Mary Perkins *

  Events

• On 26 Apr 1692 , Mary was accused, then tried and convicted of being a witch in the infamous Salem Witch Trails in 1692 at the age of 76. She was ably & courageously defended by Maj. Robert Pike, convicted but not executed. The papers pertaining to the case are of deep interest, and show the high estimation in which she was held." Mary was the wife of Capt. Thomas Bradbury, a prominent citizen of Salisbury.

 So many citizens of Salem came to her defense that she was finally acquited and released and lived to an reasonably old age.

Mary married Captain Thomas Bradbury, son of Wymond Bradbury and Elizabeth Whitgift, in 1636 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts. (Captain Thomas Bradbury was born before 28 Feb 1610 in The Brick House, Wicken Bonant Parish, Essexshire, England, christened on 28 Feb 1610 in Wicken Bonant Parish, Essexshire, England and died on 16 Mar 1695 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts.)