John Herbert

John married . Unknown [Group Sheet]

Elizabeth married Capt. George Corwin. George (son of John Corwin) was born in 1610 in England; died in 1685 in Salem, Essex Co, MA; was buried in Broad Street Cemetery, Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony. [Group Sheet]

Jonathan married Margaret Winthrop. (daughter of Gov. John Winthrop, Jr. and Martha Fones) [Group Sheet]

Notes:

George Corwin (February 26, 1666 ? April 12, 1696) was the High Sheriff of Essex County, Massachusetts during the Salem witch trials. He signed warrants for the arrest and execution of those condemned of witchcraft. On September 16, 1692, he was ordered by the Court of Oyer and Terminer to preside over the interrogation, under torture of Giles Corey, who was pressed to death for refusing to stand trial for witchcraft. Corwin died of a heart attack, in 1696, at the age of 30, after which his burial was delayed by a Salem resident named Phillip English, who was accused during the Witch Trials, and had his property seized by Corwin. English put a lien on Corwin's corpse, and delayed its burial until he had been reimbursed for the property he lost to Corwin.

George Corwin was the Grandson of John Winthrop, the Younger, the Governor of Connecticutt. His wife, Lydia Gedney, was the daughter of Bartholomew Gedney, one of the magistrates involved in the witch trials.

George married Lydia Gedney. (daughter of Bartholomew Gedney and Hannah Clarke) [Group Sheet]