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Hazen Family Tree - Susanna Clarke Roots, Imprisoned for Witchcraft

 Susanna Clarke Roots - Accused of Witchcraft in Beverly, Massachusetts

Family Connection - 8th great-grandmother of Edward Elihu Hazen Jr. 




Susanna Clarke was born in 1620 in England. According to some sources, her parents were Thomas Clarke and Susanna Ring, and the family immigrated to the Plymouth Colony before 1640. 

In 1640, she married Josiah Roots in Salem. They moved to Beverly in 1650. He is listed as one of the founding members of the church in Beverly. They had seven children, including John Roots who was born in 1646. 

Josiah died in 1683, and Susanna was given the  responsibility of taking inventory of the property and assets. She, however, declined to take on that responsibility, so the administration of the family estate was assigned to Andrew Elliot, not part of the Roots family. Then, with her sons dead or moved out of the area, she is placed under the care of her late son Thomas'  father-in-law. She was left destitute as a result. It is a familiar pattern - a previously prosperous women becomes a poor widow, a pattern in many of the witch accusations. 

On May 21. 1692, when Susanna was 71, Thomas Putnam, Jr. and John Putnam lodged a complaint against Susanna, calling her a witch and claiming she "afflicted" Mary Wolcotte, Abigail Williams, Mercy Lewis, and Anne Putnam.

Susanna Roots was arrested and charged, then imprisoned in Boston. She was never formally indicted or tried, and was ultimately released. She died in 1692, shortly after her release. 


Susanna Clarke Roots > John Root > Josiah Root > David Root > Joanna Root > Olive Dutton > Deborah Fuller > Norman Hazen > John Vose Hazen > Edward Elihu Hazen > Edward Elihu Hazen Jr. 

Susanna Clarke is in the second ring from the outside, yellow section of the top chart. The central person for this chart, Olive Dutton, is in the second ring from the outside of the green section in the bottom chart. 





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