Witchcraft Trials - NEHGS

[Jacquie in Canada]

Here's a link to a book with information on Elizabeth Dicer

http://tiny.cc/WT3yn

When searching the book at the above link without quotation marks around her name there were a couple of other entries regarding Elizabeth Dicer. One entry dated 5 Sep 1692 indicates that "Elizabeth Dicer had been fined thirteen years past for calling Mary English's mother 'a black-mouthed witch and a thief.' She was married to Wm. Dicer, a refugee from Saco who now worked as a mariner out of Boston, but she was arrested in Gloucester, where her married daughter lived. The notes to her case are lost but she, too, was held for trial."

Jacquie

[Lexi]

erato

Try contacting Massachusett's Judicial Court Archives to inquire if there is a transcript of her arrest.

See

http://www.genforum.familytreemaker.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?Dicer::austin::5738.html

These are actual court records from the Salem Witch trials:
(Warrant for Arrest of Elizabeth Dicer and Margaret Prince ) To: To the Constable of Gloster


Requests for information involving court records held by the Massachusetts Archives should be sent by mail only to:


Elizabeth Bouvier
Head of Archives
Supreme Judicial Court Archives
16th Floor, Highrise Court House
3 Pemberton Square
Boston, MA 02108
Phone: 617-557-1082

No return faxes; please include your name, mailing address and telephone number for a response.

http://www.sec.state.ma.us/ARC/arccol/colidx.htm

Lexi

[gene-genie]

Hi

Don't know if this will help but go to: www.archive.org  search texts and type in Salem - quite a lot should come - it includes fictional texts as well as non-fiction - including  2 vols of First Church in Salem.  Click on PDF.

This link should work:
http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=Salem%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts

This perhaps dumb thing to say but when searching try Dycer as well as Dicer.

Good Luck!

[piratejenny]

It's been a while since the last post, but just in case anyone is looking for info on Elizabeth Austin Dicer:

She lived in Gloucester, not Salem. The girls in Salem were at one point sent to a few other town in which there were charges of witchcraft.

Elizabeth's trial records have not survived according to a few different books I've read on the subject.

She was imprisoned, though I'm not sure which jail. The women accused in Gloucester were divided between the Salem jail and the Ipswich jail. At that time, she gave her location as "of Piscquatis." She was part of a group of women who petitioned to be released from jail in November (I'd assume 1692, as that's the year all the Salem craziness happened) because the conditions were so horrible. They promised to return in June. I don't think any of the women were made to return (this is conjecture on my part) because around the time the girls were giving evidence in other towns, they accused the wife of Gov. Phipps.

[lrwriter]

I just discovered Elizabeth Dicer was my 8x grandmother. This is very interesting additional information. Thank you!

[Erato]

I guess that makes us cousins.  Welcome to RootsChat.

[lrwriter]

Guess so! My grandmother's maiden name was Tarr. Thanks for the welcome. It's been a fun site to explore.

[Erato]

The ggg-grandma in my avatar is Nancy Davis Tarr, 1789-1866, who married Joshua Mitchell.  Her daughter, Nancy Ann Mitchell, married Cyrus Henry Ware.  They moved from Maine to Wisconsin in about 1851.

[lrwriter]

Interesting!!!

My Grandmother was Bessie Susan Tarr (1913-1985) she married my grandfather Gunnar Johnson and they moved here to Minnesota in 1931 from Maine. (My father was born in Maine). Bessie's father was James Madison Tarr, his father was Charles Andrew Tarr, his father was Andrew Jackson Tarr, his father was Paul Tarr, his father was Joseph Richard Tarr, his father was William Tarr, and his father was Richard Tarr Jr, who was Richard Tarr and Elizabeth's (Dicer) son.