The Witch Ann Foster (Clark Side) at Salem

Ann Foster, a relative of Richard Warren, came to Massachusetts from London on the ship "Abigail" in 1635. Her mother, Ann (Hooker) was a sister of Rev. Thomas Hooker, her father was Deacon George Alcock.

Ann had 5 children: Andrew, Abraham, Sarah, Mary, who was also accused of witchcraft, and Hannah, who was murdered by her husband. He was later hanged for his crime.

Convicted and confessed to witchcraft, Ann was arrested and taken to Salem Prison, where she died at the age of 80 years. Above is a sketch of the witch trials at Salem Village.

Coming Over On The Mayflower (Clark Side)

Richard Warren 1580 - 1628 was a passenger on the Mayflower (old "May Floure") in 1620. He sailed from London to Cape Cod and then settled on a 400 acre tract of land in Plymouth Massachusetts, on November 11 1620.

Here is a painting of the Mayflower at the harbor. Richard's wife Elizabeth (Walker) and five daughters came to join him on the ship Anne in 1623. They later had two sons at Plymouth. Richard was one of 10 explorers on the ship. Here is a drawing of the inside of the Mayflowers cabin and some of it's passengers signing the Mayflower Compact.

We are among his descendants, as are: "Civil War general and U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, astronaut Alan Shepard, author Laura Ingalls Wilder, actor Richard Gere, actress Joanne Woodward, writers Henry David Thoreau and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lavinia Warren (the wife of "General Tom Thumb"), aviator Amelia Earhart, actor Orson Welles, United States Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, the Wright Brothers, Tonight Show host Johnny Carson, chef Julia Child, Irish President Erskine Hamilton Childers, inventor Lee DeForest, and many more." A detailed genealogy of just the first five generations of our ancestors from this particular relative takes up three volumes.

(Slocum side) Ancestor

A wonderful photo of a woman in our ancestry from the Slocum side of the family. Her name and dates are unknown.