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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 ...
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]
Giles Corey (bapt. Tooltip baptized 16 August 1611 – 19 September 1692) was an English-born farmer who was accused of witchcraft along with his wife Martha Corey during the Salem witch trials in the Province of Massachusetts Bay.
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.
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 (historian) (1521–1558), English schoolmaster; John Proctor (inventor) (1804–1822), American inventor
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
The Crucible is a 1953 play by the American playwright Arthur Miller.It is a dramatized and partially fictionalized [1] story of the Salem witch trials that took place in the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1692 to 1693.
A coalition of U.S. refugee backers filed a lawsuit on Monday that challenges President Donald Trump's indefinite suspension of the U.S. resettlement program, saying refugees and their families ...