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My 'witchy' ancestors, accused, accusors and majestrates

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Re: My 'witchy' ancestors, accused, accusors and majestrates

Posted: 6 Feb 2010 5:24PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Hazeltine; Dane;
If you are a "witch", a woman has published a book you might be interested in called The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane.

In this book of historical fiction the author assumes that Deliverance Dane was in fact a "WHITE?" witch and that this trait was passed down from mother to daughter. The author also states that Deliverance Dane was hung.

The problem is that there was a real Deliverance Dane who was not a witch, though she was accused of witchcraft and was never hung. (The Dane family had more witchcraft accusations levelle against them than any other family, probabaly because Francis Dane, the minister at Andover tried to stop the hysteria from spreading from Salem to Andover).

I am descended from the real Deliverane Hazeltine Dane through her marriage to the son of Francis Dane (who I am directly descended from) and by blood, because she was the sister two siblings named Hazeltine who I am directly descended from by blood.

I frankly thought the book was garbage and slandered a dead woman who is not here to defend herself but the book is fabulously popular and the author (who claims descent from Elizabeth Howe) is travelling the world and making bundles of cash by slandering this poor woman.
SubjectAuthorDate Posted
johnhopkinsde... 7 Feb 2010 12:12AM GMT 
Oxley_maryLou 3 Feb 2010 6:24PM GMT 
PGR27 4 Feb 2010 7:04PM GMT 
Oxley_maryLou 4 Feb 2010 9:42PM GMT 
johnhopkinsde... 7 Feb 2010 12:24AM GMT 
Oxley_maryLou 7 Feb 2010 4:15PM GMT 
johnhopkinsde... 7 Feb 2010 12:06AM GMT 
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