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Jul 13, 2017 · On the same day in 1692, five women—Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse, and Sarah Wildes—were hanged from a tree on the ledge, and their bodies fell into a “crevice ...
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In April of 1630, the Puritans, led by one of the company’s stockholders, John Winthrop, left their homes in Boston, England and sailed from Southampton towards the New World. The fleet of 12 ships reached the shores of Massachusetts on June 12 and landed at Salem, but the existing colony there did not have enough food or shelter to accommodate the...
Essex County Court Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1, no. 201. http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/n65.htmlEssex County Court Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1 no. 203. http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/n65.htmlEssex County Court Archives, Salem -- Witchcraft Vol. 1, nos. 202. http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/n65.htmlSuffolk Court Files, docket 2668 p. 149. http://salem.lib.virginia.edu/n65.htmlThanks to Cheryl Caudillfor starting this profile.WikiTree profile Hutchinson-1187 created through the import of Felch Family Tree.ged on Jun 16, 2012 by Robin Craig.- Female
- February 22, 1622
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May 25, 2016 · The Salem Witch Trials Memorial is a memorial in Salem, Mass dedicated to the victims of the Salem Witch Trials. The memorial consists of 20 granite benches surrounded by a low stone wall. The stone slabs in the entryway to the memorial are inscribed with the victim's protests, which were taken…
This is a list of people associated with the Salem Witch Trials, a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between March 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, most of whom were women.
Located just off Charter Street, on Liberty Street, is Salem’s simple yet dramatic memorial to the 20 victims of the witch trials of 1692. Four foot high granite walls surround three sides, with granite benches representing each victim cantilevered inward from the wall.
Oct 27, 2022 · Take for example the story of Ipswich’s Elizabeth How, a hardworking, fifty-five-year-old wife and mother executed July 19, 1692. A decade previous, she found herself in a heated conflict with a neighbor who accused her of bewitching a child to death.
This series of trials, prosecutions and executions of innocent people accused of practicing witchcraft took place in Colonial Massachusetts. Salem’s witch trials are a defining example of intolerance and injustice in American history.
