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Benjamin Proctor, son of John Proctor and his first wife Martha. William Proctor, son of John Proctor and his third wife, Elizabeth. Mary Bassett DeRich, the sister of Elizabeth Proctor. Extended family: Thomas Farrar Sr., father-in-law of Elizabeth (Hood) Farrar, sister of Sarah Hood aka Sarah Bassett; Elizabeth Hutchinson, wife of Isaac Hart ...
March 26: John Hathorne, Jonathan Corwin and Rev. John Higginson question Dorothy Good, now in jail. [7] March 28: Elizabeth Proctor is accused of witchcraft. April 3: Sarah Cloyce, after defending her sister, Rebecca Nurse, is accused of witchcraft.
Rev. George Burroughs - Died August 19, 1692 (aged 42), execution by hanging. George Jacobs Sr. - Died August 19, 1692 (aged 83), execution by hanging. Martha Carrier - Died August 19, 1692 (aged 49), execution by hanging. John Proctor - Died August 19, 1692 (aged 59), execution by hanging.
Reverend Samuel Parris. According to a March 27, 1692 entry by Parris in the Records of the Salem-Village Church, a church member and close neighbor of Rev. Parris, Mary Sibley (aunt of Mary Walcott), directed John Indian, a man enslaved by Parris, to make a witch cake. [89] This may have been a superstitious attempt to ward off evil spirits.
Author John Neal made Parris a character in Rachel Dyer (1828), which is the first bound novel about the witch trials. [13] In this version of the story his name is Matthew Paris, [14] a socially isolated man who is threatened by Tituba's relationship with John Indian and accuses her out of sexual frustration. [15]
That night, Warren stated that John Proctor woke her to torment her about posting the note. On April 3, 1692, Samuel Parris read Mary's note to the church members, who began to question Warren after the Sunday services. Some took her answers to their questions to mean that the girls had lied.
Abigail Williams (born c. 1681, date of death unknown) [2] was an 11- or 12-year-old girl who, along with nine-year-old Betty Parris, was among the first of the children to falsely accuse their neighbors of witchcraft in 1692; these accusations eventually led to the Salem witch trials.
The previous evening, Reverend Parris discovered Betty, some other girls, and his Barbadian slave, Tituba, dancing naked in the forest and engaged in some sort of pagan ritual. The village is rife with rumors of witchcraft and a crowd gathers outside Rev. Parris' house. Parris becomes concerned that the event will cause him to be removed from ...