Florence Norman1

b. say 1619, d. 1672
Florence Norman|b. s 1619\nd. 1672|p9192.htm|Richard Norman|b. c 1580\nd. 1653|p9194.htm||||||||||||||||

7th great-grandmother of Ruth Minerva Fairfield.
9th great-grandmother of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Fairfield and Allied Families
Appears on charts:
Pedigree for Ruth Minerva Fairfield
     Florence Norman was born say 1619.1,3 She was the daughter of Richard Norman.2 She married first John Hart in 1639. She married second Thomas Whittridge of Ipswich by about 1657.4,3 She died in 1672.1
     
     Florence Norman died under extraordinary circumstances, and a jury of inquest decided, on 2: 6: 1672 (2 August 1672), that she was "axcessary to hir own death by stifling or Drowning hir selfe in the wattr."5 An account of her death is given in the diary of Rev. William Adams.6
     Thomas Whittridge his wife, who being a woman of no commendable life was by a fortune teller hold yt she should meet with great trouble if she escaped with her life: afterward being in great horror, Mr. Richard Hubbard gave her several scriptures to consider of. When he was gone she turned ye Bible the best part of an hour saying there was another scripture if she could find it, wc what it was or whether she found it being unknown to others she clapt the Bible too and said she would never look into it more, wc by the judgment of god she never did. At night she told her son, a youth about 12 or 13 years at ye most, yt it would be as ye fortune teller had said. … The boy desired his mother yt she would not mind what he had said, for he believed that he was a lying fellow, but that she would mind what was said in the word of God. At this word she flew up saying (as some report) He is come! The door either by her or by itselfe being opened with great violence she ran out. And being presently followed no sight could be had of her, but a shrieking or groaning or both was heard. The next morning there was to be seen a path made thro the thickest places of weeds and briars as if a great timber log had been drawn there which being followed her coat was found therein, and she a little further with her face thrust into a little puddle of water not sufficient to cover all her face, lying dead. "Quam inscrutabilia judicia Dei!7"

Children of Florence Norman and John Hart

Children of Florence Norman and Thomas Whittridge

  • Thomas Whittridge9
  • Richard Whittridge9
  • William Whittridge9

Citations

  1. [S857] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Hart, of Marblehead," Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), Vol. 1I, 197, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).
  2. [S849] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Norman, of Salem and Marblehead," Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), Vol. III, 45, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).
  3. [S860] "Richard Norman", The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, online http://www.newenglandancestors.org/, printout dated 2005. Previously published in hard copy (Boston: NEHGS, 1995).
  4. [S857] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Hart, of Marblehead," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. 1I, 198, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).
  5. [S855] George Francis Dow, ed., Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, 9 vols. (Salem: Essex Institute, 1911-1973). Transcribed and Abstracted from the Original Manuscript by Harriet S. Tapley, V: 124.
  6. [S857] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Hart, of Marblehead," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. 1I, citing Mass. Historical Society coll. 4th Series, Vol. I, p. 17, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).
  7. [S857] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Hart, of Marblehead," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. 1I, 199, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).
  8. [S857] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Hart, of Marblehead," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. 1I, 200, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).
  9. [S849] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Norman, of Salem and Marblehead," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. III, 46, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Stone (1930).