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Martha Carrier (née Allen; about 1650 – 19 August 1692) was a Puritan accused and convicted of being a witch during the 1692 Salem witch trials. [1] Early life
On 18 May 1692, Elizabeth Hubbard, Ann Putnam Jr., and Mary Walcott accused Toothaker of witchcraft.Elizabeth was the servant of William Griggs, Toothaker's competitor.On 28 May, Mary Toothaker, Margaret Toothaker (aged 9), Martha Carrier, and Elizabeth Jackson were arrested.
March 12: Ann Putnam Jr. accuses Martha Corey of witchcraft. March 19: Abigail Williams accuses Rebecca Nurse as a witch. March 21: Magistrates Hathorne and Corwin examine Martha Corey. [4] March 23: Salem Marshal Deputy Samuel Brabrook arrests four-year-old Dorothy Good. March 24: Corwin and Hathorne examine Rebecca Nurse [5] and Dorothy Good. [6]
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She was the daughter of William and Joanna Towne, who had emigrated to Salem from Great Yarmouth in England about 1630. Sarah, who was probably the youngest of their eight children, married firstly to Edmund Bridges, by whom she had six children, and secondly to Peter Cloys/Cloyce (later Cloys/Cloyes), a widower, by whom she had three more children.
Sarah Carrier (1701–1717) Mehitable Carrier (1698–1750) Martha Carrier (1702–1769) After Elizabeth's death, Carrier went on to marry Thankful Brown on July 29, 1707, in Colchester and had four children with her: [3] Hannah Carrier (1709–1741) Thankful Carrier (1708–1704) Remembrance Carrier (born 1703) Amos Carrier (1704–1730)
Martha Carrier: d. 1692, August 19: Massachusetts Bay Colony: Hanged during the Salem witch trials; her children had claimed she was a witch while undergoing torture. Martha Corey: 1620s–1692: Massachusetts Bay Colony: Hanged during the Salem witch trials: Mary Eastey: 1634–1692: Massachusetts Bay Colony: Hanged during the Salem witch ...
One of the trials included was Martha Carrier's, who was "[t]he person of whom the confessions of the witches, and of her own children among the rest, agreed that the devil had promised her she should be Queen of the Hebrews." [2]: 313 Mather presented testimonies against Martha Carrier, all of which presumed her to be guilty.