1 jan 1621 ano - Zebulon Hill, a cooper

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Zebulon, age 71, moved from Gloucester to Salem in 1657.

In September of 1692, he filed a complaint against Joan Penney, a recently widowed woman from Gloucester, for afflicting his 25-year-old daughter Mary Hill.

Zebulon’s wife, Elizabeth, was the step-daughter of Joan Penney’s deceased spouse Thomas Penney, who had died in August and left almost his entire estate to Joan.

After Joan was arrested, Thomas Penney’s grandson from his first marriage, Josiah Kent, appealed to the local magistrates to grant him the administration of Thomas Penney’s estate on the grounds that he was Thomas’ only male heir, indicating that there was a battle between Joan and Thomas’ children for control over his estate and it may have been what prompted the accusation

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