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Throughout all this, Martha Carrier remained defiant and stubborn. She did not confess while many others around her did so she might save her life. There is a possibility that she simply did not expect the outcome of the trials would lead to her execution, as she was one of the first Andover citizens accused and clearly believed the proceedings ...
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There were four execution dates, with one person executed on June 10, 1692, [75] five executed on July 19, 1692 (Sarah Good, Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe and Sarah Wildes), [76] another five executed on August 19, 1692 (Martha Carrier, John Willard, George Burroughs, George Jacobs Sr., and John Proctor), and eight on September ...
March 12: Ann Putnam Jr. accuses Martha Corey of witchcraft. March 19: Abigail Williams accuses Rebecca Nurse as a witch. March 21: Magistrates Hathorne and Corwin examine Martha Corey. [4] March 23: Salem Marshal Deputy Samuel Brabrook arrests four-year-old Dorothy Good. March 24: Corwin and Hathorne examine Rebecca Nurse [5] and Dorothy Good. [6]
On 18 May 1692, Elizabeth Hubbard, Ann Putnam Jr., and Mary Walcott accused Toothaker of witchcraft.Elizabeth was the servant of William Griggs, Toothaker's competitor.On 28 May, Mary Toothaker, Margaret Toothaker (aged 9), Martha Carrier, and Elizabeth Jackson were arrested.
One of the trials included was Martha Carrier's, who was "[t]he person of whom the confessions of the witches, and of her own children among the rest, agreed that the devil had promised her she should be Queen of the Hebrews." [2]: 313 Mather presented testimonies against Martha Carrier, all of which presumed her to be guilty.
Martha Carrier: d. 1692, August 19: Massachusetts Bay Colony: 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 ...
Sarah Carrier (1701–1717) Mehitable Carrier (1698–1750) Martha Carrier (1702–1769) After Elizabeth's death, Carrier went on to marry Thankful Brown on July 29, 1707, in Colchester and had four children with her: [3] Hannah Carrier (1709–1741) Thankful Carrier (1708–1704) Remembrance Carrier (born 1703) Amos Carrier (1704–1730)