Just found out that an ancestor testified in the Salem Witchcraft Trials

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17. I agree!

It needs to end. I doubt it ever will in certain Mideastern countries. Here in the U.S. there are wacked-out fundies - mainly the self-named "neo-puritans" - who would like to get the witch insanity started again in America. A few years ago, a Mary Ayer Parker descendant who's a relative of mine contacted me through email, and one of his comments was that he didn't think that all of those condemned for witchcraft in 1692 in Salem were really witches. The implication was that he believed that some of them might have really been witches. I don't know what he thought about our Mary. I didn't email him back.

As I mentioned earlier, I don't think belief in witchcraft and persecution of suspected "witches" will end in some areas of the world. Here in America, the embers are smoldering, waiting to be stoked.

As for Sidney Perley, I think I read online somewhere years ago that he's descended from Allan Perley, as I am, but I don't know which of Allan's sons is next in Sidney's line. Mine is Thomas Perley, Sr., witch trials juror. I refer to Sidney Perley's work a lot, and his History of Boxford has helped me fill in some blanks pertaining to some of my ancestors' dates of death and so on.