Ancestry/Genealogy

The ancestor in the witch trials in Salem was Henry Kinney (Keeney, Kenney, etc). I haven't come on a family history about that family published at the time you say.

Henry had a son, Thomas who married Elizabeth Knight. They had a son, Thomas who moved to Preston (now Griswold), Connecticut, and married Martha Cox. They had a son James, who married Sarah Herrick. Their daughter, Sarah married Henry Hewitt, which brings me to my paternal grandmother's paternal line. If you're related to Hewitts or Hughitts, we're probably related - especially the second spelling.

What is interesting is that Sarah Herrick's great grandfather, Henry Herrick, also testified against witched in Beverly, Massachusetts but he and his fellows later regretted doing so and recanted their testimony.

Now for the Southern line - my mother's side does not go back to the Salem Witch Trial people so far as I have been able to trace. The Alabama relatives I talked about in the message you directly responded to almost all lived in Perry County, Alabama and neighboring counties. They include Crows and Tuckers (the ministers of the family), Kynerds (Kinards, Kennards, etc), Hoppers, Rhineharts, Tubbs, Fikes, Harlans, and Cooks. Nearly all came from South Carolina, some from North Carolina.

I was specifically talking about Charles Crow in the immediately previous post - he was an influential preacher in Alabama and his influence has continued through the Alabama Baptist Convention and the Southern Baptist Convention which grew from it.