The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May...
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and magistrate, best known for his participation in the Salem witch trials in 1692. John Richards was born in England, and traveled with his parents in...
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This is a list of people associated with the Salem Witch Trials, a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts...
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of witchcraft as part of the Salem Witch Trials, whereupon he was hanged. Proctor was born in Suffolk, England, to John Proctor (1594–1672) and Martha...
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John Richards may refer to: John Richards (Salem witch trials) (died 1694), one of the judges of the Salem witch trials John Richards (Attorney General)...
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Abigail Williams (redirect from Abigail Williams (Salem witch trials))
neighbors of witchcraft in 1692; these accusations eventually led to the Salem witch trials. In early 1692, Abigail Williams was living with her relative, Betty...
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Spectral evidence (category Salem witch trials)
climax with the Bury St Edmunds witch trial of 1662, and the Salem witch trials of 1692–93. At the Bury St Edmunds witch trial of 1662, charges of witchcraft...
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Samuel Parris (redirect from Samuel Parris (Salem witch trials))
notoriety for being the minister of the church in Salem Village, Massachusetts during the Salem witch trials of 1692. Accusations by Parris and his daughter...
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Tituba (redirect from Tituba (Salem witch trials))
accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials of 1692–1693. She was enslaved by Samuel Parris, the minister of Salem Village, in the Province of Massachusetts...
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for his early and vocal role as one of the leading judges in the Salem witch trials. Hathorne was absent from the list of men appointed to the Court of...
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Mercy Lewis (redirect from Mercy Lewis (Salem witch trials))
Mercy Lewis (fl. 1692) was an accuser during the Salem Witch Trials. She was born in Falmouth, Maine. Mercy Lewis, formally known as Mercy Allen, was the...
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Martha Corey (redirect from Martha Corey (Salem witch trials))
September 22, 1692) was accused and convicted of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials, on September 9, 1692, and was hanged on September 22, 1692. Her second...
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Elizabeth Proctor (redirect from Elizabeth Proctor (Salem witch trials))
– after 1703) was convicted of witchcraft in the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. She was the wife of John Proctor, who was convicted and executed. Her execution...
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Witchcraft in North America (redirect from Witch (Navajo))
further shaped by European colonists. The infamous Salem witch trials in Massachusetts, along with other witch hunts in places like Maryland and Pennsylvania...
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Agatha Harkness (category Marvel Comics witches)
a powerful witch and one of the original witches from the Salem witch trials. The character debuted as the governess to Franklin Richards, serving as...
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Rachel Dyer (category Salem witch trials in fiction)
historical novel by American writer John Neal. Published in 1828 in Maine, it is the first bound novel about the Salem witch trials. Though it garnered little...
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Jonathan Corwin (category Government officials in the Salem witch trials)
magistrate. He is best known as one of the judges involved in the Salem witch trials of 1692, although his later work also included service as an associate...
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Ergotism (category Salem witch trials)
centuries before the Salem witch trials and argued that its symptoms would have been recognizable during the time of the Salem witch trials. In 2003 it was...
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Anne Winthrop (c. 1649–1704), who married John Richards (son of accused witch Wealthean (née Loring) Richards) Winthrop died in Boston on April 6, 1676...
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Increase Mather (category Clergy in the Salem witch trials)
administration of the colony during a time that coincided with the notorious Salem witch trials. The New England Mathers originally came from the parish of Winwick...
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The Scarlet Witch or Wanda Maximoff is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee...
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Thomas Danforth (category Government officials in the Salem witch trials)
a magistrate and leading figure in the colony at the time of the Salem witch trials, but did not sit on the Court of Oyer and Terminer. Despite this,...
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Cotton Mather (category Clergy in the Salem witch trials)
appointed by King James II. Mather's subsequent involvement in the Salem witch trials of 1692–1693, which he defended in the book Wonders of the Invisible...
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Letter from Cotton Mather to William Stoughton, September 2, 1692 (category Salem witch trials)
L.S. are addressed to William Stoughton who presided at the Trials of the Witches in Salem and these letters pertain entirely to Witchcraft. Being written...
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American Witches is a lineage-based membership organization for women who are directly descended from a person accused of witchcraft in the witch trials of...
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Samuel Sewall (category Government officials in the Salem witch trials)
Province of Massachusetts Bay, best known for his involvement in the Salem witch trials, for which he later apologized, and his essay "The Selling of Joseph"...
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court of Oyer and Terminer for the Salem witch trials on May 27, 1692, consisting of Mr. Stoughton, Maj. Richards, Maj. Gidny, Mr. Wait Winthrop, Samuel...
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Nathaniel Saltonstall—later one of the more principled judges at the Salem Witch Trials—graduated in 1659. The Saltonstall family originated in Yorkshire...
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Nathaniel Higginson (category Government officials in the Salem witch trials)
1660 to 1708. Rev. John Higginson was a leading investigator in the Salem witch trials of 1692–1693 which witnessed the prosecution of his own daughter and...
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