Tag: Linebrook

Mathison painting, "Examination of a Witch" trial of Elizabeth Howe of Ipswich

The witchcraft trial of Elizabeth Howe, hanged July 19, 1692

By Gordon Harris on July 19, 2021 • ( 27 Comments )

Elizabeth Howe and her husband James resided on outer Linebrook. She was charged with bewitching her neighbor’s child and was arrested on May 28, 1692. She was one of the five women hung in Salem on July 19, 1692.

The hanging of Ezra Ross and Bathsheba Spooner, July 2, 1778

By Gordon Harris on June 19, 2021 • ( 6 Comments )

In 1778, sixteen-year-old soldier, Ezra Ross of Ipswich was condemned to death for the murder of Joshua Spooner of Brookfield. Spooner’s wife Bathsheba became the first woman executed in the newly-created United States of America. Ezra Ross is buried in an unmarked grave at the Leslie Road Cemetery.