Mercy Wardwell

1673 - 1754  (80 years)

• Name	Mercy Wardwell  [1]
  Birth	3 Oct 1673	Andover, Essex, Massachusetts   [2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	16 Feb 1754	Andover, Essex, Massachusetts   [3]
  Person ID	I28458	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	3 May 2020

  
  

  Father	Samuel Wardwell,   b. 16 May 1643, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire d. 22 Sep 1692, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 49 years)
  Mother	Sarah Hooper,   b. 7 Dec 1650, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. Between 1703 and 19 Feb 1712, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 52 years)
  Marriage	9 Jan 1673	Andover, Essex, Massachusetts   [2, 4, 5]
  Family ID	F16981	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John Wright,   b. 10 Feb 1675, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts d. 9 Jun 1752, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	31 Aug 1697	Andover, Essex, Massachusetts   [3]
  Children	+ 1. Mercy Wright   d. 14 Feb 1759, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F16980	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 May 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Mary Wardwell. She, her parents, and her half-sister (Sarah Hawkes, her mother's daughter by her first husband) were accused of witchcraft in the course of the great insanity. Her father was convicted and hung on 22 Sep 1692. At a new court convened on 10 Jan 1693, she and her half-sister were acquitted, but her mother was convicted. Subsequently her mother was pardoned by Governor William Phips and thus escaped execution.

  
  

• Sources

  [S4090] John M. Switlik, "Research in Progress: The Trials of the Wilson Family." The Essex Genealogist 34:155, Aug 2014. [S4094] Hooper Genealogy by Charles Henry Pope and Thomas Hooper. Boston: Charles H. Pope, 1908., date only. [S2197] Vital Records of Andover, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849. Topsfield, Massachusetts: Topsfield Historical Society, 1912. [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. [S4095] Marjorie Wardwell Otten, "Sgt. Thomas Wardwell of Boston and Exeter and His Maine Descendants." The Maine Genealogist 18:147, 1996.