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Proctor was born in Suffolk, England, [2] [3] to John Proctor (1594–1672) and Martha Harper (1607–1667). [2] [4] When he was just three years old, his parents brought their family to America.
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]
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.
Elizabeth Proctor was given a temporary stay of execution because she was pregnant. On August 19, 1692, Martha Carrier, George Jacobs Sr., George Burroughs, John Willard, and John Proctor were executed: [60] Mr. Burroughs was carried in a Cart with others, through the streets of Salem, to Execution.
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
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
Once the trials ended, Elizabeth Proctor was reprieved and released. [8] Giles Corey was pressed to death during the Salem witch trials in the 1690s. Following the trial of Elizabeth and John Proctor, Booth accused Goody Proctor of murder/witchcraft. She testified that her deceased stepfather had come to her and informed her that Goody had ...