List of people of the Salem witch trials
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List of people of the Salem witch trials
This is a list of people involved in the Salem witch trials.
The Accused
- Susanna Rootes was either imprisoned and released or found not guilty due to insufficient evidence. Nevertheless, she died at age 78 in 1692.
Found guilty and executed
- Bridget Bishop (June 10, 1692)
- Rebecca (Towne) Nurse (July 19, 1692)
- Sarah (Solart) Good (July 19, 1692)
- Elizabeth (Jackson) Howe (July 19, 1692)
- Sarah (Averill) Wildes (July 19, 1692)
- Susannah (North) Martin (July 19, 1692)
- George Burroughs (August 19, 1692)
- Martha (Allen) Carrier (August 19, 1692)
- George Jacobs, Sr. (August 19, 1692)
- John Proctor (August 19, 1692)
- John Willard (August 19, 1692)
- Giles Corey (September 19, 1692) - Pressed to death
- Martha Corey (September 22, 1692)
- Mary (Towne) Eastey (September 22, 1692)
- Alice Parker (September 22, 1692)
- Mary (Ayer) Parker (September 22, 1692)
- Ann Pudeator (September 22, 1692)
- Margaret (Stevenson) Scott (September 22, 1692)
- Wilmot Redd (September 22, 1692)
- Samuel Wardwell Sr. (September 22, 1692)
- Dana (Michael) Foley (September 22, 1692)
Found guilty and pardoned
- Elizabeth (Bassett) Proctor - pregnant
- Abigail (Dane) Faulkner Sr. - pregnant
- Mary Post
- Sarah (Hooper) Wardwell
- Elizabeth Johnson Jr.
- Dorcas Hoar
Found guilty and escaped
Pled guilty and pardoned
- Ann (Alcock) Foster—died in custody, December 1692
- Mary (Foster) Lacey Sr.
- Rebecca (Blake) Eames
- Abigail Hobbs
- Mary (Clements) Osgood
Refused to enter a plea and pressed to death
Found not guilty
- Abigail (Wheeler) Barker
- Mary Barker
- William Barker, Jr.
- Mary Bridges, Jr.
- Mary (Tyler) Bridges, Sr.
- Sarah Bridges
- Sarah (Smith) Buckley
- Sarah (Aslebee) Cole
- Lydia Dustin—died in custody after trial
- Sarah Dustin
- Eunice (Potter) Frye
- Sarah Hawkes, Jr.
- Margaret Jacobs
- Rebecca (Andrews) Jacobs
- Elizabeth (Dane) Johnson, Sr.
- Julie Kildunne
- Mary Lacey, Jr.
- Mary (Osgood) Marston
- Hannah Post
- Susannah Post
- Mary (Allen) Toothaker
- Hannah Tyler
- Mary (Lovett) Tyler
- Mercy Wardwell
- Mary (Buckley) Witheridge
Died in custody
- Sarah (Warren) Osborne
- Roger Toothaker
- Ann (Alcock) Foster
Escaped
- John Alden
- Edward Bishop Jr.
- Sarah (Wilds) Bishop
- William Barker Sr.
- Edward Farrington
- Andrew Carrier
- Katherine (Schneider) Cary
- Phillip English
- Mary (Hollingsworth) English
Indicted by a grand jury, but never tried
- Stephen Johnson
- William Barker Sr.
- Edward Farrington
Not indicted by a grand jury
- William Proctor
- Sarah (Towne) Cloyse
- Phillip English
- Katerina Biss
- Mary (Hollingsworth) English
- Tituba
- Thomas Farrer, Sr.
Released on bond
- Dorcas Good
- Sarah Carrier
- Thomas Carrier Jr.
- Dorothy Faulkner
- Abigail Faulkner Jr.
- Sarah (Lord) Wilson
- Frances Hutchins
Evaded arrest, never tried
- George Jacobs Jr.
- Daniel Andrew
Named, but no arrest warrant issued
- Anne (Wood) Bradstreet
- Dudley Bradstreet
- John Bradstreet
- John Busse—minister in Wells, Maine
- Francis Dane -- minister in Andover, Mass.
- Sarah (Noyes) Hale—wife of Rev. John Hale, minister in Beverly, Mass.
- James How—husband of Elizabeth (Jackson) How
- Hezekiah Usher
- Mary (Spencer) Phips—wife of Massachusetts Governor William Phips
- Sarah (Clapp) Swift
- Margaret (Webb) Thatcher—mother-in-law of magistrate Jonathan Corwin
Magistrates of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, 1692[1]
- William Stoughton, Chief Magistrate
- John Richards
- Nathaniel Saltonstall
- Waitstill Winthrop
- Bartholomew Gedney
- Samuel Sewall
- John Hathorne
- Jonathan Corwin
- Peter Sergeant
Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature, 1693[2]
- William Stoughton, Chief Justice
- Thomas Danforth
- John Richards
- Waitstill Winthrop
- Samuel Sewall
Clergy
- Cotton Mather, Boston
- Increase Mather, Boston
- John Hale, Beverly
- Nicholas Noyes, Salem
- Samuel Parris, Salem Village
- Francis Dane, Andover
- Samuel Willard, Groton, Boston
Jurors
- Capt. Thomas Fisk, Sr., Foreman
- William Fisk
- John Bacheler
- Capt. Thomas Fisk, Jr.
- John Dane
- Joseph Evelith
- Thomas Pearly, Sr.
- John Peabody
- Thomas Perkins
- Andrew Eliot
- Henry Herrick, Jr.
The list of jurors who served in the trial of Rebecca Nurse, above, does not include the many other jurors who served in prior and subsequent trials.
Public figures and politicians
- William Phips -- Governor
- Thomas Brattle
- Robert Calef
Accusers
"The afflicted girls"
- Betty Parris
- Abigail Williams, her cousin
- Mercy Lewis
- Ann Putnam, Jr.
- Elizabeth (Betty) Hubbard
- Mary Walcott
- Susannah Sheldon
- Mary Warren
- Elizabeth Booth
Physician who diagnosed "bewitchment"
Others
- Sarah Bibber
- Ezekiel Cheever (son of the School Master)
- Jessica Titus
- Ann (Carr) Putnam Sr.
- Basheba Pope
- Benjamin Abbot
- Nathaniel Ingersoll
References
- ^ Massachusetts Archives Collections, Governor's Council Executive Records, Vol. 2, 1692, pages 176-177. Certified copy from the original records at Her Majestie's State Paper Office, London, September 16, 1846.
- ^ Records of the Massachusetts Supreme Court of Judicature, 1692/3, Page 1. Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Judicial Archives
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