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William Griggs was a medical doctor in Salem Village, Massachusetts. He is best known as the doctor who diagnosed the Salem Villagers as possessed, during the time of the Salem witch trials . [ 1 ] Griggs was in charge of diagnosing and determining how "much" of a witch they were.
Bloodlines of Salem was a Salt Lake City-based family-history group in the United States. Its purpose was described as providing a "place where visitors share ideas and information about the Salem witch trials of 1692, its participants and their families. Many visitors have researched and proved their descents from one or more of the participants.
Despite being generally known as the Salem witch trials, the preliminary hearings in 1692 were conducted in a variety of towns across the province: Salem Village (now Danvers), Salem Town, Ipswich, and Andover. The best-known trials were conducted by the Court of Oyer and Terminer in 1692 in Salem Town.
"Hocus Pocus" was released in 1993, but fans of the Halloween film may have missed these details. There are several references to Salem, Massachusetts, and its history with witchcraft. "Hocus ...
Elizabeth "Betty" Parris – age 9 and living in Salem Village/Danvers. Daughter of the Rev. Samuel Parris. Sarah Phelps, age 10 and living in Andover; Mary Pickworth, age 17 and living in Salem; Bethshua/Bethsheba Folger-Pope, Age 40 and living in Salem Village/Danvers; Ann Carr-Putnam Sr., age 31 and living in Salem Village/Danvers
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.
Within the historical phenomenon, witch trial 'defendants' were overwhelmingly female, and members of the lower classes. The Salem witch trial breaks from this pattern. In the Salem witch trials, elite men were accused of witchcraft, some of them the same leaders who failed to successfully protect besieged settlements to the north. This anomaly ...
The Salem Village Historic District encompasses a collection of properties from the early center of Salem Village, as Danvers, Massachusetts was known in the 17th century. The district includes an irregular pattern of properties along Centre, Hobart, Ingersoll, and Collins Streets, as far north as Brentwood Circle, and south to Mello Parkway. [ 2 ]