Sarah (Noyes) Hale (1656 - 1697)

Born 21 Mar 1656 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts

Ancestors

Wife of John Hale — married 15 Dec 1684 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 20 May 1697 at age 41 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

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Biography

Sarah (Noyes) Hale was involved in witch trials

Sarah Noyes was born March 21, 1655/1656, in Newbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, the daughter of James Noyes.^{[1] [2]}

John Hale, of Beverly, and Mrs. Sara Noyes were married on March 31, 1684 in Essex County, Massachusetts.^[3][4]

Sarah, wife of Rev. John, died on May 20, 1697, in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts, at age 41.^[5][6]

Sarah Noyes, wife of Rev. John Hale, minister in Beverly, was named in the Salem Witch Trials but no arrest warrant was issued. ^[7]

"Rev John Hale... During his Beverly pastorate occurred the famous Salem witchcraft excitement, and he appears to have been a believer in the delusion, until an accusation was made against his wife, whereupon he renounced his belief, and wrote an able work defending with spirit his change of view. For his first wife he married Rebecca Byles, daughter of Henry Byles, of Sarum, England, and she died April 13 1683, aged forty five years. March 3, 1684, he married Mrs Sarah Noyes of Newbury, whose death occurred May 20, 1695, at the age of forty one, and on August 8, 1698, he married for his third wife Mrs Elizabeth Clark of Newbury, who survived him. His children were Rebeckah, Robert, Rev James, Samuel, Joanna, and John."^[8]

Massachusetts Remediation

1. 17 October 1710, Convictions Reversed, The General Court of Massachusetts Bay, An act, the several convictions, judgments, and attainders be, and hereby are, reversed, and declared to be null and void.^[9]
2. 17 Dec 1711, Compensation to Survivors, Governor Dudley, GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY, approved compensation to such persons as are living, and to those that legally represent them that are dead
3. 28 Aug 1957, No Disgrace to Descendants, General Court of Massachusetts, ...such proceedings, were and are shocking, and the result of a wave of popular hysterical fear of the Devil in the community, and further declares that, as all the laws under which said proceedings...have been long since abandoned and superseded by our more civilized laws, no disgrace or cause for distress attaches to the said descendants or any of them by reason of said proceedings.^[10]
4. 31 Oct 2001, Additional Victims Included, Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives in General Court, AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE WITCHCRAFT TRIAL OF 1692, chapter 145 is hereby further amended by adding Bridget Bishop, Susannah Martin, Alice Parker, Margaret Scott and Wilmot Redd.^[11]

Sources

1. ↑ "The Essex Institute, Vital Records of Newbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 Vol. I - Births."
2. ↑ (Salem, Mass. 1911)(Free e-book) (Records are also available at ma-vitalrecords.org) p. 367
3. ↑ [1]
4. ↑ [2]
5. ↑ [3]
6. ↑ [4]
7. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_of_the_Salem_witch_trials
8. ↑ "Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 3'; Ezra S. Staerns, Ed.; Lewis Publishing Company, 1908, p. 1044."
9. ↑ “Salem Witchcraft : with an Account of Salem Village, and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects : Upham, Charles Wentworth, 1802-1875, Author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming.” Internet Archive, January 1, 1970. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17845/17845-h/salem2-htm.html#Page_ii.480.
10. ↑ https://www.mass.gov/doc/resolves-of-1957-chapter-145/download
11. ↑ https://malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2001/Chapter122

• Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686 (The Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.,1912) Vol. 2: 1656-1662, Page 4: Newbury vital records