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An American Family History

Margaret Reddington v. Mary Easty

  Essex County Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Volume 1, Page 125  
 

the depesiasian of margret Redengton eged about seventiy
yers testifieth and saith that a bout three yers a gow I was at goodmon Esties and talking with his wife a bout an In fermety I hade and presantly after I fell Into a most sollom condision and the thres day before the thanksgiving that wee hade last.

In the afternone I was exseding elle and that night godey Estiey apered to mee and profered me a pece of fresh mete and I tolld hare twas not fete for the doges and I would have non of ite and then she vanished a waye

Goodman was a courtesy title before the surname of a man not of noble and Goodwife or Goody was the courtesy title for a married woman not of noble birth.

 

History of Littleton by George Clarence Furber

Abraham Redington and wife Margaret are named in the records of Boxford, Mass., 1645. "He was held in much esteem." He d. in Boxford, Sept. 12, 1697. Six ch.

2. Thomas Redington, son of Abraham b. July 25, 1649. m. March 22, 1682/3, Mary Kimball, dau. of Thomas and Mary (Smith) Kimball of Bradford, Mass. He also lived in Boxford, where he d., Jan. 7, 1702/3. Six ch.

3. Thomas Redington, son of Thomas, b. in Boxford, d. in Lunenburg, Mass., Aug. 10, 1755. He m. Hepsibah Perley, b. Aug. 14, 1699, dau. of Thomas and Sarah (Osgood) Perley. He lived in Boxford and Lunenburg, Mass.

4. Benjamin Redington, son of Thomas8, b. in 1729. m. March 24, 1757, Ruth, dau. of Rev. David Stearns, b. Jan. 3, 1736/7, d. March 14, 1798. He res. in Lunenburg, Mass., and later in Walpole, where he d., Aug. 23, 1811.

The History of Boxford, Essex County by Sidney Perley

The first settler of the present town of Boxford was, undoubtedly, Abraham Redington. His name is first met with in 1645, his first child being born that year. His birth and parentage are unknown. He was, probably, brother of John Redington of Topsfield, who was born in 1620.

 

 

     

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