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Grace White Sherwood

Virginia Beach
· 1660 - 1740
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Grace White Sherwood, who lived from 1660 to 1740, was a healer of the sick with herbs who was convicted as a witch and survived Virginia’s only trial by ducking in the Lynnhaven River on July 10, 1706; her name was cleared by the Governor 300 years later.
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