Margaret Scott
‘the witch’
Full name : Margaret Stevenson Scott
Alternate spellings, aliases : Margert, margerit
Parents :
Father : ...Stevenson
Mother :
note : this is unsubstantiated
Date of Birth : circa 1620
Place of Birth : England
Spouse :
Name : Benjamin Scott (Beniamin Stott, Scot, Skot)
Date of Marriage : late 1630’s or early in 1640
Place of Marriage : perhaps England
Died : September 1671
Notes :
Date of Death : 22 September 1692
Place of Death : Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts
Burial Information : not respectfully buried
Probate Information : no probate has been found
Military Service : none
Occupation(s) : wife, mother; Margaret Scott is
supposedly the same woman executed at Salem in 1692 for ‘certain detestable
arts called Witchcraft and Sorceries’. She was tried on 17 September and hanged 22 September 1692 at Salem,
Essex County, Massachusetts.
Frances Wycombe vs. Margert Scott
"The deposition of frances wycom who testifyeth and saith that quickly
after the first court at (Salem) about wicthcraft margerit Scott whom I very
well knew: or hir Apperance came to me and did most greviously torment me by
choaking and almost presing me to death: and so she did continue affleting me
by times tell the 5'th August 1692 being the day of hir examination allso
during the time of hir examination margerit scott did most greviously afflect
me: and also severall times sence: and I belive in my heart that margerit Scott
is a wicth and that she has often affleted me by acts of wicthcraft."
frances Wycom owned: to the grand Inquest: that the above written evidence: is
the truth upon oath: Sept'r 15: 1692: Jurat in Curia.
[Essex County Archives, Salem - Witchcraft vol2/page45]
Phillip Nelson and Sarah Nelson vs. Margaret Scott
”[also] phillip Nellson and Sarah his wife doe testifie and say that for Two or
Three years be fore #[the said] Robert Shilleto dyed we have often hard him
complaining of margerit Scott for hurting of him and often said that she was a
wicth and so he continewed complaining of Margarit Scott saying he should never
be well so long as margaret Scott lived & so he Complayned of Margret
Scott: att times until he dyed”
Phillip Nelson and Sarah his wife affirmed: upon their oath to the grand
Inquest that the above written evidence: is the truth. Sept'r 15: 1692 Jurat in Curia
[Essex County Archives, Salem - Witchcraft vol2/pae45]
Property : Received her husband’s home after his death; also lands.
Family :
Daughter : Hannah
Date of Birth :
Place of Birth : perhaps in
England
Married : Christopher Webb of Braintree, 16 January
1654/5
Died : circa 1718, Braintree, Massachusetts
Notes : marriage performed by
Captain Torrey of Weymouth.
Son : John
Date of Birth : 25 December 1640
Place of Birth : Braintree,
Massachusetts
Married :
Died : soon after birth
Son : Peter
Date of Birth : 6 March 1643
Place of Birth : Braintree,
Massachusetts
Married : Abigail (?)
Died : 11 August 1693 (?)
Notes : from Braintree Town
Records, “Peter Stott, ye son of Beniamen Stott & Hannah his wife borne ye
6th of March, 1643.”
Son : Joseph
Date of Birth : 14 July 1644
Place of Birth : Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Married :
Died : buried 3 December 1664
Notes :
Son : Benjamin
Date of Birth : 5 July 1646
Place of Birth : Cambridge, Massachusetts
Married : Susannah Scales, 28
December 1676
Died : 7 February 1724/5
Notes : had eight children
Son : John
Date of Birth : 2 July 1648
Place of Birth : Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Married :
Died : unknown
Notes :
Daughter : Elizabeth
Date of Birth : 27 May 1650
Place of Birth : Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Married :
Died : one week after birth
Notes :
Daughter : Mary
Date of Birth : 16 January 1651
Place of Birth : Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts
Married : John Decker
Died : 25 December 1700
Notes : had four children
Son : Samuel
Date of Birth : 7 March 1655
Place of Birth : Rowley, Essex
County, Massachusetts
Married :
Died : buried 10 March 1655
Notes :
Daughter : Sarah
Date of Birth : 1 November 1656
Place of Birth : Rowley, Essex
County, Massachusetts
Married :
Died : buried 21 August 1660
Notes :
Comments, sources, various
additional :
Vinton, John Adams. The Giles Memorial – Genealogical Memoirs of
the Families Bearing the Names Giles, Gould, Holmes, Jennison, Leonard,
Lindall, Curwen, Marshall, Ribinson, Sampson, and Webb; also Genealogical
Sketches of the Pool, Very, Carr and other Families with a history of Pemaquid,
ancient and modern; some account of early settlements in Maine; and some details
of Indian warfare. Printed for the
author, by Henry W. Dutton & Son, Washington Street, Boston. 1864. pp 496 –
532.
Savage, James. A Genealogical
Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, showing three generations of
those who came before May, 1692 on the basis of Farmer’s Register. Baltimore Genealogical Publishing
Company, originally published Boston,
1860-1862. Reprinted with
"Genealogical Notes and Errata," excerpted from The New England Historical
and Genealogical Register, Vol. XXVII, No. 2, April, 1873, pp. 135-139; and a
Genealogical Cross Index of the Four Volumes of the Genealogical Dictionary of
James Savage, by O. P. Dexter, 1884. Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.
Baltimore, 1965,1969,1977,1981,1986, 1990. Electronic version has been adapted
under the direction of Robert Kraft (assisted by Benjamin Dunning) from
materials supplied by Automated Archives, 1160 South State, Suite 250, Orem UT
84058 (http://genweb.net/~books/savage/savage.htm)
Bates,
Samuel A. (Editor; Town Clerk of Braintree). Records of the Town of
Braintree Massachusetts, 1640 to 1873. Braintree, Massachusetts 17 June 1886. Facsimile Reprint by Heritage Books. Bowie, Maryland, 1991.
ISBN1556133979
’Early Settlers of Rowley’ : Scott. ...in Historical Collections of the Essex Institute. Volume XXIII. July, August & September 1886. Nos. 7, 8, 9, pages 237- 240
Harvey Hayes Webb family bible transcript, typed
transcript, drafted in the 1950's; courtesy Hazel Skelly Webb
Webb, Loren. Diary of Captain Loren Webb, 1861 -
1863, Firelands Historical Society, 1995. Transcribed by Matthew L.
Burr.
Written communication with
Vinton Phillips and David L. Hester, Huron County, Ohio, January 2001-
ongoing. Images of Webb gravestones courtesy of Elizabeth and Vinton
Philips.
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