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Mary Easty

Mary Easty. Birth/ Death. Born August 24, 1634 Died September 22, 1692. Educatio n. Women were not allowed to have an education in this time period. Career. Women did not have a career. They were suppose to stay home. Basically they were stay home wives. Religious P ractices .

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Mary Easty

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  1. Mary Easty

  2. Birth/ Death • Born August 24, 1634 • Died September 22, 1692

  3. Education • Women were not allowed to have an education in this time period.

  4. Career • Women did not have a career. They were suppose to stay home. Basically they were stay home wives.

  5. Religious Practices • Mary Easty was a very religious and respectful woman. She was raised as a Puritain and followed all of there beliefs. • The Puritans considered the Bible as the true law of God that provided guidelines for church government. Puritan beliefs developed from the teachings of religious reformers, such as John Wycliffe and John Calvin.

  6. Involvement in the Salem Witch Hysteria • Two of Easty’s sisters, Rebecca Nurse, and Sarah Cloyse were also accused of witch craft. • Her examination followed the pattern of most in Salem: the girls had fits, and were speechless at times, and the magistrate expostulated with her for not confessing her guilt, which he deemed proven beyond doubt by the sufferings of the afflicted. • Easty was committed to prison after her examination. For a reason not disclosed in any of the remaining records, Easty, after spending two months in prison, was discharged on the 18th of May. She and her family believed she would now be safe from further accusations.

  7. Continued… • Mary Lewis spent the entire day experiencing fits of unprecedented severity, during which time she said she was being strangled, and claimed "they will kill Easty out right.“ • That evening a second warrant was issued for Easty's arrest. At midnight, after experiencing two days of liberty and being reunited with her family, Easty was rousted from her sleep by the Marshall, torn from her husband and children, and taken back to prison where she was loaded with chains. • Easty was tried and condemned to death on September 9th. She was executed on September 22, despite an eloquent plea to the court to reconsider and not spill any more innocent blood.

  8. Family Life • Mary Towne was born to William Towne and Joanna in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. One of eight children, she and her family moved to America around 1640. Mary married Isaac Easty in 1655 in Topsfield, Massachusetts. Isaac was a farmer who was born in England on November 27, 1627. Together the couple had eleven children. They had Joseph, Sarah, John, Isaac, Hannah, Benjamin, Samuel, Jacob, Joshua, Jeffrey, and Mary.

  9. Mary Easty • “She was accused because her specter (a witch appearing in her shape) was tormenting the girls.  The witch trials of 1692 can be distinguished from modern day trials largely by the fact that the courts allowed people to be put to death based solely on spectral evidence.  That is, someone could testify that they saw someone's specter committing a crime, and the person (whose specter was seen) was basically accused of allowing a witch (or the Devil) to possess their soul.  Under Puritan law, the pressure was immense on Mary Easty to confess - but she held her ground to the very end.” (http://www.pearllakehist.com/witchmary.html)

  10. One thing stands out in my mind about my brave and tenacious ancestor's plight - even after she was clearly condemned to death, she wanted to do the right thing for those others accused wrongly of witchcraft.  While in jail, she wrote a (now famous) petition to the judges - not to save herself, but to attempt to enlighten the judges about their wrong doing.  In the movie, Three Sovereigns for Sarah, Mary's effort is portrayed as a clearly altruistic one.  She wrote, "I know you are in the wrong way the Lord in his infinite mercy direct you in this great work if it is his blessed will that no more innocent blood be shed." She goes on to say that "the Lord above who is the searcher of all hearts" knows that she, Mary, (like many of the others) is not a witch and, therefore, cannot confess to witchcraft. (http://www.pearllakehist.com/witchmary.html)

  11. Sites I Used • http://www.pearllakehist.com/witchmary.html • http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/salem/SAL_BEAS.HTM • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Eastey • http://www.laughtergenealogy.com/bin/histprof/misc/puritan.html

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