Thomas Ives was born in 1647, in Wendron, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. He married Martha Withe on 1 February 1672, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He died about June 1695, in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 48.
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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.
English (of Norman origin) and French: from the Old French personal name Ive, Yve(s) (of which Ivon was originally an inflected form), with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. The name, common among the Normans and Bretons, was originally of Breton origin and derived ultimately from a British Celtic (or perhaps Gaulish) stem ib- ‘yew’. This surname is very rare in France; in North America it may thus, in some cases, (also) be an altered form of the variant Yves.
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