2017 – the 325th anniversary of the first execution. Proctor’s Ledge was confirmed the execution site for Salem’s Witch Trials in January 2016, providing testimony to those who had been hanged until death. Mayor Driscoll honored the history of Proctor’s Ledge in a press release for...
Salem is where people visit to learn about the 1692 witchcraft trials, but Salem Village (present-day Danvers) is where it first began, and where many of the leading figures of the Witch-Hunt lived. It is where the Devil was allegedly raised, where people claimed to see specters of accuse...
2.a city in NE Massachusetts, on the Atlantic: scene of the execution of 19 people after the witch hunts of 1692. Pop.: 42 067 (2003 est.) 3.a city in the NW USA, the state capital of Oregon: food-processing. Pop.: 142 914 (2003 est.) ...
September 22:Martha Corey (whose husband had been pressed to death on September 19), Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Mary Parker, Ann Pudeator, Wilmott Redd, Margaret Scott, and Samuel Wardwell are hanged for witchcraft. Rev. Nicholas Noyes officiated at this last execution in the Salem witch tria...
Alice Parker, Mary Parker, Ann Pudeator, Wilmott Redd, Margaret Scott, and Samuel Wardwell were hanged for witchcraft. Rev. Nicholas Noyes officiated at this last execution in the Salem witch trials, saying after the execution, "What a sad thing it is to see eight firebrands of hell hangin...
June 15, 1648 – The first execution for witchcraft known in New England occurs. Margaret Jones of Charlestown in Massachusetts Bay Colony, a herbalist, midwife, and self-described physician, was hanged. Twelve more women and two more men would be executed before the witch hunt ended in 1663...
2. a city in NE Massachusetts, on the Atlantic: scene of the execution of 19 people after the witch hunts of 1692. Pop.: 42 067 (2003 est.) 3. a city in the NW USA, the state capital of Oregon: food-processing. Pop.: 142 914 (2003 est.) 4. an Old Testament name for Je...
Known for:child accused of witchcraft in the 1692Salem witch trials Age at time of Salem witch trials:11 Dates:March 16, 1681 – November 24, 1720 Family, Background: Mother: Elizabeth Dane Johnson, known asElizabeth Johnson Sr.(1641 – 1722) – an accused witch in the Salem witch trials...
Nathaniel Hawthorne's birthplace dates from the 17th cent., and the House of Seven Gables (1668) is preserved. Also of interest are Pioneer Village, a reproduction of early Salem; the Witch House (1642), where witch trial hearings were held; the Peabody Essex Museum, whose origins date to...