People of the Salem Witch Trials

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Contents 1 The Accused 1.1 Tried, Found Guilty & Executed 1.2 Tried, Found Guilty & Pardoned 1.3 Tried, Found Guilty & Escaped 1.4 Pled Guilty at Trial & Pardoned 1.5 Refused to Enter a Plea at Trial, Pressed to Death 1.6 Tried and Found Not Guilty 1.7 Arrested, but never Tried 1.7.1 Died in Custody 1.7.2 Escaped 1.7.3 Indicted by a Grand Jury but Never Tried 1.7.4 Failed to Be Indicted by a Grand Jury 1.7.5 Released on Bond 1.8 Evaded Arrest, never Tried 1.9 Named, but No Arrest Warrant Issued 2 Magistrates of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, 1692[1] 3 Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature, 1693[2] 4 Clergy 5 Public Figures & Politicians 6 Accusers 6.1 The "Afflicted Girls" 6.2 Others 7 Notes & References

[edit] The Accused

[edit] Tried, Found Guilty & 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)

• Martha (mnu) Corey (September 22, 1692)
• Mary (Towne) Eastey (September 22, 1692)
• Alice (mnu) Parker (September 22, 1692)
• Mary (Ayer) Parker (September 22, 1692)
• Ann (mnu) Pudeator (September 22, 1692)
• Margaret (Stevenson) Scott (September 22, 1692)
• Wilmot (mnu) Redd (September 22, 1692)
• Samuel Wardwell Sr. (September 22, 1692)

[edit] Tried, Found Guilty & Pardoned

• Elizabeth (Bassett) Proctor - pregnant
• Abigail (Dane) Faulkner Sr. - pregnant
• Mary Post
• Sarah (Hooper) Wardwell
• Elizabeth Johnson Jr.
• Dorcas (Galley) Hoar

[edit] Tried, Found Guilty & Escaped

• Mary (Perkins) Bradbury

[edit] Pled Guilty at Trial & Pardoned

• Ann (Alcock) Foster -- died in custody, December 1692
• Mary (Foster) Lacey Sr.
• Rebecca (Blake) Eames
• Abigail Hobbs

[edit] Refused to Enter a Plea at Trial, Pressed to Death

• Giles Corey

[edit] Tried and 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 (mnu) Dustin -- died in custody after trial
• Sarah Dustin
• Eunice (Potter) Frye
• Sarah Hawkes, Jr.
• Margaret Jacobs
• Rebecca (Andrews) Jacobs
• Elizabeth (Dane) Johnson, Sr.
• Mary Lacey, Jr.
• Mary (Osgood) Marston
• Hannah Post
• Susannah Post
• Mary (Harrington) Taylor
• Job Tookey
• Mary (Allen) Toothaker
• Hannah Tyler
• Mary (Lovett) Tyler
• Mercy Wardwell
• Mary (Buckley) Witheridge

[edit] Arrested, but never Tried

[edit] Died in Custody

• Sarah (Warren) Osborne
• Roger Toothaker

[edit] Escaped

• John Alden
• Edward Bishop Jr.
• Sarah (Wilds) Bishop
• William Barker Sr.
• Edward Farrington
• Elizabeth (Walker) Cary
• Phillip English
• Mary (Hollingsworth) English

[edit] Indicted by a Grand Jury but Never Tried

• Stephen Johnson
• William Barker Sr.
• Edward Farrington

[edit] Failed to Be Indicted by a Grand Jury

• William Procter
• Sarah (Towne) Cloyce
• Phillip English
• Mary (Hollingsworth) English
• Tituba
• Thomas Farrar
• Elizabeth Hart

[edit] Released on Bond

• Dorothy Good
• Sarah Carrier
• Thomas Carrier Jr.
• Dorothy Faulkner
• Abigail Faulkner Jr.
• Sarah (Lord) Wilson

[edit] Evaded Arrest, never Tried

• George Jacobs Jr.
• Daniel Andrews

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature, 1693^[2]

• William Stoughton, Chief Justice
• Thomas Danforth
• John Richards
• Waitstill Winthrop
• Samuel Sewall

[edit] Clergy

• Cotton Mather, Boston
• Increase Mather, Boston
• John Hale, Beverly
• Nicholas Noyes, Salem
• Samuel Parris, Salem Village
• Francis Dane, Andover
• Samuel Willard, Groton, Boston

[edit] Public Figures & Politicians

• William Phips -- Governor
• Thomas Brattle
• Robert Calef

[edit] Accusers

[edit] The "Afflicted Girls"

• Betty Parris
• Abigail Williams
• Mercy Lewis
• Ann Putnam, Jr.
• Elizabeth Hubbard
• Mary Walcott
• Susannah Shelden
• Mary Warren

[edit] Others

• Sarah Bibber
• Ann (Carr) Putnam Sr.
• Basheba Pope

[edit] Notes & References

1. ^ 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.
2. ^ Records of the Massachusetts Supreme Court of Judicature, 1692/3, Page 1. Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Judicial Archives