Elizabeth “Goody” Garlick

She was accused of being a witch and brought before the Magistrates of East Hampton, NY on May 5, 1658, and sent to Connecticut for trial. She was released but had to pay court costs.

"Goody" Garlick, wife of Joshua Garlick of Easthampton, Long Island was accused of being a witch and tried for the crime a generation before the famous Salem Witch Trials. The year was 1657/8 and Elizabeth was then a woman in her 50's. She and her husband had come to America with Lyon Gardner whose first place of settlement still bears his name Gardner's Island. They then were settlers of Easthampton along with he, and his family, and many other settlers. It was Lyon Gardner's own daughter, Elizabeth Gardner Howell, who on her deathbed made the final accusation against "Goody" Garlick. It was the hysteria, and local hearsay evidence, that surrounded her subsequent death which made the early townspeople believe Elizabeth Garlick to in fact be a witch. Some historians have said that Joshua and Elizabeth Blanchard Garlick were Huguenots, thus French speaking immigrants among mostly English settlers. Also, she had a vast knowledge of the use of herbs for medicine, making her a strong, older woman from a differing culture. The local magistrates held three weeks of hearings during which time they took thirteen depositions. They then sent "Goody" Garlick and the collected evidence to Hartford, Connecticut, under whose jurisdiction Easthampton then fell, for trial before Governor John Winthrop on her accused offenses. She was not convicted of the crime for lack of sufficient evidence to prove her guilt, but she was also not acquitted. Her husband had to post a bond to ensure his wife's good behavior. She was sent back to Easthampton and all townspeople were instructed to make amends and live together peacefully. The actual date of Elizabeth's death has not been found in the local records but she and her husband continued to live in Easthampton for the remainder of their lives. This was the local burial ground where other settlers of their same era lie buried, hence it is believed that they lie buried here.

Source of above paragraph: ↑ Find A Grave

References

• WikiTree contributors, "Elizabeth (Blanchard) Garlick (abt.1620-aft.1698)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Blanchard-2571 : Blanchard-2571 created 27 Oct 2015 | Last modified 14 Aug 2024 | accessed 21 November 2024).
• ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines and Arthur Bliss Dayton. [https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:The_Early_Daytons_and_Descendan.... The Early Daytons and Descendants of Henry, Jr.] New Haven Historical Society, Connecticut, 1959, page 18, citing East Hampton Town Records, 1:223, 224, 288
• ↑ Demos, John. Entertaining Satan: Witchcraft and the Culture of Early New England. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982), Preview available via Google Books.
• ↑ Foster, Sherrill (Winter 1996/Spring 1997). "Remember & Joshua Garlick: Their Parents & Their Children." The Suffolk County Historical Society Register, (22)3&4, 98-103.
• ↑ Records of the Particular Court of Connecticut, 1639-1663; Published by The Connecticut Historical Society And The Society of Colonial Wars In The State of Connecticut, Hartford, 1928. Page 188-189; image 126, (FamilySearch.org link: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSZC-S7S8-N : 4 April 2022).
• ↑ Hanc, John. (October 25, 2012). "Before Salem, There Was the Not-So-Wicked Witch of the Hamptons." Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved October 23, 2015 from http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/before-salem-there-was-the-no...
• http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42307568
• http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nwa/garlick.html
• http://www.covenantofrhiannon.org/garlick.htm
• http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/LI/WitchesofLongIsland.html
• http://www.womenhistoryblog.com/2008/03/elizabeth-blanchard-garlick...
• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bhusler/Bill/Reunion/Web%2...
• https://newyorkhistoryblog.org/2018/11/witch-be-gone-a-witch-trial-...
• https://www.danspapers.com/2012/11/goody-garlick-the-true-story-of-...
• Hanc, John. (October 25, 2012). "Before Salem, There Was the Not-So-Wicked Witch of the Hamptons." Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved October 23, 2015 from http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/before-salem-there-was-the-no...
• Sam Behling. (n.d.) "Notable Women Ancestors: Elizabeth Blanchard Garlick," retrieved from http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nwa/garlick.html
• Stuff you missed in history class podcast, Retrieved from http://www.missedinhistory.com/blog/missed-in-history-goody-garlick/
• Orion, Loretta, PhD. “East Hampton’s Legendary Witch.” Life in Olde East Hampton Lecture Series. Oct. 25, 2002. http://www.easthamptonlibrary.org/pdfs/history/lectures/20021025.pdf
• Dewan, George. “In the Matter of Goody Garlick.” New York State Archives. Vol. 5, No. 5. Fall 2005. no longer online; can be purchased from https://www.nysarchivestrust.org/support-us/nyam-order-form
• Hedges, Henry. Records of the Town of East Hampton, Long Island, Suffolk Co., N.Y. (Sag-Harbor, J. H. Hunt, Printer, 1887-1905) Vol. 1, Page 7-9.
• http://patch.com/new-york/sayville/long-islands-own-witchcraft-tria...
• http://www.damnedct.com/elizabeth-garlick/
• Drake, Samuel Gardner. Annals of Witchcraft in New England, and Elsewhere in the United States, from their First Settlement. Boston: W. E. Woodward, 1869, pages 110-112
• https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t58d0621n&vie...
• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Garlick