Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Thorndike Proctor (1672-1759) was the son of John Proctor who was hanged as a witch during the Salem Witch Trials.
Thorndike was born July 15, 1672 in Salem, Massachusetts. He was the son of John Proctor and his second wife, Elizabeth Proctor.
Thorndike assisted his half-brother Benjamin Proctor in urging the government in making reparations to the family, as everything the family had owned was confiscated upon their fathers arrest. This left them little to nothing to support their other siblings.
He purchased the Groton Farm from the Downings of London, following the hanging of his father. The farm was renamed Downing Farm. Thorndike subsequently sold nearly half of the Downing Farm to his half-brother Benjamin Proctor. Eight generations of Proctors resided here until 1851.
On December 7, 1697, he married Hannah Felton, widow of Samuel Endecott, the grandson of John Endecott, the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Hannah died in 1737.
Thorndike and Hannah's son Nathan Proctor is the father of Jacob and Nathan Proctor, some of the first settlers of present day Ohio
On March 31, 1739, he married Sarah Allen.
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Magistrates and
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Town physician |
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Clergy |
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Politicians and public figures |
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Accusers |
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Accused but survived
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- Arthur Abbot
- Nehemiah Abbot, Jr.
- Katerina Biss
- Edward Bishop
- Edward Bishop III
- Sarah Bishop
- Mary Black
- Anne Bradstreet
- Dudley Bradstreet
- John Bradstreet
- Mary Bridges, Sr.
- Sarah Bridges
- Sarah Buckley
- John Busse (or Buss)
- Andrew Carrier
- Richard Carrier
- Sarah Carrier
- Thomas Carrier, Jr.
- Bethiah Carter Jr.
- Bethiah Carter Sr.
- Rachel Clinton
- Sarah Cloyce
- Francis Dane
- Phoebe Day
- Elizabeth Dicer
- Rebecca Dike
- Ann Dolliver
- Mehitable Downing
- Mary Dyer
- Daniel and Lydia Eames
- Rebecca Blake Eames
- Esther Elwell
- Martha Emerson
- Joseph Emons
- Thomas Farrar, Sr.
- Abigail Faulkner, Jr.
- Abigail Faulkner, Sr.
- Dorothy Faulkner
- Elizabeth Fosdick
- Eunice Frye
- Dorothy Good
- Mary Green
- Sarah Noyes Hale (wife of John Hale)
- Elizabeth Hutchinson Hart
- Margaret Hawkes
- Sarah Hawkes, Jr.
- Dorcas Hoar
- Deliverance Hobbs
- William Hobbs
- Elizabeth Johnson, Sr.
- Stephen Johnson
- Rebecca Jacobs
- Jane Lilly
- Mary Marston
- Sarah Morey
- Sarah Murrell
- Sarah Pease
- Joan Penney (or Penny)
- Sarah Phelps
- Mary Post
- Susannah Post
- Margaret Prince
- Elizabeth Bassett Proctor
- Sarah Proctor
- William Proctor
- Sarah Davis Rice
- Sarah Rist
- Sarah Root
- Susanna Rootes
- Abigail Rowe
- Mary Rowe
- Elizabeth Scargen (her infant child died in jail)
- Ann Sears
- Abigail Somes
- Sarah Clapp Swift
- Mary Harrington Taylor
- Margaret Thacher
- Job Tookey
- Margaret Toothaker
- Mary Toothaker
- Hannah Tyler
- Joanna Tyler
- Mary Lovett Tyler
- Hezekiah Usher II
- Rachel Vinson
- Mercy Wardwell
- Sarah Wardwell
- Mary Whittredge (or Witheridge)
- Sarah Wilson, Jr.
- Sarah Wilson, Sr.
- Edward Wooland
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Confessed and accused others
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Born in prison |
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Died in prison |
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Escaped from custody in Salem or environs
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