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Anne Bradstreet (Salem witch trials)

Anne Wood Price Bradstreet
Born
Anne Wood

c. 1650 (1650)
Andover, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Died1707 (1708)
Andover, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Anne Wood Price Bradstreet (c. 1650 – 1707) was the wife of Dudley Bradstreet and accused "witch" during the Salem Witch Trials.[1][2]

Salem Witch Trial

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Dudley Bradstreet was accused of witchcraft after he refused to issue warrants for accused witches. Anne and her husband fled the area to avoid arrest.[2]

Family

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Anne was the daughter of Richard and Anne (Priddeth) Wood of Barbados. She first married Theodore Price of Andover and had the following children:

  1. Elizabeth, married Thomas Barnard.

Next, she married Dudley Bradstreet, son of Simon Bradstreet and Anne Dudley Bradstreet. They had the following children:[1]

  1. Margaret, married Job Tyler, son of Moses Tyler.
  2. Dudley, married Mary Wainwright.
  3. Anne, died in infancy.

Bradstreet is an ancestor of U.S. President Herbert Hoover.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b Watson, Marston (2004). Governor Thomas Dudley: and descendants through five generations. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. p. 22. ISBN 9780806365244.
  2. ^ a b Weiser-Alexander, Kathy. "The "Witches" of Massachusetts". Legends of America. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  3. ^ McLean, Hulda Hoover (1967). Genealogy of the Herbert Hoover Family. Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University.