
Samuel Preston[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47]

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Name Samuel Preston [10, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38] Birth Abt. 1651 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America [10, 13, 19]
Gender Male Death 10 Jul 1738 Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America [10, 13, 15]
Burial Aft. 10 Jul 1738 Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America [1]
Person ID I312684224771 Oswald Genealogy Last Modified 15 Jun 2025
Family Susanna Gutterson, b. 1654 d. 29 Dec 1710, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America (Age 56 years)
Marriage 27 May 1672 Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America Family ID F1163 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 15 Jun 2025
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Notes - It is said in NY Gen & Biog Record that
It is said in NY Gen & Biog Record that Samuel Preston was born in 1651 and Died in 1738 at age 84 yrs. This leaves his birth or death date in question. On the 19th of the 4th month, 1666, he being then abt. 15 yrs. of age, Samuel Preston made an affidavit relative to his breother Thomas Preston (see Essex County Court Records) which places the date of Samuel Preston's birth at about 1651.
BIRTH: Charles Henry Preston, Descendant
BIRTH: Charles Henry Preston, Descendants of Roger Preston of Ipswich andSalem Village; ; 1931, Reprint from Historical Collections of the EssexInstitute, Vols. 61-67; p. 20; , New England Historic Genealogy Society, Boston
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!DEATH: Charles Henry Preston, Descendants of Roger Preston of Ipswich andSalem Village; ; 1931, Reprint from Historical Collections of the EssexInstitute, Vols. 61-67; p. 20; , New England Historic Genealogy Society, Boston
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!MARRIAGE:Clarence Almon Torrey, New England Marriages Prior to 1700; ;Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co.; p. 602; , private library of Brent A.Schlottman
RTH: Charles Henry Preston, Descendants of Roger Preston of Ipswich andSalem Village; ; 1931, Reprint from Historical Collections of the Essex
!"History of Andover from its Settlement
!"History of Andover from its Settlement to 1829" by Abiel Abbot, page 36. LDS FHL film # 0874364. !Andover, Essex, Massachusetts, Vital Records, LDS FHL film #0878780.
!AFN: 8GXC-QF !BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
!AFN: 8GXC-QF !BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Per "Preston Genealogy: Record of Ancestors and Descendants of John Preston (1739 1804)," by John R. Totten (microfilm of typescript manuscript in FHL), at page 6: On the 19th of the 4th month, 1666, he being then about 15 years of age, Samuel Preston made an affidavit relative to his brother Thomas Preston (see Essex County Court Records) which places the date of Samuel Preston's birth at about 1651. Per "Descendants of Roger Preston of Ipswich and Salem Village," by Charles Henry Preston (The Essex Institute, Salem, MA, 1931), at page 21: Samuel Preston, Sen. was admitted to the church in Andover in 1711; he was a carpenter, though owning considerable land there, and sometimes called yeoman. It is thought he lived near what is now known as "Preston's Plain" near Ballardvale in Andover. He received several grants of land from the town, the first being 1 Jan. 1677, "on ye west side of his lott" and another 1 Mar 1680. "Granted liberty to Samuel Preston to change two acres he bought of Anddrew Foster which was upon the plain by ye pine tree going to good: Ballards, and lay it out adjoining to his new farme."
136. Samuel Preston, born 1651 in Ipswi
136. Samuel Preston, born 1651 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts; died July 10, 1738 in Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts. He was the son of 272. Roger Preston and 273. Martha ?. He married 137. Susannah Gutterson May 27, 1672 in Andover, Windham County, Connecticut. 137. Susannah Gutterson, born 1654 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts; died December 29, 1710 in Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts. Child of Samuel Preston and Susannah Gutterson is: 68 i. Jacob Preston, born February 24, 1679/80 in Andover, Essex County, Massachusetts; died in Ashford, Windham County, Connecticut; married Sarah Wilson June 17, 1702 in Andover, Windham County, Connecticut.
Carpenter/Yeoman.
Carpenter/Yeoman.
IS THIS THE SAMUEL PRESTON WHO WAS AN ACCUSER OF MARTHA CARRIER IN HER SALEM WITCHCRAFT TRIAL?
TRIAL OF MARTHA CARRIER OF SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS - SUBMITTED TO ANCESTRY.COM BY RICHARD FARRELL: Below shows Samuel Preston as one of Martha Carrier's accusers.
Quoted from A GENEALOGICAL DICTIONARY of THE FIRST SETTLERS OF NEW ENGLAND, SHOWING THREE GENERATIONS OF THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE MAY, 1692, ON THE BASIS OF FARMER'S REGISTER. By James Savage, former President of the MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY and editor of WINTHROP'S HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND. Originally Published Boston, 1860-1862 Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 65-18541
HERE ARE THE DETAILS OF MARTHA CARRIER'SDEMISE:
In 1641 English law made witchcraft a capital crime. In 1688 Martha Goodwin, following an argument with Goode Glover began exhibiting bizarre behavior. Days later her siblings exhibited similar behavior. Reverend Cotton Mather met with Goode Glover following her arrest in an attempt to persuade her to repent her witchcraft. Goode Glover was hanged. Mather took Martha Goodwin into his house. Her behavior was irrational and suspicious. Shortly after the new year in 1692, several young girls in Salem begin behaving like the Goodwin children acted four years earlier. In mid February, 1692 a doctor attributed it to Witchcraft. Many more accusations followed. The Salem Witch Trials began, with many innocent people convicted and sentenced to death that summer.
The Trial of Martha Carrier, at the COURT OF OYER AND TERMINER, HELD BY ADJOURNMENT AT SALEM, AUGUST 2, 1692
MARTHA CARRIER was Indicted for the bewitching certain Persons, according to the Form usual in such Cases, pleading Not guilty, to her Indictment; there were first brought in a considerable number of the bewitched Persons; who not only made the Court sensible of an horrid Witchcraft committed upon them, but also deposed,That it was Martha Carrier, or her Shape, that grievously tormented them, by Biting, Pricking, Pinching and Choaking of them. It was further deposed,That while this Carrier was on her Examination, before the Magistrates, the Poor People were so tortured that every one expected their Death upon the very spot, but that upon the binding of Carrier they were eased. Moreover the Look of Carrier then laid the Afflicted People for dead; and her Touch, if her Eye at the same time were off them, raised them again WhichThings were also now seen upon her Tryal. And it was testified, That upon the mention of some having their Necks twisted almost round, by the Shape of this Carrier, she replyed, 'Its no matter though their Necks had been twisted quite off.......
6. Samuel Preston testify'd, that about two years ago, having some difference with Martha Carrier, he lost a Cow in a strange Preternatural unusual manner; and about a month after this, the said Carrier, having again some difference with him, she told him; He had lately lost a Cow, and it should not be long before he lost another; which accordingly came to pass; for he had a thriving and well-kept Cow, which without any known cause quickly fell down and dy'd.....
Memorandum. This rampant Hag, Martha Carrier, was the person, of whom the Confessions of the Witches, and of her own children among the rest, agreed, That the Devil had promised her, she should be Queen of Heb. From: Cotton Matter on Witchcraft, 1692, 1866, 1991.
Her final comment was,"...I am wronged. It is a shameful thing that you should mind these folks that are out of their wits." Martha Carrier was hanged for her "crime" August 19th, 1692.
EPILOGUE
On October 3, 1692, The Reverend Increase Mather, President of Harvard College and father to Cotton Mather, denounced the use of spectral evidence. Governor Phipps ordered that spectral evidence no longer be admitted in witchcraft trials. Later that fall, Phipps prohibited further arrests and released many accused witches. Forty-nine of the fifty-two remaining people brought to court on witchcraft charges were released because their arrests were based on spectral evidence. The following Spring, Phipps signed pardons for those accused still in prison. It took until 1697 for the court to admit wrongdoing. The General Court ordered a day of fasting and soul-searching for the tragedy at Salem. The General Court declared the 1692 trials unlawful. During the early 1700s Salem passed a bill, saying that those accused had their good name and rights as citizens restored.
- It is said in NY Gen & Biog Record that
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- [S1173462615] FamilySearch.org, Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZK7-7Q7 : 15 January 2020), Samuell Preston in entry for Jacob Preston, 1680.
- [S1173462615] FamilySearch.org, Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915, "Massachusetts, Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZKS-T2H : 15 January 2020), Samuell Preston in entry for Elizabeth Preston, 1682.
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