION--Who did the devil bid you affix?
ANSWER--Timothy Swan. Richard Carrier comes often a-nights and has me to affix.
QUESTION--Where do ye go? ANSWER--I know not, sometimes.
QUESTION--How many of you were there at a time?
ANSWER--Richard Carrier and his mother, and my mother and grandmother.-- (Upmore, the minister, and so on,) Goody Lacey, the mother, owned this last particularly.
QUESTION--How many more witches were there in Andover?
ANSWER--I know no more, but Richard Carrier
Carrier at first, denied all, but was followed until he was brought to accuse his mother, much in the same manner with Foster's daughter and granddaughter. Ann Foster was convicted but not executed, probably because of her confession, although during the witchcraft delusion nineteen persons in the vicinity were hanged and one pressed to death.

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