John Wise

What Mollie wrote about him in The Holbrook and Low Families, and her claims about him checked against the records.

1. In 1692 he and some of his Chebacco parishioners, Thomas Low among them, kept their heads in the witchcraft panic and petitioned for John Proctor and his wife.

   with their pastor, Rev. John Wise, seemed to have kept their heads and testified in writing that they could see nothing wrong in an accused person. (Petition sent by John Wise praying for favor for John Proctor and wife

   p. 74 →

2. He helped settle the estate of his brother-in-law Caleb Lamb and looked after his nieces, and as pastor at Chebacco probably brought his niece Mary Lamb and David Low together.

   John Wise had a hand in settling the estate, and cared for the interests of his nieces. ... her uncle the Rev. John Wise who was pastor in Chabacco Parish, David's home.

   p. 94 →

Checked against the records

• Proven
  Thomas Low and Rev. John Wise spoke up for the Proctors in 1692

  Deacon Thomas Low ("Tho. Low Sanor") and "Jno Wise" are among the 31 signers of the Ipswich petition of August 1692 for John and Elizabeth Proctor (Salem Witchcraft Papers no. 107). Caleb Low's wife Abigail Varney was John Proctor's great-niece: her grandmother Abigail (Proctor) Varney was his sister.

  Read it in the book, p. 74 →
• Proven
  Rev. John Wise, pastor at Chebacco, was Mary Lamb's uncle

  Roxbury records give Mary Wise (bp. 27 Feb 1649/50), later Caleb Lamb's wife, and John Wise (bp. 15 Aug 1652) as children of Joseph Wise. John was the Chebacco minister from 1680, so David Low's bride was his niece. How the couple met is not recorded.

  Read it in the book, p. 94 →