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Tuesday, October 06, 2015

John Proctor, Salem Witch #CousinoftheWeek

Murdered by the State...   

John Proctor (1632–1692) was a farmer and tavern keeper in 17th-century Salem, Massachusetts. During the Salem witch trials he was accused of witchcraft, convicted and hanged. His wife and all of his children were accused as well as many members of his extended family.

The son of John Proctor and Martha Harper, he was born 9 October 1631 at Assington, Suffolk, England; he was executed by hanging at the age of 60 on 19 August 1692 at Gallows Hill, Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts. He emigrated to Massachusetts with his parents on the Susan and Ellen in 1635, married three times, and fathered 17 children.        


John Proctor, Salem Witch, is your 6th cousin 12 times removed.
You 
   →  Mom 
your mother →  Pvt. Garnett Hancock, WWII Veteran 
her father →  Burrell H Hancock 
his father →  Samuel Austin Hancock 
his father → Elizabeth Edwards Hancock 
his mother →  Brice Edwards 
her father →  Ambrose Edwards, Jr. 
his father →  Ambrose Edwards, the Immigrant 
his father → Isabella / Elizabeth Edwards (Downing) 
his mother →  Lady Catherine Cecil Downing 
her mother →  James Cecil, 3rd Earl of Salisbury 
her father → Charles Cecil, Viscount Cranborne 
his father →  Lady Catherine Howard 
his mother →  Catherine Rich, Duchess of Suffolk 
her mother → Sir Henry Knyvett, MP, of Charlton 
her father →  Anne Knyvett 
his mother →  Sir Christopher Pickering, of Ellerton 
her father → Sir James lll Pickering, of Winderwath 
his father →  John Pickering of Gretton 
his brother →  Gilbert Pickering of Techmersh 
his son → Boniface Pickering of Thorpe-by-Water 
his son →  James Pickering 
his son →  Susan (proctor) Pickering 
his daughter →  Martha Proctor 
her daughter → John Proctor, Salem Witch Trials 
her son  


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