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| Birth: | 1620 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts |
| Death: | 19 JUL 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts |
| Sex: | F |
| Father: | Richard North b. ABT 1595 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts |
| Mother: | Ursula b. EST BET 1585 AND 1607 |
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| George Martin (Husband) b. ABT 1618 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts |
| Marriage: 11 AUG 1646 in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts |
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 Esther Martin b. 7 APR 1653
 John Martin b. 1651 in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts
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Susanna evidently spoke out harshly against a neighbor woman who eventually suffered severe mental problems. The woman's husband blamed Susanna for his wife's trouble and Susanna was accused and found guilty of witchcraft while her husband was still alive..
At a later trial, there were at least fifteen adult males among the hostile witnesses. A former neighbor, John Kimball, dredged up an old story dating back to her first trial, 23 years earlier. He remembered how Susannah had insisted that he live up to his part of the bargain whereby he would pay cash or goods in return for land owned by her husband, George Martin. When Kimball offered the Martins three cows, but now two others which he particularly wanted to keep. "Martin himself was satisfied, but not the wife who threatened that if they would not part with one of the two cows, "she will never do you any more good". And sure enough, one month later that very cow lay dead in the yard, though careful examination revealed no reason. And in a little while after, another cow died, and then an ox, and then other cattle to the value of 30 pounds sterling that spring. In other words, anger over a property dispute combined with the chance deaths of several farm animals to mark Susannah Martin as a witch. She was tried, convicted and hung, together with nineteen others, in 1692. Executed as a witch!!!
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