Samuel PRESTON, Sr. & Susannah GUTTERSON & Mary ROLANDSON

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Samuel PRESTON, Sr.
Susannah GUTTERSON
Mary ROLANDSON

Husband: Samuel PRESTON, Sr.
Birth: 1651, Ipswich, Essex Co., MA
Death: 10 Jul 1738, Andover, Essex Co., MA
Occupation: carpenter, yeoman
Historical Event: 1692, one of the accusers in the Salem Witch Trials
Father: Roger PRESTON
Mother: Martha __?__

Marriage-1: 27 May 1672, Andover, Essex Co., MA

Wife-1: Susannah GUTTERSON
Birth: 1654, Ipswich, Essex Co., MA
Death: 29 Dec 1710, Andover, Essex Co., MA
Father: William GUTTERSON
Mother: Elizabeth __?__

Marriage-2: 24 Sep 1713

Wife-2: Mary ROLANDSON
Other spouse: m1. John BLODGETT
Father: Thomas ROLANDSON
Mother: Dorethie ROBENSON

Children with Susannah GUTTERSON — born in Andover, Essex Co., MA:

1. Samuel PRESTON, Jr., b. 16 Mar 1672/3
2. William PRESTON, b. 11 Jan 1674/5
3. Susannah PRESTON, b. 30 Mar 1677
4. Mary PRESTON, b. 5 Jan 1678/9
5. Jacob PRESTON, b. 24 Feb 1680/81
6. Elizabeth PRESTON, b. 14 Feb 1681/2
7. John PRESTON, b. 1 May 1685
8. Joseph PRESTON, b. 26 Jan 1686/7
9. Ruth PRESTON, b. 7 Feb 1688/9
10. Lydia PRESTON, b. 8 Oct 1690
11. Priscilla PRESTON, b. 19 Mar 1695/6

Children with Mary ROLANDSON:

Sources:

1. Lucius Manlius Boltwood. 1849. "Marriages in the Town of Andover, Ms., from 1647 to 1700." New England Historical Genealogical Record. 3(1): 65-68. On p. 66:

Samuel Preston & Susannah Gutterson married May 27 1672

2a. Inventing America Online Tutorial: Chapter 3: Annotation 3.1: Page 108: Salem Witch Trials (online at www.wwnorton.com):

Text - FROM The Salem Witchcraft Papers: Verbatim Transcripts of the Legal Documents of the Salem Witchcraft Outbreak of 1692 (Compiled 1938). 2. Samuel Preston v. Martha Carrier

Samuel Preston aged about 41: years Saith that about 2 years since I had some difference with Martha Carrier which also had happened several times before and soon after I lost a Cow in a strange manner being Cast upon her back with her heels up in firm ground when she was very Lusty it being in June & within about a month after this the said Martha & I had some difference again at which Time she told me I had lost a Cow lately & it Would not or should not be long before I should loose Another which accordingly came to pass. for I had a Cow that was well kept with English Hay & I could not perceive that she ailed any thing & yet she pined & quickly lay down as if she was asleep & dyed

Martha was one of those ultimately hanged.

2b. The Trial of Martha CARRIER (online at Dick Bentley's www.family2remember.com web site):

Court of Oyer and Terminer, held by adjournment at Salem, August 2, 1692...
Samuel Preston testify'd, that about two years ago, having some difference with Martha Carrier, he lost a Cow in a strange Preternatural unusual manner; and about a month after this, the said Carrier, having again some difference with him, she told him; He had lately lost a Cow, and it should not be long before he lost another; which accordingly came to pass; for he had a thriving and welo-kept Cow, which without any known cause quickly fell down and dy'd...
From Cotton Matter (sic) on Witchcraft, 1692, 1866, 1991.

3. The Preston/Lindsey Trail, self-published (1995) by Rosaline Preston (17369 Road 6 SE, Warden, WA 98857) and Carol Huber (10508-A Witter Springs Rd., Witter Springs, CA 95493).

4. LDS. Ancestral File (online).

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