My Ancestral Ties To The Salem Witch Trials

In 1760 a plot of land was laid out like this: "Beginning at a beech tree marked, it being the northeast corner, boundary of Samuel Gustin's land; thence north 11 rods to a beech…" and thus it goes around the perimeter of the property from beech to spruce to the hemlock with stones by it.  Quaint.  And so it was while perusing old Mack family annals (Highland Scots who settled in New England) that we came upon something quite interesting but not nearly as charming–a direct link to the