Between and people were arrested for witchcraft during the witch hunt. Some of the court records have been lost over the years, but the following is an almost complete list of the victims arrested for witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials:. Mary Witheridge. Bishop had a bad reputation around town because she had been accused of witchcraft years before and had frequent run-ins with the law.
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, At the time of the witch trials she was poor and pregnant and would often go door to door in Salem Village begging for handouts while her husband worked as a day laborer. Good was one of the first people accused of witchcraft during the Salem Witch Trials, along with Sarah Osbourn and Tituba.
When the afflicted girls first began showing symptoms that they were bewitched, the girls accused the three women of the bewitching them. Sarah Good was brought to trial June 29 and executed on July 19, Much like Bridget Bishop, Howe had also been accused of witchcraft before. In her previous case she was accused of bewitching a local girl. No charges were ever brought up against Howe but she was later refused admittance to an Ipswich church due to the incident.
In May of , she was accused of witchcraft by the afflicted girls in Salem Village. She was arrested, brought to trial on June 29 and executed on July 19, Much like Bridget Bishop, Susannah Martin had also been accused of witchcraft before. In her previous cases she was accused of infanticide and tormenting people with her specter. The charges were eventually dropped or dismissed.
Martin was accused of witchcraft by the afflicted girls in the spring of Susannah Martin was taken to Salem Village, brought to trial on June 29 and executed on July 19, She was a pious and popular woman who had a longstanding feud with the Putnam family over border boundaries between their adjoining land. She also disapproved of the controversial appointment of Samuel Parris, whom was a close friend of the Putnams, as the new Salem Village minister.
Rebecca Nurse was originally found not guilty at the end of her trial in late June but when the verdict was read out loud in the court the afflicted girls protested and the jury was asked to reconsider its decision. The jury reconsidered and came back with a guilty verdict. Rebecca Nurse was executed on July 19, Sarah Wildes had somewhat of a bad reputation due to previous brushes with law. In , she was accused of fornicating out of wedlock with Thomas Wardwell and in she was accused of wearing a silk scarf.
The Gould family were close friends with the Putnam family of Salem Village. Shortly after the Salem witch hunt began in March of , the Putnam family accused Sarah Wildes of witchcraft in April of and she was arrested. Sarah Wildes was brought to trial on June 29 and executed on July 19, Burroughs was a minister in Casco, Maine during the s but left the settlement after it was attacked by Native Americans.
He later settled in Salisbury, Mass for a while before being asked to serve as the new minister in Salem Village in The residents of Salem disagreed over his appointment as minister and he was not always paid his salary.
He often borrowed money from the Putnam family to support his family. When he stopped being paid all together, he left Salem and returned to Maine. At some point the Putnam family sued Burroughs for failure to repay his debt and shortly after accused him of witchcraft.
Burroughs was arrested, brought to trial on August 5 and executed on August 19, Carrier was the first person in Andover accused during the Salem Witch Trials. She was accused by her neighbor Benjamin Abbot after the two had a dispute over land and Abbot immediately fell ill.
Her children were also accused and were coerced into testifying against her. Carrier was brought to trial on August 5 and executed on August 19, He was one of the first people in Salem to speak out against the witch trials. Willard was responsible for helping to arrest the accused witches but soon began to doubt so many people could be guilty of witchcraft and quit his job in protest. Shortly after, Willard himself was accused of witchcraft by Ann Putnam, Jr.
Willard was not immediately arrested but his in-laws, the Wilkins family, began to grow suspicious of him. An arrest warrant was issued for John Willard but he had already fled Salem Village.
A second arrest warrant was issued and Willard was hunted down and arrested in Nashua, NH. Several confessed witches testified against Willard as well as afflicted girl Ann Putnam, Jr. John Willard was brought to trial on August 5 and executed on August 19, He was a reluctant church go-er and was an outspoken critic of the Salem Witch Trials. He was first accused by his servant, Sarah Churchill, who also accused his granddaughter Margaret Jacobs.
His son, George Jacobs, Jr, was accused as well but he evaded arrest. Many people testified against George Jacobs, Sr, including almost all the members of the Putnam family. He was found guilty on August 5 and executed on August 19, He was an outspoken critic of the Salem Witch Trials and often threatened to beat or whip the afflicted girls for their role in the witch trials.
Proctor knew Salem was in the midst of a mass hysteria and wrote a letter to the Boston clergy in July asking that they intervene or move the trials to Boston. The clergy responded but it was too late to save Proctor, who was brought to trial on August 5 and executed on August 19, His remaining family members were either never charged or found guilty and pardoned.
The couple lived in Salem town where Alice was known as a pious, honest woman. Alice Parker was brought to trial on September 9 and executed on September 22, It is not known why Parker was accused but she stated during her examination that there was another woman in Andover named Mary Parker and suggested it was a case of mistaken identity.
Martha Sprague then stated that the woman in front of her was the woman who afflicted her. Mary Parker was brought to trial on September 17 and executed on September 22, Ann Pudeator Age: 70s Ann Pudeator was a widow who lived in Salem town where she also worked as a nurse and midwife. She had a reputation for being sharp-tongued and often quarreled with locals. Pudeator was accused of witchcraft in May of by Sarah Churchill and several other afflicted girls of Salem Village.
Some of her medical supplies, such as foot ointments, were confiscated and introduced to the court as objects of the occult. During her trial, Pudeator accused many of her accusers of lying. Pudeator was brought to trial on September 9 and executed on September 22, Like Bridget Bishop and many other witch trial victims, Wilmot Redd had also been accused of witchcraft before in She was an unpopular person around town because she often quarreled with others and had an abrasive personality.
Redd was accused of witchcraft in May of by the Salem Village afflicted girls and brought to Ingersoll Tavern in Salem Village for her examination. Redd was brought to trial in September and executed on September 22, Scott had seven children but only three survived childhood. After her husband died in , Scott was left destitute and forced to beg from her neighbors. This made her unpopular with her neighbors. A member of the Nelson family also sat on the grand jury that convicted her.
Scott was brought to trial on September 17 and executed on September 22, Presided over by judges including Hathorne, Samuel Sewall and William Stoughton, the court handed down its first conviction, against Bridget Bishop, on June 2; she was hanged eight days later on what would become known as Gallows Hill in Salem Town.
Five more people were hanged that July; five in August and eight more in September. Though the respected minister Cotton Mather had warned of the dubious value of spectral evidence or testimony about dreams and visions , his concerns went largely unheeded during the Salem witch trials.
Amid waning public support for the trials, Governor Phips dissolved the Court of Oyer and Terminer in October and mandated that its successor disregard spectral evidence. Trials continued with dwindling intensity until early , and by that May Phips had pardoned and released all those in prison on witchcraft charges. In January , the Massachusetts General Court declared a day of fasting for the tragedy of the Salem witch trials; the court later deemed the trials unlawful, and the leading justice Samuel Sewall publicly apologized for his role in the process.
The damage to the community lingered, however, even after Massachusetts Colony passed legislation restoring the good names of the condemned and providing financial restitution to their heirs in But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. At the center of the Salem witch trials were a core group of accusers, all girls and young women ranging in age from nine to 20, who screamed, writhed, barked and displayed other horrifying symptoms they claimed were signs of Satanic possession.
Often referred to as the In early , during the depths of winter in Massachusetts Bay Colony, a group of young girls in the village of Salem began acting strangely.
Witch hunts have never simply been about men in power versus powerless women — the gender politics are much more complicated. You can look at many witch hunts as attempts to regulate and maintain the established gender hierarchy in a given community, which is to say, the patriarchy.
The endless opportunities for interpretation mean that we are still utterly fascinated by the Salem trials today. It developed another side: It became a symbol. That rings true, as does the more unsettling suggestion that different forms of witch hunting are still with us today.
Maybe our cultural fascination with the trials comes from our fear that we could be the ones wrongfully accused one day — outed for being different, shunned for a differing opinion or way of life. Want more from Teen Vogue? Stay up-to-date with the politics team. Sign up for the Teen Vogue Take. Keywords witches og history u. By the end of the trials in , 24 people had died, some in jail but most by hanging. Eventually, after seeming to realize how unfair the trials were to the accused, the court refused to hear any more charges of witchcraft.
All of the accused were finally pardoned in The Salem Village hangings were the last executions of accused witches in the United States. Text adapted from the National Geographic book Witches! All rights reserved. Personality Quizzes.
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