Naomi (Lynsey) Maule (abt. 1647 - bef. 1713)

Born about 1647 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

Wife of Thomas Maule — married 22 Jul 1670 in Salem, Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died before 1713 before about age 66 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

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Biography

Naomi (Lynsey) Maule was a witchcraft accuser in the Salem Witch Trials

She was born about 1647, the daughter of Christopher Lindsey.^[1] She died before 1713, probably at Salem, Massachusetts.^[2]

"At the time the Salem Witch Trials commenced, Maule believed in witches, and his wife Naomi testified against the woman who would become the first person executed during the trials, Bridget Bishop."^[3][4] “Goodwife Naomi Maule, of another Quaker family, testified that Goody Bishop, as both she and her husband Thomas believed, had caused one of their children to die.” ^[5]

Children of Thomas Maule and Naomi Lynsey^[6]

1. Susanna Maule, b. 15 Sep 1671, Salem, Massachusetts Bay; d. 9 May 1730, Salem, Massachusetts Bay; m. Bartholomew Brown, Salem, Massachusetts Bay
2. Elizabeth Maule, b. 11 Jul 1673, Salem, Massachusetts Bay; d. 1744, Salem, Massachusetts Bay; m. Eleazer Lindsey
3. Deliverance Maule, b. 21 Oct 1675, Salem, Massachusetts Bay; d. 28 Sep 1676, Salem, Massachusetts Bay
4. Sarah Maule, b. 20 Mar 1679, Salem, Massachusetts Bay; d. 1732; m. Jonathan Hart
5. Margaretta Maule, b. 20 Mar 1680, Salem, Massachusetts Bay; d. 1718; m. Thomas Hanson, III
6. Peleth Maule b. 10 May 1682, Salem, Massachusetts Bay; d. young, probably 1684, in Salem, Massachusetts Bay
7. John Maule, b. 9 Oct 1684, Salem, Massachusetts Bay; d. 24 Nov 1726; m. Charity
8. Joseph Maule, b. 12 Dec 1686; d. 14 Mar 1687; died in infancy

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.^[7]
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.^[8]
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.^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ History of Lynn, Essex county, Massachusetts: including Lynnfield, Saugus, Swampscott, and Nahant, by Alonzo Lewis and James R. Newhall. Accessed January 13, 2020. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/AJA2122.0001.001?rgn=main;view.
2. ↑ MacDonald, Marion A., "The Lindsey Family: Descendants of Christopher Lindsey of Lynn, Massachusetts" The Essex Genealogist. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2018.)Reference Volume 7 (1987), page 18. $Subscription
3. ↑ “Thomas Maule, the Quaker Who Criticized the Salem Witch Trials – and Got Away With It.” New England Historical Society, October 2, 2019. http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/thomas-maule-the-quaker-who-criticized-the-salem-witch-trials-and-got-away-with-it/.
4. ↑ “Thomas Maule (Quaker).” Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, October 28, 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Maule_(Quaker).
5. ↑ “The Salem Witch Trials.” Google Books. Google. Accessed January 12, 2020. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Salem_Witch_Trials/TvxES1lB6XoC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Naomi+Maule&pg=PA159&printsec=frontcover.
6. ↑ Maule Genealogy Homepage: Bio1. Accessed January 12, 2020. http://www.maulefamily.com/mauleb9.htm.
7. ↑ “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.
8. ↑ https://www.mass.gov/doc/resolves-of-1957-chapter-145/download
9. ↑ https://malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2001/Chapter122