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Let me tell ye the tale of me cousin Ben...

4,379 JamesBleriot  5.8 years ago

Let me tell ye the tale of me cousin Ben... In 1714, in rural Massachusetts, me cousin Ben was descended from the Barons Fitzgerald of old Ireland. The Fitzgeralds moved to Massachusetts in the late 17th Century, ye hear. They changed their names to the Barrons. Me 10th Great Grandpa was Ben's uncle's son. Ben was raised in Groton, and moved to Sudbury in the early 1700s, where he met Elizabeth. They wed in 1714. They lived their lives in a small farmhouse on Lexington Road in Concord, along which the British marched on the fateful day in April, 1775. Ben died in 1754, and Elizabeth in 1760. Ordinary wife Elizabeth was, ye think? Well, ye be wrong. When she was nine years of age, she was "possessed" by a witch. That "witch", was named Tituba, and the year was 1692, and Elizabeth's father happened to be Reverend Samuel Parris of Salem Village. Me cousin's wife started the Salem Witch Trials.