Eleventh Generation

1118. Jarvis* RING^1350,1554 was born in Feb 1657.¹³⁵¹ He died on 1 Dec 1727.¹⁵³⁸ Of Salisbury, MA. Free in 1690. He was a witness in the Susanna Martin trial of 1692 in Salem. She was accused of being a witch and acted the part. She was hung on 19 July of that year with Rebecca Nurse, Sarah Good, Elizabeth How and Sarah Wilds. He and his wife signed the petition in favor of Mrs. Mary Bradbury in 1692 with his wife and a hundred other people on 22 July 1692. They claimed that she was a 'diligent attender upon God's ordinances' and that she never had a falling out with any of her neighbors, but was 'always willing to do for them what lay in her power night and day, though with hazard of her health.' Though she was accused repeatedly in Salem and was supposed to have turned into a 'blue boar' one time, she did escape execution. Soldier in 1698 and 1702.

"JARVIS RING v. SUSANNA MARTIN

Javis Ring of Salisbury maketh oath as followeth, That about seven or eight years ago he had
been several times afflicted in the night time by somebody or something coming up upon him
when he was in bed and did sorely afflict by laying upon him and he could neither move nor
speak while it was upon him, but sometimes made a kind of noise that folks did hear him and
come up to him and as soon as anybody came, it would be gone. This it did for a long time before and since but he did never see anybody clearly, but one time in the night it came upon me as at othr times and I did then see the person of Susanna Martin of Amesbury. This deponent did perfectly see her and she came to this deponent and took him by the hand and bit him by the finger by force and then came and lay upon him awhile as formerly, and after a while went away. The print of the bite is yet to be seen on the little finger of his right hand for it was hard to heal (he further saith). That several times he was alseep when it came, but at that time when bit his finger he was as fairly awake as ever he was and plainly saw her shape and felt her tooth as aforesaid.

Sworn by Jarvis Ring abovesaid May the 13th 1692
Before Me
Robt. Pike Assit. at Salisbury
Jurat in Curia" Jarvis* RING and Hannah* FOWLER were married on 24 Dec 1685 in Salisbury, Essex Co., MA.^{1352,1555,1556}

1119. Hannah* FOWLER^{1350,1538,1557} was born on 7 Jan 1660/61.¹⁵⁵⁸ She died on 26 Jan 1742/43. Children were:

552	i.	Capt. Jarvis* RING.
283	ii.	Hannah* RING.
	iii.	Elizabeth RING1538 was born on 3 Sep 1692.
	iv.	David RING1538 was born on 24 Nov 1693.
	v.	Jonathan RING1538 was born on 5 Sep 1695. He died in 1743.
	vi.	Oliver RING1538 was born on 17 Jun 1698. He died before 1736.