When Elizabeth Carrill was born in 1685, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, her father, Nathaniel Carrill, was 22 and her mother, Priscilla Downing, was 24. She married Samuel Woodwell Jr on 10 November 1715, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She died in her hometown.
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In 1692, the Salem Witch Trials began when Betty Parris fell sick with an unknown illness. Her cousin Abigail William claimed that she was being made sick because of witchcraft. As other strange events began to happen more of the young ladies in the town started accussing more people. These people mainly consisted of people the young ladies did not like. By the time the hysteria ended over 200 people were accussed of being witches. Nineteen men and women were found guilty and hung.
The Crowninshield-Bentley house was built in 1727 by ship captain John Caspar Crowninshield. His family occupied the house for generations until it was taken over by Revend Bentley.
The Salem Social Library was organized on May 20, 1761. It was a privately funded library in Salem, Massachusetts. Most of the volumes in the library were gifts from people.
Some characteristic forenames: Spanish Jose, Juan, Carlos, Jesus, Manuel, Luis, Pedro, Francisco, Ruben, Miguel, Roberto, Mario.
Spanish: nickname for a person with some peculiarity of the cheek or jaw, Spanish carrillo. The word appears to be a diminutive of carro ‘cart, wagon’, and it has been suggested that the reference is to the movements of the jaw in chewing. The surname may also have denoted originally a bold or shameless person; for the semantic development compare Cheek .
Italian (Campania): probably from a diminutive of carro (see Carro ), unless it derives from the Spanish (see 1 above).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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