Martha Allen Carrier of witchcraft fame , called by Cotton Mather the "Queen of Hell", was sister to Mary Allen Toothaker , also one of the accused. She married Thomas Carrier, " a young Welshman who fathered her first child before their marriage. ...[her children] Richard, Andrew, Sarah, and Thomas Carrier, Jr. all confessed and implicated their mother" {In The Devil's Snare, M.B. Norton, 2002}