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Mercy Short, age 17 and living in Boston. Martha Sprague, age 16 and living in Andover. Timothy Swan, age 29 and living in Andover. He died on February 2, 1693. Mary Thorne, age about 14 and living in Ipswich. Mary Walcott, age 17 and living in Salem Village/Danvers. Mary Warren – age about 20 and living in Salem.
Hanged during the Salem witch trials; her children had claimed she was a witch while undergoing torture. Martha Corey: 1620s–1692: Massachusetts Bay Colony: Hanged during the Salem witch trials: Mary Eastey: 1634–1692: Massachusetts Bay Colony: Hanged during the Salem witch trials: Mary Parker: d. 1692: Massachusetts Bay Colony: Hanged ...
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 ...
John Willard[1] (c. 1657 – August 19, 1692) was one of the people executed for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts, during the Salem witch trials. He was hanged on Gallows Hill, Salem on August 19, 1692. At the time of the first allegations of witchcraft Willard was serving as a constable in the village of Salem and his duties included ...
The Salem Witch Trials Memorial Park in Salem This is the memorial bench for Sarah Wildes at the Salem Witch Trials Memorial Park in Salem. The Salem Witch Trials Memorial includes a bench inscribed with the names of all those executed, including Sarah Wildes. Arthur Miller, who wrote The Crucible, a play based on the trials, spoke at the ...
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.
She was one of the most well-known "afflicted" girls in the Salem witch trials. Her name appeared on the arrest warrant for Elizabeth Howe. [2] She was the niece of Reverend Samuel Parris, reverend of Salem Village and was one of the first two girls to become "afflicted". [6] Mary Warren was 21 when the trials began.
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 ...