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Winifred King
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Married: 15 Jan 1656/7 Boston, Suffolk Co., MA
JOSEPH BENHAM of Newhaven & WINIFRED KING were married 15th
- 11th month
by Richard Bellingham Dept. Govr. --A Report of the Record Commissioners
Containg Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699
(Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1883), 58.
Died: Aft. 1697 Wallingford, New Haven, CT
John King
MOTHER
Mary Baker
HUSBAND
CHILDREN
Winifred (KING) Benham was accised pf witchcraft by John Parker's wife, Hannah (BASSET) parker in Salem.. Joseph Benham was cited to court for pulling out a gun and threatening to shoot Hannah Parker if the woman did not stop harassing his wife.. Her husband's threat to shoot her accuser did not end the rumors, and the following year she was in court again on the same charge. She was released again, this time required to post bond of 20 pounds for her good behavior. The church soon after added their censure of excommunicating her. When she was accused a third time in 1697, this time for possessing several of her neighbor's children, she was sent to Harford for trial, along with her daughter, Winifred age 13, who was by now implicated in her own crimes. But the grand jury refused to give credence to the accusations and the case was dismissed. The family then moved to New York where the Dutch influence created an influence of tolerance.
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