Ancestors of Karen R. Brooks

Elizabeth Denham and Mary Godfrey apparently made this deposition and claimed that, "we, being in discourse with Rachel Fuller, she told us how those that were Witches did so go abroad at night; they did lay their husbands and children asleep; and she said Rachel Fuller told us of several persons that she reckoned for Witches and Wizards in this Town, to the number of seven or eight. She said eight women and two men; some of whom she expressed by name, as Eunice Cole, Benjamin Evans wife and her daughters, Goodwife Boulter and her daughter Prescott, and Goodwife Towle, and one that is now dead.....Sworn the 14th of July 1680, before me, Samuel Dalton, of the Council."

None of these accused women were ever executed, though it is said that after Eunice Cole died her body was drug out into a field, thrown in a hole and had a stake drive into it to prevent her from rising from the dead and further tormenting the residents of Hampton.

Isabella Towle and Rachel Fuller were committed to prision until the sitting of the Hampton Court on September 7, 1680. The Hampton Court ordered that they continue in prison until bond of 100 pounds be given for their good behavior. John Fuller became bondsman for his wife; Isaac Marston and John Redman for Isabella. They were discharged at the Dover Court the following year. During the time of her imprisonment, Isabella was the mother of eight children, the youngest age two.

Isabella joined the church in Hampton in her old age, on July 2, 1699.