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Rachel Clinton (Salem witch trials)
Rachel Haffield Clinton (1629–1695) was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, England to Richard and Martha Haffield. She was to stand out as a victim of the Salem witch trials and her case became one of the more celebrated and documented.
==Early years==
In the spring of 1635 the Haffield family emigrated to New England and sailed upon a ship named ''The Planter''. Rachel was one of five daughters and her mother had been a maid-servant who was later deemed to be mentally insane. Clearly, her formative years were turbulent but she did grow up within an affluent household although the Haffield family fortune was ever dwindling.
In 1639 Rachel's father died and her mother rented out sections of their property to tenants as well as earning an income from spinning (textiles). Rachel therefore passed her later childhood years in the absence of an older male in the family as she had no brothers, an atypical situation for the era. The mental condition of Martha deteriorated in the ensuing years and she was declared "non compos mentis" in 1666 by the local magistrates.〔 The effect upon Rachel can only be surmised but could well have led to behavioural modifications that catalysed her later problems with the authorities and allegations of witchcraft which brought her to historical prominence within the larger context of the Salem Witch Trials.
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