Descendants of Edward Bishop

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1 Descendants of Edward Bishop Generation No EDWARD 1 BISHOP was born Abt in England, and died Bef He married (1) BRIDGET OLIVER. He married (2) ELIZABETH CASH. He married (3) HANNAH MOORE Bef in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, daughter of THOMAS MOORE and MARTHA YONGES. She was born 29 Dec 1634 in Naumkeag, Essex, Massachusetts, and died Bef in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. Notes for EDWARD BISHOP: From "The History of Salem, MA:Vol II ( ), p : Edward Bishop lived in what is now Beverly, on the northerly side of Conant Street, westerly of the main entrance to the Cherry Hill farm, as early as He was first a husbandman and later a sawyer. He married first Hannah before 1646; she was his wife in 1653; married second, Bridget, widow of Thomas Oliver before 1680; she was executed as a witch June 10, 1692; married third Elizabeth Cash March ; he died before Children:I. Hannah baptized April 12, 1646, married William Rayment of Beverly. 2. Edward, baptized April 23, 1648; husbandman; lived here until 1703 when he removed to Rehonoth, where he was an innkeeper and yeoman; married Sarah Wild of Topsfield; died in Rehoboth May 1711; had children. 3. Mary, baptized Oct. 12, 1651; married Robert Coburn of Beverly, removed to Chelmsford. p the seven men, Dec. 28, 1646, granted to Edward Bishop forty acres of land lying near the farms at Bass River head near Nicholas Howard's lot... Bridget Bishop was hung as a witch in From The History of Salem MA, Vol III ( ), p :... One of the forerunners of the witches of 1692 was Bridget, second wife of Thomas Oliver. In February, 1678, she was presented to the Salem court for calling her husband many opprobious names, as old rogue and old devil, on Lord's days; and she was ordered to stand with her husband, back to back, on a lecture day, in a public placce, for an hour, both being gagged, with a paper fastened to each of their foreheads, the paper being fairly written with their offences. Upon his daughter Mary paying twenty shillings he was released from his part of the order. Mr. Oliver died a year later; and another year later, Feb. 25, , she was presented for suspicion of witchcraft. The court ordered that the matter be presented to the next court of assistants in Boston. A month before, when Wonn, John Ingerson's negro, was going into the woods with horses and sled, he loaded his sled with wood and came as far as William Bean's house. He apparently unloaded his sled here, an returned to the woods between Norman's rocks and Fish Brook. When he had reached the edge of the swamp, the horses started and snorted as if they were frightened, and would not go forward, but ran down into the swamp, "up to their bellies". They hauled the sled after them, and with much ado Wonn got them out of their harnesses and from the swamp. John Lambert, Jonathan Pickering and some youths who noticed the incident, said that they never saw the like and thought the horses were bewitched. About a week later, Wonn went into the hay-house a little after noon, to get some hay for the horses, and, a second time, for some hay for the cow. He saw there the shape of Goody Oliver upon a beam with an egg in her hand. He stooped to take up the rake or pitchfork to strike her and she vanished. He was frightened and ran into the house and told his master what he had seen. Afterwards, when sitting at dinner, he saw two black cats. Mr. Ingerson had a black cat. Wonn said "How come two black cats here?" and before he had finished he felt "three sore gripes or pinches on his side. He cried out, and had very much pain there and soreness for half an hour". John Ingersoll lived at 12 Daniels Street, and Mrs. Oliver on the southerly corner of Washington and Church Streets. Thus begun her reputation as a witch, and as the wife of Edward Bishop, whom she married the next year, occasioned an opportunity, when they lived on Conant Street, at Cherry Hill, in Beverly,for the accusers to bring into their toils and take out of the way another undesirable citizen in p : 1

2 ...The first session of the court was held the next Thursday and Friday, June second and third, and early in the next week.the case of BRidget Bishop was the first tried. Why she was the first on tried, instead of the first accused, is unknown, unless it was because she was here in Salem,and Mrs. Good was in a Boston prison, with her five-year-old child. Mrs. Bishop was wife of Edward Bishop, and they lived on the northerly side of Conant Street, now in Beverly, on the westerly corner of the westerly entrance to the Cherry Hill farm. The Bishops then conducted a house for the entertainment of travelers, and dispensed cider. Mrs. Bishop's guests remained up late playing checkers and drinking and being merry. Their neighbors complained of them; and years before they were convicted of theft and lying. In 1680, Mrs. Bishop was tried for witchcraft, but was discharged; and news of these things had become known by the childish accusers, probably from Elizabeth Hubbard, who was her neighbor, and had lived in the family of Doctor Griggs long enough to discover how obnoxious the Bishop family were to the people of that vicinity. A warrent for the arrest of Mrs. Bishop was issued Monday, April 18th, and she was arrested the next day and committed to jail. Five indictments were found against her. They were for practising witchcraft upon Mercy Lewis, Abigail WIlliams, Mary Walcott, ELizabeth Hubbard and Ann Putnam respectively. Indictments were apparently drawn in blank and filled in as required. Apparently, the clerk knew that a considerable number of indictments would be found, and to facilitate their issuance he prepared them in complete form, except the date, name of the accused, the place and the name of the residence of each one upon the witchcraft was believed to have been practised. The form was as follows: Essex in the Province Anno R R & Regine Guliof the Massachusetts elmi & Marie & Quarto Bay in New England Annoq Domini 1692 Ss The Juriors for our Snu Lord and Landy the King and Queen doe present that Sarah Buckley wife of William Buckely of Salem in the County of Essex Shoomaker In & vpon the Eighteenth day of may In the yeare aforesaid and divers other days and times as well before as after Certaine detestable acts called Witch craft of Sorceries Wickedly mallitiously and felloniously hath used practised and Exercised at and in the Towne of Salem in the County of Efsex aforesaid in upon & against on Ann: Puttnam of Salem aforesaid Single Woman by which said Wicked acts ye said Ann Puttnam ye Day & yeare aforesaid and divers other days and times, both before and after was and is Tortured afflicted Consumed Pined Wasted & Tormented and also for sundry other Acts of Witchcraft by the said Sarah Buckley Committed and done before and since that time against Our Sour Lord and Lady the King & Queen theire Crowne & Dignity and the forme in the Stattute In that case made and Provided. At the trial of Mrs. Bishop, as soon as she came into the court room all the children fell into fits. She was told that "They say you bewitched your first husband to death." She said:"if it please your worship, I know nothing of it." Leading questions repeated in various forms did not make her confess any of these charges against her. When she turned up her eyes, the eyes of the children were turned up also, and they manifested the usual evidences of torture in the court room. William Stacey testified that when he had the small pox some thirteen years before she professed great love for him; and sometime afterward he did some work for her and she paid him three pence. He put the money in his pocket, but after going a few rods could not find it. One day he met her going to mill and she asked him if his father would grind her grist. He said "Why do you ask?" She answered "Because folks count me a witch." He said that he had no doubt that his father grind it, and after going about six rods from her with a small load in his cart the off wheel sank into a hole upon plain ground and he was forced to get some one to help him get the wheel out. Afterwards, he went back to look for the hole, but could find none. At midnight, one winter, he said that he flet something cold pressing on his teeth between his lips, and he saw her sitting on the foot of his bed. She hopped upon the bed and about the room. Sometime afterward, on a dark night, as he was going to his barn, he said he was taken or hoisted from the ground, thrown against a wall, then taken up agian and thrown down a bank at the end of the house. He afterward met Mrs. Bishop by Isaac Stearn's brickkiln, and after he had passed his horse stood stil with a small load going up hill, so that the horse, trying to draw, "all his gears flew in pieces and 2

3 the cart fell down." Rev. John Hale of Beverly testified that Christian Trask, wife of John Trask, a neighbor of Mrs. Bishop, required of him that Mrs. Bishop be not permitted to receive the sacraments till she had given satisfaction for some offences, as, her entertaining "certain people in her house at unseasonable hours in the night to keep drinking and playing at shuffle-board whereby discord did arise in the other families and young people were in danger to be corrupted". Mr. Hale greatly feared that "if a stop had not been put to those disorders Edward Bishop's house would have been a house of great profanities and iniquity". Mr. Trask stated that his wife had taken distracted the night after she had complained of Mrs. Bishop, and committed suicide by cutting her throat with a pair of scissors, so small that, after Mr. Hale had observed them, he said that he then judged it impossible for her "to mangle herself so without some extraordinary work of the devil or witchcraft". This was in Two witnesses testified that on taking down the cellar wall in the old Bishop house where Mrs. Bishop lived in 1685 they found in holes in the wall several poppets made of rags and hog's bristles with headless pins in them with the points stickingout. Samuel Shattuck testified that a few years before, his eldest child, who had hitherto been healthy, was "taken in a drooping condition," and as Mrs. Bishop "came often to the house it gre worse and worse." Sometimes, as the child was standing at the door he would fall out, as if he had been thrust out by an invisible hand, and bruise his face. Sometimes, the child would go out in the garden and get on a board; and when he was called he would walk to the end of the board and hold out his hands as if he could come no further, and would have to be lifted off. John Lander testified that Mrs. Bishop came into his room one night, and sat on his stomach. He said that he put out his hands, and she grabbed him by the throat and choked him. Another time, one Sunday, when he remained at home and the door was shut, he saw a black pig in the room. It came toward him, and he tried to kick it, but it vanished. Immediately afterward, he sat down on a narrow bar and saw a black thing jump into the window. It came and stood just before his face under the bar. Its body looked like that of a monkey. Being greatly frightened, and not able to speak or help himself by reason of fear, it spoke to him and said "I am a messenger sent to you for I understand you are troubled in mind, and if you will be ruled by me you shall want for nothing in this world." He endeavored to clasp hi shands upon it, and it said "You devil, I will kill you!" He could feel no substance, and it jumped out of the window. Immediately, it came in by the porch, althought he doors were shut, and it said "You had better take counsel." Whereupon, he struck at it with a stick, but struck the ground sill. Then his arm was disabled, and, opening the door, he went out and saw Mrs. Bishop in her orchard going toward her house. When he saw her he had no power to set one foot before the other. John Bly and his wife had a dispute with the Bishops about a hog. They testified that the hog was taken with "strange fits", jumping up and knocking her head against a fence, and seemed to be blind and deaf. It would not eat, neither let her pigs suck, but foamed at the mouth. They gave it red ochre and milk, which made it better, but soon "it did set off jumping and running, as if she was stark mad, and after that was well again, and we did then apprehend or judge and do still, that said Bishop had bewitched said sow." John Cook deposed that five or six years previously he was assaulted with the shape of the prisoner in his chamber, and so terrified that an apple that he held in his hand flew strangely from him into his mother's lap, six or eight feet distant. Mrs. Bishop was convicted; and a warrant was duly issued on Wednesday, the eighth of June, for her execution. It reads as follows:--- To Geogre Corwin gent High Sherriff of the County of Essex greeting: Whereas Bridget Bishop, als Oliver, the wife of Edward Bishop of Salem in the County of Essex, sawyer, at a speciall court of Oyer and Terminer held at Salem the second day of this instant month of June for the countyes of Essex, Middlesex, and Suffolk before William Stoughton Esq. and his associate justices of the said court was indicted and arraigned upon five several indictments for using, practicing and exercising on the nynteenth day of April last past and divers other days and times before and after certain acts of witchcraft on and upon the bodyes of Abigail Williams Ann Putnam junr. Mercy Lewis May Walcott and elizabeth Hubbard of Salem Village single women whereby their bodyes were hurt afflicted pined comsumed wasted and tormented contrary to the forme of the statute in that case made and provided. To which indictment the said Bridget Bishop pleaded not guilty and for tryal thereof put herself upon God and her country whereupon she was found guilty of the felonyes and witchcraft whereof she stood indicted and sentence of death accordingly passed agt her as the law directs. Execution whereof yet remains to be done. These are therefore in the name of their maj William and Mary now King and Queen over England &c to will and command you that upon Fryday next being the tenth dy of this instant month of June between the hours of eight and twelve in the aforenoon of the same day you safely conduct the sd Bridget Bishop als Oliver from their majesties gaol in Salem aforesd to the place of execution and there cause her to be hanged by the neck until she be dead, and of your doings herein make return to the clerke of the sd court and pr cept. and hereof you are not to faile at your peril and this shall be your sufficient warrant given 3

4 under my hand seal at Boston the eighth dy of June in the fourth year of the reign of our Sovirgne Lord & Lady William & Mary now King & Queen over England &c annoqr dom William Stoughton (Return to the warrant:) According to the within written precept I have taken the body of the within named Bridget Bishop out of their majesties goal in Salem and safely conveighed her to the place provided for her execution and caused ye sd Bridgett to be hanged by the neck untill she was dead and buried in the place all which was according to the time within required and so I make returne by me. George Corwin Sherriff Thus the first victim of the remarkable episode was tried, convicted, and executed. It is easy to imagine the procession as it left the jail on St. Peter Street, passing down the narrow lane to the main street, and then winding its crooked way toward the nearest common land outside the town. Mrs. Bishop probably rode in a cart, drawn by a horse and guarded by officers, and following them were the curious ot the town, wondering what it would be like. At what is now Boston Street, it turned to the right, and, passing over the town bridge, entered the common land at the left to a spot now between Proctor Street and the late homestead of Solomon Stephens. There, upon a tree, her tragic end occurred. Malevolence had had its will. Note from Salem Possessed, by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum - Bridget's execition place is now known as "Witches Hill". From Salem Possessed, p : In 1685 Bridget Oliver of Salem Town married her third husband--old Edward Bishop, one of the founders of the Beverly Church-- and moved from the center of town to his house on the Ipswich Road in Salem Village. (The Bishops retained title to Bridget's house in town, however, and derived income from it as a rental property.) Having alreay built up a long reputation for aggressive behavior in petty commercial transactions, Bridget soon turned the Bishop house into a place of late-night conviviality where she sold cider manufactured from apples grown in her private orchard. As one witness put it, Bridget "did entertain people in her house at unseasonable hours in the night to keep drinking and playing at shuffle-board, whereby discord did arise in other families, and young people were in danger to be corrupted." If John Proctor's liscenced tavern was a rest-stop for wayfarers, Bridget Bishop's unliscensed one seems to have been a rendezvous for local youths. Significantly, Bridget appears never to have ventured into Salem Village proper. "I never was in this place before", she claimed at her examination in the Village meetinghouse in 1692; "I know no man, woman, or child here." None of the villagers present challenged this statement, although on other occasions they freely accused persons under examination of lying. Though she had lived within the Village bounds for seven years, Bridget Bishop remained, in the most literal sense, an outsider-- and one whose arrival had brought discord and family conflict in its wake. Children of EDWARD BISHOP and HANNAH MOORE are: i. HANNAH 2 BISHOP, b. Bef. 12 Apr ii. EDWARD BISHOP, b. Bef. 23 Apr 1648, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; d. 12 May 1711, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. iii. MARY BISHOP, b. Bef. 12 Oct Generation No EDWARD 2 BISHOP (EDWARD 1 ) was born Bef. 23 Apr 1648 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, and died 12 May 1711 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. He married SARAH WILD Bef. 1685, daughter of JOHN WILD and PRISCILLA GOULD. She was born Abt in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts, and died in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. 4

5 Notes for EDWARD BISHOP: Regarding military service - from "History of Salem". p :...In August, 1676, Capt. William Hathorne was again called to service. After the great body of Indians surrendered at Cocheco, in September he pushed, with the force of four companies under his command towards the east, to relieve the threatened towns.they marched from Wells to WInter Harbor, and then proceeded by water to Black Point, and then to Casco, arriving the 19th, and thence to Berwick. He subsequently proceeded to the eastward in command of the two companies forming the expedition, to recover some captives. The expedition sailed from Salem the first week in February, 1676/7, direct to Black Point, where he joined other forces, and on the 17th sailed from Black Point to Portland, and over to Mare Point the next day.on the 21st, the sailed for Arrowsick and the next day went up the river. On the 28th, they sailed back to Kennebec, and arrived at Boston March 11th. The following named men were credited with wages Aug 24, Of the town on Salem: Thomas Fuller, John Dodge, Edward Bishop, William Wainwright..." From internet files of Dana Wildes: Please also refer to John Wilds notes. John Wild had eight children with Priscilla, one with Sarah - Ephraim, who was constable. In this posotion he was ordered to arrest one Deliverance Hobbs. Deliverance made a jailhouse confession that implicated Sarah Wild (John's second wife - not the Sarah married to Edward) - as a witch. Perhaps in retaliation for the arrest, she named several of John Wild's children as witch. Sarah Wild and her husband Edward Bishop were arrested. Edward's son Samuel paid off Sherriff Corwin, which allowed for their escape from the jail to Rehoboth. Children of EDWARD BISHOP and SARAH WILD are: 3. i. JONATHAN 3 BISHOP, b. 1686, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts; d. Bef. 07 Apr ii. SAMUEL BISHOP. iii. EDWARD BISHOP, b. Abt iv. EBENEZER BISHOP. Generation No JONATHAN 3 BISHOP (EDWARD 2, EDWARD 1 ) was born 1686 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, and died Bef. 07 Apr He married ABIGAIL AVERILL in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts. Child of JONATHAN BISHOP and ABIGAIL AVERILL is: 4. i. GOULD 4 BISHOP, b. 25 Mar 1712, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. Generation No GOULD 4 BISHOP (JONATHAN 3, EDWARD 2, EDWARD 1 ) was born 25 Mar 1712 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. He married MARY PULLEN 15 Mar 1732/33 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, daughter of NICHOLAS PULLEN and MARY TUCKER. She was born 28 Mar 1712 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts. Notes for MARY PULLEN: Birth source Rehoboth VR's page 722 Marriage Notes for GOULD BISHOP and MARY PULLEN: Source Rehoboth VR's also - married by Rev. John Greenwood. Intentions filed 18 Nov Children of GOULD BISHOP and MARY PULLEN are: 5. i. SQUIRE 5 BISHOP, b. 04 Nov 1733, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts; d. 06 Sep 1801, Winthrop, Maine. ii. AMIE BISHOP, b. 18 Nov

6 iii. MOLLY BISHOP, b. 10 Jan 1737/38. iv. AMIE BISHOP, b. 28 Feb 1740/41. v. JONATHAN BISHOP, b. 17 Apr vi. NATHAN BISHOP, b. 25 Apr vii. NASMAN BISHOP, b. 24 Jan 1746/47. viii. ZADOCK BISHOP, b. 24 Apr ix. PHOEBE BISHOP, b. 23 Aug x. NEMAS BISHOP, b. 12 Aug Generation No SQUIRE 5 BISHOP (GOULD 4, JONATHAN 3, EDWARD 2, EDWARD 1 ) was born 04 Nov 1733 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, and died 06 Sep 1801 in Winthrop, Maine. He married PATIENCE TITUS 18 Apr 1754 in Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, daughter of TIMOTHY TITUS and WAITSTILL GARNSEY. She was born 31 May 1730, and died 21 Apr 1802 in Winthrop, Maine. Notes for SQUIRE BISHOP: From The History of the Town of Leeds, p : The earliest ancestors in this counrty of the Bishop families in Winthrop, Monmouth, Wayne, Leeds and other New England towns of whom we have knowledge was Edward, who resided in Salem Mass as early as The church records of that city show that he was a member therof in 1645; and the city records are evidence that he was constable in He died in that place in His son, Edward second, married Hannah - ---, lived in Beverly, but subsequently moved to Salem where he died in the year Among the historic events in Salem are recorded the drastic crimes committed by that unholy man of God, Cotton Mather, and his associate rulers, in their false accusations of the poor, innocent victims of their hatred who dared to assert diametrical religious views. Imprisonment and various inhuman methods of punishment were instituted for witch-craft, or casting out devils, and finally death upon the gallows was the penalty they suffered for the freedom of their faith. A blot will ever remian on the pages of history of that municipality. The first victim of that tyrant power was Bridget Bishop, the second wife of Edward Bishop, which occured June 10, Edward third was born in Salem in He married Sarah Wildes; was a farmer, a native of Salem, in which place he lived. He was present at the hearing in April 1692, given Sarag Cloyce accused of witch-craft; and hearing John, an Indian servant in the family of Samuel Parris, the minister, who was her accuser, give false testimony against her, cured that servant by a good flogging and declared his belief that he could likewise cure the whole company thus afflicted. For this both he and his wife were imprisoned. With the overthrow of the tyrant, priestly power, they were released, and in 1693 moved to Rehoboth, Mass., where he died May 11, In his will mention is made of Jonathan fourth, born in the year He married Abigail Avery (Averill). The date of his death is unknown to the writer but his will was probated April 7, Gould Bishop, son of Jonathan fourth, was born in Rehoboth, Mass., March 25, He married Mary ----, March 15, Two of the sons of Gould and Mary Bishop, Squire and Zadock, settled in the District of Maine, the former in Winthrop and the latter at New Meadows, a part of Brunswick. quire was born in Rehoboth Nov. 4, He married Patience Titus and settled in Winthrop, Me., obtaining a grant of lot of land No. 17 in the Pond town plantation, June 11, His family, consisting of wife and six children, came the following spring and his was the second family to settle in that town. He was the first inn-keeper in Winthrop, and for several years the town meetings, beginning with that of orginization, were held in his home. He held several offices of responsability and trust in that town and there died Sept. 6, 1801, and his wife April 21, 1802, where they both were buried. Marriage Notes for SQUIRE BISHOP and PATIENCE TITUS: Source for marriage and intentions Rehoboth VR's. Married by Rev. John Greenwood. Int filed 30 Mar Children of SQUIRE BISHOP and PATIENCE TITUS are: i. WAITSTILL 6 BISHOP, b. 03 Sep 1761, Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts; d. 24 Feb 1815, Searsmont, Maine; m. THOMAS WHITTIER, 22 Mar 1781, Winthrop, Maine; b. 05 Mar 1746/47, Salisbury, Massachusetts; d. 10 Apr 1815, Searsmont, Maine. Notes for WAITSTILL BISHOP: Name also appears as Weightstill in Rehoboth VR's. From Waitstill, please refer to the Whittier file for descendants. 6

7 ii. PATIENCE BISHOP, b. 12 Jan iii. MARY BISHOP, b. 10 Sep iv. SQUIRE BISHOP, b. 03 Sep v. AMME BISHOP, b. 31 Jan