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Bridget Bishop (née Magnus; c. 1632 – 10 June 1692) was the first person executed for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in 1692. Nineteen were hanged, and one, Giles Corey , was pressed to death.
Bridget Bishop - Died June 10, 1692 (aged 60), execution by hanging. Sarah Good - Died July 19, 1692 (aged 39), execution by hanging. Rebecca Nurse - Died July 19, 1692 (aged 71), execution by hanging. Elizabeth Howe - Died July 19, 1692 (aged 57), execution by hanging. Susannah Martin - Died July 19, 1692 (aged 71), execution by hanging.
June 2: Bridget Bishop is the first to be formally indicted, tried and convicted of witchcraft. She is sentenced to death. June 10: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill. June 16: Roger Toothaker dies in prison. June 28–29: Sarah Good is tried and found guilty. June 29: Susannah Martin and Rebecca Nurse are tried and found guilty.
Petition for bail of eleven accused people from Ipswich, 1692 The personal seal of William Stoughton on the warrant for the execution of Bridget Bishop Examination of a Witch (1853) by T. H. Matteson, inspired by the Salem trials. In September, grand juries indicted 18 more people.
Artistic depiction of the execution by burning of three alleged witches in Baden, Switzerland in 1585. This is a list of people executed for witchcraft, many of whom were executed during organized witch-hunts, particularly during the 15th–18th centuries. Large numbers of people were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe between 1560 and 1630. [1]
Stoughton's personal seal, as it appeared on the warrant for the execution of Bridget Bishop When Phips arrived, rumors of witchcraft were running rampant, especially in Salem . [ 19 ] Phips immediately appointed Stoughton to head a special tribunal to deal with accusations of witchcraft, and in June appointed him chief justice of the colonial ...
Nelson's execution is the second in the U.S. this year and the first in Texas in 2025. The state is set to execute another man next week on Feb. 13, the same day as another execution in Florida.
Thomas Oliver (c. 1601 England—June 1679 Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay) was the second husband of Bridget Bishop, who on 10 June 1692 became the first victim of the Salem witch trials. He is a major link in the old and well-known theory that his widow, Bridget Bishop, was executed on trumped up charges because her in-laws were jealous ...