Barack OBAMA, 44th President of the United States
descendant of Johann Pieter STRAUB, 1733 immigrant to Philadelphia, PA
"We are and always will be the United States of America." (4 Nov 2008, Grant Park, Chicago, IL)
 
Relationships of Diana Gale MATTHIESEN to
Participants in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692
 Rebecca (TOWNE) NURSE is the central figure in Arthur Miller's play, The Crucible.
William & Grace
BALLARD
Roger & Martha
PRESTON
Francis NURSE & 
Rebecca TOWNE (hanged)
Edmund & Dorothy
FAULKNER
Joseph
BALLARD
(accuser)
& Elizabeth
PHELPS
Henry
HOLT
&
Sarah
BALLARD
Samuel
PRESTON
(accuser)
& Susannah
GUTTERSON¹
Thomas
PRESTON
(accuser)
& Rebecca
NURSE
Mary
NURSE
(hanged)
Sarah
NURSE
(condemned,
but escaped)
Samuel
NURSE
& Ms. SMITH
Francis
FAULKNER
& Abigail DANE
(condemned, 
but reprieved)²
Joseph
MARBLE
&
Mary
FAULKNER
James HOLT & 
Susannah PRESTON
        Samuel NURSE & 
Dorothy FAULKNER
  John MARBLE &
Abigail MERRIAM
Barzillai HOLT &
Elizabeth GOSS
              Bezaleel HALE &
Abigail MARBLE
Silas HOLT & 
Sarah HARRINGTON
              Edward CHENEY
& Abigail HALE
Seth HOLT & Abigail CHENEY
Samuel Lucas HOPKINS & Philancia HOLT
Ira Baker BROWN & Martha Abigail HOPKINS
William Murphy WILLIS & Ida BROWN
Albert Roy STRAUB & Nina WILLIS
Arthur Robert MATTHIESEN & Nina Gale STRAUB
  Diana Gale MATTHIESEN
¹Susannah GUTTERSON's niece, Sarah GUTTERSON, married Zebediah AUSTIN, whose great-grandmother, Ann (ALCOCK) FOSTER, died in jail at Salem, awaiting hanging. 
²Abigail (DANE) FAULKNER was temporarily spared because she was pregnant.  By the time she had birthed her baby, the accusers had recanted and the witch hunt was over. 

A good online source about the trials is:  Salem Witch Trials: Documentary Archive and Transcription Project.



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