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Nils and Margaret Mattson arrived in the colony of New Sweden in present-day southeastern Pennsylvania on May 22, 1654, on the ship Orn. They settled on land near Eddystone, Pennsylvania. [3] [4] Of Swedish-Finnish descent, Nils was a reputed healer working from Finnish tradition. In 1683, some of Margaret's neighbors claimed that she had ...
Hanged during the Salem witch trials. Rebecca Nurse: 1621–1692: Massachusetts Bay Colony: Hanged during the Salem witch trials: Sarah Good: 1655–1692: Massachusetts Bay Colony: One of the first to be convicted in the Salem witch trials. Samuel Wardwell: 1643–1692: Massachusetts Bay Colony: Hanged during the Salem witch trials. Sarah ...
In the Nordic countries, the late 17th century saw the peak of the trials in a number of areas: the Torsåker witch trials of Sweden (1674), where 71 people were executed for witchcraft in a single day, the peak of witch hunting in Swedish Finland, [41] and the Salzburg witch trials in Austria (where 139 people were executed from 1675 to 1690).
In the years since the witch trials, the unfairly-accused have been exonerated and, in 1957, Massachusetts issued a formal apology for the trials, stating that the proceedings were "shocking" and ...
This is a list of people associated with the Salem Witch Trials, a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between March 1692 and May 1693. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, most of whom were women.
Up to 60,000 so-called “witches” are thought to have been executed across Europe during the 1600s and 1700s, with tens of thousands more put on trial.
Witchfinders were people who were paid to test whether someone was a witch. The witchfinder in Newcastle witch trials came from Scotland. [5] He was paid 20 shillings [2] per "witch" he found. In the end, the witchfinder in Newcastle trials was cast into prison. [1]
A Virginia witch trial loosely based on the story of Joan Wright is featured in a 2017 episode of the British drama television series Jamestown. [19] In 2019, an original play, "Season of the Witch" premiered at the Jamestown Settlement. The play is a dramatic retelling of the witch trials in Virginia, with a focus on the story of Wright. [20]