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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, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men). One other man, Giles Corey, died under ...
George Booth, age 21 and living in Salem. William Bragg, age 8 and living in Salem. Mary Fellows-Brown, age about 46 and living in Reading. Phebe Chandler, age 12 and living in Andover. Sarah Churchill/Churchwell, age about 25 and living in Salem Village/Danvers. John Cole, age about 52 and living in Lynn.
7 (with Thorndike) 7 (with Bassett) Conviction (s) Witchcraft (posthumously overturned) John Proctor (October 9, 1632 – August 19, 1692) was a landowner in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He and his wife Elizabeth were tried and convicted of witchcraft as part of the Salem Witch Trials, whereupon he was hanged.
The inscription on the marker reads: "Here stood the house of Susanna Martin, An honest, hardworking, Christian woman accused as a witch, tried, and executed at Salem, July 19, 1692. A martyr of superstition. T.I.A. 1894." [6] [7] In the 19th century, poet John Greenleaf Whittier composed "The Witch's Daughter" about Martin:
Bridget Bishop (née Magnus; c. 1632 – 10 June 1692) was the first person executed for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in 1692. Nineteen were hanged, and one, Giles Corey, was pressed to death. Altogether, about 200 people were tried.
July 2: Sarah Wildes is tried and found guilty. July 19: Sarah Good, Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse, Elizabeth Howe, and Sarah Wildes are executed by hanging at Gallows Hill in Salem. August 3: Martha Carrier is tried and found guilty. August 4: George Jacobs Sr. and John Willard are tried and found guilty.
Margaret Scott (née Stephenson; March 28, 1616 – October 2, 1692 [O.S. September 22, 1692]) 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 ...
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.