MY birth certificate falsified, geneogy suggests descent from victims of salem witch trial, need help please?

Question

i recentl;y discovered my birth certificate is false and that i may be descended from two women ALICE AND MARY PARKER WHO WERE FALSLY HUNG FOR WITCHCRAFT IN SALEM MASSACHUCHETTS AS WELL AS BEING DESCENDED FROM A YOUNG HOBBS GIRL WHO CONFESSED TO BEING A WHITCH AND HER FATHER WAS IMPRISONED. I need anyone who has any definite knowledge of the geneological lines of these people before and after the events in Salem to answer this question. ANY HELP PLEASE.

Answer 1

September 9
Martha Corey, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Dorcas Hoar, and Mary Bradbury were tried and condemned.
September 17
Margaret Scott, Wilmott Redd, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, Abigail Faulkner, Rebecca Eames, Mary Lacy, Ann Foster, and Abigail Hobbs were tried and condemned.
October 8
After 20 people had been executed in the Salem witch hunt, Thomas Brattle wrote a letter criticizing the witchcraft trials. This letter had great impact on Governor Phips, who ordered that reliance on spectral and intangible evidence no longer be allowed in trials.

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Name: Mary Ayer
Gender: female
Birth Place: En
Birth Year: 1634
Spouse Name: Nathan Parker
Spouse
Birth Place: En
Number Pages: 1
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Name: Mary AYER
Sex: F
Birth: 1634 in England
Death: 22 SEP 1692 in Salem, MA
Note: Condemned as a Witch on Thursday, Sept. 22.
Change Date: 22 MAY 1999

Father: John AYER (EYRE) b: 2 SEP 1582 in Salisbury, Wilts, England
Mother: Hannah (WEBB) EVERED b: 1578 in Salesburg, Essex Co, England

Marriage 1 Nathan PARKER b: 1622 in Newbury, Berkshire, England
Children
Nathan PARKER b: in England
John PARKER b: 20 DEC 1653 in Andover, MA
James PARKER b: 14 AUG 1655 in Andover, MA
Mary PARKER b: 14 APR 1657 in Andover, MA
Hannah PARKER b: 14 MAY 1659 in Andover, MA
Mary PARKER b: 1660
Robert PARKER b: 26 FEB 1664/1665
Peter PARKER b: 3 APR 1670
Sarah PARKER b: 3 APR 1670
Mary PARKER b: 1660
Elizabeth PARKER b: 20 JAN 1663
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1 Nathan PARKER b: 1622 d: 25 JUN 1685
+ Mary AYER b: 1634 d: 22 SEP 1692
2 Nathan PARKER d: 25 JUN 1685
+ Mary BROWNE b: 15 APR 1657 d: 7 JAN 1695
3 Joseph PARKER b: 1669 d: 1748
+ Lydia FRYE b: 10 FEB 1681
4 Joseph PARKER b: 25 NOV 1700 d: 18 FEB 1754
+ Martha JOHNSON b: 10 MAR 1771
5 Joseph PARKER b: 1735 d: 1825
+ Elizabeth MARTIN b: 1738 d: 1765
6 Joseph PARKER b: 17 APR 1760
+ Unknown
+ Mary BRIGGS b: 30 APR 1762
6 Elizabeth PARKER b: 21 JUL 1758
6 Abraham PARKER b: 1763
6 Olive PARKER b: 1765
+ Zeruiah LINCOLN b: 1745 d: 1825
5 Phineas PARKER b: 1 JAN 1748
+ Hannah CHANDLER b: 29 AUG 1756
5 Abigail PARKER b: 13 JUN 1737
5 James PARKER b: 4 NOV 1751
5 Martha PARKER b: 28 FEB 1738
2 John PARKER b: 20 DEC 1653 d: DEC 1738
+ Hannah BROWN
2 James PARKER b: 14 AUG 1655 d: 29 JUN 1677
2 Mary PARKER b: 14 APR 1657
2 Hannah PARKER b: 14 MAY 1659
+ John TYLER
2 Mary PARKER b: 1660 d: 17 MAR 1725
+ Benjamin FRYE b: 1635 d: 11 FEB 1695
2 Robert PARKER b: 26 FEB 1664/1665 d: 7 SEP 1688
2 Peter PARKER b: 3 APR 1670
2 Sarah PARKER b: 3 APR 1670
2 Mary PARKER b: 1660
2 Elizabeth PARKER b: 20 JAN 1663
+ Susanna SHORT d: 26 AUG 1651

Here is the listings I found from http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=DESC&db=:a20292&id=I1124

Alice Parker was the sister-in-law of Mary Ayers Parker.

Also check out this page http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1610993&id=I14567, which explains the history of Elizabeth Parke the daughter of Mary Ayers & Nathan Parker.

I am still continuing to look for Abigail Hobbs and her parents.

Answer 2

The first web site below is to help you find your real birth certificate. I doubt it would be falsified in the state records.

So, this should give you your parents. If you were adopted, that might look like a falsification. You can request your sealed records also.

I have given you some Web Sites also for research of names, which if you put the names you gave, you will see Genealogy charts for. That will help.

The advice I would give is that the witchcraft events of those days should not affect your life today. Even if you are a direct decendant!

I decend from the first person tried, convicted, hanged and quartered in this country for Murder (John Billington - straight off the Mayflower). I am not him! and you are not them.

I also uncovered Salem ties to the witchcraft days in my ancestors. Remember, that each generation is a power of 2, which adds additional names to who you are. In 6 generations there are 64 Ancestors. Only one of the lineages takes you to those events. So which leaves 31 other lineages. The sum of all these contributors is who you are (genealogically speaking).

Answer 3

Try to contact these to sites.
If you go to http://hunt4stuff.com/ and enter : Witchcraft Salem in the Metasearch on the Web this will began your search. At least this will put you in touch with someone who really can pin point this in the right direction.

They have real experts in this field they also like to find things in this nature about history Good luck. Looks to be allot of research with so many results
But most will not be what you are looking for so the search really can be narrowed down.

Information from site :

We were hunting for pages containing the term Witchcraft -Salem ***143 results*** were found.

A few...Examples below.

Witchcraft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Witchcraft, in various historical, religious and mythical contexts, is the use of certain kinds of alleged supernatural or magical powers. A witch is a person who engages in witchcraft.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft - Cached
Search Engines: [Yahoo:1] [Google:2]

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Encyclopedia Mythica: Witchcraft.

Witchcraft, or The Old Religion, is as old as the story of human civilization; evidence for its...( roots exists from prehistoric times in many parts of the world ).
www.pantheon.org/areas/featured/witchcraft - Cached
Search Engines: [Yahoo:4] [Google:44]

Answer 4

The first step is to determine what your true birth information is. You can write to the Vital Records department of the state where you were born or contact the hospital where you believe you were born.

Then you have to trace your ancestry back from there. (By falsified, I assume you mean that the parents on your birth certificate are not your natural parents.) If you were adopted it is more difficult, particularly if you were born in a state which seals the records permanently. If this is the case, you will need to enlist the aid of adoptee rights groups/lawyers to try and have the records unsealed.

The point is, you have to be sure you are tracing your correct ancestry back and not trying to work forward from Salem.

Answer 5

Birth Records Search Database - http://BirthRecords.neatprim.com

Answer 6

You might try the message boards at:
www.rootsweb.com (pick out appropriate location) and same with www. genforum.com. You might also try the county historical society for that location as well as they state historical archives ( usually the main library in the capital city for that state. Check to see if thier is any court records for that county/state, that may wield some info also.

Answer 7

your probably not a witch