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Abigail Williams and Betty Paris were first bewitched along with a couple of other girls. They were screaming and rolling on the floor.
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The girls began pointing fingers at other towns people. They had blamed - Rebecca Nurse (gentle grandmother and a Church goer) - A wealthy farmer - 4 year old girl
More than 150 people were in jail by spring. -
The pressure was mounting on the girls and the towns people were begging the children to tell them the names of their torturers. The girls had screamed out three names
-Tituba (slave) -Sarah Osburne (homeless begger) - Sarah Good
All of these women were social outcasts. -
Over the next month, 20 people were hung (including the pastor). A man was pressed under rocks and four others had died in jail.
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Hanged on Gallows Hill.
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Rebecca Nurse
Sarah Good
Susannah Martin
Elizabeth Howe
Sarah Wildes -
George Burroughs
Martha Carrier
John Willard
George Jacobs, Sr.
John Proctor -
Giles Corey was pressed under rocks because he had failed to plead guilty or not guilty.
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Martha Corey
Mary Eastey
Ann Pudeator
Alice Parker
Mary Parker
Wilmott Redd
Margaret Scott
Samuel Wardwell -
Sarah Osborn, Roger Toothaker, Lyndia Dustin and Ann Foster had all died in jail. The date of their deaths are unknown.
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Accusation continued into October. When the governor's wife had been accused, people had begun doubting the accusations and cries of protest had begun.
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The last of the witch trials were help in January of 1693.
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In May of 1693, the remaining acused were pardoned. The Salem Witch Trials had ended.
