1. Only 14 women were hanged. The other 5 were MEN.
2. There were many judges that also did the juries job. They include Jonathon Corwin, Bartholomew Gedney and Nathaniel Saltonstall
Judge William Stoughton
was a judge, businessman, and printer in the 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 (1700), which criticized slavery.
There were multiple judges during the trials. Nathaniel Hawthorne's great-great-grandfather was one of them, a man by the name of John Hathorne.
He went back to Boston and in which he wrote a thesis on the perspectives of witchcraft. He continued to be a judge until his death in 1672 at the age of 67. He convicted over 57 people, in which 38 were hanged.
Bench trials are when the judge is the decider of fact. A jury trial is where a jury plays that role and determines the verdict.
William Stoughton
William Stoughton was the head judge during the trials. Thomas Danforth was the main government official involved.William Stoughton was the lead judge during the trials.
The judge's name was Jonathan Corwin. EDIT: At the Salem Trials, there was not a single judge. There was a panel of judges that was also the jury. They included Jonathon Corwin, but also there were Nathaniel Saltsonall, Thomas Danoforth, Samuel Sewall, and Bartholomew Gedney.
He was between 50 and 52.
His great-great granfather was John Hathorne, judge in the Salem Witch Trials.
One of his ancestors, John Hathorne, was a judge during the Salem Witch Trials so this connects him to the Salem Witch Trials and affects "The Scarlet Letter"
Judge William Stoughton
was a judge, businessman, and printer in the 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 (1700), which criticized slavery.
Hathorne was wel respected and well-to-do. That was why he got the magistrate job. Despite his work in the Trials, he never lost that respect and it never tarnished the name.
There were multiple judges during the trials. Nathaniel Hawthorne's great-great-grandfather was one of them, a man by the name of John Hathorne.
The judge presiding over the Salem witch trials along with Deputy Governor Danforth.
Israel Putnam, the Revolutionary War general and leader of the Battle of Bunker Hill famous for saying, "Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes" because they were low on ammunition was the grandson of Thomas Putnam born in 1614 and a judge during the Salem witch trials. Thomas had a son Edward who was also a judge during the trials, and Arthur Miller's judge in The Crucible was a composite of the two Putnams.