Accused Details
A/EGD/159 Alison Nisbet
- related case
- C/EGD/170
- Given first name
- Alisone
- Given last name
- Nisbet
- Title
- no information
- Alias
- no information
- Sex
- Female
- Age
- no information
- Occupation
- Midwife
- Marital Status
- Married
- Ethnic origin
- no information
- Socioeconomic status
- Lower
- Notes
- She is also referred to as Elie Nesbitt. Repute a witch for 13 years. She was married and admitted to committing adultery with Andrew Park. At one point she was a servant to the minister of Hilton, described as 'fostering his eldest son' [Fostering could be wet-nursing], until one of her patients told the minister about an afterbirth ritual she did that had supposedly resulted in someone's death. Alison's mother supposedly fled to England after a commission was granted ot arrest and try her.
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