No such signs were reported found. Abigail Williams testifies on this day for the last time; after that, she disappears from all records. June 8: Bridget Bishop is tried, convicted and sentenced to death.
She has a previous record of accusations of witchcraft. Eighteen-year-old Elizabeth Booth shows signs of being afflicted by witchcraft. Around June 8: A Massachusetts law which had been made obsolete by another law against hangings is resurrected and passed anew, allowing executions for witchcraft. Around June 8: Nathaniel Saltonstall resigns from the Court of Oyer and Terminer, possibly because the court pronounces a death sentence on Bridget Bishop.
June Bridget Bishop is executed by hanging, the first to be executed in the Salem witch trials. He also recommends that they make the prosecution "speedy and vigorous. June Roger Toothaker dies in prison. His death is found by a coroner's jury to be of natural causes. They are all found guilty and condemned to hanging. Rebecca Nurse is also tried, and the jury finds her not guilty. The accusers and spectators protest loudly when that decision is announced.
The court asks them to reconsider the verdict, and they do and find her guilty, discovering on reviewing the evidence that she had failed to answer one question put to her perhaps because she was nearly deaf. She, too, is condemned to hang.
Phips issues a reprieve but this also meets with protests and is rescinded. July 1: Margaret Hawkes and Candy, her enslaved Barbadian, are accused; Candy testifies that her enslaver had made her a witch. July 2: Ann Pudeator is examined in court.
July 16, 18 and Anne Foster is examined; she confesses on each of the three days of examination and implicates Martha Carrier as a witch. Sarah Good curses the presiding clergyman, Nicholas Noyes, from the gallows, saying "if you take away my life God will give you blood to drink. Mary Lacey Sr. July Mary Lacey Jr. Mary Lacey Jr. Mary Lacey, Sr.
July John Proctor writes a letter from jail to the ministers of Boston, asking them to stop the trials, have the venue changed to Boston, or have new judges appointed, due to the way that the trials are being conducted. Hannah Bromage is examined by Gedney and others. August 1: A group of Boston ministers, led by Increase Mather, meet to consider the issues raised by John Proctor's letter, including the use of spectral evidence.
The ministers change their position on the topic of spectral evidence. Before, they had believed that spectral evidence could be believed because the Devil could not impersonate an innocent person; but now they decide that the Devil is capable of appearing to people in the guise of someone innocent of any witchcraft.
Governor Phips and others are thought to have helped them in their escape. The property of Philip English in Salem is seized by the sheriff.
Later, when Philip English heard that drought and lack of tending the fields were causing a food shortage in Salem Village, Philip had a shipment of corn sent to the village. Also sometime in August, John Alden Jr. Elizabeth Proctor is given a temporary stay of execution because she is pregnant. A petition from 35 of Salem Village's respected citizens on behalf of George Burroughs fails to move the court.
August Abigail Faulkner, Sr. Elizabeth Proctor remains in jail, her execution postponed because of her pregnancy. Rebecca Eames is at the hanging and is accused by another spectator of causing a pinprick in her foot; Rebecca Eames is arrested and she and Mary Lacey ware examined at Salem that day. Eames confesses and implicates her son Daniel. August Elizabeth Johnson Sr.
Elizabeth Johnson Sr. August Rebecca Eames is examined a second time, and she repeats her confession, this time implicating not just her son Daniel but also "Toothaker Widow" and Abigail Faulkner.
September 1: Samuel Wardwell is examined in court by John Higginson. Wardwell confesses to telling fortunes and making a pact with the devil. He later recants the confession, but testimony from others about his fortune-telling and witchcraft casts doubt on his innocence. Around September 8: Deliverance Dane , according to a petition issued after the end of the trials which does not mention the specific date , is first accused when two of the afflicted girls were called to Andover to determine the cause of sickness of both Joseph Ballard and his wife.
Some are, the later petition said, persuaded to confess what they were suggested to confess. Afterward, over their shock at arrest, they renounce their confessions.
They are reminded that Samuel Wardwell had confessed and then renounced his confession and was therefore condemned and executed; the petition states that they were frightened that they would be next to meet that fate. September 8: Deliverance Dane confesses under examining, implicating her father-in-law, Rev. Francis Dane, though he is never arrested or questioned.
Mercy Lewis testifies as a witness against Giles Corey. He is formally indicted on the charge of witchcraft and continues to refuse to plead either guilty or not guilty. September Mary Lacey Sr. She is indicted on the charge of witchcraft. September Margaret Scott is examined in court. September Abigail Faulkner, Jr. September Under the law, an accused person who refused to plead could not be tried.
It has been speculated that Giles Corey realized that if he could not be tried, in a situation where he would most likely be found guilty especially in the wake of his wife's conviction, then the property he had signed over to his daughters' husbands would be less vulnerable to seizure. In an attempt to force Giles Corey to plead either guilty or not guilty, which he refused to do, he is pressed heavy rocks were placed on a board on his body.
He asked for "more weight" to end the ordeal more quickly. After two days, the weight of the stones killed him. Judge Jonathan Corwin ordered his burial in an unmarked grave. Because she is pregnant, her hanging is delayed until after she gave birth. 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 hanging there. September: the Court of Oyer and Terminer stopped meeting.
October 3: Rev. Increase Mather denounces the court's reliance on spectral evidence. Phips orders the court to stop using spectral evidence in the proceedings.
October Governor Phips writes to the Privy Council in England that he formally halted the proceedings in the witch trials. October Twenty-five citizens, including Rev. Francis Dane, write a letter condemning the trials, addressed to the governor and the General Court. October Governor Phips orders a stop to any more arrests. He also orders some of the accused be released and dissolves the Court of Oyer and Terminer. Another petition to the Salem court of Assize, undated but probably from October, is on record.
The petition protested the way that many had been persuaded to confess under pressure what they were charged with and stated that no neighbors had any reason to suspect that the charges might be true.
November : Mary Herrick reports that the ghost of Mary Easty visited her and told her of her innocence. November Governor Phips establishes a Superior Court of Judicature to handle any remaining trials of accused witches in Massachusetts. December: Abigail Faulkner, Sr. She is pardoned and released from prison.
December 3: Anne Foster, convicted and condemned on September 17, dies in prison. Rebecca Eames petitions the governor for release, retracting her confession and stating she had only confessed because she had been told by Abigail Hobbs and Mary Lacey that she would be hanged if she did not confess. He left town without his wife and daughter who had confessed and implicated him. December Several members of Salem Village church are asked to appear before the church and explain their absences and differences: Joseph Porter, Joseph Hutchinson Sr.
Increase Mather, his father, publishes Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits , denouncing the use of spectral evidence in trials. Rumors circulate that Increase Mather 's wife was about to be denounced as a witch.
Charges were dismissed for many others of the accused. Sixteen more are tried, with 13 found not guilty and 3 convicted and condemned to hang: Elizabeth Johnson Jr. Margaret Hawkes and her enslaved person, Mary Black, were among those found not guilty on January 3. Candy, another enslaved person, was cleared by proclamation on January 11, and she returned to her enslaver's household when he paid her jail fees.
Forty-nine of the accused were released in January because the cases against them relied on spectral evidence. January 2: The Rev. Francis Dane writes to fellow ministers that, knowing the people of Andover where he served as senior minister, "I believe many innocent persons have been accused and imprisoned. Several of Rev.
Dane's family had been accused and imprisoned, including two daughters, a daughter-in-law and several grandchildren. Two of his family members, his daughter Abigail Faulkner and his granddaughter Elizabeth Johnson, Jr. A similar missive, signed by Rev. January 3: William Stoughton orders the execution of the three sentenced on the first, and several others whose executions had not been carried out yet or had been delayed, including women whose executions were temporarily stayed because they were pregnant.
Governor Phips pardons all of those named, countering Stoughton's orders. Stoughton responds by resigning as a judge. January 7: Elizabeth Hubbard testifies for the last time in the witchcraft trials.
January A court orders a new committee be selected to govern Salem Village church, on the grounds that the previous committee had neglected to fully raise the minister's salary in — Elizabeth Proctor's original sentence of execution was not carried out, though she remained in jail. They were, however, held in jail pending payment of their jail fees. March: Rebecca Eames is released from prison. This was signed by:.
March 20, then : Abigail Faulkner Sr. They also heard a new case: a servant charged with falsely accusing her enslaver of witchcraft. May: Governor Phips formally pardons those still in prison from the Salem witch trials. He orders them released if they paid a fine. Governor Phips formally ended the trials at Salem. May: Elections for the General Court saw Samuel Sewall and several others of the judges from the Court of Oyer and Terminer gain in votes from the previous election.
July Robert Eames, the husband of Rebecca Eames, dies. November 26, Rev. Samuel Parris apologizes to his congregation for his part in the events of and , but many members remain opposed to his ministry there, and the church conflict continues. Sheriff George Corwin had confiscated his property and had not made payments to the English crown as was required, instead likely using the proceeds on English's valuable property for himself.
William Stoughton is elected with one of the highest vote totals in the same election. His estate is settled in April, though Elizabeth Proctor is not included in the will nor the settlement. April 3, Five of six churches meet and urge Salem Village to mend their divisions and urge that if they could not do so with Rev.
Parris still serving as pastor, that his moving on would not be held against him by other churches. The letter noted the illness of Rev. Parris' wife, Elizabeth. November 22, : Francis Nurse, the widower of Rebecca Nurse, dies at age June Elizabeth Proctor files suit to have the courts restore her dowry. However, 20 people and 2 dogs were executed for the crime of witchcraft in Salem. Salem had suffered greatly in recent years from Indian attacks. He combined a mystical strain he believed in the existence of witchcraft with a modern scientific interest he supported smallpox inoculation.
One of the most important intellectual figures in English-speaking colonial America, Mather is remembered today chiefly for his Magnalia Christi Americana and other works of history, for his scientific contributions to plant hybridization and to the promotion of inoculation as a means of preventing smallpox and …. Courts relied on three kinds of evidence: 1 confession, 2 testimony of two eyewitnesses to acts of witchcraft, or 3 spectral evidence when the afflicted girls were having their fits, they would interact with an unseen assailant — the apparition of the witch tormenting them.
The exact cause of the Salem Witch Trials is unknown but they were probably a number of causes. The scare of witchcraft began with a small group of teenage girls, who claimed to be possessed by the devil. Hysteria broke out among the people in the town of Salem, and other parts of Massachusetts. In the Salem Witchcraft Trials started. In Salem, Massachusetts there were puritans the had a lot of paranoia.
Why did 20 people die of the Salem Witchcraft Trials? The Salem Witchcraft Trial was caused by poor young girls who acted possessed.
Most of the accusers were under 20 years old. The Salem Witch Trials : People Involved, Causes and Trial Tests Considered to be one of the most infamous events in United States history, the Salem Witch Trials caused around people to be executed while seven men and 13 women were given the death penalty. There were many people involved that greatly influenced the Salem Witch Trials.
Witch Trials tests were performed hundreds of times in order to determine who was a witch. Occuring in , the Salem Witch Trials were a series of events that involved many people, had several different causes and performed dozens of witch trial tests. During this time, there were many people involved that greatly influenced the Salem Witch Trials. Two of the most influential were two young girls who sparked the trials by accusing local witches of using witchcraft on them.
The two girls were cousins and their names were Betty Parris and Abigail Williams. Betty and Abigail soon began having fits during their outbursts of screaming. Since this was. Show More. Read More. Causes Of The Salem Witch Trial Hysteria Of Words 2 Pages As their puzzled father ,Samuel Parris, observed the two mysterious little girls creep under chairs and spin around on the ground he pondered where this weird behavior was coming from.
Causes Of Mass Hysteria Words 6 Pages The community received an offset of terror when three young girls, 9-year-old Elizabeth Betty , Parris, year-old Abigail Williams, and Anne Putnam began having fits, including violent contortions and uncontrollable outbursts of screaming.
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