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The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirty people were found guilty,19 of whom were executed by hanging. One other man,Giles Corey,was pressed to death after refusing to enter a plea,and at least five people died in jail.
John Hathorne was a merchant and magistrate of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Salem,Massachusetts. He is best known for his early and vocal role as one of the leading judges in the Salem witch trials.
Samuel Sewall was a judge,businessman,and printer in the Province of Massachusetts Bay,best known for his involvement in the Salem witch trials,for which he later apologized,and his essay The Selling of Joseph (1700),which criticized slavery. He served for many years as the chief justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature,the province's high court.
John Proctor,Jr. was a landowner in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was the son of John Proctor Sr. (1594–1672) and Martha Harper (1607–1667). John and his 3rd wife were tried on August 5,1692. He was hanged on August 19,1692 in Salem Village,Massachusetts Bay Colony during the Salem Witch Trials after being falsely accused and convicted of witchcraft.
Giles Corey was an English-born American farmer who was accused of witchcraft along with his wife Martha Corey during the Salem witch trials. After being arrested,Corey refused to enter a plea of guilty or not guilty. He was subjected to pressing in an effort to force him to plead—the only example of such a sanction in American history—and died after three days of this torture. Because Corey refused to enter a plea,his estate passed on to his sons instead of being seized by the local government.
Elizabeth Proctor was convicted of witchcraft in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. She was the wife of John Proctor,who was convicted and executed.
Samuel Parris was the Puritan minister in Salem Village,Massachusetts,during the Salem witch trials. He was also the father of one of the afflicted girls,and the uncle of another.
Tituba Indian was an enslaved woman who was one of the first to be accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials of 1692-1693. She was brought to colonial Massachusetts from Barbados by Samuel Parris,the minister of Salem Village. She was pivotal in the trials because she confessed to witchcraft when examined by the authorities,giving credence to the accusations. She accused the two other women,Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne,of the same crime. She was imprisoned for over a year but never went to trial. It is unknown what happened to her after the case against her was dismissed by a grand jury in May 1693.
Sarah Good was one of the first three women to be accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials,which occurred in 1692 in colonial Massachusetts.
Martha Corey was accused and convicted of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials,on September 9,1692,and was hanged on September 22,1692. Her second husband,Giles Corey,was also accused.
Sarah Osborne (also variously spelled Osbourne,Osburne,or Osborn;née Warren,formerly Prince,was a colonist in the Massachusetts Bay colony and one of the first women to be accused of witchcraft in the Salem witch trials of 1692. Sarah Osborn was suggested to be a witch by Sarah Good. Sarah Good said she had been tormenting the girls.
Mercy Lewis was an accuser during the Salem Witch Trials. She was born in Falmouth,Maine. Mercy Lewis,formally known as Mercy Allen,was the child of Philip Lewis and Mary (Cass) Lewis.
Cultural depictions of the Salem witch trials abound in art,literature and popular media in the United States,from the early 19th century to the present day. The literary and dramatic depictions are discussed in Marion Gibson's Witchcraft Myths in American Culture and see also Bernard Rosenthal's Salem Story:Reading the Witch Trials of 1692
Rev. Nicholas Noyes II was a colonial minister during the time of the Salem witch trials. He was the second minister,called the "Teacher",to Rev. John Higginson. During the Salem witch trials,Rev. Noyes served as the official minister of the trials.
Sarah Wildes was wrongly convicted of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials and was executed by hanging. She maintained her innocence throughout the process,and was later exonerated. Her husband's first wife was a member of the Gould family,cousins of the Putnam family,the primary accusers,and court records document the family feuds which led to her persecution.
Thomas Maule,was a prominent Quaker in colonial Salem,Massachusetts.
Elizabeth Howe was one of the accused in the Salem witch trials. She was found guilty and executed on July 19,1692.
Margaret Scott was found guilty of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials and was executed by hanging on September 22,1692. She was part of the last group to be executed,which also included Mary Eastey,Martha Corey,Ann Pudeator,Samuel Wardwell,Mary Parker,Alice Parker,and Wilmot Redd. She was the only accused person from Rowley to be executed. As a lower-class,long-term widow,having lost several children in infancy,she was a prototypical witch candidate. When her husband,Benjamin,died,he left a very small estate and she,being unable to remarry,was reduced to begging,which invited resentment and suspicion. In this manner,her circumstances were comparable to fellow victim Sarah Good.
Martha Carrier was a Puritan accused and convicted of being a witch during the 1692 Salem witch trials.
Witch Hill is a painting,of a convicted witch,soon to be executed,by hanging,during the Salem witch trials. In her eyes,the look of pain is obvious,of an innocent who is powerless to change her fate.
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- ↑ 2001–2002 Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
- ↑ Massachusetts Election Statistics 2002.
- ↑ "Massachusetts Clears 5 From Salem Witch Trials". New York Times. New York, New York. November 2, 2001. Retrieved August 13, 2015.
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