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April 30: Several girls accuse former Salem minister George Burroughs of witchcraft. May 2: Hathorne and Corwin examine Sarah Morey, Lyndia Dustin, Susannah Martin and Dorcas Hoar. May 4: George Burroughs is arrested in Maine and sent back to Salem three days later and subsequently jailed.
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 ...
The central figure in this 1876 illustration of the courtroom in the Salem witch trials is usually identified as Mary Walcott, one of the accusers. Surnames in parentheses preceded by " née " indicate birth family maiden names (if known) of married women, who upon marriage generally took their husbands' surnames.
The Salem Witch Trials Memorial Park in Salem. Kathleen Kent, a descendant of Martha, wrote the novel The Heretic's Daughter, which focuses on the persecution of the Carrier family from the point of view of Sarah Carrier during the Salem Witch Trials. [16]
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
Born July 5, 1675, she was the daughter of Captain Jonathan Walcott (1639–1699), and his wife, Mary Sibley (or Sibly; 1644–1683), both of Salem, and was about seventeen years old when the allegations started in 1692.
The inscription on the marker reads: "Here stood the house of Susanna Martin, An honest, hardworking, Christian woman accused as a witch, tried, and executed at Salem, July 19, 1692. A martyr of superstition. T.I.A. 1894." [6] [7] In the 19th century, poet John Greenleaf Whittier composed "The Witch's Daughter" about Martin:
The Salem Witch Trials Memorial Park in Salem This is the memorial bench for Sarah Wildes at the Salem Witch Trials Memorial Park in Salem. The Salem Witch Trials Memorial includes a bench inscribed with the names of all those executed, including Sarah Wildes. Arthur Miller, who wrote The Crucible, a play based on the trials, spoke at the ...