The Hardy Family Tree

Grace (Fairbanks) McGlew's mother was Delia (Knox) Fairbanks, and her mother was Lovercia (Hardy) Knox.  We can also trace the Hardy branch of our family tree back to Puritan ancestors who immigrated from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630s.

Lovercia Hardy was born on Oct 19, 1847, in Bradford*, MA.  Her name was spelled in a variety of ways on different vital records, including what appears to be a phonetic spelling of "Loversha," but was spelled as "Loversia" on her birth record and "Lovercia" on her gravestone.   On April 22, 1866, she married Willard Knox, and together they had five children.  Lovercia passed away on March 16, 1869, from what was recorded in the death record as an access of the abdomen, and was laid to rest in Groveland's Riverview Cemetery.

*(A note on the Hardy family in Bradford - they actually lived in the area that we now know as Groveland.  Groveland was originally the East Parish of Bradford, which was originally part of the town of Rowley. Before Bradford was separated from Rowley in 1672, it was called "Rowley on the Merrimack", or just "Merrimack."  This is why their birth/marriage/death records will state "Bradford" while they were buried in Groveland's Riverview Cemetery). 

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Lovercia's parents were Ira Hardy and Eunice Langley.  Ira was born on Dec 7, 1806, in Bradford, MA.  He married Eunice in Dracut, MA, on Dec 19, 1847, and they had three children together.  On the 1870 census, Ira was living with his family in Groveland, MA, and listed as a farmer.  He passed away on May 26, 1886, from heart disease.  Eunice had passed away from consumption almost a decade earlier, on Jan 12, 1877.  Both Ira and Eunice were buried in Groveland's Riverview Cemetery.

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Ira's parents were Jacob Hardy and Hannah Hardy (distant cousins).  Hannah was born to Joshua Hardy and Hannah Tyler on Jan 8, 1768.  Her father, Joshua, was born on Sept 13, 1740.  He was a sergeant in the second company of minute-men, lead by Captian John Savory, who marched to Cambridge on the alarm from Lexington on April 19, 1775.  According to the book Hardy and Hardie, Past and Present by Claude Hardy,  Joshua brought the famous Paul Revere bell to Groveland from Newburyport by ox-cart, and installed it in the Congregational Church.  He lived in the area between King and Rollins Streets, where he died June 3, 1814.

Hannah's husband, Jacob, was born on July 29, 1769, in Bradford, MA.  He married Hannah on Nov 3, 1792.  They had eight children together.  Jacob was recorded as being a shoemaker.  He passed away at at 81 in Groveland, MA, on July 14, 1850, from a "paralytic stroke." Hannah had died on Sept 29, 1836, and was buried in Groveland's Riverview cemetery.

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Jacob's parents were Joseph Hardy, Jr. and Susanna Bailey.  Susanna was born on  June 10, 1733 to John Bailey and Susanna Tenney. She first married Nathaniel Kimball, sometime before 1764.  She passed away on Oct. 1, 1810, and was buried in Groveland's Riverview cemetery.

Inscription on stone:

Mrs. Susanna Hardy

Consort of Mr. Joseph Hardy

died Oct. 1st, 1810

AEt. 77

Joseph was born on June 22, 1734, in Bradford, MA.  He first married Edna Hopkinson, who died in 1763.  Joseph married a second time, to the widow Susanna (Bailey) Kimball, on Oct 9, 1764.  Joseph died in Bradford on March 27, 1789, and was also buried in Riverview Cemetery.

Inscription on stone:

Sacred to the Memory of Mr Joseph Hardy 

who departed this Life March the 27th AD 1789

in the 55th year of his Age

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Joseph Jr.'s parents were Joseph Hardy, Sr. and Ruth Kimball.  Joseph was born Oct 19, 1692 in Bradford, MA.  He had first married Sarah Carleton, on April 3, 1729.  Sarah died in childbirth the following year, on April 16, 1730, while giving birth to their first child, Josiah.  Josiah passed away less than a month later, on April 12, 1730.  

Joseph remarried in October 1730, to Ruth Kimball.  Ruth was born on Jan 30, 1710 in Bradford.  They had seven children together.  Joseph passed away on Nov 26, 1745, at age 54, and was buried in Riverview Cemetery.  Ruth remarried several years after Joseph's death, on Jan 30, 1749, to Samuel Wood.  She passed away on May 15, 1790, and was also laid to rest in Riverview Cemetery.  

Joseph Hardy

Ruth (Kimball) Hardy Wood

The Joseph Hardy House on Garrison street in Groveland was most likely built by this Joseph, after 1720.  It was probably fortified to act as a garrison against attacks by Native Americans.  

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Joseph Sr.'s parents were Jacob Hardy and Lydia Eaton.  Lydia was born in 1662 to Thomas Eaton, Sr. and Eunice Unity Singletary.  The Singletary branch can be traced back to 1600s England, and I'm planning to write up a quick post on that line another day.  

Jacob was born in 1648 in Ipswich, MA.  He married Lydia in 1690, in Haverhill, MA, and they had six children.  He  he was one of the 101first members of the new Congregational Church, which was organized in what is now Groveland, on June 7, 1727. Jacob passed away on Apr. 2, 1706 and was buried in Bradford's Ancient Burying Ground.  Lydia lived another three decades, and passed away on June 24, 1737.

Inscription on stone:

JACOB HARDY DIED April ye 2 1706 

& IN Y 58 YEAR OF HIS AGE

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Jacob's parents were Thomas Hardy, Sr. and Ann (surname unknown - although some genealogies state that Thomas was previously married to a woman named Lydia).  Thomas was born about 1605/6 in England (possibly in Dorset County, but unconfirmed).  Thomas came with Governor Winthrop's fleet in 1630 to settle in Massachusetts Bay Colony.  It is theorized that he was an indentured servant to Governor Winthrop.  He gained his freedom sometime between his arrival in the New World and 1633, when he was one of the twelve who were chosen to settle Agawam (later called Ipswich) with John Winthrop Jr.'s company.  He built what was reported to be the first wooden frame house, as well as the first well, in Ipswich (his property would have been in the vicinity of 8 Agawam Ave, across the harbor from the town warf).  

In 1653 Thomas and his family relocated to "Merrimack, near Haverhill" (the area we now know as Bradford was originally part of the town of Rowley, and was called "Rowley on the Merrimack" or just "Merrimack" before the name was changed to Bradford in 1672) where Thomas had been given a King's Grant of 1000 acres of land.  Along with being a husbandman and farmer, he was also said to have been a ferry operator in Bradford.  Thomas and Ann had seven children together.  

Thomas passed away on Jan 4, 1677, and Ann on May 1, 1689, in Bradford, MA.  They are both assumed to have been buried in Bradford's Ancient Burying Ground.  

Thomas Hardy's signature

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The Joseph Hardy House, on King Street in Groveland, was probably built by Thomas's son Joseph (brother of our direct ancestor,  Jacob) in 1676.  This Joseph does not appear to have had a wife or children, and in 1723 he willed his property to his brother Jacob's children, mentioning by name his nephew, Joseph (our direct ancestor), but reserved the right to reside there until his death.  He passed away in January of 1726/7.  My assumption is that our ancestor Joseph inherited this house from his uncle, and his descendants continued to live there over the centuries.  In 1933, Lawrence Hardy, a direct descendant of Joseph - and brother of Loversia (Hardy) Knox - was the occupant when a Hardy family reunion was held in the area. This blog post has many recent photos of the interior of this house, as well as more information about it's history.  

Fowler Family Tree

I've been following back Martha Luella (Chase) McGlew's family history in these past few posts, for a few reasons.  The vast majority of her ancestors were living in the North Shore region of Massachusetts, settling in the Ipswich area after immigrating to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.  I'm living in this very area right now, so it has been absolutely fascinating to be able to locate the houses they once built and raised their families in, the cemeteries were they were laid to rest, and the roads they once traveled upon.

Many of these family lines - the Howes, the Perleys, the Fowlers, the Putnams - have already been already been throughly researched and well documented by other descendants, and I've been lucky enough to stumble across their published genealogies while doing my own research.

And ever since attending Salem State College, I've been fascinated by the witch trials of 1692.  As  surnames that I knew were connected to the witch trials began showing up in my research into our own family history, I wanted to dig deeper and figure out what kind of ties we had to this historical event.

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As I documented in my earlier post on our Chase ancestors, Grampy's grandmother, Martha Luella (Chase) McGlew's parents were Charles Frederick Chase and Mary Ricker.  Charle's mother was Mary Thayer Fowler.  She was born in 1829, and passed away in 1857 at the age of 30.  Her parents were John Page Fowler and Lydia S. Brown.  Lydia was born to John Brown and Mary Mitchell on July 27, 1807.  After John passed away, she eventually remarried.  Her second husband was John S. Morse of Amesbury, MA.  Lydia passed away on April 6th (or 10th), 1864, in Amesbury MA.

John Page Fowler was born on April 25, 1801, to John and Martha (Page) Fowler, in Danvers, MA.  He married Lydia Brown on June 24th, 1828, and they had at least four children together.  John was recorded as being a "master mariner" (the captain of a merchant ship), and died on Jan 11th, 1840, in the Gulf of Mexico.

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John Page Fower's parents were John Fowler and Martha Page.  Martha was born to Jeremiah and Martha (Crosby) Page on Oct 15th, 1780, in Danvers.

John Fowler was born in Danvers on Sept 15th, 1778.  He attended Philips Academy in Andover, and later Dr. Manasseh Cutler's School in Hamilton, MA, where he studied surveying.  I have not yet been able to verify his date of death, although one very unclear record states that either he or his wife Martha may have passed away on March 13th, 1827.

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John Fowler's parents were Samuel Fowler and Sarah Putnam.  Sarah was born in Danvers, MA, on Sept 14th, 1755, to Deacon Archelaus and Mehitable Putnam.  I can follow this Putnam line further back to more ancestors who were connected to the 1692 witch hysteria in Salem, as well as those who first immigrated to the New World from Great Britain, and will be happy to follow that line back in a future post.

Samuel Fowler was born in Ipswich, Ma, on Jan 9th, in either 1748 or 1749 (record unclear).   He left Ipswich in 1765 and became one of the settlers of the Danvers New Mills, later called Danversport. Samuel was a shipwright, and assisted in the building of many vessels, including those of which he was a part owner, and was a merchant and trader of goods imported from the West Indies.  On March 4th, 1773, Samuel married Sarah Putnam, and they had six children together (two of which died before their first birthdays). Samuel was a private in Capt. Jeremiah Page's 3rd militia company, and responded to the Lexington Alarm on April 19, 1775.  Capt. Page's minutemen were unable to reach Lexington or Concord in time to participate in the battle there, but joined the action at the Battle of Menotomy (the area now known as Arlington), at Jason Russell's Homestead. Samuel was one of the survivors of that battle, and died years later, on April 20th, 1813, in Danvers, MA.

Samuel Fowler was with Capt. Jeremiah Page's 3rd militia company, which joined the
Lexington Alarm in Menotomy, and participated in the battle at Jason Russell's house.

Detail of painting by Ruth L. Berry: “The Fight at the Jason Russell House"

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Samuel Fowler's parents were Joseph Fowler, Jr. and Mary Prince.  Mary was born on June 6th, 1772, in Ipswich, MA, to Johnathan and Hannah (Rogers) Prince.  Mary passed away on July 26th, 1771.

Joseph was born in Ipswich, MA, on Oct 9th, 1715.  He married Mary Prince in 1739.  They had at ten children together, four of whom died in childhood.  In 1745, during King George's War, Joseph traveled to Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, with hundreds of other Colonial soldiers, and participated in the siege and capture of Louisburg.

After his wife Mary passed away on July 26, 1771, Joseph quickly remarried.  On Nov 29th of the same year, he married the widow Esther Huse.  They had three children together, one of whom died in early infancy.  Esther passed away on Jan 31st, 1807, in Ipswich MA.  Joseph passed away the very next day, and they were laid to rest together in the same grave.

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The parents of Joseph Fowler Jr. were Joseph Fowler, Sr. and Sarah Bartlett.  Sarah was born in Newbury, MA on Nov. 27th, 1687, to John and Mary (Rust) Bartlett.  Sarah and Joseph married in December of 1707, and had six children together, before she passed away sometime before August of 1722.

Joseph was born on August 7th, 1683, in Ipswich, MA.  He was a carpenter, and was later involved as a backer in the Land Bank scheme of 1740-41.  He purchased property on High Street in Ipswich, and that house is still standing today.

More information about Joseph Fowler
and the Joseph Fowler house at 100 High Street, in Ipswich MA

After his wife Sarah's death, he remarried on August 22nd, 1722, to the widow Mary Trask, in Salem, MA.  Mary passed away in Ipswich on August 23, 1728.  He remarried again, on Dec. 31, 1728, to the widow Abigail Perley.  She died on Aug 8th, 1730.  He married again for the fourth time, on Oct. 31, 1730, to the widow Hannah Sedan.

Joseph passed away in Ipswich on December 28, 1745.

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Joseph Fowler, Sr.'s parents were Philip Fowler and Elizabeth Herrick.  Elizabeth was born in Salem, MA, in 1647. Her parents, Henry Herrick and Editha Laskin immigrated to Salem from England in 1629, as part of the Puritan Great Migration.  They were some of the founders of the First Congregational Church of Salem, and later moved to Beverly, MA, where they were again founders of a church in their new community.  However, Henry and Editha may have been more liberal than most Puritans of the era, for they were fined a few shillings for “comforting an excommunicated person.”

While their daughter Elizabeth (our direct ancestor) was not personally involved in the Salem Witch Trials, three of her siblings were.  Her brother Ephraim's son John was married to Bethia Solart, who was Sarah (Solart) Poole Good's sister.  Sarah Good was one of the first to be accused and condemned as a witch.  Elizabeth's brother Henry Herrick testified against Sarah Good, and also served as a juror during the trials.  Shortly after the trials were halted, Henry, along with the other members of the Jury, signed a statement which stated that they had been “sadly deluded and mistaken...and distressed in our minds and do therefore humbly beg forgiveness.” And another brother, Joseph Herrick, was a constable of Salem Towne, and arrested many of the accused witches.  He was initially involved in the hysteria, and even served as a witness against Sarah Good, but soon spoke out against the trials.

Philip Fowler was born on Dec. 25, 1648, in Ipswich, MA.  He was adopted by his grandfather in 1651, when he was around age three, "as his sonne."  He is was a "husbandman" (small farmer with both crops and livestock), surveyor, and attorney.  Philip married Elizabeth Herrick in Beverly, MA, on Jan 20th, in either 1672 or 1673, and they had eight children together.  He was strongly opposed to the Salem Witch Trials, and vocal in his support of many of the accused.  He was witness to John Proctor's will (Proctor was one of the nineteen people who were executed as witches in 1692), and after the trials were stopped, he was employed as an attorney by Salem Village in their lawsuit against Samuel Parrish.  Philip died on Nov 16th, 1715, and was laid to rest in Ipswich's Old Burying Ground, where his gravestone still stands today.

HERE LYES INTARRED
WHAT WAS MORTALL
OF Mr PHILIP FOWLER
WHO DIED NOVEMBER
Ye 16th 1715 AGED 67
WANTING 39 DAYS

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Philip Fowler's parents were Joseph Fowler and Martha Kimball.  Martha was born in Rattlesden, Suffolk County, England, about 1629.  Her parents were Richard Kimball, who was a wheelwright, and Ursula Scott.  In 1634, at age 5, she immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony with parents and siblings on the ship "Elizabeth" (their surname was recorded on the passenger list as "Kembell").    The crossing took almost three months and they landed in Boston.  They settled first in Watertown, before eventually relocating to Ipswich.   

One of Elizabeth's siblings, Thomas Kimball, was killed while protecting his family in an attack on his home by three Native Americans on May 3rd, 1676.  Thomas' wife and five of his children were abducted, but were released 41 days later when Chief Wanalancet of the Penacook Indians interceded and ordered that the family be freed.  

Joseph Fowler was an incredibly interesting ancestor to learn about.  He was born around 1629 in England, and immigrated to the New World in 1633 with his parents and siblings on the ship "Mary and John."

According to court records, Joseph was a rebellious troublemaker in his deeply Puritan community.  In 1647, Joseph was sentenced to either pay a considerable fine or sit in the stocks for a day, for saying there were liars in the church and wondering they were not cast out, “and if one would lye soundly he was fit for the church.” In the Essex Court records of July of 1649 is the following: “We present Joseph Fowler, Thomas Cooke, Thomas Scott, and two of ye sons of Richard Kimball, for goeing into ye woods, shouting and singing, taking fire and liquors with them, all being at unseasonable time in ye night, ocasioning yr. wives and some other to go out to them.” The sons of Richard Kimball were Thomas and John, and all of these men had probably met to celebrate the twenty-first birthday of Thomas Scott, who was Joseph Fowler’s cousin.  In 1651, his father Phillip took Joseph’s child 2 or 3 year old son Philip away from Joseph and adopted him in 1651.  

Joseph participated in the the Battle of Turner's Falls (also known as the Peskeompscut massacre), which took place on May 19, 1676, during King Philip's War.  He was one of the thirteen soldiers under the command of Captain Turner who were slain in the garrison near Deerfield, MA, by Native American warriors, during their retreat from this fight.   

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Joseph's parents were Philip Fowler and Mary Winsley or Winslow.  Philip was born around 1591 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England.  He immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1633/4 on ship "Mary and John" with his wife and five children (his sixth child Thomas, was born in Ipswich around 1636), and received a grant of land on High Street in Ipswich, MA, and he lived there until his death on June 24, 1674.  He was a "clothworker" (weaver), and took the Freeman's Oath in September of 1634 (in the Mass Bay Colony, man had to be a Puritan to become a freeman; and only then could become a member of the church, own land, become a member of the governing body, and have the right to vote).  In 1651 he adopted his grandson Philip Fowler (b. 25 Dec 1648) and raised him as his own son.  His wife Mary passed away on August 30, 1659.  He remarried, in either 1659 or 1660, to the widow Mary Norton.  

Philip died on June 24, 1679, in Ipswich, MA.  One court record of his death states: "during his long life, we find no record that a descendant would regret to see."

Two Sides of the Salem Witch Trials: Accused & Accusers

One thing I've been especially interested in while tracing our family history has been the maternal lines, because they're so much more difficult to follow back.  Traditionally, women have taken the surnames of their husbands, and in early records are often denied even their given name and are simply recorded as "wife of X."  While researching Martha Luella (Chase) McGlew's ancestors, I was able to get back to her ancestors who first immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony...and along the way discovered connections to the Salem Witch Trials, as both accused and of accusers.

Martha Luella Chase's parents were Mary Abby Ricker and Charles Frederick Chase.
Mary Ricker was born in Bradford, MA on May 1st, 1850, and passed away in Ipswich MA on Feb 3rd 1904.

Mary's parents were Eliza Pallacier Harriman and William H. Ricker.
Eliza was born in Bradford, MA on March 10th, and passed away in Groveland on April 16th, 1885.

Eliza's parents were Sarah Brocklebank and Enoch Harriman, Jr.
Sarah Brocklebank was born in Rowley, MA on Oct 4th, 1774, and passed away in Bradford on June 7th, 1860.

Sarah Brocklebank's parents were Sarah Fowler and John Brocklebank.
Sarah Fowler was born in Ipswich, MA on Nov 3rd, 1745, and passed away in Rowley MA on  June 2nd, 1823.  (We're connected to the Fowler family through another line, as well, which I'll delve into more in a later post.  Many of same surnames and families kept popping up as I researched our Puritan New England genealogy!).

Sarah Fowler's parents were Mercy Howe and John Fowler.
Mercy was born in Ipswich MA on March 3rd, 1714 and passed away in Ipswich on Oct 24th, 1773.  Mercy and John are buried in the Old Linebrook Cemetery in Ipswich.  (source)

Mercy Howe's parents were Abraham Howe, Jr. and Hephzibah Andrews.
Abraham Jr. was born on June 27th, 1686, in Ipswich, MA, and passed away on March 6th, 1770.  Both Abraham Jr and Hephzibah are buried in the Old Linebrook Cemetery in Ipswich, where their gravestones can still be found today.

Link to source, including a transcription
of the inscription on the stone.  

Link to source, with transcription
of the gravestone inscription.  

Abraham Howe, Jr.'s parents were Abraham Howe, Sr. and Sarah Peabody. 

Abraham Sr. was born in Ipswich on March 28th, 1649, and passed away on Jan 21st, 1718, 

also in Ipswich.  Abraham Sr. was a weaver, as his father James had been.

Abraham Howe, Sr.'s parents were James Howe and Elizabeth Dane.  James was born in May of 1598 in Hatfield, Broad Oak, Essex, England, and passed away on May 12, 1702 in Ipswich, MA -- having lived during three different centuries.   

James and Elizabeth immigrated to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635 from Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England.  They settled first in Roxbury, then moved to Salem, before eventually settling permanently in Ipswich.  James was a weaver, and also served as a constable.  "James lived at 'Ipswich Farms,' south of the Rowley-Ipswich boundary line, where he built two houses, the second of which had a front door driven full of nails to prevent the Indians from cutting through."  (source)

James and Elizabeth (Dane) Howe had at least five children together, including our direct ancestor, Abraham Sr.  Abraham's brother, James (b. March 23, either 1632 or 1633) married Elizabeth Jackson, and settled in the Linebrook Parish area of Ipswich, MA.

Elizabeth (Jackson) Howe was one of those accused, tried, convicted, and executed during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692.  On June 30th, Elizabeth was one of five women arraigned in the first Salem witch trial. When asked how she plead to the charges made against her, Elizabeth Howe response was, “If it was the last moment I was to live, God knows I am innocent of any thing of this nature”. One of the witnesses who testified against Elizabeth was Abraham and James' other brother, John.

Elizabeth Howe’s brother-in-law John testified that he told Elizabeth that “if she would confess” he would accompany her to Salem, but she had refused. He recounted that the next day at sunset his sow leaped up three or four feet high. gave one squeak and fell dead. He cut off the ear of the sow and the hand he used to do this became numb, and thus concluded “I suspected no person other than my said sister Elizabeth Howe." It has been speculated that because James and Elizabeth had no sons, John may have hoped that he would someday inherit his brother’s estate. (source).

However, other family members (including her father-in-law, James Howe) and neighbors served as witnesses and signed petitions in support and defense of her, to no avail.  On July 19, 1692 Elizabeth (Jackson) Howe, Rebecca (Towne) Nurse, Sarah (Solart) Poole Good, Sarah (Averill) Wildes and Susannah (North) Martin were hanged on Gallows Hill in Salem Towne and buried in a nearby crevice.

Mural in Ipswich, featuring Elizabeth (Jackson) Howe

These two articles are both excellent summaries of the circumstances surrounding Elizabeth's arrest and trial.

* Elizabeth Howe: Innocent Mother or Horse Witch?

* Stories from Ipswich: The Witchcraft Trial of Elizabeth Howe

This website has transcriptions of Elizabeth Howe's arrest warrant, court proceedings, indictment, along with statements from both the witnesses against her and in support of her.

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Unlike many of the other women accused as witches, Elizabeth was not known to have a harsh tongue. In fact, from the statements made in her support by family members and neighbors, it seems that she was considered to be a sweet, kind grandmother who doted on her children and grandchildren.  Elizabeth's husband James went blind when he was about 50 years old, and Elizabeth had to take over the running of the household and farm as a result. By all accounts, it appears that they continued a loving relationship and their farm remained successful. However, the perception that she was in charge could have caused discomfort in this deeply Puritan society.  Another strong motivator for being charged with witchcraft during this time period was being and independent woman, especially one who owned property.  Because James and Elizabeth had only girls, she was likely to inherit her husband's estate, which may have inspired her brother-in-law to stand as a witness against her. 

Elizabeth Howe's original accusers were the Perely family of Ipswich, Massachusetts.  Samuel and Ruth (Trumbell) Perley had a ten year old daughter, Hannah, whom they had claimed was being afflicted by Elizabeth when she fell ill in 1682. Because of this accusation, Elizabeth was denied membership at the Ipswich church.  They also had other accusations against Elizabeth, including that the sudden illness and death of the family's cow was her doing, claiming that the cow suddenly went mad and ran into a pond, drowning herself.  

Samuel Perley was born around 1640 in Ipswich, MA. On 15 Jul 1664, he married Ruth Trumble (b. Apr 23, 1645), who was the daughter of John Trumble and Elinor Chandler.  Samuel and Ruth were also farmers, and were neighbors of James and Elizabeth Howe.  They had six children, including Hannah, who passed away in 1685 from "fits" and whom they believed had been bewitched by Elizabeth Howe.  Their eldest daughter, Sarah, was born on Jun 7th, 1665.

Sarah Perley married Captain Joseph Andrews, on 1 Feb 1st 1681, in Topsfield, MA.  She died on Jan 15th, in either 1693 or 1694, in Oxford, MA, at age 28.  Joseph Andrews was a house carpenter. He was also very active in town affairs, and served as assessor, town surveyor, selectman, constable, on a committee to select a site for the church, as well as the church building committee. Joseph was outspoken in his opposition to the 1692 witch hunt, and signed a petition in support of John and Elizabeth Proctor, who were both accused of witchcraft.

Joseph and Sarah Andrews had eight children together, including Hephzibah Andrews, who was born in 1693.  Just shy of twenty years after her grandparents, the Perleys, accused Elizabeth Howe of witchcraft, sending her to her death, Hephzibah married Abraham Howe, Jr, who was Elizabeth's nephew.