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The first person to be tried and executed during the Salem witch trials. [22] Elizabeth Howe: 1635–1692: Massachusetts Bay Colony: Hanged during the Salem witch trials. George Burroughs: c. 1650–1692: Massachusetts Bay Colony: Congregational pastor, executed as part of the Salem witch trials. [23] George Jacobs: 1620–1692: Massachusetts ...
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. More than 200 people were accused.
This is a list of people associated with the Salem Witch Trials, a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between March 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, most of whom were women.
In 1648, Margaret Jones, a midwife, became the first person in Massachusetts — the second in New England — to be executed for witchcraft, decades before the infamous Salem witch trials. Nearly ...
Sep. 22—SALEM — On the 329th anniversary of the final eight wrongful executions of accused witches in 1692, panelists from the group Voices Against Injustice, the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem ...
The Salem witch trials followed in 1692–93. These witch trials were the most famous in British North America and took place in the coastal settlements near Salem, Massachusetts. Prior to the witch trials, nearly three hundred men and women had been suspected of partaking in witchcraft, and nineteen of these people were hanged, and one was ...
The witch trials in Connecticut, also sometimes referred to as the Hartford witch trials, occurred from 1647 to 1663. [1] They were the first large-scale witch trials in the American colonies, predating the Salem Witch Trials by nearly thirty years. [2] John M. Taylor lists a total of 37 cases, 11 of which resulted in executions. [3]
The Salem witchcraft trial of 1878, [1] [2] [3] also known as the Ipswich witchcraft trial [4] and the second Salem witch trial, [5] was an American civil case held in May 1878 in Salem, Massachusetts, in which Lucretia L. S. Brown, an adherent of the Christian Science religion, accused fellow Christian Scientist Daniel H. Spofford of attempting to harm her through his "mesmeric" mental powers.