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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 ...
A native of Somerset, Proctor was elected scholar of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in January 1537, and fellow of All Souls' College in 1540, graduating B.A. on 20 October 1540, and M.A. on 25 June 1544. [2] He resigned his fellowship in 1546. [1] Proctor was a convinced Roman Catholic. [2]
John Proctor may refer to: John Proctor (artist) (1836–1914), Scottish cartoonist and illustrator John Proctor (Salem witch trials) (1632–1692), hanged after being falsely accused and convicted for witchcraft
John Proctor arrives with Mary Warren and they inform Deputy Governor Danforth and Judge Hathorne about the girls' lies. Danforth then informs an unaware John that Elizabeth is pregnant, and promises to spare her from execution until the child is born, hoping to persuade John to withdraw his case.
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.
John Lewis quotes on social justice “Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.” —John Lewis from the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 1, 2020
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.
Rachel Dyer (1828), by John Neal (1793–1876) [1] American poet John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) wrote many poems about the events, starting with "The Weird Gathering" [2] (1831), and later, "Calef in Boston" [3] (1849), about the public debates between Robert Calef and Cotton Mather in the aftermath of the trials.