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Mrs. Sarah PEASE

George SOULE

Austin HAMMER

Albrecht ZABOROWSKIJ

Lucretia COFFIN MOTT







Mrs. Sarah Pease, Accused of Witchcraft.


Robert Pease II, husband of Sarah Pease, emigrated from England around 1634 with his father and uncle. Nothing clear is known of Sarah's familial origins previous to her marriage to Robert, but one morbidly fascinating historical fact makes an intriguing footnote (if nothing else) in the family ledger. On May 23, 1692, Sarah Pease was accused of witchcraft in the town of Salem and served 18 months in prison.1 She was accused (according to the transcription archival data at the University of Virginia) initially by a certain John DeRich, whom was also making charges against the infamously unfortunate Giles Corey at the time (Giles Corey, at the age of 88, was pressed to death beneath stones for his refusal to not only confess to acts of indiscretion with the devil, but likewise because he openly denounced the proceedings and refused to stand trial for himself.)

(John DeRich v. Giles Corey and Sarah Pease)

the testomeny of John derech Eaged about sixten years testefieth and sayeth that gils Cory also Came to me and aflicted me this 5 of September as wel be fore as after he al so Came a bout the 20 of oges and told me that he wanted som platers for he was gowen to afeast he told me that he had a good mind to ask my dame but he sayd that she wouled not let him have them so he took the platers and cared them a way being gown a bout half a oure with them then he brot them a gaine gowen a way and sayd no thing

also Sary pese afliceth me at several times she Came to me af the fast day last at Salam She pinched me then and i have not sene har sencs --

(Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 2, Page 43)

How we connect to Sarah Pease: Dale RUSSELL --- George Barber RUSSELL --- Hannah Maria CHILD --- Warren Gould CHILD --- Alfred Bosworth CHILD --- Mark Anthony Child --- Olive PEASE --- Daniel PEASE --- Robert PEASE III --- Robert PEASE II and Sarah PEASE


George Soule, Mayflower pilgrim.

George Soule was a passenger on the Mayflower2 and another direct-line ancestor of ours. Signed the Mayflower compact and married Mary Buckett in Plymouth sometime before 1627. He died in Duxbury sometime between when he updated his will (20 Sep 1677) and when his inventory was taken (22 Jan 1679-1680). Upon his death, he provided in his will that our ancestress (and his daughter) Susannah would be left with a whopping twelve pence. Now, you may be thinking, 'Oh, but in those times that could have been a lot!' Until you realize that he left enormous lots of land to his children Nathaniel, George, Elizabeth and Patience. My guess is that either he wasn't terribly fond of our Susannah, or he perhaps didn't like her husband. (Which is funny, given the rebellious nature of Nathaniel and Elizabeth, whom were both found guilty of fornication in the village - Elizabeth twice with a Nathaniel Church and her brother Nathaniel for "lying with an Indian woman". 3 He "was centanced to be whipt att the post, which accordingly was inflicted; likewise, the woman was publickly whipt att the post for this fact. And the said Soule is ordered by the Court to paye ten bushells of Indian corne to the said Indian woman towards the keeping of the child." Yeah, seems this lot's blood ran a little hot for those pesky Puritans.) Of course, this is speculation on my part, but according to the Plymouth Colony Archival holdings at the University of Virginia, Susannah's husband Francis West (sometimes spelled Wost, Wast, etc.) stole a hog and a firearm from a Native American and was told by the courts to pay the man thirty shillings for the hog and to return the gun.(1 June 1669 [PCR vol. 5, p. 22]) Which, hey, to me? Doesn't say much for his "sterling" character, if you get my drift.

Besides the fornicating madness and various small land disputes, I also find it amusing that George's son Nathaniel (mentioned above) was summoned to court for "his abusing of Mr John Holmes, teacher of the church of Christ att Duxburrow, by many false, scandulous, and approbriouse speeches"see here, and George's wife Mary was brought (along with many others) to court for "frequently absenting themselues from the publicke worship of God, were sentanced by the Court to pay, according to order of Court, each ten shillings". Sounds like they were no fan of the church there, or at least its ministry. Geez, what a bunch of hellions!

How we connect to George Soule: Dale RUSSELL --- George Barber RUSSELL --- Hannah Maria CHILD --- Warren Gould CHILD --- Polly BARBER --- Ichabod BARBER --- Thomas BARBER --- Susannah WEST II --- Susannah SOULE --- George SOULE and Mary BUCKETT


Austin Hammer, devout Mormon that died horribly.




Austin Hammer, husband to Nancy Jane Elston, was born on May 6th, 1804 in Randolph County, North Carolina. He owned 120 acres in 1838 in Caldwell County, Missouri, on which he grew corn. The cause of his death is the mark of infamy in that he perished rather violently in what the Church of Latter Day Saints refer to as the "Haun's Mill Massacre".4 To those whom, like myself, had never heard of this previously, fifteen Mormons were essentially slaughtered/shot by a mob of Missouri people that (to put it mildly) disagreed strongly with the ways of their religion and saw some of the devout's enthusiasm towards polygamy as sinful. They came upon the Mormon encampment at Haun's Mill and killed without quarter, their message being "leave or die". The Mormons fled the next day in such fearful haste that they had not the time to properly bury their dead. These unfortunate souls were then placed in a dry well, all fifteen of them, as the survivors made haste to escape.

How we connect to Austin Hammer: Dale RUSSELL --- Ida May RAWSON --- Nancy Ette SOUTHWICK --- Marietta NORTON --- Nancy Jane HAMMER --- Austin HAMMER and Nancy Jane ELSTON.


Albrecht Zaborowskij, man of many talents.


Albrecht Zabriskie was, among other things, a man of many names.

Born in the Poland/Prussian area in 1638, Albrecht Sobieska grew to manhood under the auspicious albeit warrior-like Prussian Sobieska family and was cousin to the last king of Poland, James III. (However, it should be noted that in that area in those times, the monarch was elected, not an inheritable status. So, though no royal blood ran through his veins any more than if one were related to a president in the United States, he was descended from a family of fierce warriors and strategists.) Albrecht's father as a warrior himself, but the family calling did not so much call to Albrecht as distantly murmur in bored tones, perhaps. That is to say, he was totally uninterested in a vocation which involved wielding a sword on a blood-strewn battlefield. His father wasn't apparently much into acknowledging the lack of war lust in his son, but he was not blind to Albrecht's intelligence, sending him to a Protestant school in Holland with the hopes that he could earn an education as well as preaching the Reformation of the church. Albrecht, however, did not favor the rigid puritanical tenets of the institute and eventually ran away. He travelled without coin or a discernible job, from city to city until being seized by the Prussian authorities to be drafted for their armies. In Amsterdam, he made a disappearing act and escaped aboard a ship named "The Fox", under the name of "Albert Saboriski" (listed in entry as being "from Prussia"). It was August of 1662 and he was heading to the New World. (List of Inhabitants of Colonial New York, pg. 170.)

For thirteen years, Albrecht Zabriskie essentially disappears from record, only to reappear in 1675, when an "Albert Zaborowsky" was reported trading with the Tappans; notably Mamshier, Metetoch and Chechepowas. This remains a fascinating tidbit for me. Not only was he trading with them, he spoke their languages. He had a name they'd given him ("Totlock"). Myself personally, I suspect that he had been living amongst the natives for those thirteen years, thus why no english record of him appears in any official record for over a decade. Also, he may have (mind you, these are speculations on my part) been feeling a bit paranoid about the Prussian government finding him again and forcing him into service. It makes sense to me that he would appear after deciding that they weren't after him and he'd established a niche for himself to exploit. In 1676, we find him at Bergen, New Jersey, where met Machtelt (Matilda) Van der Linden, daughter of Yost Van der Linden, and later married her on December the 17th of that very year. At the beginning of 1676 (January 6th, to be precise), he had negotiated a land deal between the Hackensack sachem Tantaque and a Dutch company between the Hackensack River and the west branch of Overpeck Creek. He continues to do this negotiating for years, under slightly different names. Albert Saberasky. Albert Sabboresco. Albert Saberiscoe.

He gains from his own negotiations, as well. For instance, on June 1, 1702, Orachanap (aka Metachenak), Coovnag and Nomerascon (Tappan Indians) conveyed a tract of 1,200 acres on the southeast side of Saddle River, called Weerommensa, to "Albert Zaborowsky". On March 29, 1708, Albert Zaborowsky conveyed the "full, true and equal half" of this tract to a Thomas Van Buskerk, to what what can assume would at least have been a decent profit (given the evidence of Albrecht's intelligence and savvy).

He died on September 1, 1711 at the age of 73 and was buried at Hackinsack. He left no will and his lands were apparently divided among his children the following summer.

The various aliases he was known as are as follows: Albrecht Zaborowskij, Albert Saboriski, Albrecht Sobieska, Olbracht Zaborowski, Albert Zabriskie, Albert Saboroscoe, Albert Saberasky, Albert Sabboresco, Albert Saberiscoe, Albert Zaborowsky, Albert Zaberoski and "Totlock" (among the Hackensack, Lenni Lenape and Tappan Indian tribes).

How we connect to Albrecht Zaborowskij: Marilyn WHITING --- (living) ZABRISKIE --- George Alva ZABRISKIE --- George Albert ZABRISKIE --- Alva ZABRISKIE --- Lewis ZABRISKIE --- Christian ZABRISKIE --- Hendrick C. ZABRISKIE --- Christian ZABRISKIE --- Albrecht ZABOROWSKIJ and Machtelt (Matilda) Van der Linden


Lucretia Coffin Mott, Women's Rights Suffragist & Abolitionist.


Lucretia COFFIN was born on January 3, 1793, to the Quaker Coffin family of Nantucket, Massachusetts. In 1811, she married James MOTT and it was a rather auspicious marriage, indeed. He encouraged her to seek activities outside the home and valued her intellect and opinions.

The Quaker tradition enabled women to take public positions on a variety of social problems and in the 1830s Lucretia was elected as a clerk of the Philadelphia Women's Yearly Meeting. During the 1820s a rift formed between the stricter, more conservative Quakers and the tolerant, less orthodox followers of Elias Hicks (known as the Hicksites). In 1827 first James and then Lucretia followed the Hicksite branch which espoused free interpretation of the Bible and reliance on inward, as opposed to historic Christian, guidance. They traveled the states in the mid-nineteenth century whereupon she addressed various reform organizations such as the Non-Resistance Society, the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women as well as the quarterly and yearly Quaker meetings.

In 1840, she was chosen as one of six women delegates from the several American antislavery societies to the World's Anti-Slavery Convention, she and James Mott sailed for England on May 5. On June 12, she and the other women delegates were refused seats, despite the protest of other Americans attending the convention. 1848 witnessed the birth of the women's rights movement in the historic Seneca Falls Convention which issued the women's Declaration of Sentiments, a call for equal treatment of women. Lucretia presided over the Seneca Falls meeting and was the first to sign the Declaration. Until her death, Lucretia remained a leader in women's rights organizations.

Throughout the turbulent 1850s, Lucretia continued her speaking and engaged in further antislavery and non-resistant activities. She worked with other antislavery leaders such as Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Lucy Stone. As a Quaker preaching non-violence, Lucretia denounced the Civil War but not without some conflict, for, like other antislavery activists, she hoped the war would end slavery.

How we connect to Lucretia COFFIN MOTT: Dale RUSSELL -- Ida May RAWSON -- William John RAWSON -- Arthur Morrison RAWSON -- Elizabeth COFFIN -- William COFFIN -- Libni COFFIN -- William COFFIN (1720) -- Samuel COFFIN -- John COFFIN -- Tristram COFFIN.

Lucretia COFFIN's great-great-great-grandfather was Tristram COFFIN, our common ancestor. Her great-great grandfather James COFFIN was the brother of our ancestor John COFFIN.

Lucretia COFFIN MOTT -- Thomas COFFIN -- Benjamin COFFIN -- Ebenezer Coffin -- James COFFIN -- Tristram COFFIN.















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