Elizabeth Emmerson:

Elizabeth had an affair with Samuel Ladd which produced two
children. In 1691 Elizabeth was arrested for the murder of these two
children. On "6th Sept. Elizabeth Emmerson single woman Daughter of
Michael Emmerson of Haverhill in the County of Essex being indicted by
the Jurors for our Soveraigne Lord & Lady King William & Oueen Mary
upon their Oathes. For that the sd. Elizabeth Emmerson being with
child with two living Children or Infants on Thursday night the 7th of
May 1691 before day of Fryday morning at Haverhill aforesd in the
house of Michael Emmerson aforesd by the Providence of God two Bastard
Children alive did bring forth and the sd. Elizabeth Emmerson not
haveing the feare of Cod before her Eyes and being instigated by ye
Devil of her malice forethought, the sd two Infants did feloniously
kill & Murther, and them in a small Bagg or cloath sewed up, and
concealed or hid them in sd Emmersons house untill afterwards, that is
to say, on sabbath day May the tenth 1691, the sd two Infants in the
yard of sd Emmerson in Haverhill aforesd did secretly bury contrary to
the peace of Our Soveraign Lord 6 Lady the King & Queen, their Crown &
Dignity, the Laws of God, and the Lawes & Statutes in that case made &
provided."

 
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