Sarah Hooper

1650 - 1712  (52 years)

• Name	Sarah Hooper  [1]
  Birth	7 Dec 1650	Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Death	Between 1703 and 19 Feb 1712	Andover, Essex, Massachusetts   [4]
  Alternate death	Bef 19 Feb 1712  [3]
  Person ID	I28460	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	3 May 2020

  
  

  Father	William Hooper   d. 5 Dec 1678, Reading, Middlesex, Massachusetts
  Mother	Elizabeth   d. Bef 14 Dec 1664
  Family ID	F16986	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Samuel Wardwell,   b. 16 May 1643, Exeter, Rockingham, New Hampshire d. 22 Sep 1692, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 49 years)
  Marriage	9 Jan 1673	Andover, Essex, Massachusetts   [4, 5, 6]
  Children	+ 1. Mercy Wardwell,   b. 3 Oct 1673, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts d. 16 Feb 1754, Andover, Essex, Massachusetts (Age 80 years)
  Family ID	F16981	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 May 2020

  
  

• Notes

  She, her husband, their daughter Mercy, and her daughter by her first marriage Sarah Hawkes, were accused of witchcraft in the course of the great insanity. Her husband was convicted and hung on 22 Sep 1692. At a new court convened on 10 Jan 1693, her daughters were both acquitted, but she was convicted. Subsequently she was pardoned by Governor William Phips and thus escaped execution. She died in Andover some time after 1703, when (along with her son Samuel) she signed a petition for the lifting of attainder, and before 19 Feb 1712, when Samuel referred to her as deceased.

  
  

• Sources

  [S4090] John M. Switlik, "Research in Progress: The Trials of the Wilson Family." The Essex Genealogist 34:155, Aug 2014. [S3431] Massachusetts, town clerk and town records, 1626-2001, on familysearch.org. [S4094] Hooper Genealogy by Charles Henry Pope and Thomas Hooper. Boston: Charles H. Pope, 1908. [S4095] Marjorie Wardwell Otten, "Sgt. Thomas Wardwell of Boston and Exeter and His Maine Descendants." The Maine Genealogist 18:147, 1996. [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. [S4094] Hooper Genealogy by Charles Henry Pope and Thomas Hooper. Boston: Charles H. Pope, 1908., date only.