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Her involvement in the 1692 witchcraft trials will be added. A brief review of the records which shows she was both the Mary and the Martha Tyler among the accused (not her daughter Martha) is here.

The town records of Braintree, Massachusetts, have been misread by transcriber(s) at ancestry.com. The record says Mary was born "1 mo. 7th. 1651." Comparing other date entries in the Braintree birth records, this certainly means 1st (day), month 7th, 1651. On the contemporary Julian calendar, the seventh month was September, so the date should be 1 September 1651. The ancestry.com index switches day and month: 1st month, 7th day, which translates to 7 March. Note that the transcribing/indexing was done correctly at familysearch.org.      


children of Mary Lovett and Hopestill Tyler:

i. Mary, b. 31 January 1669/70
ii. Daniel
iii. Martha, bap. 9 April 1676. She wasn't the "Martha Tyler" accused of witchcraft in 1692 (see above)1 "Mathew, son of Hep. Tiler." Hopestill refers to her as "my dafter mathew" in his will. Martha is sometimes recorded as "Marthew," and in the English-cum-New England accent, the "r" was silent. Roxbury, 134.
iv. John, b. 19 February 1677
v. Johannah, b. 21 November 1681. She was the Johannah/Hannah accused of witchcraft in 1692. There wasn't another sibling named Hannah (see above).
vi. James, b. 28 December 1683
vii. Hopestill, b. October 1685
viii. Mehitable, b. June 1687 dy





vital records sources: Her birth is in the town records of Braintree, MA, published as Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640 to 1793, ed. Samuel A Bates (Randolph, MA:1886), 631, "1 mo. 7th. 165," (1 September 1650/51). Her marriage is in the published Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the year 1850, (New England Historic Genealogical Society: Boston, 1903), 176. Hopestill's sister Hannah and Mary's brother James married the same day. An 1850 handwritten transcription of the original records at familysearch.org shows that the marriages were performed by Ralph Wheelock of Medfield.

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