Duchess of Downtown Tacoma

When I tell you that there is a link between witches, angels and fairies I know that it sounds like a wacky conspiracy theory. But I've been researching my ancestry for a few years now and these things just keep jumping out at me. These blogs are just a collection of the evidence. The conclusion of these facts is up to you the reader. I'm just documenting things I discovered about my ancestors in this blog.  One story in my ancestry really fascinates me is the story of my 7th Great grandmother Mercy Disbrow (sometimes spelled Disborough). Any discussion about the Connecticut Witch Trials especially in the academic collegiate circles usually includes Mercy's story. More details about that below. This story just won't leave me alone.  As I researched other famous people, Mercy and her husband Thomas's names kept showing up in the relationship path. Here are a few examples of our common relations: Drew Barrymore my 18th cousin once removed. Thomas Paine my 17th cousi...

  Mercy Brown's story is the legendary inspiration for Bram Stroker, HG Lovecraft and many other authors. It's surmised that she is the mother of the entire vampire genre in fact. Was she a vampire? Probably not. But I'm also related to a lot of extraordinary women with supposed supernatural abilities so that must be taken into consideration.  A quick google search will give you lots of information about what happened to Mercy Brown in New England in 1892. Here is a 6 minute video overview if you don't have time to go down a rabbit hole right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTvYlWJPWtw Vampire legend Mercy Brown is my 13th cousin twice removed. Angela Jossy  → Carl Jossy your father → Inez Isadora Imus his mother → Jiles Herbert Imus her father → Hiram M. Imus his father → Charles Lemuel Imus his father → Lucy Imus his mother → Ann Buck her mother → Abigail Gould her mother → Thomas Disbrow her father → Margaret Walton his mother → Elizabeth Lynne Cromwell her moth...