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Margaret Jones (1613 – June 15, 1648) was the first person to be executed for witchcraft in Massachusetts Bay Colony, [1] and the second in New England (the first being Alse Young in 1647) during a witch-hunt that lasted from 1647 to 1693. [2]
Margaret Jones: d. 1648: Massachusetts Bay Colony: The first person to be executed for witchcraft in Massachusetts Bay Colony; hanged. Mary Barnes: c. 1631-Jan 1663: Connecticut Colony: The last person to be executed for witchcraft, along with Nathaniel and Rebecca Elson Greensmith, in Hartford, CT Alice Lake [18] 1620–c. 1650: Massachusetts ...
Margaret B. Jones, pseudonym of Margaret Seltzer (born 1975), American writer of a discredited autobiography Margaret Jones (journalist) (1923–2006), Australian journalist Margaret Jones (Puritan midwife) (1613–1648), first person to be executed for witchcraft in Massachusetts Bay Colony
Method of execution County 1 John Billington: 40 White Male ? Murder of John Newcomen: 1630-09-30 Hanging: Bristol: 2 John Williams White Male Carpenter Murder-Robbery 1637 Hanging Worcester: 3 William Schooler White Male Guide Murder 1637-09-23 Hanging Plymouth: 4 Thomas Jackson: White Male Indentured Servant [4] Murder-Robbery (part of the ...
Hanging of Hibbins on Boston Common, June 19, 1656.Sketch by F.T. Merril, 1886. Ann Hibbins (also spelled Hibbons or Hibbens) was a woman executed for witchcraft in Boston, Massachusetts Bay Colony, on June 19, 1656.
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Fry was born just a few weeks after Princess Margaret and Armstrong-Jones tied the knot (and he became the Earl of Snowdon). She had been brought up assuming that Jeremy Fry, a good friend of ...
Margaret died in 2002 after a series of heart and lung-related illnesses. In 1985, the princess, who was a heavy smoker, had surgery to remove part of her left lung, according to a Washington Post ...