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The Devil Hath Been Raised: A Documentary History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Outbreak of March 1692; Famous American Trials: Salem Witchcraft Trials 1692: John Proctor—University of Missouri-Kansas City; Upham, Charles W. Salem Witchcraft; With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects
The Salem Witch Trials Memorial Park in Salem The central figure in this 1876 illustration of the courtroom is usually identified as Mary Walcott. The 300th anniversary of the trials was marked in 1992 in Salem and Danvers by a variety of events. A memorial park was dedicated in Salem which included stone slab benches inserted in the stone wall ...
Mary Warren – age about 20 and living in Salem. Servant of Elizabeth and John Proctor. Mary Watkins, age unknown and living in Milton; Elizabeth Weston, age about 29 and living in Reading; Bray Wilkins, age 81 and living in Salem Village/Danvers; Daniel Wilkins, age 17 and living in Salem Village/Danvers. He died on May 16, 1692.
Disillusioned with the corruption and abuses of the trials, he later tries to save as many suspects as possible by getting them to confess. (In reality, Hale was in his mid-fifties when the witch trials commenced.) Elizabeth Proctor John's wife. She is also accused of witchcraft, but is spared the death penalty due to being pregnant.
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. In ...
Five women who were hanged as witches more than 330 years ago at Proctor's Ledge during the Salem, Massachusetts, witch trials. Sarah Good, Elizabeth Howe, Susannah Martin, Rebecca Nurse and Sarah ...
On the same day Elizabeth's husband, John Proctor, becomes the first man accused of witchcraft and is jailed. [8] Early April: The Proctors' servant and accuser, Mary Warren, admits to lying and accuses the other girls of lying. April 13: Ann Putnam Jr. accuses Giles Corey of witchcraft and alleges that a man who died at Corey's house also ...
George Burroughs (c. 1650 – August 19, 1692) was a non-ordained Puritan preacher who was the only minister executed for witchcraft during the course of the Salem witch trials. He is remembered especially for reciting the Lord's Prayer during his execution, something it was believed a witch could never do.