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INDEX TO MAP OF SALEM VILLAGE 1692

A. Judge Jonathan Corwin
B. Samuel Shattock, John Cook, Isaac Stern, and John Bly
C. Bartholomew Gedney
D. Stephen Sewall
E. Court House
F. Rev. Nicholas Noynes
G. Judge John Hathorne
H. Sheriff George Corwin
I. Bridget Bishop,
J. Meeting House
K. Gedney's "Ship Tavern"
L. The Prison
M. Samuel Beadle
N. Rev. John Higginson
O. Ann Pudeator and John Best
P. Capt. John Higginson
Q. The Town Common
R. John Robinson
S. Christopher Babbage
T. Thomas Beadle
U. Phillip English
W. Place of execution, "Witch Hill.”

The Afflicted

Alice Booth	Unknown
Elizabeth Booth	Salem Village
Sarah Bridges	Andover
William Brage	Salem Town
Mary Brown	Reading
Sarah Churchill	Salem Village
Johanna Dod	Marblehead
John Doritch	Unknown
Mary Fitch	Gloucester
Rose Foster	Andover
Goodhall	Probably Salem Village
Benjamin Goodwin	Boston
John Goodwin, Jr.	Boston
Martha Goodwin	Boston
Mercy Goodwin	Boston
Mary Herrick	Wenham
Mary Hill	Salem Town
Elizabeth Hubbard	Salem Village
John Indian	Salem Village
Elizabeth Knapp	Groton
Mary Lacey, Jr.	Andover
Mercy Lewis	Salem Village
Mary Marshall	Reading
Abigail Martin	Andover
Elizabeth Parris	Salem Village
Hanna Perley	Topsfield
Sarah Phelps	Andover
Bethshaa Pope	Probably Salem Village
Ann Putnam, Jr.	Salem Village
Ann Putnam, Sr.	Salem Village
Margaret Rule	Boston
Susannah Sheldon	Salem Village
Mercy Short	Boston
Martha Sprague	Boxford
Tituba	Salem Village
Rebecca Towne	Topsfield
Peter Tuft's maidservant	Charlestown
Sarah Vibber	Wenham
Mary Walcott	Salem Village
Mary Warren	Salem Village
Elizabeth Weston	Reading
Rebecca Wilkins	Salem Village
Abigail Williams	Salem Village

The Accused


Nehemiah Abbot	Topsfield	May 28
Nehemiah Abbot, Jun.	Topsfield	April 21
Capt. John Alden	Boston	May 31
Daniel Andrew	Salem Village	May 14
Abigail Barker	Andover	Sept.8
Mary Barker	Andover	August 29
William Barker, Sen.	Andover	August 29
William Barker, Jun.	Andover	August 29
Sarah Basset	Lynn	May 21
Bridget Bishop	Salem Village	April 18
Edward Bishop	Salem Village	April 21
Sarah Bishop	Salem Village	April 21
Mary Black	Salem Village	April 21
Mary Bradbury	Salisbury	April 26
Mary Bridges	Andover	July 28
Sarah Bridges	Andover	August 25
Hannah Bromage	Andover	July 30 (examination)
Sarah Buckley	Salem Village	May 14
George Burroughs	Wells, Maine	April 30
Candy (slave)	Salem Town	June 1
Hannah Carrell	Salem Town	September 10
Martha Carrier	Andover	May 28
Andrew Carrier	Andover	July 21
Richard Carrier	Andover	July 21
Sarah Carrier	Andover
Thomas Carrier	Andover	July 21
Bethia Carter	Woburn	May 8
Elizabeth Cary	Charlestown	May 28
Mary Clarke	Haverhill	Aug. 3
Rachel Clenton	Ipswich	March 29
Sarah Cloyse	Salem Village	April 4
Sarah Cole [I]	Salem Town	September 10
Sarah Cole [II]	Lynn	October 3
Elizabeth Colson	Reading	May 14
Giles Corey	Salem Village	April 18
Martha Corey	Salem Village	March 19
Deliverance Dane	Andover
Mary DeRich	Salem Village	May 23
Rebecca Dike	Gloucester	November 5
Elizabeth Dicer	Gloucester	September 3
Ann Doliver	Andover	September
Lydia Dustin	Reading	April 30
Sarah Dustin	Reading	May 8
Rebecca Eames	Andover	August 19
Mary Easty	Salem Village	April 21
Esther Elwell	Gloucester	November 5
Martha Emerson	Haverhill	July 2
Joseph Emons	Manchester	September 5
Philip English	Salem Town	April 30
Mary English	Salem Town	April 21
Thomas Farrer, Sen.	Lynn	May 14
Edward Farrington	Andover	September 17
Abigail Faulkner, Senior	Andover	August 11
Abigail Faulkner, Jun.	Andover	September
Dorothy Faulkner	Andover	September 17
Captain John Flood	Rumney Marsh	May 28
Elizabeth Fosdick	Malden	May 28
Elizabeth Fosdick [Jun.?]	Malden	June 2
Ann Foster	Andover	July 15
Nicholas Frost	Manchester	September 5
Eunice Frye	Andover
Dorcas Good	Salem Village	March 23
Sarah Good	Salem Village	February 29
Mary Green	Haverhill
Elizabeth Hart	Lynn	May 14
Sarah Hawkes	Andover	September 1
Margaret Hawkes	Salem Town	June 1
Dorcas Hoar	Beverly	April 30
Abigail Hobbs	Topsfield	April 18
Deliverance Hobbs	Topsfield	April 21
William Hobbs	Topsfield	April 21
Elizabeth How	Topsfield	May 28
John Howard	Rowley	August 5
Francis Hutchens	Haverhill	August 18
Mary Ireson	Lynn	June 4
John Jackson, Sen.	Rowley	August 5
John Jackson, Jun.	Rowley	August 5
George Jacobs, Sen.	Salem Town	May 10
George Jacobs, Jun.	Salem Village	May 14
Margaret Jacobs	Salem Town	May 10
Rebecca Jacobs	Salem Village	May 14
Abigail Johnson	Andover	August 29
Elizabeth Johnson, Sen.	Andover	August 29
Elizabeth Johnson, Jun.	Andover	August 10
Rebecca Johnson	Andover	January 7, 1693
Stephen Johnson	Andover	September 1
Mary Lacey, Sen.	Andover	July 20
Mary Lacey, Jun.	Andover
John Lee		April 1 (testimony)
Jane Lilly	Malden	September 5
Mary Marston	Andover	August 29
Susanna Martin	Amesbury	April 30
Mary Morey	Beverly	May
Sarah Morrill	Beverly
Rebecca Nurse	Salem Village	March 23
Sarah Osborne	Salem Village	February 29
Mary Osgood	Andover
Elizabeth Paine	Charlestown	June 2
Alice Parker	Salem Town	May 12
Mary Parker	Andover	August
Sarah Pease	Salem Town	May 23
Joan Peney	Gloucester	September 20
Hannah Post	Boxford	August 25
Mary Post	Rowley	August 2
Susanna Post	Andover	August 25
Margaret Prince	Gloucester	September 3
Benjamin Proctor	Salem Village	May 23
Elizabeth Proctor	Salem Village	April 8
John Proctor	Salem Village	April 11
Sarah Proctor	Salem Village
William Proctor	Salem Village	May 28
Ann Pudeator	Salem Town	May 12
Abigail Roe	Gloucester	November 5
Wilmor Reed	Marblehead	May 28
Sarah Rice	Reading	May 28
Susanna Roots	Beverly	May 21
Henry Salter	Andover	September 7
John Sawdy	Andover	September [?]
Margaret Scott		September
Ann Sears	Woburn	May 8
Abigail Soames	Salem Town	May 13
Martha Sparks	Chelmsford
Tituba Indian	Salem Village	February 29
Jerson Toothaker
Mary Toothaker	Billerica	May 28
Roger Toothaker	Billerica	May 18
[Daughter of Roger Toothaker]	Billerica	May 28
Job Tookey	Beverly
Hannah Tyler	Andover	September 16
Martha Tyler	Andover	September 16
Mercy Wardwell	Andover
Samuel Wardwell	Andover	September 1
Sarah Wardwell	Andover	September 1
Mary Warren	Salem Village	April 18
Sarah Wilds	Topsfield	April 21
Ruth Wilford	Haverhill	August 18
John Willard	Salem Village	May 12
Sarah Wilson, Sen.	Andover	September 17
Sarah Wilson, Jun.	Andover
Mary Withridge	Salem Village	May 14

The Victims

Hanged on June 10
Bridget Bishop, Salem

Hanged on July 19
Sarah Good, Salem Village
Rebecca Nurse, Salem Village
Susannah Martin, Amesbury
Elizabeth How, Ipswich
Sarah Wilds, Topsfield

Hanged on August 19
George Burroughs, Wells, Maine
John Proctor, Salem Village
John Willard, Salem Village
George Jacobs, Sr., Salem Town
Martha Carrier, Andover

September 19
Giles Corey, Salem Farms, pressed to death

Hanged on September 22
Martha Corey, Salem Farms
Mary Eastey, Topsfield
Alice Parker, Salem Town
Ann Pudeater, Salem Town
Margaret Scott, Rowley
Wilmott Reed, Marblehead
Samuel Wardwell, Andover
Mary Parker, Andover

Other accused witches that were not hanged, but died in prison:
Sarah Osborne, Salem Village
Roger Toothaker, Billerica
Lyndia Dustin, Reading
Ann Foster, Andover

The Memorial

Salem Witch Trials Memorial

Salem Witch Timeline

1626: Salem settled by fishermen from the West Country of England.

1629: Salem is incorporated.

1636: Harvard College founded in Cambridge.

1636 -1640: Religious disputes on speculative points; some were very visionary and extravagant; The civil authorities interposed in some cases; as they said for the purpose of maintaining the peace and order of the churches and of the government. Individuals among the fanatics were very unjustifiable in their conduct; and the government, perhaps, treated them with unnecessary severity.

1638: Three Englishmen executed for the murder of an Indian.

1641: English law made witchcraft a capital crime.
An abstract of the laws of Massachusetts was published in London; prepared as was believed in great part by Rev. Mr. Cotton of Boston.

1647: A fatal pestilence prevailed all over New England; and many died among the Dutch, English, and Indians. It began with a cold, and a fever followed ; supposed owing to the atmosphere.

1648: Margaret Jones was hung for a witch in Boston.

1658: There was an earthquake in Massachusetts this year, which caused great alarm to the inhabitants. One occurred at a more early period ; in 1636, and several a little later, in 1663.

1672: No musicians, by trade in New England. Dancing school set up, but soon put down by law - no cloth made here worth more than four shillings a yard -no linen over two shillings and sixpence.

1673: Population of New England 120,000 - 13,000 families -16,000 able to bear arms -ships of 100 to 200 tons, twelve. 500 fishing boats; 190 vessels between 20 to 100 tons -5 iron works, some merchants worth £5000 -no house with more than twenty rooms -few have as many as ten rooms. In Boston 1500 families.

1684: England declares that the colonies may not self -govern. The Massachusetts Bay Co. charter annulled.

1685: Cotton Mather writes ‘Memorable Providences Relating to Witchcraft and Possessions’.

1688: Following an argument with laundress Goody Glover, Martha Goodwin, 13, begins exhibiting bizarre behavior. Days later her younger brother and two sisters exhibit similar behavior. Glover is arrested and tried for bewitching the Goodwin children. Reverend Cotton Mather meets twice with Glover following her arrest in an attempt to persuade her to repent her witchcraft. Glover is hanged. Mather takes Martha Goodwin into his house. Her bizarre behavior continues and worsens.

1688: Mather publishes Memorable Providences, Relating to Witchcrafts and Possessions November, 1689: Samuel Parris is named the new minister of Salem. Parris moves to Salem from Boston.

October, 1691: Joseph Porter, Joseph Hutchinson, Joseph Putnam, Daniel Andrew and Francis Nurse become the elected majority to the Salem Village committee.

October 16, 1691: Villagers vow to drive Parris out of Salem and stop contributing to his salary.

January 20, 1692: Eleven -year old Abigail Williams and nine -year -old Elizabeth Parris begin behaving much as the Goodwin children acted four years earlier. Soon Ann Putnam Jr. and other Salem girls begin acting similarly.

Mid -February, 1692: Doctor Griggs, who attends to the "afflicted" girls, suggests that witchcraft may be the cause of their strange behavior.

February 25, 1692: Tituba, at the request of neighbor Mary Sibley, bakes a "witch cake" and feeds it to a dog. According to an English folk remedy, feeding a dog this kind of cake, which contained the urine of the afflicted, would counteract the spell put on Elizabeth and Abigail. The reason the cake is fed to a dog is because the dog is believed a "familiar" of the Devil.

Late -February, 1692: Pressured by ministers and townspeople to say who caused her odd behavior, Elizabeth identifies Tituba. The girls later accuse Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne of witchcraft.

February 29, 1692: Arrest warrants are issued for Tituba, Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne.

March 1, 1692: Magistrates John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin examine Tituba, Sarah Good, and Sarah Osborne for "witches teats." Tituba confesses to practicing witchcraft and confirms Good and Osborne are her co - conspirators.

March 11, 1692: Ann Putnam Jr. shows symptoms of affliction by witchcraft. Mercy Lewis, Mary Walcott, and Mary Warren later allege affliction as well.

March 12, 1692: Ann Putnam Jr. accuses Martha Cory of witchcraft.

March 19. 1692: Abigail Williams denounces Rebecca Nurse as a witch.

March 21, 1692: Magistrates Hathorne and Corwin examine Martha Cory.

March 23, 1692: Salem Marshal Deputy Samuel Brabrook arrests four -year -old Dorcas Good.

March 24, 1692: Corwin and Hathorne examine Rebecca Nurse.

March 26, 1692: Hathorne and Corwin interrogate Dorcas.

March 28, 1692: Elizabeth Proctor is accused of witchcraft.

April 3, 1692: Sarah Cloyce, after defending her sister, Rebecca Nurse, is accused of witchcraft.

April 11, 1692: Hathorne and Corwin examine Sarah Cloyce and Elizabeth Proctor. On the same day Elizabeth's husband, John, who protested the examination of his wife, becomes the first man accused of witchcraft and is incarcerated.

Early April, 1692: The Proctors' servant and accuser, Mary Warren, admits lying and accuses the other accusing girls of lying.

April 13, 1692: Ann Putnam Jr. accuses Giles Cory of witchcraft and alleges that a man who died at Cory's house also haunts her.

April 19, 1692: Abigail Hobbs, Bridget Bishop, Giles Cory and Mary Warren are examined. Deliverance Hobbs confesses to practicing witchcraft. Mary Warren reverses her statement made in early April and rejoins the accusers.

April 22, 1692: Mary Easty, another of Rebecca Nurse's sisters who defended her, is examined by Hathorne and Corwin. Hathorne and Corwin also examine Nehemiah Abbott, William and Deliverance Hobbs, Edward and Sarah Bishop, Mary Black, Sarah Wildes, and Mary English.

April 30, 1692: Several girls accuse former Salem minister George Burroughs of witchcraft.

May 2, 1692: Hathorne and Corwin examine Sarah Morey, Lyndia Dustin, Susannah Martin and Dorcas Hoar.

May 4, 1692: George Burroughs is arrested in Maine.

May 7, 1692: George Burroughs is returned to Salem and placed in jail.

May 9, 1692: Corwin and Hathorne examine Burroughs and Sarah Churchill. Burroughs is moved to a Boston jail.

May 10, 1692: Corwin and Hathorne examine George Jacobs, Sr. and his granddaughter Margaret Jacobs. Sarah Osborne dies in prison.

May 14, 1692: Increase Mather and Sir William Phipps, the newly elected governor of the colony, arrive in Boston. They bring with them a charter ending the 1684 prohibition of self -governance within the colony.

May 18, 1692: Mary Easty is released from prison. Following protest by her accusers, she is again arrested. Roger Toothaker is also arrested on charges of witchcraft.

May 27, 1692: Phipps issues a commission for a Court of Oyer and Terminer and appoints as judges John Hathorne, Nathaniel Saltonstall, Bartholomew Gedney, Peter Sergeant, Samuel Sewall, Wait Still Winthrop, and Lieutenant Governor William Stoughton.

May 31, 1692: Hathorne, Corwin and Gednew examine Martha Carrier, John Alden, Wilmott Redd, Elizabeth Howe and Phillip English. English and Alden later escape prison and do not return to Salem until after the trials end.

June 2, 1692: Bridget Bishop is the first to be tried and convicted of witchcraft. She is sentenced to die.

June 8, 1692: Eighteen year old Elizabeth Booth shows symptoms of affliction by witchcraft.

June 10, 1692: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill. Following the hanging Nathaniel Saltonstall resigns from the court and is replaced by Corwin.

June 15, 1692: Cotton Mather writes a letter requesting the court not use spectral evidence as a standard and urging that the trials be speedy. The Court of Oyer and Terminer pays more attention to the request for speed and less attention to the criticism of spectral evidence.

June 16, 1692: Roger Toothaker dies in prison.

June 29 -30, 1692: Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Sarah Wildes, Sarah Good, and Elizabeth Howe are tried, pronounced guilty and sentenced to hang.
July 19, 1692: Rebecca Nurse, Susannah Martin, Elizabeth Howe, Sarah Good and Sarah Wildes are hanged at Gallows Hill.

August 5, 1692: George Jacobs Sr., Martha Carrier, George Burroughs, John Willard and John and Elizabeth Proctor are pronounced guilty and sentenced to hang.

August 19, 1692: George Jacobs Sr., Martha Carrier, George Burroughs, John Willard and John Proctor are hanged on Gallows Hill. Elizabeth Proctor is not hanged because she is pregnant.

August 20, 1692: Margaret Jacobs recants the testimony that led to the execution of her grandfather George Jacobs Sr. and Burroughs.

September 9, 1692: Martha Corey, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Dorcas Hoar and Mary Bradbury are pronounced guilty and sentenced to hang.

Mid -September, 1692: Giles Cory is indicted.

September 17, 1692: Margaret Scott, Wilmott Redd, Samuel Wardwell, Mary Parker, Abigail Faulkner, Rebecca Earnes, Mary Lacy, Ann Foster and Abigail Hobbs are tried and sentenced to hang.

September 19, 1692: Sheriffs administer Peine Forte Et Dure (pressing) to Giles Cory after he refuses to enter a plea to the charges of witchcraft against him. After two days under the weight, Cory dies.

September 22, 1692: Martha Cory, Margaret Scott, Mary Easty, Alice Parker, Ann Pudeator, Willmott Redd, Samuel Wardwell, and Mary Parker are hanged. Hoar escapes execution by confessing.

October 3, 1692: The Reverend Increase Mather, President of Harvard College and father to Cotton Mather, denounces the use of spectral evidence.

October 8, 1692: Governor Phipps orders that spectral evidence no longer be admitted in witchcraft trials.

October 29, 1692: Phipps prohibits further arrests, releases many accused witches, and dissolves the Court of Oyer and Terminer.

November 25, 1692: The General Court establishes a Superior Court to try remaining witches.

January 3, 1693: Judge Stoughton orders execution of all suspected witches who were exempted by their pregnancy. Phipps denied enforcement of the order causing Stoughton to leave the bench.

January 1693: 49 of the 52 surviving people brought into court on witchcraft charges are released because their arrests were based on spectral evidence.

1693: Tituba is released from jail and sold to a new master.

May 1693: Phipps pardons those still in prison on witchcraft charges.

January 14, 1697: The General Court orders a day of fasting and soul -searching for the tragedy at Salem. Moved, Samuel Sewall publicly confesses error and guilt.

1697: Minister Samuel Parris is ousted as minister in Salem and replaced by Joseph Green.

1702: The General Court declares the 1692 trials unlawful.

1706: Ann Putnam Jr., one of the leading accusers, publicly apologizes for her actions in 1692.

1711: The colony passes a legislative bill restoring the rights and good names of those accused of witchcraft and grants 600 pounds in restitution to their heirs.

1752: Salem Village is renamed Danvers.

1957: Massachusetts formally apologizes for the events of 1692.

1992: On the 300th anniversary of the trials, a witchcraft memorial designed by James Cutler is dedicated in Salem.

2001: Bridget Bishop, Alice Parker, Margaret Scott, Wilmot Redd and Susannah Martin's names were formally cleared by the state of Massachusetts.