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George Booth, age 21 and living in Salem. William Bragg, age 8 and living in Salem. Mary Fellows-Brown, age about 46 and living in Reading. Phebe Chandler, age 12 and living in Andover. Sarah Churchill/Churchwell, age about 25 and living in Salem Village/Danvers. John Cole, age about 52 and living in Lynn.
Bloodlines of Salem was a Salt Lake City -based family-history group in the United States. Its purpose was described as providing a "place where visitors share ideas and information about the Salem witch trials of 1692, its participants and their families. Many visitors have researched and proved their descents from one or more of the participants.
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirty people were found guilty, nineteen of whom were executed by hanging (fourteen women and five men). One other man, Giles Corey, died under ...
7 (with Thorndike) 7 (with Bassett) Conviction (s) Witchcraft (posthumously overturned) John Proctor (October 9, 1632 – August 19, 1692) was a landowner in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He and his wife Elizabeth were tried and convicted of witchcraft as part of the Salem Witch Trials, whereupon he was hanged.
Margaret Scott (née Stephenson; March 28, 1616 – October 2, 1692 [ O.S. September 22, 1692]) was found guilty of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials and was executed by hanging on September 22, 1692. She was part of the last group to be executed, which also included Mary Eastey, Martha Corey, Ann Pudeator, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker ...
Martha Allen was born about 1650 to Andrew Allen (or Allin) (1623–1690), one of the original 23 settlers of Andover, and Faith Ingalls (1623–1690) in Andover. [2] She had three sisters, Mary (1644–1695), Sarah (1646–1716), and Hannah (1652–1698), and two brothers, Andrew (1657–1690) and John (1661–1690). On 7 May 1674 when she was ...
Dorothy and her mother Sarah were accused of practicing witchcraft in Salem at the beginning of the Salem witch trials in 1692. Only four years old at the time, [1] she was interrogated by the local magistrates, confessed to being a witch and purportedly claimed she had seen her mother consorting with the devil.
Death. Criminal status. Executed (10 June 1692) Exonerated (31 October 2001) Bridget Bishop (née Magnus; c. 1632 – 10 June 1692) was the first person executed for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials in 1692. Nineteen were hanged, and one, Giles Corey, was pressed to death. Altogether, about 200 people were tried.