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Elizabeth was born in 1650 in Lynn, Massachusetts, and was the daughter of Capt. William Bassett Sr. and Sarah Burt. [2] As an adult she weighed 155 pounds. [3] [4] [5] She married John Proctor on April 1, 1674 in Salem, Massachusetts.
Elizabeth Proctor, daughter of John Proctor and Elizabeth Thorndike Proctor, married Thomas Very in 1681. His sister, Elizabeth Very was the second wife of John Nurse, the eldest son of Francis and Rebecca (née Towne) Nurse .
Proctor wrote: [2] The Fall of the late Arrian, London, 1549, dedicated to Princess Mary. Diarmaid MacCulloch has tentatively identified John Assheton as the subject of this work. [4] While it contains anti-papal commentary, it is also critical of theological aspects of the Protestant Reformation and the unorthodox sectarian views it ushered in ...
Elizabeth (Thorndike) Proctor (1642 – 30 August 1672) was the second wife of John Proctor. [1] Elizabeth was born circa 1642-43 in Essex County, Massachusetts. She was the third child of John Thorndike and Elizabeth Stratton. Prior to marrying Proctor, she was married first to Edmund Bassett. In December 1662, she married John Proctor in ...
August 5: George Burroughs, Elizabeth Proctor, and John Proctor are tried and found guilty. August 19: Martha Carrier, George Jacobs Sr., John Willard, George Burroughs, and John Proctor are hanged on Gallows Hill. Elizabeth Proctor is temporarily spared execution because she is pregnant. September 6: Dorcas Hoar is tried and found guilty.
Abigail previously worked as a maid for Elizabeth Proctor. After Elizabeth suspected Abigail of having an illicit relationship with John Proctor, Williams was fired and disgraced. Using her status as Parris's niece to her advantage, she accuses countless citizens of witchcraft, becoming one of the most powerful people in Salem.
Queen Elizabeth II’s 70-year reign gave her numerous opportunities to dispense wit and wisdom, but she started even before officially becoming queen upon her father’s sudden death in February ...
In Arthur Miller's 1953 play, The Crucible, a fictionalized story of the Salem witch trials, Abigail Williams is the name of a character whose age in the play is raised a full five or six years, to age 17, and she is motivated by a desire to be in a relationship with John Proctor, a married farmer with whom she had previously had an affair.