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| 1 |  | Historical Marker-Salem Witch Trials Memorial site located adjacent to, but outside Burying Point Cemetery. This commemoration dedicated to the victims of the Salem Witch Trials was erected in 1992. |
Date: 1992 |
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| 2 |  | Jacquette de Luxembourg Jacquetta of Luxembourg, Dowager Duchess of Bedford and Countess Rivers (1415 or 1416 – 30 May 1472) was a prominent, though often overlooked, figure in the Wars of the Roses. Jacquetta bore Woodville 14 children and stood trial on charges of witchcraft, of which she was exonerated. |
Date: 1416-1472 |
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| 3 |  | Witchcraft (Salem)-CARRIER Martha (Arrested) Martha was accused of witchcraft in May 1692 by a group of young women known as the Salem Girls who consisted of Susannah Sheldon, Mary Walcott, Elizabeth Hubbard and Ann Putnam Jr, who would travel through Essex County, Massachusetts rooting out suspected witches by engaging in a theatrical display. Whether the court actually believed this act is… |
Date: 1692 |
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| 4 |  | Witchcraft (Salem)-CARRIER Martha Allen Martha's trial started on 31 May 1692 and she was transported to the Salem Village Meeting House to face the accusing girls, overviewed by judges John Hathorne, Jonathan Corwin, and Bartholomew Gedney. When Martha entered the room, the girls fell to the floor, writhing with cries of agony....On 19 August 1692, Martha was taken in the back of a… |
Date: 1692 |
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| 5 |  | Witchcraft (Salem)-GOOD Sarah Solart Good was accused of witchcraft on March 6, 1692 when Abigail Williams and Elizabeth Parris, related to the Reverend Samuel Parris, claimed to be bewitched under her hand. The young girls asserted they had been bitten, pinched, and otherwise abused. They would have fits in which their bodies would appear to involuntarily convulse, their eyes… |
Date: 1692 |
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| 6 |  | Witchcraft (Salem)-MARTIN Susannah North George died in 1686, leaving Susannah an impoverished widow by the time of the second accusation of witchcraft in 1692. Inhabitants of nearby Salem Village, including Joseph and Jarvis Ring, had named Susannah a witch and stated she had attempted to recruit them into witchcraft. She was also accused by John Allen of Salisbury, a man who claimed… |
Date: 1692 |
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| 7 |  | Witchcraft (Salem)-Trials The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused. Thirty people were found guilty, 19 of whom were executed by hanging (14 women and five men). One other man, Giles Corey, was pressed to death after… |
Date: 1692 |
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