Ann
Pudeator
formerly [surname unknown] aka Greenslit, Greenslade, Pointer, Poindexter
Born about in Essex, Massachusetts
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Thomas Greenslade
— married
before 1652 in Falmouth, Maine [uncertain]
[uncertain] Wife of
Jacob Pudeator
— married
after 1677 in Salem, Massachusetts
Descendants 
Mother of
Ruth (Greenslip) Bridges
Died
at about age 70
in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts
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Biography
Ann (Unknown) Pudeator is Notable.
Ann (Unknown) Pudeator was executed for witchcraft in the Salem Witch Trials
It is not known where Ann Pudeator was born. She was in her 70's at the time of the Witch Trials in Salem of 1692.
Hanged as a witch, she died on 22 Sep 1692 at Proctor's Ledge, Gallows Hill, Salem, Massachusetts Bay. [1].
Ann was married to Thomas Greenslit and they are thought to have lived in Falmouth, Maine, but later moved to Salem Towne. Greenslit died in 1674, after which Ann worked as a midwife and nurse to support the family. She nursed for the wife of Jacob Pudeator, Isabel, in the early 1670's, but she died in 1675 or 1676 and Ann subsequently married Jacob, even though he was about 20 years younger than she. Jacob Pudeator was a blacksmith and owned property, and he died in 1682, leaving his land and estate to Ann and her five Greenslit children.
She was arrested during the witchcraft craze in May of 1692, being accused by several of the "afflicted girls". She was brought to trial on July 2, 1692 and convicted. She was executed on September 22, 1692 along with seven others in the last set of executions of the Salem Witch Trials. [2]
Ann Pudeator was a well-to-do septuagenarian widow who was accused of and convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts. She was executed by hanging. Ann's maiden name is not known, nor the place of her birth. Thomas Greenslade was her first husband and they had five children (Thomas, Jr., Ruth, John, Samuel, and James). After Thomas' death in 1674, she was hired by Jacob Pudeator to nurse his alcoholic wife, who died in 1675. Ann then married Jacob in 1676. Jacob died in 1682, leaving Ann well-off. Somehave theorized that Ann Pudeator's likely occupation as a nurse and midwife, along with her being a woman of property, made her vulnerable to charges of witchcraft.[3]
Born November 13, 1621 Died October 2 [O.S. September 22], 1692 (aged in her 70s) Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay Cause of death Execution by hanging Occupation nurse, midwife, housewife Known for Convicted of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials Spouse(s) Thomas Greenslade (died 1674) Jacob Pudeator (m. 1676–1682) Children Thomas Greenslade, Jr. Ruth Greenslade John Greenslade Samuel Greenslade James Greenslade
Cotton Mather would later write of September 22nd, 1692, the deadliest day of the Salem witch trials, that Deacon Nicholas Noyes had said out loud, What a sad thing it was to see eight firebrands of Hell hanging there.[4]
Massachusetts Remediation
- 17 October 1710, Convictions Reversed, The General Court of Massachusetts Bay, An act, the several convictions, judgments, and attainders be, and hereby are, reversed, and declared to be null and void.[5]
- 17 Dec 1711, Compensation to Survivors, Governor Dudley, GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY, approved compensation to such persons as are living, and to those that legally represent them that are dead
- 28 Aug 1957, No Disgrace to Descendants, General Court of Massachusetts, ...such proceedings, were and are shocking, and the result of a wave of popular hysterical fear of the Devil in the community, and further declares that, as all the laws under which said proceedings...have been long since abandoned and superseded by our more civilized laws, no disgrace or cause for distress attaches to the said descendants or any of them by reason of said proceedings.[6]
- 31 Oct 2001, Additional Victims Included, Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives in General Court, AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE WITCHCRAFT TRIAL OF 1692, chapter 145 is hereby further amended by adding Bridget Bishop, Susannah Martin, Alice Parker, Margaret Scott and Wilmot Redd.[7]
Sources
- ↑ “Salem Witchcraft : with an Account of Salem Village, and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects : Upham, Charles Wentworth, 1802-1875, Author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming.” Internet Archive, January 1, 1970. https://archive.org/details/salemwitchcraftw02upha_0/page/324.
- ↑ Ann Pudeator Executed, September 22, 1692. (n.d.). Retrieved June 02, 2020, from https://web.archive.org/web/20181010013928/http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/texts/tei/BoySal3R?div_id=n113
- ↑ Wikipedia Entry for Ann Pudeator
- ↑ The Salem Witch Hunt: A Captivating Guide to the Hunt and Trials of People Accused of Witchcraft in Colonial Massachusetts, http://a.co/egS9SMD
- ↑ “Salem Witchcraft : with an Account of Salem Village, and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects : Upham, Charles Wentworth, 1802-1875, Author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming.” Internet Archive, January 1, 1970. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17845/17845-h/salem2-htm.html#Page_ii.480.
- ↑ https://www.mass.gov/doc/resolves-of-1957-chapter-145/download
- ↑ “Chapter 122.” Session Law - Acts of 2001 Chapter 122. Accessed February 29, 2020. https://malegislature.gov/Laws/SessionLaws/Acts/2001/Chapter122.
- The Salem Witchcraft Papers (Scholars' Lab, University of Virginia Library, 2018) SWP No. 113.
- New England Marriages to 1700, https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH1R-7J7
- Perley, Sidney, A History of Salem Massachusetts, Volume III, 1671-1716.
U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Name: THOMAS GREENSLADE Gender: Male Birth Place: MA Birth Year: 1625 Spouse Name: ANN MarriageYear: 1648 Number Pages: 1 Source Citation: Source number: 974.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: RH1. Source Information: Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 . Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
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about fifteen years ago, he ascertained that the name Greenslit was once the far more common one of Greenslade. The change came in the days of the ancestor whose fate has since caused him such distress---Ann Greenslade Pudeator. Her first husband was Thomas Greenslade, of Salem, by whom she had five children. When Greenslade died, in 1674, she was hired by Jacob Pudeator, a prosperous Salem blacksmith, to act as a nurse to his wife, who was an alcoholic. The wife died in 1675, and Pudeator married Mrs. Greenslade the following year. Six years later, Pudeator, too, died, leaving a will that provided generously for his widow. He also bequeathed small sums to his five stepchildren, and if it had not been for this kindness, Lee Greenslit today would in all probability be called Lee Greenslade, since Pudeator, who may have taken greater pains with horseshoes than he did with names, is on record as having written in his will that he wished to leave to John Greenslit and to the other fore of my wifes children viz., Thomas, Ruth, Samuel, and James Greenslit 5 pounds each. Greenslit, however feels that the change could have been brought about not be Pudeators carelessness but by that of the town clerk who transcribed the contents of the blacksmiths will in the official records of Salem. Proof that the childrens surname was originally Greenslade is to be found in their own fathers will, which Greenslit came upon in the Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, at Salem.
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