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Martha Carrier (née Allen; ... The earlier birth year of 1626 would have made him 23 at the time of the execution; and, hence, he was a plausible participant ...
Artistic depiction of the execution by burning of three alleged witches in Baden, Switzerland in 1585. This is a list of people executed for witchcraft, many of whom were executed during organized witch-hunts, particularly during the 15th–18th centuries. Large numbers of people were prosecuted for witchcraft in Europe between 1560 and 1630. [1]
On August 19, 1692, five accused individuals had been executed in Salem, Massachusetts, [3] bringing the total to eleven (reaching twenty by the end of September). Mather had attended this execution and one account shows him giving a speech on horseback that seemed to quiet a crowd that had been calling for mercy for the accused.
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. September 7: Alice Parker and Ann Pudeator are 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.
George Jacobs Sr. - Died August 19, 1692 (aged 83), execution by hanging. Martha Carrier - Died August 19, 1692 (aged 49), execution by hanging. John Proctor - Died August 19, 1692 (aged 59), execution by hanging. John Willard - Died August 19, 1692 (aged 35), execution by hanging. Martha Corey - Died September 22, 1692 (aged 72), execution by ...
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.
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.