Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
John Proctor (9 October 1631 – 19 August 1692) was a landowner in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He and his wife Elizabeth were tried and convicted of witchcraft as ...
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.
From June 30 through early July, grand juries endorsed indictments against Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Proctor, John Proctor, Martha Carrier, Sarah Wildes and Dorcas Hoar. Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, Susannah Martin and Sarah Wildes, along with Rebecca Nurse, went to trial at this time, where they were found guilty.
Todhunter — who helped found the Republican Party in Iowa — served in the Civil War, represented Warren County at Iowa’s 1857 constitutional convention, and was elected county prosecutor.
Mary Warren is a character in the play The Crucible by Arthur Miller.True to the historical record, she is a maid for John Proctor, and becomes involved in the Salem witch hunt as one of the accusers, led by Abigail Williams.
Nathan Hochman claps during a Dec. 3 ceremony where he was sworn in as the new L.A. County district attorney after beating out incumbent George Gascón in last month's election.
SEATTLE - A former Washington prosecuting attorney has been federally indicted for allegedly smuggling drugs into King County Jail for his clients. John Sheeran, 60, was arraigned in federal court ...
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.