Alice Young

about 1640 - 1708  (~ 68 years)

• Name	Alice Young
  Born	about 1640	Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts
  Gender	Female
  Died	5 October 1708	Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts
  Buried	Springfield Cemetery
  Notes	It’s not clear that Alice Young was the daughter of the Alice (Alis, or Achsah) Young, who was murdered as a witch, or that her father’s name was John. From Carol F. Karlsen’s book, The Devil in the Shape of a Woman, page 19: “The first trial and execution for witchcraft was recorded almost simultaneously in two private journals, that of John Winthrop and that of Matthew Grant, the town clerk of Windsor, Connecticut. Both entries were brief. ‘One --- of Windsor arraigned and executed at Hartford for a witch,’ Winthrop noted in late May of 1647. Grant’s entry was both more and less specific: ‘May 26. 47 Alse Young was hanged.’ Little is known about this woman except that she was probably the wife of John Young, who bought a small parcel of land in Windsor in 1641, sold it in 1649, and then disappeared from the town records, and the mother of Alice Young Beamon, who would be accused of witchcraft in nearby Springfield, Massachusetts, some thirty years later. No evidence of the charges against the first Alice Young has survived. As with so many women who would subsequently be convicted of witchcraft in New England, we know of her existence only through her reputation as a witch.”
  Person ID	I84639	Schirado
  Last Modified	23 July 2021

  
  

  Father	John Young
  Mother	Alice,   d. 27 May 1647, Hartford, CT
  Family ID	F61357	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family/Spouse	Simon Beamon,   b. about 1629, England ,   d. before 26 September 1676, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 47 years)
  Married	15 October 1654/5	Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts   [1]
  Children	1. Simon Beamon,   b. about 1656, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts ,   d. after 16 February 1711/2, Deerfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 56 years)   2. John Beamon,   b. 12 April 1657, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts + 3. Daniel Beamon,   b. 1 March 1658/9, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts ,   d. 20 December 1741, Kent, CT  (Age 82 years)   4. Thomas Beamon,   b. 15 December 1660, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts + 5. Josiah Beamon,   b. 4 February 1662/3, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts ,   d. 30 May 1725, Brookfield, MA  (Age 62 years) + 6. Ruth Beamon,   b. about 1665, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts ,   d. 8 May 1704, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 39 years) + 7. Mary Beamon,   b. about 1669, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts ,   d. about 1735  (Age ~ 66 years)   8. Mehitable Beamon,   b. 16 August 1670, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts ,   d. 16 August 1670, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts  (Age 0 years) + 9. Benjamin Beamon,   b. 20 August 1671, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts ,   d. 8 March 1732/3, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts  (Age 61 years) + 10. Samuel Beamon,   b. Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts ,   d. September 1741, Simsbury, CT + 11. Abigail Beamon,   b. 11 June 1673, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts ,   d. September 1744, Milford, CT  (Age 71 years)   12. Alice Beamon,   b. say 1675, Springfield, Hampden County, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F56072	Family Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S772] George Sheldon, (Press of E.A. Hall & Co., Greenfield, 1896. Two volumes).