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According to historian George Lincoln Burr, "the Salem witchcraft was the rock on which the [New England] theocracy shattered." [6] At the 300th anniversary events held in 1992 to commemorate the victims of the trials, a park was dedicated in Salem and a memorial in Danvers.
On May 10, 2023, the Connecticut House of Representatives voted 121 in favor and 30 against, in order to exonerate 12 people who were convicted of witchcraft in the colonial era. On May 26, the Connecticut State Senate voted 33–1 to pardon the same group on the 376th anniversary of the first witch-hanging in New England, that of Alse Young. [28]
Hundreds of people throughout New England were accused of practicing witchcraft during that period, including over two hundred in 1692 during the Salem Witch Trials. Prior to the Salem Witch Trials of 1692, over a forty-one year period (1647–1688), nine women, including Margaret Jones, were hanged as witches.
The myth of the witch had a strong cultural presence in 17th century New England and, as in Europe, witchcraft was strongly associated with devil-worship. [3] About eighty people were accused of practicing witchcraft in a witch-hunt that lasted throughout New England from 1647 to 1663. Thirteen women and two men were executed. [4]
Many of the witchcraft accusations were driven at least in part by acrimonious relations between the families of the plaintiffs and defendants. Unless otherwise specified, dates provided in this list use Julian-dated month and day but New Style-enumerated year (i.e., years begin on January 1 and end on December 31, in the modern style).
Upham, Charles W. Salem Witchcraft; With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects; Upham, William P. (1904). House of John Proctor, Witchcraft Martyr, 1692, Press of C. H. Shephard, Peabody, Massachusetts; Winwar, Frances (1938). Puritan City: The Story of Salem, Robert M. McBride & Company, New York.
During the 17th through 19th centuries, there are at least thirty documented New York Witch Trials, hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in the Province of New York. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Several of the witchcraft cases in New York pre-dated the Salem witch trials .
[Note: According to the New England Historic Genealogical Society, Martha's spouse was born Thomas Morgan in Wales. Furthermore, he died in Colchester, Connecticut in 1735, not in 1739 as shown in two places above. According to Carrier family lore, Thomas was born in 1626, not in 1636 nor in 1650, as shown above.