Margaret Wilkins

Bef 1649 - Aft 1697  (> 48 years)

• Name	Margaret Wilkins  [1, 2]
  Birth	Bef 10 Feb 1649  [3, 4]
  Baptism	10 Feb 1649	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [3, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Aft 9 Jan 1697  [4]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  + 1. Thomas Wilkins ,   b. Abt 1646   d. Between 4 Mar 1716 and 24 Sep 1717, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 70 years) ▻ Hannah Nichols ,  m. May 1667 + 2. Margaret Wilkins ,   b. Bef 10 Feb 1649   d. Aft 9 Jan 1697  (Age > 48 years) ▻ Philip Knight ,  m. Bef 1669
  Person ID	I33699	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of DGH
  Last Modified	9 Apr 2021

  
  

  Father	Bray Wilkins,   b. Abt 1611   d. 12 Jan 1702, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 91 years)
  Mother	Hannah Way,   b. Bef 3 Mar 1616   d. Aft 26 Jan 1702 (Age > 86 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1636  [3, 4, 5]
  Family ID	F19862	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Philip Knight,   b. Abt 1646   d. Aft 26 Sep 1724 (Age ~ 78 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1669  [2, 3, 6]
  Children	+ 1. Elizabeth Knight,   b. 25 Jan 1677   d. 17 May 1752, Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F19861	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Apr 2021

  
  

• Notes

  In 1692 she gave testimony against her neice Margaret Wilkins' husband John Willard, in the trumped-up proceedings that led to his judicial murder in the middle of the Salem witchcraft mania. Her niece Margaret, daughter of her brother Thomas, was also a DGH ancestor, via her marriage, after Willard's murder, to William Towne. She was living when her father made his will on 9 Jan 1697.

  
  

• Sources

  [S3311] The Ancestry of Lieut. Amos Towne, 1737-1793, of Arundel (Kennebunkport), Maine by Walter Goodwin Davis. Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1927., first name ("Margery") only. [S5383] The Ancestry of Franklin Merriam Peabody by Sidney Augustus Merriam. Salem, Massachusetts: Newcomb & Gauss, 1929. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S5391] David L. Greene, "Bray Wilkins of Salem Village MA and His Children." The American Genealogist 60:1, 60:101, 1984. [S5382] David L. Greene, "A Search for the English Origin of Henry1 Way of Dorchester, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist 61:241, 1985. [S5391] David L. Greene, "Bray Wilkins of Salem Village MA and His Children." The American Genealogist 60:1, 60:101, 1984., "about 1668".