This is not the John Proctor of the Salem witch trials.

So Wikipedia has it wrong on their listing? You should get in there and correct the Wiki page!

I'm "untagging" him from the Project and putting your comment in as a "curator" note that floats on top of the profile. Many thanks for the catch.

Is this the John Proctor of the Salem Witchcraft Trials?

John Proctor, Salem Witch Trials

Erica, I think the John Proctor MP with your curator note that it's not the John Proctor of the trials, is in fact, John Proctor II who I have a MP for. I did some work on the Proctor tree this morning and discovered there were, in fact, 2 different Proctor families snarled together. Someone had a second wife for John Proctor, Sr. maiden name Hildreth (I think Jane) who was actually married to Robert Proctor. I don't know how he's related to the Salem Proctor family. But many of their children had the same first names, birth dates differing by roughly 10 years. I have Jane Hildreth and Robert together now, and no longer married to John Sr. I'm starting to unsnarl the children.

Is it OK if I merge the 2 MP's for John Proctor?

Please do. Take off one MP first. Take the wrong John Proctor out of the witch trials project too.

Thank you Tam!

P.S. Did you see there's a "Classical Composers" Project going?

No, I didn't see the Classical Composers project. That's where a couple of profiles I put under Artists should be.
Is there a project where John Dewey would fit? Even though he wrote several books on philosophy, I don't feel Artists really is his niche.

There is a Philosopher project as well and John Dewey would certainly fit there.

"Search Projects" went live yesterday!

http://www.geni.com/projects/Great-Composers-of-Classical-Music
http://www.geni.com/projects/Prominent-Historians-and-Philosophers

Well, his Wives and Mother here are correct, so I think this is the right John Proctor, but i think many of the descendants here are wrong though, i don't recognize many of them. - I am one of his direct descendants. The spelling changed in my line from "or" to "er" When the family moved to Gloucester, MA in 1768.