Esther b. 1639, wife of Samuel Elwell on 30 October 1692 along with two other women, Rebecca wife of Richard Dike , and Abigail Rowe, daughter of Hugh Rowe, all of Gloucester, were taken to Ispwich, for examination on a charge of witchcraft, but were all released on 7 November 1692. (Source Levi Henry Elwell, 1854-1916) 18

Hester, due to sickness and poverty was, like her mother a "poor distressed widow" for many