Virtual Program - Widowhood, Tavern Culture, and Witchcraft at Gedney House
Thursday, October 24, 6:00 p.m.
After the death of her husband Eleazar, Mary Gedney applied for a license to sell liquor at their home in Salem’s waterfront district. With young children and an uncertain future, she never remarried and managed to keep her house on High Street until her death in 1716. Mary Gedney lived through a troubled period in Salem that included personal loss as well as warfare and witch trials. In this talk, Dr. Tricia Peone explores the role of women as tavern keepers in seventeenth-century New England and the connections of the house and the Gedney family to the Salem witch trials.
Dr. Tricia Peone works at the Congregational Library & Archives in Boston, where she is the project director for New England’s Hidden Histories, a digital archive of early church records. Prior to joining the CLA, she was a research scholar at Historic New England for the Recovering New England’s Voices project. She holds a Ph.D. in early American history from the University of New Hampshire.
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