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Family Sheet

HUSBAND
Name: Deacon Nathaniel Putnam Note Born: Oct 1619 at Aston Abbots, , Buckinghamshire, England Married: 1652 at Salem, , Essex, Massachusetts Died: 22 Jul 1700 at Salem, , Essex Co., Massachusetts Father: John Putnam Mother: Unknown
WIFE
Name: Elizabeth Hutchinson Note Born: Bef 30 Aug 1629 at Arnold, , Notinghamshire, England Died: 24 Jun 1688 at Salem, , Essex, MA Father: Richard Hutchinson Mother: Alice Bosworth
CHILDREN
Name: Captain Benjamin Putnam Born: Died: Wife: Sarah Tarrant
Name: Samuel Putnam Born: 18 Feb 1652-1653 Died: 1676 Wife: Elizabeth Leach
Name: James Putnam Born: Aft 1652 Died:
Name: Nathaniel Putnam Jr Born: 24 Apr 1655 Died: Bef Jul 1700
Name: Captain John Putnam Born: 26 Mar 1657 at Salem, , Essex, Massachusetts Died: Sep 1722 at Salem, , Essex, Massachusetts Wife: Hannah Cutler
Name: Joseph Putnam Born: 29 Aug 1659 Died: 1723
Name: Benjamin Putnam Sr Born: 11 Aug 1662 at Salem, , Essex, Massachusetts Died: 23 Jul 1715 at Salem Village, , Essex, Massachusetts
Name: Elizabeth Putnam Born: 11 Aug 1662 at Salem Village now Danvers , , Essex Co, MA Died: 6 Mar 1697 at Reading, , , MA
Name: Mary Putnam Born: 15 Sep 1668 at Salem Village, , Essex, Massachusetts Died: Jul 1758 at Malden, , Middlesex, Massachusetts Husband: John Tufts
NOTES
1). Admitted to church 1648 Salem Village, Essex, Massachusetts He was a leader in the witchcraft hysteria, but supported Rebecca Nurse. From Life of Israel Putnam by Increase Tarbox Received a fourth part of his fathers estate and his wife had broughthim 75 acres of land. Nathaniel was deputy to the General Court. Hehad great business activity and ability, and was a person ofextraordinary powers of mind, of great energy and skill inthemanagement of affairs, and of singular sacagity, acumen and quicknessof perception. From J. B. Felt s Annals of Salem 2nd Edition, 1845 Nathaniel admitted to the 1st Church of Salem 1648, Resident ofSalem 1641 Nathaniel Putnam , one of three influential immigrant brothers, becamehead of the prominent Putnam family of Danvers, MA after his brotherThomas died in 1686. Nathaniel was smart, perceptive and energetic,very active in business and skilled at it. With his father JohnPutnam, Nathaniel left Aston Abbots, Buckinghamshire, England about1634 and came to New England. He married Elizabeth Hutchinson in 1651.Before 1673, he and his brother John invested in an ironworks on landsthey owned in nearby Rowley. When the financially troubled enterpriseburned in 1674, they sued the managers for negligence. For years,Nathaniel joined his neighbors in protesting that Salem Village theFarms, later Danvers was too far away from Salem for its men to beexpected to share in mandatory guard duty there. For that and otherreasons, he wanted Danvers to become independent from the town ofSalem. In 1669 a Salem court ordered him to apologize publicly overthis issue or pay a fine of 20 pounds. In 1681, second in wealth only to his brother Thomas, Nathaniel wastaxed 9 pounds 10 shillings, while Francis Nourse was only taxed 18shillings and Samuel Nourse and John Tarbell were each taxed one poundfour shillings. He lived on 75 acres acquired fromhis father in lawRichard Hutchinson. Even after Danvers built its own church in 1672, Nathaniel served on the first building committee , a Salem constableseized two and a half acres from his front yard because he refused topay taxes to support the Salem congregation. He was a steadfastservant to the Danvers church. With his relatives and neighbors butnot his wife , he put his stubby signature on the first Danvers churchcovenant on Nov. 19, 1689. We do, in some measure of sinceritie, this day give up ourselves untoGod in Christ, to be for him and not for another, at the same timerenouncing all the vanities and Idols of this present evil world... Church Covenant, Salem Village, 1689 Nathaniel knew the Nourses for forty years. His land holdings borderedon the Nourses to the south, and the two families bickered about theproperty line. Yet when Rebecca Nourse was accused of witchcraft bysome of his Putnam relatives, Nathaniel defended her, writing to thecourt, She hath brought up a great family of children and educatedthem well, so that there is in some of them apparent savor ofgodliness. Thirty other neighbors signed a similar letter. Nathaniel s son Capt. Benjamin Putnam 708 was head of the Putnamfamily after his father s death. He served in Danvers as church clerkin 1705 and as deacon for nine years beginning in 1709. He firstmarried Elizabeth Tarrant 709 , then Sarah Holten. Complaint v. Elizabeth Fosdick and Elizabeth Paine Salem May the. 30th 1692 Lt Nathaniell Putnam and Joseph Whipple of Salem Village made Complaint in behalfe of their Majest s against Elizabeth fosdick of Charlstown Maulden the wife of John Fosdick. afore d Carpenter And Elizabeth Paine of Maulden Charlstown the wife of Stephen Paine of s d place husbandman for sundry acts of Witchcraft by them Committed Lately on the Bodys of Marcy Lewis and Mary Warren of Salem Village or farmes to theire great hurt therefore Craves Justice. Nathanell Putnam Joseph Whipple The abovesayd Complaint was Exhibited before us Salem May the. 30th 1692 John Hathorne Assist s Jonathan. Corwin Assist s peter Tufts of Charlstowne also appeared before us Salem June 2d 1692. and also made a Complained against both the aboves d. for acts of Witchcraft by them Committed on his negro Woman Warrant for Arrest of John Willard To To the Marshall of the County of Essex or to the Constables in Salem or any other Marshal or Marshalls Constable or Constables within this theire Majest s Colony or Territory of the Massachusetts in New England You are in theire Majest s names hereby required to Apprehend John Willar d of Salem Village husbandman, if he may be found in your precincts who stands charged with sundry acts of Witchcraft by him donne or Committed on the Bodys of Bray Wilkins and Daniell Wilkins the son of Henery Wilkins both of Salem Village and others according to Complaint made before us by Thomas fuller Jun r and Benj n Wilkins sen r both of Salem Village afores d yeomen who being found you are to Convey from Town to Towne from Constable to Constable, until he be Brought before us or such as may be in Authority here in Salem, and hereof you are not to faile Dated Salem May the 15 th 1692 p us John Hathorne Assist s Jonathan. Corwin Assist s To be prosecuted according to the direction of Constable John Putnam of Salem Village who goes with the same. Reverse I have apprehended John Wilard of Salam Veleg according to the tener of this Warrant and brought him before your Worships Dated 18 May 1692 by me John Putnam Constable of Salem Goody wheat Mrs Hall of Groton Essex County Archives, Salem Witchcraft Vol. 1 Page 94 George Herrick and Others v. John Willard and Sarah Buckley To To the Hon ble John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin Esq rs At Boston Humbly Thees Dated Salem Village May 17 th 1692 Return of a Jury of Inquest on the Death of Daniel Wilkins We whose names are underwritten being warned by Constable John Putnam of Salem this 17 of may 1692 to view the body of Daniel Wilkes of Salem village deceased and we find several brussed places upon the back of the said corps and the skin broken and many places of the greatest part of his back seemed to be prickt with an instrument about the bigness of a small awl and own side of his neck and ear seemed to be much bruised to his Throat and turning the corps the blood Run out of his nose or mouth or both and his body not swel d neither did he purge elce where and to the best of our judgments we cannot but think apprehend but that he dyed an unnatural death by sume cruell hands of witchcraft or diabolicall act as is evident to us both by what we have seen and heard consarning his death. Salem Village this 17 th of May 1692 Nathanell Putnam Thomas Fuller Sen. Jonathan Walcott Sen. Nathanail Ingersoll Thomas Flint William Way Thomas Fuller Joseph Harrick Thomas Haynes Edward Putnam Daniell Rea John Putnam Jun. All the abovenamed twelfe men the Jury of Inquest made oath to the truth of there aboves d Returne Salem May the 18 th 1692 Before us John Hathorne Jonathan Corwin per ord r of the Governor & Councill Boston Public Library Dept. of Rare Books and Manuscripts 1939 acquisition
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