Note: I published this post, 11 Oct 2022, not realizing that today is the 175th birthday of Mary Eliza (Arnold) Brown, the mother of Mercy Lena Brown. Welcome to another installment of the 52 in 52- Halloween edition! In this post I had to borrow another spooky ancestor, and I will have do the same for the next two installments (my own ancestors were mostly nice, solid, immigrant farmers whose lives were nice, solid, and not particularly spooky!). I figure the person in this week's post was someone's relative, so she counts! In today's tale, we're going to meet Mercy Brown of Rhode Island, an unassuming and, by all accounts, quiet girl, whose death fed into superstition so deep that it gripped parts of New England in fear. So buckle up, and let's go! (As I was writing this post, I discovered that Lena Brown is a distant relative of one of my clients, through her mother's family! Another ancestor of his will be next week's post! So she is in a client...
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