There’s something there, I can feel it, but can’t find anything about it. The accused and convicted women also challenged the norms of the community; many were opinionated and forthright while some had bad reputations due to their “unladylike” behavior.

However, the bodies of Rebecca Nurse, John Proctor and George Jacobs were eventually retrieved by their families and given Christian burials. Susannah North Martin was my 9th Great Grandmother. I learn by the more I want to you,.. Parker also had a reputation for clairvoyance and on one occasion successfully predicted that a friend’s husband had died at sea. He was one of the first people in Salem to speak out against the witch trials. Not everyone who was accused was pursued by authorities or arrested though. Other victims include two dogs who were shot or killed after being suspected of witchcraft. Pudeator was accused of witchcraft in May of 1692 by Sarah Churchill and several other afflicted girls of Salem Village. Giles Corey refused to enter a plea in an attempt to prevent his case from going to trial. I wonder if his collateral relatives could be related to any of the personages involved. Many historians believe that a number of individuals in the colony, particularly the Putnam family, quickly took advantage of this witch hunt and mass hysteria by accusing rival neighbors or other colonists that they disapproved of or wanted revenge against. Several confessed witches testified against Willard as well as afflicted girl Ann Putnam, Jr., who testified that she saw many ghosts of people Willard allegedly killed. Nice piece- thank you for writing and sharing it! That’s very interesting, could I get ur Email, and Interview you for a history project? Shepard, 1904.“Site of the Salem Courthouse in 1692.” The Salem Witch Museum, www.salemwitchmuseum.com/sitestour/salem/salem-courthouse-site“Massachusetts Clears 5 from Salem Witch Trials.” New York Times, New York Times Company,  2 Nov. 2001, www.nytimes.com/2001/11/02/us/massachusetts-clears-5-from-salem-witch-trials.html“Salem Witch Trials Descendants.” The Salem Award Foundation, salemaward.org/swtm/descendants/Robinson, John. While the majority were women, men were also both accused and convicted of being involved in the occult. Carrier was the first person in Andover accused during the Salem Witch Trials. Margaret Steverson Scott. He then confessed to making a pact with the devil but later recanted his confession. In Andover, seventeen alleged witches were identified in a single afternoon sting known as the ‘touch test.’ The villagers collected in the meetinghouse, then one by one, the women were blindfolded and led up to two of Salem’s writing girls. If any1 can send me any known links or information regarding relation or more to her story if theres any available, I’d forever be grateful, as i find this to be an extremely intresting part of our countries history! Shortly after, Willard himself was accused of witchcraft by Ann Putnam, Jr., who also accused him of beating her baby sister to death. Martha Corey was brought to trial on September 9 and executed on September 22, 1692, just three days after Giles Corey had been tortured to death for refusing to enter a plea. Two dogs … Women Weren’t the Only Victims of the Salem Witch Trials. He reportedly knew he was going to die, either in jail or on the gallows, and wanted to avoid being convicted before he did. Scott was brought to trial on September 17 and executed on September 22, 1692. Here are some of the lesser-known African American women scientists who have made groundbreaking impacts in their respective fields. Elizabeth ProctorBrought to trial on August 5 and found guilty. The other victims were either found guilty but pardoned, found not guilty, were never indicted, evaded arrest or escaped from jail. I just found out that much.

Burroughs was arrested, brought to trial on August 5 and executed on August 19, 1692. In November 2001, years after the … Susannah North Martin is my 10th great-grandmother!

On June 10, 1692, Bridget Bishop was hanged. It snow balled from little girls avoiding getting into trouble to panic and finally to greed. cousin!” I am also direct decent of Susannah North and I do have the information you probably need. Interior of the old dungeon, old witch jail, Salem, Mass, circa 1935.

The girls then accused a local slave, Tituba, and two other women of bewitching them. Bishop had a bad reputation around town because she had been accused of witchcraft years before and had frequent run-ins with the law.

Thanks, Stephen! The Salem Witch Trials Reader. Also have the Carys. Lydia DustinDied in jail on March 10, 1693. She was brought to trial on June 2, found guilty and became the first person executed during the witch trials when she was hanged on June 10, 1692. Not every victim was named in the bill though because some families of the victims did not want their family member listed.


Corey had a reputation for being a pious member of the community despite the well-known fact that she had a child out of wedlock in the 1670s. Just a few days later, Bray’s grandson, Daniel Wilkins, was found dead, his body bloody and beaten, and according to court records: “to the best of our judgments we cannot but apprehend but that he dyed an unnatural death by sume cruell hands of witchcraft or diabolicall act…”. When Giles Corey himself was accused of witchcraft and arrested in April, he refused to provide any more information on Martha or himself. Made and passed by the Great and General Court or Assembly of her Majestys Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, held at Boston the 17th day of Oct, 1711.”. He died on the third day of his torture on September 19, 1692.

He later settled in Salisbury, Mass for a while before being asked to serve as the new minister in Salem Village in 1680. Everyone knew that witchcraft was largely a female perversity, but the reasoning stopped there. Thanx. Visit this site's About page to find out more about Rebecca.

Scott was accused by two of Rowley’s most notable families: the Wicoms and the Nelsons. Edited by Wilbur R. Miller. She was released from prison in March, 1693.

The victims were hanged by the neck by a rope tied to a tree. A depiction of Rebecca Nurse in chains during the Salem Witch Trials. I have been told that I am related to the oldest woman in the witch trials. Did they eat certain foods? The Putnams were Rebecca Nurse’s main accusers during the witch trials and many of them testified against her. These were perpetually dark, bitterly cold, and so damp that water ran down the walls. Some have theorized that the witch hunts were the result of personal vendettas or economic competition, while others have suggested that the consumption of ergot-poisoned rye grain may have resulted in hallucinations and faulty thinking among the Puritans in New England. Redd was accused of witchcraft in May of 1692 by the Salem Village afflicted girls and brought to Ingersoll Tavern in Salem Village for her examination. In her previous case she was accused of bewitching a local girl. Nancy Fearon, I just found this site and saw your note. Many locals, including Thomas Putnam, suspected Corey had paid a bribe for his freedom. Thank you so very much–, unfortunately i am related to the putnam family interesting to know that my ancestors was the one accusing. So like sheep herded over a cliff, Andover’s women were seized, bound, served warrants, and loaded into the back of oxcarts for the four- or five-hour trip to Salem jail, their frantic relatives browbeating them the entire way.

However, hundreds of lives were damaged by the Salem witch hunts. Imagine how you might feel if you had to witness the execution of one of your loved ones …. Many believe that this is perhaps why certain men and women were targeted and accused of witchcraft. She was sentenced to death but pardoned by Governor Phips. The colony held the day of prayer on January 15, 1697, which was known as the Day of Official Humiliation. Edited by Benjamin F. Arrington, vol.

Much like Bridget Bishop, Susannah Martin had also been accused of witchcraft before. On September 22, 1692, eight people were hanged for their alleged crimes as witches. The young girls knowing that dabbling at slight of hand with their maid may have been wrong, amongst people who didn’t even allow children to play. The dungeons forever changed people and the ones who were lucky enough to survive the prison or escape the gallows often suffered for the rest of their lives. And some of the principal accusers and witnesses in those dark and severe prosecutions have since discovered themselves to be persons of profligate and vicious conversations.
During the examinations the prisoners, who were mostly elderly, were stripped naked in front of a group of people and their bodies were poked and prodded and any suspicious marks or moles found were pricked with needles. Victims of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. There were many women from Gloucester, MA arrested. If the woman’s touch abated the girl’s convulsions, it proved that she was guilty. At least half of the show was about Dorcus. However, hundreds of lives were damaged by the Salem witch hunts. I am related to Rebecca Nurse as well, but I think it is through her brother. The charges were eventually dropped or dismissed. Hanged on June 10. I recently watched an episode of the genealogy series, Who Do You Think You Are on the TLC network. After she married widower John Wildes in 1663, John Gould and Mary Gould Reddington, the brother and sister of John Wildes’ late wife, developed a hatred of Sarah Wildes and, in 1670, began spreading rumors that she was a witch. This myth likely derives from the fact that more than 50,000 of the accused were punished by fire for “malevolent witchcraft” during the European witch hunts that peaked around the 15th century. John Proctor sat in the courtroom, watching his pregnant wife, Elizabeth on the stand. None of my ancestors went to trial; but jail must have been cruel.

In fact, five of the 20 who were executed were men. Does anyone have any info on her or who Richard North’s parents are? She also disapproved of the controversial appointment of Samuel Parris, whom was a close friend of the Putnams, as the new Salem Village minister. While in prison, the accused were repeatedly humiliated by being forced to undergo physical examinations of their bodies. She was arrested, brought to trial on June 29 and executed on July 19, 1692. The colony also been to suffer from frequent droughts, crop failures, smallpox outbreaks, Native-American attacks and other disasters and the colonists worried that the mistakes made during the Salem Witch Trials had angered God. The trials were then held in the Salem courthouse which was located in the center of Washington Street about 100 feet south of Lynde Street, opposite of where the Masonic Temple now stands. Months in a dungeon convicted of witchcraft as a toddler. in journalism. My ancestor Thomas Ruee came from Salem, Massachusetts. Kind of makes me proud!


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