Anne Wood Price Bradstreet
Born
Anne Wood

c. 1650 (1650)
Andover, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Died1707 (1708)
Andover, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Anne Wood Price Bradstreet (c. 1650 – 1707) was the wife of Dudley Bradstreet and accused "witch" during the Salem Witch Trials.[1][2]

Salem Witch Trial

Dudley Bradstreet was accused of witchcraft after he refused to issue warrants for accused witches. Anne and her husband fled the area to avoid arrest.[2]

Family

Anne was the daughter of Richard and Anne (Priddeth) Wood of Barbados. She first married Theodore Price of Andover and had the following children:

  1. Elizabeth, married Thomas Barnard.

Next, she married Dudley Bradstreet, son of Simon Bradstreet and Anne Dudley Bradstreet. They had the following children:[1]

  1. Margaret, married Job Tyler, son of Moses Tyler.
  2. Dudley, married Mary Wainwright.
  3. Anne, died in infancy.

Bradstreet is an ancestor of U.S. President Herbert Hoover.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Watson, Marston (2004). Governor Thomas Dudley: and descendants through five generations. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. p. 22. ISBN 9780806365244.
  2. ^ a b Weiser-Alexander, Kathy. "The "Witches" of Massachusetts". Legends of America. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  3. ^ McLean, Hulda Hoover (1967). Genealogy of the Herbert Hoover Family. Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, Stanford University.
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